CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO CONSIDER A PROPOSED SUBMISSION OF 

WAIVER AND AUTHORIZATION MEASURES INTO THE CALIFORNIA SIP 

The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public meeting at the time and 

place noted below to consider approval of Submission of Waiver and Authorization 

Measures into the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). If approved, ARB will 

submit its waiver and authorization measures to the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) as a revision to the California SIP. 

DATE: July 23, 2015 

TIME: 9:00 a.m. 

PLACE: California Environmental Protection Agency 

Air Resources Board 

Byron Sher Auditorium 

1001 I Street 

Sacramento, California 95814 

This item is scheduled to be heard on the Board's Consent Calendar. All agenda items 

on the Consent Calendar- unless removed upon the request of a Board member or if 

someone in the audience submits a request to speak card on that item -will be voted 

on by the Board at the beginning of the public meeting. 

BACKGROUND 

The federal Clean Air Act (Act) establishes the U.S. EPA as the governmental body with 

primary authority to enact emission standards and other emission-related requirements 

for new motor vehicles and engines and certain new non road engines and vehicles. 

The Act also provides that California may adopt and enforce emission standards and 

other emission-related requirements from new motor vehicles and engines, certain new 

nonroad engines and vehicles, and in-use nonroad engines and vehicles, provided U.S. 

EPA issues California a waiver or an authorization. Under section 209 of the Act, the 

U.S. EPA Administrator must grant California a waiver or an authorization if California 

determines that its standards, in the aggregate, are at least as protective of public 

health and welfare as applicable federal standards, unless the Administrator makes 

specified findings. California has utilized the section 209 waiver and authorization 

mechanism for decades to establish emission standards and emission-related 

requirements for new motor vehicles and engines, and new and in-use non road engines 

and vehicles that address California's particular needs. 

California has relied on regulations covered by U.S. EPA waivers or authorizations 

(waiver/authorization measures) in the California SIP for meeting federal ambient air 

quality standards. Historically, U.S. EPA policy allowed California to utilize pollution 
reductions resulting from waiver/authorization measures in the SIP, without requiring 

that those measures be separately submitted into the California SIP. 

On May 20, 2015, in Committee For A Better Arvin, eta/. v. U.S. EPA, eta/. 

(No. 11-73924), the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. EPA erred in 

approving SIPs that relied on reductions from waiver/authorization measures without 

requiring those measures be included in the SIP. Consequently, to facilitate U.S. EPA 

approval of California's pending and future SIP submittals, California is now submitting 

for inclusion into the SIP those waiver/authorization measures it relies upon for 

reductions. ARB staff compiled a list of measures which have either already been 

granted waivers or authorizations or are anticipated to be granted waivers or 

authorizations in the near future. 

PROPOSED ACTION 

ARB staff recommends the Board approve the list of waiver and authorization measures 

for inclusion in the California SIP and direct staff to submit those measures relied on in 

the SIP to U.S. EPA for inclusion in the SIP. 

ARB staff prepared a written staff report identifying the listed measures. Copies of the 

staff report may be obtained from ARB's Public Information Office, 1001 I Street, First 

Floor, Environmental Services Center, Sacramento, California, 95814, (916) 322-2990 

on June 19, 2015. The report may also be obtained from ARB's website at 

http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/sip/sip.htm. 

Interested members of the public may present comments orally or in writing at the 

meeting and may provide comments by postal mail or by electronic submittal before the 

meeting. To be considered by the Board, written comments not physically submitted at 

the meeting, must be received no later than 5:00pm, July 20, 2015, and addressed to 

the following: 

Postal mail: Clerk of the Board, Air Resources Board 

1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814 

Electronic submittal: http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php 

Please note that under the California Public Records Act (Government Code 

section 6250 et seq.), your written and verbal comments, attachments, and associated 

contact information (e.g., your address, phone, email, etc.) become part of the public 

record and can be released to the public upon request. 

ARB requests that written and email statements on this item be filed at least 1 0 days 

prior to the meeting so that ARB staff and Board members have additional time to 

consider each comment. Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to 

Carol Sutkus, Manager, South Coast Air Quality Planning Section, (916) 322-1229 or 

Austin Hicks, Air Pollution Specialist, (916) 322-8279. 

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SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION REQUEST 

Consistent with California Government Code Section 7296.2, special accommodation or 

language needs may be provided for any of the following: 

• An interpreter to be available at the meeting; 

• Documents made available in an alternate format or another language; 

• A disability-related reasonable accommodation. 

To request these special accommodations or language needs, please contact the Clerk 

of the Board at (916) 322-5594 or by facsimile at (916) 322-3928 as soon as possible, 

but no later than 10 business days before the scheduled Board meeting. 

TTY/TOO/Speech to Speech users may dial711 for the California Relay Service. 

Consecuente con Ia secci6n 7296.2 del C6digo de Gobierno de California, una 

acomodaci6n especial o necesidades linguisticas pueden ser suministradas para 

cualquiera de los siguientes: 

• Un interprete que este disponible en Ia audiencia; 

• Documentos disponibles en un formato alterno u otro idioma; 

• Una acomodaci6n razonable relacionados con una incapacidad. 

Para solicitar estas comodidades especiales o necesidades de otro idioma, por favor 

llame a Ia oficina del Consejo al (916) 322-5594 o envie un fax a (916) 322-3928 lo 

mas pronto posible, pero no menos de 10 dias de trabajo antes del dia programado 

para Ia audiencia del Consejo. TTY/TOO/Personas que necesiten este servicio 

pueden marcar el 711 para el Servicio de Retransmisi6n de Mensajes de California. 

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CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

)~~,{ chard W. Corey f w 

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Executive Officer 

The energy challenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to 

reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy 

costs, see our website at www.arb.ca.qov. 

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