RESOLUTION NO.

1 3-03 RESOLUTION AMENDING YOLO-SOLANO AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT RULE

1 . 1 

### WHEREAS, Califomia Health and Safety Code section 40702 provides that an au· quality management
dis t rict shall adopt rules and regulations
as may be necessary or proper to execut

e the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, th e district by Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code; and 

### WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code section 40727 provides that before adopting, amending,
or repe a ling a rule or regulation,

a district board shall make findings of necessity, authority, clarity, consistency, nonduplication, and reference, based upon information developed pmsuant
to section 40727.2, information

in the rulemaking record maintained pursuant
to section 40728, and relevant information presented

at the public hear.ng required by section 40725; and 

### WHEREAS, section 15308 of the CEQA Guidelines provides that actions taken by regulatory agencies as authorized by state law to assure the maintenance, restoration,
or enhancement
of the environment where the regu

l atory process involves procedures for protection of the environment, are categorically exempt from CEQA review (Class

8 Categorical Exemption); and 

### WHEREAS

, District staff identified definitions within Rule 1.1, General Provision and Defiri.i tions w h i c h required updating for consistency with federal and state policy. 

### NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District hereby finds, authorizes, directs and declares as follows: 1 . The Board of Directors has considered and hereby adopts by reference the staff repmt prepared in this matter. 2. The Board of Directors makes the following findings pursuant
to Health and Safety Code section 40727

: a. Necessity: Infonnation

in the District's rulemaking record maintained pursuant
to Health and Safety Code section 40728 demonstrates

a need for amending District Rule 1.1; b. Authority: Health and Safety Code section 40702 pennits the Distiict to amend District Rule 1.1

; c . Clmity: District Rule 1.1 as amended
is written so that its meaning can be easily understood by the persons directly affected by it; d . Consistency: District Rule 1.1 as amended
is in harmony with, and not in conflict with or contradictory

to , existing statutes

, court decisions,
or state or federal regulations; e . Nonduplication: District Rule

1 . 1 as amended does not impose the same requirements

## as an existing state or federal regulation; f. Reference: By adopting Distlict Rule 

# 1.1, the District meets the requirements
of Health 

## & Safety Code Sections 40702. 3. The Board of Directors finds that the District has complied with the procedural requirements set forth in Chapters

6 and 6.5 of Part 3 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code. 4. The Board of Directors finds that amending District Rule 1.1 is an action taken by a regulatory agency as authorized by state law to assure the maintenance, restoration,
or enhancement
of the environment where the regulatory process involves procedures for protection
of the environment, and is therefore categorically exempt from CEQA review as a Class

8 Categorical Exemption

. 5. The Board of Directors hereby amends District Rule 1.1, General ProYisions and Definitions, as set fmth in Exhibit



# 1 (Attaclunent

A of the Staff Report), which is attached and incorporated by reference. The amendment

is effective May 8, 2013. 

# PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Yolo-Solano 

# Air Quality Management District this 8th day of May, 2013, by the following vote: Attest: Ayes: Noes: 

# Anderson, Batchelor, Jr., Boulware, Chamberlain, Davies, Provenza, Saylor, Seifert, Swanson, Thomson and vasquez. None. Absent: 

# Harris, Johannessen and Rexroad Abstain: 

# None. 

# D~ Don Saylor, Chair Board of Directors Yolo-Solano 

# Air Quality Management District Approved
as to Form: Hope P. Welton, D1stnct Counsel