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              Category 3 Marine Diesel Rule -
              Facts & Figures
Facts
Figures
Air Pollution from Category 3 Marine (Inventory)
Percentage of mobile source PM-2.5 from Category 3 marine, 2009 (2030 projection)
Percentage of mobile source NOx from Category 3
Percentage of mobile source SOx from Category 3
marine, 2009 (2030 projection)
marine, 2009 (2030 projection)

Industry
Number of vessel calls on U.S. ports each year by
1 7% (48%)
25% (40%)
80% (95%)

Characterization
ships (>1 0,000 DWT)
Percentage of vessel calls to U.S. ports that are made by foreign-flagged vessels

Environmental Benefits
>64,000
88%

of Coordinated Strategy in 2030
Annual reductions of Fine PM (PM2.5)
Annual reductions of NOx
Annual reductions of SOx

Public Health Benefits - In 2030, the
143,000 tons
1 ,200,000 tons
1 ,300,000 tons

Coordinated Strategy Will Annually Prevent:
Premature deaths
Hospitalizations (including emergency room visits)
Heart attacks
Children's asthma-related emergency room visits
Cases of respiratory problems in children
Work days lost
Cases of asthma symptoms in children
Days that adults have to restrict activity because of their respiratory systems

12,000-31,000
20,000
20,000
7,000
370,000
1.4 million
200,000
9.6 million

Annual Costs and Benefits in 2030
Annual cost of program
Annual monetary value of benefits
$3.1 billion
$11 0-270 billion
     I-L.
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Transportation and Air Quality
            EPA-420-F-09-075
             December 2009

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