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Purpose of the Hearing

The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will meet on August 4, 2008 in Long Beach, California, to examine the efforts of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to meet infrastructure needs, including through the assessment of a container fee that will be applied to containers passing through the prot and then expended on projects intended to imporve infrastructure in and around the port areas.

The Subcommittee will also consider the ports' efforts to reduce emissions from port-related activites, including from trucks that provide drayage services at the prots, as well as from vessels in transit to and from the ports.  Specifically the hearing will examine the ports adoption of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, including the Plan's "Clean Trucks" Program.  Under the Clean Trucks program, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to assess a fee on each container loaded in the port to generate the funding necessary to replace the entire fleet of trucks providing drayage services at the ports with clean trucks meeting the 2007 federal emission standards.

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