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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 09-30-2003-37 i ` r ,' < `. i Joint Cctirboro, Chapel Hid and Orange County Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Reduction Plan Request for Qual~ca6ons The Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro and Orange County seek Requests for Qualifications to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan for Orange County and municipalities in the County. The three local governments in Orange County are members of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign. The local governments have committed to taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known to contribute to global warming, through the development and implementation of a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan. Development of the plan will include the execution of a base year emissions inventory. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the urbanized area of Orange County, which includes the Town of Hillsborough, are members of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that also includes The City of Durham, Durham County, and portions of Southern Granville and Northern Chatham Counties. The MPO anticipates that, in April 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency will designate areas within the metropolitan planning boundaries and extending throughout Orange County as non-conforming ozone areas under the new 8-hour standards for air quality. The local governments in Orange County anticipate that part or all of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan can be used as an effort to attain conformity with the new federal air quality rules. Project Description and Components The purpose of this project is to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan that examines and inventories greenhouse emissions in Orange County and develops measures to reduce those emissions. The consultant will assist a Regional Inventory/Action Plan Working Group made up of staff from the participating local governments in establishing objectives and a timeline for action plan deliverables. Orange County will assume the lead role for coordination. The consultant will facilitate the formation of an Air Quality Advisory Group, to be appointed by the local governments, to guide development of the plan. The following process, as outlined in the attached Scope of Work, will meet requirements for fulfilling the local governments' commitments to ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection Campaign: Inventory greenhouse gas emissions during a selected base year; ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS PAGE 2 Forecast greenhouse gas emissions over a selected planning period up to a target year; Facilitate the Air Quality Advisory Group in selecting a Reduction Target; Identify actions that the local governments, business and industry, and the community could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the planning period; Develop the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Action Plan that includes: • Existing Measures • Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions of Existing Measures • Potential New Measures • Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions of Potential New Measures • Recommendation of Measures to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target. The process should also develop connections between actions proposed in the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Action Plan and the adopted Durham- Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan to show how the Emissions Reduction Action Plan implements the DCHC 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan for achieving air quality conformity for ozone. Requirements Responses submitted should be concise and shall be limited to a maximum of 25 pages. All respondents shall address the following, as a minimum, and should conform to the numbering system used below. 1. Name, address and telephone number of the firm or individual, with contact name(s). 2. Statement substantiating firm's understanding of project objectives to include description of the final products your firm would provide. 3. Names of key personnel who would be available to work on the project, their titles, experience, professional licenses, professional affiliations and other qualifications, and years with the firm; total size of firm's staff. 4. Proposed project manager and written summary of two projects the proposed project manager has completed in the last five years. 5. Statement of qualifications of the firm. 6. List of previous clients for work similar to this project conducted over the past five years, with project size, scope, cost, location, time adherence, and contact names and telephone numbers. 7. Three client references from local government agencies. 8. Description of current workload of your firm, including project quantity and magnitude, percent complete, completion dates, and impact on key personnel. 9. Date at which work could begin and proposed schedule for completion of the work. 10. Previous litigation or arbitration in which your firm has been involved during the past five years. ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS PAGE 3 11. Any involvement that the firm, its employees, or its owner(s) have that may constitute a conflict of interest. Evaluation Criteria The Working Group will select the consultant based on but not limited to the following considerations: Competence, including technical education and training of key personnel, experience in previous undertakings of this kind of project and actual costs of such previous undertakings, availability of adequate personnel and equipment, familiarity with using models/modeling software, and ability to facilitate public input processes; Past record of professional accomplishments and list of references; Past record of performance for the County and/or for other governmental entities; and Demonstration that there is no conflict of interests of the firm or parties involved in this project. Submittal Requirements: Please submit 10 copies of the information described above by 4:00 p.m. September 22, 2003, to: David Stancil, Director Orange County Environment and Resource Conservation Department Post Office Box 8181 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278-8181 (919) 245-2590 dstancil(a~co.oran eg nc.us The Working Group will hold apre-selection conference in October 2003. The contract is to be awarded by December 19, 2003. Joint Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Reduction Plan Scope of Work Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan that examines and inventories greenhouse gas emissions in Orange County and develops measures to reduce those emissions. Process: The process will correlate with objectives of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) for achieving air quality conformity for ozone. The following process will meet requirements for fulfilling the local governments' commitments to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCP. 1. Inventory greenhouse gas emissions during a selected base year; 2. Forecast greenhouse gas emissions over a selected planning period up to a target year; 3. Facilitate the Air Quality Advisory Group in selecting a Reduction Target; 4. Identify actions that the local governments, business and industry, and the community could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the planning period; 5. Develop the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Action Plan that includes: • Overview of implementation strategies included in the 2025 LRTP • Existing measures • Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions of existing measures • Potential new measures and cost estimates of implementation • Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions of potential new measures • Recommendation of measures to achieve greenhouse gas emissions target. ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN SCOPE OFWORK - PAGE 2 Task 1. Inventory The consultant will develop a greenhouse gas inventory for the base year 2000. This Community Inventory will be an estimate of emissions from all sources within the County as well as an estimate of the proportional amount of emissions from indirect from sources (outside the County) that can be attributed to activities within Orange County. The consultant will develop a separate detailed emissions inventory for publicly - owned facilities of all participating jurisdictions. This Corporate Inventory will be a subset of the overall Community Inventory and will aid in the identification of reduction measures that each jurisdiction could implement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at facilities directly under their control. The Corporate Inventory will provide a separate evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions by major government facility and will include buildings, vehicle fleet, street and traffic lights, water and sewer facilities. The emissions inventory will categorize emissions by the following sectors: • Residential, which includes emissions from the production of energy used within the home, and the residential combustion of fuels. • Transportation sector, which includes emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels for use in mobile sources such as motor vehicles. • Commercial emissions from electricity production, and the combustion of natural gas, propane, heating oil for generators, and building heating and cooling. • Industrial sectors includes emissions from electricity production, on-site energy production, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes • Solid waste sector, which represents greenhouse gas emissions from the degradation of waste in landfills • Other sectors represented any large businesses or institutions, in particular, the University of Norfh Carolina and UNC Hospitals. Greenhouse gas emissions will be estimated by examining energy use information (electricity, natural gas, propane, etc) and driving patterns such as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). Where data is not available, the consultant will simulate the data using commonly accepted estimation /modeling methods. Participating jurisdictions will provide the consultant with all available data pertaining to and necessary for the inventory of government facilities. Participating jurisdictions will also make available for the consultant's use, exclusively for this project, licensed computer software provided by ICLEI for analysis of the data. ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN SCOPE OF WORK - PAGE 3 The software program, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Software developed by Torrie Smith Associates, estimates greenhouse gas emissions using US EPA emission factors and data such as follows. Energy consumption data (electricity natural gas diesel heating oil, coal, and ro ane • Electricity consumption data from any power suppliers to the region, including UNC's power generating facilities. • Base year natural gas consumption from Public Service Company of North Carolina, Inc. • Statewide consumption data for heating oil, coal, propane, and non- highway diesel from the North Carolina Energy Outlook report produced by the NC Energy Division. Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMS average vehicle fuel economies and vehicle types • Transportation data such as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and vehicle from the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). • Average vehicle fuel economy data from the US EPA Office of Mobile Sources. Solid waste production and composition • Solid waste generation data from the Orange County Solid Waste Management Department. • Composition data from the 1990 Regional Solid Waste Study conducted for Durham and Orange counties or more recent data, as available. Emissions data for major or permitted emitters within the region. • Emissions data for other major sources in the County from the NC Division of Air Quality. Task 2. Forecasting: The consultant will project greenhouse gas emissions for the target year of 2025 based on the projected growth in population and the projected increase in employment in the region and the Research Triangle Park. The projection should differentiate the relative contribution of greenhouse gas emissions from each economic sector as referenced on page 2 and examine emissions on a per capita basis. ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN SCOPE OFWORK - PAGE 4 The consultant will use the most up to date, generally accepted socio-economic forecasts for Orange County and growth and development forecasts from the Triangle Regional Model (TRM}. Projections of housing units will be used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions for the residential sector in the target year. Employment projections will be used to forecast emissions for the commercial and industrial sectors. Greenhouse gas emissions for the transportation sector will be projected based on forecasts of VMT used in the development of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). Solid waste emissions will be projected using the population forecasts and waste generation data available from the County Solid Waste Management Department. Task 3. Reduction Target: After the emissions inventory and forecasting activities are completed, the consultant wilt facilitate public processes for discussing greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and establishing a reduction target from base year levels consistent with DCHC 2025 LRTP objectives and strategies. The consultant will analyze the effect of several potential reduction scenarios to assist the stakeholders in selecting the greenhouse gas reduction target for the Local Action Plan. The Air Quality Advisory Group will recommend a final reduction target. Task 4. Reduction Measures: The consultant will compile a list of potential emissions reductions measures that the community could implement in coordination with the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Local Action Plan proposed for the City of Durham, an adjacent jurisdiction. The reduction measures are to be selected, and their impacts determined based on data provided by ICLEI, case studies of other US cities, and accepted values published by various federal and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations. The consultant will analyze each potential greenhouse gas reduction measure using the best technical information available regarding the expected reduction for a particular measure to quantify reduction results. Assumptions will be presented regarding the extent and success of implementation of these measures. Assumptions regarding implementation are to be based on case studies from other cities within the US, data from ICLEI, or estimates based on the applicability of the measure to this region. The consultant will develop an estimate of implementation costs for each measure, and present° the most effective measure for reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN SCOPE OFWORK - PAGE 5 Any City, County, or regional programs, policies, or projects planned or ongoing as of January 1, 2004 that may have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be included as reduction measure for this analysis. Task 5. Action Plan: The consultant will develop a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Action Plan in coordination with the Air Quality Advisory Group that includes the following: 1. Existing Measures. 2. Quantification of GHG Reductions of Existing Measures. 3. Potential New Measures. 4. Quantification of GHG Reductions of Potential New Measures. 5. Recommendation of Measures to Achieve GHG Target. Timeline The consultant will assist the Regional Inventory/Action Plan Working Group in establishing a timeline for action plan deliverables to include the following: Project Start-up Formation of Air Quality Advisory Group Data 8~ Information Gathering Report to Advisory Group on Data 8~ Information Forecasting future emissions Report to /Advisory Group on forecasts and assumptions/ Advisory Group to select reduction target (Advisory Group makes status report to elected boards) Identify 8~ Model Measures to reduce future emissions Report to Advisory Group on potential measures to reduce emissions/ Assist Advisory Group to select measures to meet reduction target Report Preparation Present Draft Report to Advisory, Group Prepare Draft Final Report Present Draft Final Report to Advisory Group Present Draft Final Report to Transportation Advisory Committee of the DCHC MPO Present Draft Final Report to governing boards of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Orange County for adoption p 4 ; ~~t 'wf a 1 .-. ~ Sr..,.. 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