3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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5 RESOLUTION NO. 06-01

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7 In the matter of: Approve the adoption ofthe Sacramento Regional Nonattainment Area8 8-hour Ozone Rate-Of-Progress Plan listed as Exhibit #1 (attached).9

10 The following flESOLUTIQ wa duly passed by the Board ofDirectors, of the Placer

11 County Mr Pollution Control District, at a regular meeting held February 92006 by the

12 following vote on roll call:

1314 Ayes: N. Holmes, T. Miliward, R. Weygandt, J. Holmes, S. Blackmin

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K Nakata, P. Hill, T. Gaines, J. Gray

16 Noes: None

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18 Signe4 and Ipproved by me after its passage.

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19 kL. I’.‘ Chairperson

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23 Clerk ofsaid Board

ORIGINAL
3 0.08 parts per million, has revoked the 1-hour primary standard, and has determined that the 8-hour

4 standard is necessary in order to protect public health (ITederal Register, Vol. 62, No. 138, pages 2..

5 37 (July 18, 1997); and

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7 WILEREAS, the Sacramento Metropolitan Area (SMA”), which includes part of the Placer

8 County Air Pollution Control District, as well as the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality

9 Management District, the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, and parts ofthe Feather

10 ‘River Air Quality Management District and the El Dorado County Air Quality Management

11 District (“SMA Districts”) (Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 84, pages 23858-23951 (April 30,

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‘14 WHEREAS, the SMA exceeds the primary NAAQS for the 8-hour ozone, and has been

15 designated a nonattainment area for ozone with a classification of’Seriou&’ (Federal Register, Vol.

16 69, No. 84, pages 23858-23951); and

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18 WHEREAS, the U.S. EPA recently published its Final Rule for the implementation ofthe 8-hour

‘19 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard, which requires nonattainrnent areas classified

20 “Serious” to demonstrate reasonable further progress toward attainment ofthe new 8-hour standard

21 (Federal Register, VoL 70, No. 228, pages 7161 1-71705 (November 29, 2005)); and

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23 WII EREAS, the SMA Disiricts have prepared the proposed Sacramento Regional Nonattainment

24 Area 8-Hour Ozone Rate-of.Progress Plan (“8-Hour ROP”) to satisi& this reasonable ftulher

25 progress requirement; and

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27 WHEREAS, the proposed 8-Hour ROP demonstrates that existing control strategies and approved
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4 WHEREAS, photoehernical modeling has concluded that the most feasible ozone attainment5 strategymust include reductions ofboth volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxide emissions,

6 and that nitrogen oxide reductions will be more beneficial in reducing peak ozone in downwind

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9 WITEREAS, the substitution of nitrogen oxide emission reductions in place of’ volatile organic

10 compound emission reductions to meet reasonable further progress requirements is consistent with

11 the Federal Clean Air Act Section 1 82(c)(2)(C), and with previous and current analyses of ozone

12 attainment strategies in the SMA; and

1314 WHEREAS, the proposed 8-Hour ROP includes an updated emissions inventory, and sets new

15 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for federal transportation conformity purposes; and

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17 WHEREAS, the proposed 8-Hour ROP includes an updated 15 percent volatile organic compound

18 emission reduction demonstration for 1990- 1996; and

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20 WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality

21 Maintenance District, as the lead agency, in consultation with the El Dorado Air Quality22 Management District, the Feather River Air Quality Management District, the Placer County Air

23 Pollution Control District arid the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, as responsible

24 agencies, duly prepared a Draft Environmental impact Report (“DF.TR”), dated September, 2O05

25 State Clearinghouse No. 2004042112, to consider potential environmental impacts arising from the

26 proposed 8-Hour ROP; and.27
3 rcccivc public comment on thc DEIR and the propose 8-Hour ROP; and

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5 WHEREAS, comments and responses to the DEIR, including the list ofpcrsons, organizations and

6 public agencies commenting on the DEIR, have been prepared as Appendix])thereto, and together

7 with the DEIR comprise a Final Environmental Impact Report, completed in flu] compliance with

8 all procedural and substantive provisions ofthe California Environmental Quality Act; and

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10 WHEREAS, on January26, 2006 the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District

11, held a duly noticed public hearing to consider the adequacy of the Final Environmental impact12 Report 1prior to its consideration ofthe 8-Hour ROP; and

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14 WHERIAS, on January26, 2006 the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District15 duly certified the Final Environmental Impact Report as having been prepared in full compliance

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with the provisions ofthe California Environmental Quality Act; and

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18 W11JREAS, on February 9, 2006 the Board of Directors of the Placer County Air Pollution

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Control District held a duly noticed public hearing in order to hear and to consider public comment

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on the 8-Hour ROP; and

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22 WHEREAS, the Board o IDirectors ofthe Placer County Air Poll utiori Control District has read

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and considered the environmental effects ofthe proposed 8-HourROP as identified and analyzed

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in the Final Huvironmental Impact Report, and hereby incorporates by reference each of its

25 findings relative to the potential environmental impacts arising from adoption of the 8-Hour

ROP.

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IT IS ThEREFORE RESOLVED, effective Fehniaty 9, 2006 the Sacramento Regional
3 organic compound emissions reduction demonstration for 1990-1996.

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5 BE IT FURTTJER RESOLVED, that the Board ofDirectors ofthe Placer County Air Pollution

6 Control District directs its staffto forward the Sacramento Regional Nonattaimnent Area 8-Hour

7 Ozone Rate-of-Progress Plan, and aH necessary supporting documents, to the California Air

8 Resources Board for submittal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asrevision to the State

9 implementation Plan.

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