Section 1740 Of Chapter 2. Port Congestion Relief And Port Mitigation Relief From California Harbors And Navigation Code >> Division 6. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2.
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. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) The Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakland operate in
unique communities, environments, and markets that require
infrastructure improvements and air pollution reduction measures
tailored to the nature and degree of need in each port of each
community.
(b) There is a need to mitigate the enormous burden imposed on the
highway transportation system serving the Ports of Long Beach, Los
Angeles, and Oakland by the overland movement of container cargo
shipped to and from those ports.
(c) The operations at the ports, including the movement of
locomotives, ships, and trucks that move cargo containers to and from
the ports, cause air pollution that requires mitigation. This
pollution contributes to the thousands of premature deaths and
billions of dollars of health costs each year attributable to goods
movement pollution in California.