Welcome to the Web Site for The Pacific Pipeline Project Mitigation Monitoring, Compliance, and Reporting Program

Construction in the National Forest began on June 27. Between July 7 and mid-August construction will also be occurring south of 223rd Street on Alameda Street and Henry Ford Avenue in the City of Los Angeles, near the Alameda Corridor Project construction.

Proyecto Pacific Pipeline

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INTRODUCTION

The Pacific Pipeline Project consists of the construction and operation of a 132-mile crude oil pipeline from southern Kern County to Los Angeles area refineries in El Segundo, Carson, and Wilmington. The project was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) as the State Lead Agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) on April 10, 1996. The project was also approved by the U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest (ANF) as the Federal Lead Agency under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in a Record of Decision dated March 7, 1996.

WHAT IS THE MMCRP?

Through a competitive process, the Lead Agencies (CPUC and ANF) selected Aspen Environmental Group (Aspen) to implement a Mitigation Monitoring, Compliance, and Reporting Program (MMCRP) for Pacific Pipeline construction. The purpose of this Monitoring Program is to ensure that Pacific Pipeline System, Inc. (PPSI), the pipeline owner, complies with the mitigation measures that were adopted by the CPUC and ANF as part of project approval. These measures were adopted to reduce the potential impacts of the project.

Most of the mitigation measures that will be implemented by PPSI and monitored through the Monitoring Program were developed in the Pacific Pipeline Project environmental documents, the 1993 FEIR and the 1996 FEIS/SEIR. In addition, measures which were proposed by PPSI and assumed to be part of the project will also be monitored. The mitigation measures were adopted by the CPUC and ANF in conjunction with their project approvals. Aspen has developed a plan to conduct this Monitoring Program. This plan, referred to as the Implementation Plan, includes all of the mitigation measures, applicant-proposed measures, and detailed monitoring criteria to be used by Aspen's field monitors. The Implementation Plan also includes a list of permits issued by local jurisdictions. PPSI has already received some of the permits required for pipeline construction from various affected government agencies, and other agencies are in the process of reviewing PPSI's permit applications. The Implementation Plan can be reviewed at the project information centers or on our MMCRP Web Site (see description below).

Commonly Used Acronyms

ANF - The U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest

Aspen - Aspen Environmental Group

CPUC - California Public Utilities Commission

FEIR - Final Environmental Impact Report

FEIS/SEIR - Final Environmental Impact Statement/

Subsequent Environmental Impact Report

MMCRP - Mitigation Monitoring, Compliance, and

Reporting Program

PPSI - Pacific Pipeline System, Inc.

MMCRP CURRENT ACTIVITIES

The CPUC and ANF have completed review of the major pre-construction plans and compliance submittals required for project construction. The following actions are underway:

• Construction started on June 27, 1997 in the Angeles National Forest, beginning at the northern portion and working southward. Construction on this segment is expected to continue through October 1997.

• Construction began on July 7, 1997 in the southernmost segment of the pipeline, along Alameda Street south of 223rd Street to the refineries in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles. Construction will be occurring along Alameda Street between 116th Street and the refineries through March of 1998.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Pacific Pipeline construction will take place in five different segments. These are from (north to south):

• Emidio (southern Kern County) to the northern boundary of Angeles National Forest
• Sylmar to downtown Los Angeles (Expected start-up in early August 1997)
• Downtown Los Angeles to Watts Junction, including the El Segundo Branch which extends to the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo (Expected start-up in mid-August 1997).

There will be some overlapping construction occurring at all five segments. The location of construction segments are shown on the map insert in Newsletter No. 1 (May 1997).