State of California 

AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

EXECUTIVE ORDER S-14-011 

Adoption and Submittal of the Feather River Air Quality Management District 

Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis and Negative Declaration as 

a Revision to the California State Implementation Plan 

WHEREAS, the California Legislature in Health and Safety Code section 39602 

has designated the California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) as the air 

pollution control agency for all purposes set forth in federal law; 

WHEREAS, ARB is responsible for the preparation of the State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) for attaining and maintaining the national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) as required by the federal Clean Air Act (the Act; 42 U.S.C. 

section 7401 et seq.), and to this end is directed by Health and Safety Code 

section 39602 to coordinate the activities of all local and regional air pollution 

control and air quality management districts (districts) necessary to comply with 

the Act; 

WHEREAS, the ARB has primary responsibility for the control of air pollution 

from vehicular sources, including motor vehicle fuels, as specified in sections 

39002, 39500, and part 5 (commencing with section 43000) of the Health and 

Safety Code, and for ensuring that the districts meet their responsibilities under 

the Act pursuant to sections 39002, 39500, 39602, 40469, and 41650 of the 

Health and Safety Code; 

WHEREAS, the local air districts have primary responsibility for the control of air 

pollution· from nonvehicular sources and for adopting control measures, rules 

and regulations to attain the NAAQS within their boundaries pursuant to sections 

39002,40000,40001,40701,40702, and 41650 of the Health and Safety Code; 

WHEREAS, section 39602 of the Health and Safety Code also provides that the 

SIP shall include only those provisions necessary to meet the requirements of 

the Act; 

WHEREAS, section 41650 of the Health and Safety Code requires ARB to 

approve the nonattainment plan approved by a district as part of the SIP unless 

the Board finds, after a public hearing, that the plan does not meet the 

requirements of the Act; 

WHEREAS, sections 39515 and 39516 of the Health and Safety Code provide 

that any duty may be delegated to the Board's Executive Officer as the Board 

deems appropriate; 
EXECUTIVE ORDER 2 

WHEREAS, in March 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(U.S. EPA) promulgated an 8-hour standard for ozone of 0.075 parts per 

million (ppm); 

WHEREAS, the U.S. EPA has assigned federal classifications for the 0.075 ppm 

8-hour Ozone Nonattainment areas in California (FR 77 30088, May 21 , 2012); 

WHEREAS, on June 6, 2013, U.S. EPA promulgated the Proposed Rule, 

"Implementation of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: 

State Implementation Plan Requirements," (78 FR 34178 et seq.), which requires 

the submission by July 20, 2014, of Reasonably Available Control Technology 

(RACT) SIPs for nonattainment areas classified as moderate or above; 

WHEREAS, the Feather River Air Quality Management District is designated as 

a nonattainment area with classification of severe-15 for the 0.075 ppm 2008 

8-hour ozone standard; 

WHEREAS, U.S. EPA has published Control Technique Guidelines (CTG) that 

establish RACT control limits for Volatile Organic Compounds emissions from 

specific stationary source categories and establish various major source 

threshold limits for classified nonattainment areas for the 0.075 ppm 8-hour 

ozone standard ; 

WHEREAS, U.S. EPA requires districts to review their rules for CTG and major 

non-CTG sources located in the district to determine if those rules meet RACT 

requirements and to update or adopt new rules if necessary; 

WHEREAS, U.S. EPA requires districts not having a listed CTG or major 

non-CTG source, and consequently lacking a RACT rule for these categories, to 

make a negative declaration stating this; 

WHEREAS, U.S. EPA requires districts with nonattainment areas classified as 

moderate and above to submit a RACT SIP for U.S. EPA approval by 

July 20, 2014, which is two years from the July 20, 2012 date of designation; 

WHEREAS, federal law set forth in section 11 0(1) of the Act and Title 40, Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR), section 51 .102 requires that one or more public 

hearings, preceded by at least 30 days notice and opportunity for review, must 

be conducted prior to the adoption and submittal to U.S. EPA of any SIP 

revision; 
EXECUTIVE ORDER 3 

WHEREAS, following a duly noticed public hearing on August 4, 2014, the 

Feather River Air Quality Management District Governing Board adopted the 

Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis and Negative Declaration; 

WHEREAS, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that no 

project which may have significant adverse environmental impacts may be 

adopted as originally proposed if feasible alternatives or mitigation measures are 

available to reduce or eliminate such impacts, unless specific overriding 

considerations are identified which outweigh the potential adverse consequences 

of any unmitigated impacts; 

WHEREAS, no potential adverse environmental impacts are expected from the 

adoption of the Feather River Air Quality Management District Reasonably 

Available Control Technology Analysis and Negative Declaration, and 

environmental documentation for individual rules will be prepared as necessary 

as each new rule is considered for adoption; 

WHEREAS, section 39515 and 39516 delegate to the Executive Officer the 

authority to act for the Board in this matter; 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the Executive Officer hereby adopts 

as a SIP revision the Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis and 

Negative Declaration adopted by the Feather River Air Quality Management 

District. 

BE IT FURTHER ORDERED that ARB hereby submits to U.S. EPA the Feather 

River Air Quality Management District Reasonably Available Control Technology 

Analysis and Negative Declaration and requests that U.S. EPA approve it as a 

revision to the California SIP. 

I certify, pursuant to 40 CFR section 51 .102 that the Feather River Air Quality 

Management District Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis and 

Negative Declaration being submitted as a SIP revision was adopted after notice 

and public hearing as required by 40 CFR 51 .102. 

Executed at Sacramento, California this ;<cz'--11--day of September, 2014. 

Executive Officer