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Testimony by Dan Hockman, Employee at QuantAQ, Inc. on Air Quality Monitoring Legislation
2:49:20
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Dan Hockman, a resident of Sunnyside, Queens and employee at QuantAQ, Inc., voiced support for both pieces of legislation, particularly emphasizing the need to expand air quality monitoring capabilities. He disagreed with DEP's assessment of current monitoring adequacy and their cost estimates for implementation.
- Criticized DEP's current monitoring system for not measuring ultra-fine particles or black carbon
- Disputed DEP's cost estimate of $41 million and 13 FTEs, suggesting it could be done for around $10 million with fewer staff
- Advocated for increasing monitoring infrastructure by 10-30 times, focusing on ultra-fine particles, black carbon, carbon monoxide, and NOx emissions
Dan Hockman
2:49:20
Good afternoon.
2:49:21
My name is Dan Hockman.
2:49:22
I'm a lifelong New Yorker and resident of Sunnyside, Queens.
2:49:27
I also work for a company called QuantiQ, which makes distributed air quality monitoring infrastructure and sensors.
2:49:36
I'm voicing my support for the for the both pieces of legislation as a New Yorker, but also to reemphasize the need to expand our monitoring capabilities.
2:49:49
The folks from DEP made a point just now, that they kind of indicated that what we have is enough to measure what's going on with trucking, and I wanna register complete disagreement with that.
2:50:05
They only operate 85 nodes, which don't even measure ultra fine particles or black carbon, which means you're not really counting what's coming out of these tailpipes.
2:50:17
The second thing I wanna disagree with is the characterization that it's gonna require $41,000,000 and 13 FTEs to get this done.
2:50:25
I can tell you that whether it's our company or another company, you can get it done for way less than that and actually count the pollution that matters, which is ultra fine particles, black carbon, carbon monoxide, and and the the NOx fumes or emissions.
2:50:46
So in summary, fully in support of the 107 monitoring provisions, I think we can 10x or 20x or even 30x the monitoring infrastructure in the city.
2:50:59
Certainly not spending $41,000,000 probably closer to 10,000,000 and with very far fewer FTEs than the 13 they cited.
2:51:11
Thank you.
Alexa Avilés
2:51:11
Thank you.