Matthew Rodriquez Secretaryfor EnvironmentalProtection

June 1, 2015
Mr. Jared Blumenfeld Regional Administrator Region 9 

# Air Resources Board Mary D. Nichols, Chairman

1001 I Street• P.O. Box 2815 Sacramento, California 95812 • www.arb.ca.gov

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 94105 Dear Mr. Blumenfeld: Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor

Between February 2013 and May2014, the Air Resources Board (ARB) submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) the amended Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) rules offive California air pollution control districts (districts) to be considered as revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) identified in Enclosure A. To date, U.S. EPA has nottaken action on these submittals. In the June 2014 decision of 

### UtilityAirRegulatoryGroup v. U.S. EPA (No. 12-1146), the U.S. Supreme Court stated that U.S. EPA may not consider greenhouse gases as an air pollutant for purposes ofdetermining whether a pollution source is a majorsource and therefore required to obtain a PSD permit. As a result, the districts listed in EnclosureA request withdrawal ofthe portions oftheir rules that incorporate by reference 40 CFR 52 21(b)(49)(v), which considers greenhouse gases as an air pollutant, from their pending PSD rule submittals. The withdrawal ofthis provision from the rules listed in Enclosure A will make the rules consistentwith the U.S. Supreme Court decision and allow U.S. EPAto take action on the pending submittals.

The energychallenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energyconsumption. Fora listofsimple waysyou can reduce demandandcutyourenergycosts, see ourwebsite: http://www.arb.ca.gov. California Environmental Protection Agency Printedon RecycledPaperMr. Jared Blumenfeld June 1, 2015 Page 2
Ifyou have any questions, please have your staffcontact Ms. Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, at (916) 322-5350 or by email at Karen.Magliano@arb.ca.qov. Sincerely,

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# ~hardW~y Executive Officer Enclosure(s)
cc: Mr. W. JamesWagoner Air Pollution Control Officer Butte CountyAir Quality Management District 629 EntlerAvenue, Suite 15 Chico, California 95928 Mr. Christopher Brown, AICP Air Pollution Control Officer Feather RiverAir Quality Management District 1007 Live Oak Boulevard, Suite B-3 Yuba City, California 95991 Mr. Theodore D. Schade Air Pollution Control Officer Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District 157 Short Street Bishop, California 93514 Mr. Larry R. Allen Air Pollution Control Officer San Luis Obispo CountyAir Pollution Control District 3433 Roberto Court San Luis Obispo, California 93401 Mr. David Van Mullem Air Pollution Control Officer Santa Barbara CountyAir Pollution Control District 260 North San Antonio Road, Suite A Santa Barbara, California 93110 Ms. Karen Magliano, Chief Air Quality Planning and Science Division

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bee: Christina Morkner Brown, OLA Sylvia Vanderspek, AQPS Carol Sutkus, AQPS Austin Hicks, AQPS Monica Lewis, AQPS
Mr. Andy Steckel, Chief Rulemaking Office (Air-4) Region 9 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 94105 Ms. Lisa Beckham Permits Office (Air-3) Region 9 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 94105 Mr. Alan Abbs Executive Director California Air Pollution Control

Officers Association 1107 Ninth Street, Suite 210 Sacramento, California 95814
EO Chron (with Enclosures) AQPS Chron (with Enclosures)
Assignment: AQPS #9447 

### IARB #19001

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### Date: April xx, 2015 California Environmental Protection Agency AIR RESOURCES BOARD Enclosure A 

### District Rules Submitted as Revisions to the State ofCalifornia Implementation PlanforAchieving andMaintaining the NationalAmbientAirQuality Standards


### District
Butte County AQMD

Feather River AQMD

Great Basin Unified APCD

San Luis Obispo County APCD

Santa Barbara County APCD Rule Number·


### 1107 Section 3

10.10 Section C

221 Section C

220 Section C

810 Section C Date Adopted or Title Amended



### 06/28/12 Prevention ofSignificant Deterioration Permits

08/01/11 Prevention of Significant Deterioration

09/05/12 Prevention ofSignificant Deterioration

01/22/14 Federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (Amended)

06/20/13 Federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (Amended)

B:\RULES\CARB yyyy-mm-dd\PSD Rule Provision Withdrawal Letters\Submittal Letter
- Enclosure A. doc