Linda S. Adams Acting Secretaryfor EnvironmentalProtection

January 28, 2011 

# Air Resources Board Mary D. Nichols, Chairman

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

Mr. Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator Region 9 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 941 05 Dear Mr. Blumenfeld: Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor

Enclosed are two paper and electronic compact disk copies ofa revision to the State of California Implementation Plan forAchieving and Maintaining the National AmbientAir Quality Standards (SIP). This revision consists ofvarious amendments to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) regulation pertaining to consumer products that are sold, supplied, offered for sale, or manufactured for use in California: Regulation for Reducing Emissions from Consumer Products, title 17, California Code of Regulations, sections 94508.,94517, (Consumer Products Regulation). The regulatory amendments are summarized below. At its September 24, 2009, public hearing, ARB approved amendments to the Consumer Products Regulation. Executive Order R-10-013 taking finalaction to adopt amendments to the Consumer Products Regulation was signed bytheARB Executive Officer on August 6, 2010, and approved by the Office ofAdministrative Law (OAL) on September20, 2010. The amended regulations became legally effective on October 20, 2010. The enclosed supporting documentation includes Executive Order S-11-001 which adopts and formally submits this regulatory action as a revision to the SIP. The Consumer Products Regulation was amended by adding and modifying product category definitions and by establishing new or lowervolatile organic compound (VOC) limits forthree product categories: 1) Double Phase Aerosol Air Freshener, 2) Multi-Purpose Solvent, and 3) Paint Thinner. All ofthe VOC limits are specified as percent by weight VOC.

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For Double PhaseJ:\erosol Air Fresheners, the amendments will reduce the VOC limit from 25 to 20 perce;ht byweight effective December 31, 2012. This will achieve an emission reduction oftwo tons per day statewide. Forthe Multi-purpose Solvent and PaintThinner categories, the Board adopted two tiers ofVOC limits. For both categories, the firsttier limit is 30 percent by weight effective December 31, 2010, and the second tier limit is 3 percentbyweight effective December 31, 2013. Forthefirst tier, the adopted limits will achieve a total VOC reduction of8.4 tons per day statewide, excluding ·the South CbastAir Quality Management District, by January 1, 2011. Reductions inthe South CoastAir Quality' Management District are excluded because priorto ARB's adoption of limitsfor Multi-purpose Solvent and PaintThinner, the district approved Rule 1143, Consumer PaintThinners and Multi-Purpose Solvents, which regulates these products. This SIP· submission does not include the second tier emission limits and the corresponding )1' ; i: I

emission reductions for Multi-purpose Solvent and PaintTl:linner. · ·

· Further details ofthe rule making can be found in the enclosed Rule Evaluation Form. -.**~nd**Attachments A and 

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the materials andsupporting documentationforthe regulatdry;action that are indUded;!io this revision to the 

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### the California Administrative' Procedure Act. Also included-are the hearing notice, staff report, technical'sup'port document, final statement of reasons, final regulatory language, and documentation of OAL approval. ·· · The enclosed materials (including evaluations ofthe effects ofthe rules on emissions;

. evaluations ofthe rule's consistency with 40 CFR Part 51 and other supporting · documentation) are intended to fulfill the requirements ofthe U.S. EPA's SIP Completeness Policy. ARB is authorized to adopt, amend, and enforce regulations by Health and Safety Code (HSC) sections 39600,39601, 39602,39607,41511, and 41712.

. .. ARB is also authorized to adoptthe regulation asa revision to the SIP by Caiifornia Health and Safety Code sections 39601 and 39602. The regulatory action was ta'l<erf'in: accordance with the California Administrative Procedure Act (California Government · Code sections 11340 etseq.). · · In accordance with State law, we are requesting thatthe limits do notbecomefederally enforceable until the limits are fully effective.Mr. Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator Jinuary 28, 2011 Page 3

Ifyourstaff has any questions, they may contact Mr. David Mallory, Manager, Measures Development Section, Stationary Source Division at (916) 445-8316. Legal questions

. should be directed to Mr. Robert Jenne, Assistant Chief Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs

at (916) 322-3762. Sincerely,



# f/JJo}JJr)w Robert D. Fletcher Deputy Executive Officer Enclosures

cc: Ms. Deborah Jordan, Director Air Division, Region 9 U.S. Environmental Protectioo Agency. 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 941 05 Mr. Andrew Steckel, Chief Rules Office (Air-4) Air Division, Region 9 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 941 05 Mr. Robert Jenne Assistant Chief Counsel Office of Legal Affairs Mr. David Mallory, Manager Measures Development Section Stationary Source Division