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Emergency, the commission on the environment meeting room is closed. Commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken per student to the pursuant to the statewide stay at home order. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgov tv. Com is streaming the number at the top of the screen. When connected dial star three to be added to the queue. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in the following ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently ...

Diving deeper we look at the transportation, you see 71 of that 46 comes from the private sector, which includes private Passenger Vehicles as well as medium duty vehicles. It is also about health and safety benefits. It is more about meeting a common goal, it is about making San Francisco a more livable city for all of our residents. The map you see before you is air quality and equity map. This shows that the particular matter, 2. 5 microns and smaller, sources of concentration you see are focused around our major highways and byways. The red is greater than 10 concentration. It is is adjace...

And we used this information from our background screenings of the pesticides along with their information on the ground situations, what works and what doesnt. Are we using the safetiest alternative possible and is it necessary in the first place . In order to gradually improve that list over the years and we have done so for over 20 years now. We take the prevention part of that seriously lately these past few years with prevention guidelines and we now have a draft to for landscapes being reviewed for a large group of professionals and they will be published as a standalone document. This i...