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Public Meeting to Discuss Locomotive Exhaust Aftertreatment Retrofit Technology

 and

Other Technologies in Development

Location: Teleconference: ARB Auditorium Dial-In # (Toll Free): 888-396-9185 Annex 4 Dial-I n # for International Calls: 1-210-234-0004 9530 Telstar Avenue Participant Code: 22181 EI Monte, California 91731 Leader Name: Harold Holmes Date: Wednesday -November 28, 2007 Webcast:.http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?BDO=1 Time: 10:00 am -4:00 pm

  10:00 am Introductions and Background

Dean Simeroth Chief, Criteria Pollutants Branch California Air Resources Board

Opening Perspectives

 10:10 am ARB Perspective -The need for retrofit technology

Harold Holmes Manager, Engineering Evaluation Section California Air Resources Board

10:20 am Railroad Perspective -From idea to market: successes and limitations of new technologies

 Mark Stehly Assistant Vice President Environmental and Research & Development BNSF Railway

 Mike Iden General Director Car and Locomotive Engineering Union Pacific Ranroad

Updates on Locomotive Exhaust Aftertreatment Retrofit Technology

Freight Applications

 10:40 am ' Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) -UP 2368

• Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) -BNSF 3703 & UPY 1378
• ARB Locomotive Project -Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) efforts with EMD 710 Engine

Steve Fritz Manager, Medium Speed Diesel Engines Department of Engine and Emissions Research Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

11 :40 -1:30 pm Lunch Break

Passenger Applications

  1:30 pm SCAQMD Locomotive Projects:

• SCR On Passenger Locomotive
• Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) on Paci'fic Harbor Line (PHL) switch locomotive
• DPF + SCR on head end power

Michael Bogdanoff Program Supervisor, Mobile Source Projects South Coast Air Quality Management District

  1:40 pm DOC for passenger locomotives

Karen Dziemkowski Manager, Emissions Policy and Funding MotivePower

Other Technologies in Development

 2:00 pm BNSF fuel cell hybrid switcher

Arnold Miller President, Vehicle Projects LLC

  2:20 pm GE Hybrid Locomotive

Pete Lawson Product Line Manager General Electric Company

 2:40 pm Q and A on Report: "Evaluation of Natural Gas-fueled Locomotives"

Mike Iden General Director Car and Locomotive Engineering Union Pacific Railroad

Closing Remarks

 3:00 pm Preliminary Discussion of additional topics for future symposiums

Dean Simeroth Chief, Criteria Pollutants Branch California Air Resources Board