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### Dock**et Index** Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; South Coast; Contingency Measures for 1997 PM2.5 Standard (Docket No. EPA - R09 - OAR - 2013 - 0384 )

September 25 , 2013 A . Rulemaking Documents A - 1 . Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; South Coast; Contingency

Measures for 1997 PM2.5 Standard ; Proposed rule , signed June 12 , 201 3 (p re - publication version ). A - 2 . Interim Final Determination to Defer Sanctions; California; South Coast Air Quality Management District; Interim final rule , signed June 12, 2013 (p re - publication version ). A - 3. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; South Coast; Contingency

Measures for 1997 P M2.5 Standards,” Final rule, signed September 25, 2013 (pre - publication copy). B. SIP Submittals B - 1. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board , to Jared Blumenfeld , Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Region 9, November 14, 2011 ( submitting Contingency Measure SIP revision ) with attachments including: a. Transmittal letter from the South Coast Air Quality Management District to ARB requesting submittal of 2011 PM2.5 Contingency Measure SIP Revision, inclu ding all attachments: 1. Approved Board Letter regarding the adoption of Revisions to the 2007 PM2.5 State Implementation Plan for South Coast Air Basin (Attachment A) 2. Governing Board Adoption Resolution 11 - 24 certifying the Notice of Exemption for the 2007 AQMP for a Revision to the Final 2007 AQMP (Attachment B) 3. Notice of Exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act: Revisions to the PM2.5 SIP for the South Coast Air Basi n (Attachment C) 4. South Coast Air Quality Management District Proposed Contingency Measures for the 2007 PM2.5 State Implementation Plan (Attachment D) 5. Proof of Publication for Notices of Public Hearing 6. Audio tape of the October 7, 2011 AQMD Governing Board proceedings (AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE TAPES AT REGION 9 OFFI CE) b. State of California, A ir Resources Board Executive Order S - 11 - 0 23 , Adoption and Submittal of Revisions to 2007 State Implementation Plan for South Coast Air Basin (November 14, 2011 )Docket No. EPA - R09 - OAR - 20 13 - 0384 Page 2 c. SI P Complet eness Checklist B - 2. L etter, Elaine Chang, DrPH, Deputy Executive Officer, South Coast Air Quality Management District to Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Region 9, April 24, 2013 (updating the 2012 RFP Emissions and 2015 Reductions from Contingency Measures for the 2007 Annual PM2.5 AQMP for the South Coast Air Basin) with attachments including : a. Attachment 1, Update Table C - 2, South Coast Air Basin PM2.5 Reasonable F urther Progress (Annual Average Tons Per Day) b. Attachment 2, 2015 Emissions Reductions Bey ond 2007 AQMP SI P Commitment Available for Contingency C. Supporting Documents C - 1. EPA Guidance , Federal Register Notices , and case law a. “National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter,” Final rule. 62 FR 36852 ( July

18, 1997 ) (1997 PM2.5 NAAQS) b. “Air Qualit y Designation s and Classifications for the Fine Particles (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standards,” Final rule . 70 FR 944 (January 5, 2005) c. “Air Qualit y Designations for the 2006 24 - Hour Fine Particle (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality

Standards,” Final rule. 74 FR 58688 (November 13, 200 9 ) d. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; 2007 South Coast PM2.5 Plan and 2007 State Strategy ,” Final rule . 76 FR 69928 (November 9, 2011) e. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; 2007 South Coast PM2.5 Plan and 2007 State Strategy ,” Proposed rule . 76 FR 41562 (July 14, 2011) f. “State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,” Proposed rule. 57 FR 13498 (April 16, 1992) (“General Preamble”) g. “State Implementation Plans for Serious PM - 10 Nonattainment Areas, and Attainment Date Waivers for PM - 10 Nonattainment Areas Generally ; Addendum to the General Preamble for the Implementation of Title Iof the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,” Addendum to General Preamble for future proposed rulemakings. 59 FR 41998 (August 16, 1994) (“PM - 10 Addendum”) h. “Clean Air Fine Particle Implementation Rule,” Final rule . 72 FR 20586 (April 25, 2007) i. Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA , 706 F.3d 428 (D.C. Cir., Jan. 4, 2013) j. LEAN v. EPA , 382 F.3d 575 (5 th Circuit. 2004) (upholding contingency measures that were previously

required and implemented and which provided emissions reductions in excess of those in the attainment demonstration and RFP SI P)Docket No. EPA - R09 - OAR - 20 13 - 0384 Page 3 k. 62 FR 15844 (April 3, 1997) (direct final rule approving I ndiana ozone SIP revision) l. 62 FR 66279 (December 18, 1997) (final rule approving Illinois ozone SI P revision) m. 66 FR 30811 (June 8, 2001) (direct final rule approving Rhode Island ozone SI P revision) n. 66 FR 586 (January

3, 2001) (final rule approving Distri ct of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ozone SI P revisions) o. 66 FR 634 (January

3, 2001) (final rule approving Connecticut ozone SIP revision) p. South Coast SOx RECLAI M Shave approval. 76 FR 50128 (August 12, 2011) q. South Coast Rule 1113 approval. 78 FR 18244 (March 26, 2013) r. Memorandum dated October 24, 1997 from Richard D. Wilson, Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, to EPA Regional Administrators, Regions 1 - 10, entitled “Guidance on Incorporating Voluntary Mobile Source Emission Reduction Pr ograms in State Implementation Plans (SIPs)” (hereinafter “1997 VMEP”) s. “Guidance on the Use of Models and Other Anal yses for Demonstrating Attainment of Air Quality Goals for Ozone, PM 2.5 , and Regional Haze,” April 2007, EPA - 454/B - 07 - 002, at p. 21 (referencing EPA’s rounding convention in 40 CFR part 50, appendix N for calculation of annual average PM 2.5 values) t. “Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, South Coast Air Quality Management District,” pre - publication proposed rule signed June 12, 2013 (proposed approval of South Coast rules 444 and 445) C - 2. Other supporting documents a. Memorandum from Meredith Kurpius, EPA Region IX, Air Qualit y Anal ys is Office, to File, May

10, 2013, South Coast PM2.5 Ambient Air Monitoring Data Completeness b. Memorandum from Wienke Tax to File, May 30, 2013, EPA Proposed Rule to Approve South Coast Contingency Measure SIP Revision, Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) c. Memorandum from Carol Bohnenkamp, Regional Modeling Contact, to Rulemaking docket # EPA - R09 - OAR - 201 3 - 0384, May 30, 2013, Assessment of projected vs. observed ambient PM2.5 levels for 2012 RFP y ear d. “Final 2007 Air Quality Management Plan” (South Coast 2007 AQMP) , submitted November 28, 2007 e. South Coast 2007 AQMD Board Resolution No. 07 - 9, dated June 1, 2007 (adopting South Coast 2007 AQMP) (“2007 Resolution”) f. South Coast 2007 AQMP, Appendix IV - B - 3, “District Implementation of the Carl Moy er Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program,” availableDocket No. EPA - R09 - OAR - 20 13 - 0384 Page 4 electronically at https://www.aqmd.gov/aqmp/07aqmp/aqmp/Appendix_IV - B 3_section1.pdf g. “State Strategy

for California’s 2007 State Implementation Plan” (2007 State Strategy) , submitted November 16, 2007 h. 2009 State Strategy

SIP revision, submitted August 12, 2009 (“2009 State Strategy ”) i. 2011 State Strategy

SIP revision, submitted May 18, 2011 ( “2011 Progress Report” ) j. “Final Technical Support Document and Response to Comments, Final Rulemaking Action on the South Coast 2007 AQMP for PM2.5 and the South Coast Portions of the Revised 2007 State Strategy,” Air Divis ion, U.S. EPA Region 9, September 30, 2011 (“Final TSD for South Coast PM2.5 SI P”) k. “Final 2012 Air Quality Management Plan,” Letter dated February 13, 2013, from James Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, EPA Reg ion 9, transmitting 2012 AQMP l. “The Carl Mo ye r Program Guidelines, Approved Revisions 2011,” Release Date: February 8, 2013, at Chapter 1 (available electronically at http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/mo ye r/moy er.htm ) m. SCAQMD, Annual Air Quality Monitoring Network Plan (July 2012), at 7 - 9 and 21, Table 5 n. L etter dated April 18, 2013, from Matthew Lakin, Manager, Air Qualit y Analysis Office, EPA Region 9, to Dr. Matt Miy asato, Deputy Executive Officer, Science and Technology

Advancement, SCAQMD o. U.S. EPA, Air Quality Sy stem, Preliminary

Design Value Report, PM 2.5 , 2002 - 2012 (Report Date: May

10, 2013) p. U.S. EPA, Data Qualit y Indicator Report, SCAQMD, California, PM 2.5 (April 26, 2012) q. L etter dated May

1, 2012, from Chung Liu, Deputy Executive Officer, Science and Technology

Advancement, SCAQMD, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 9 (certifying air quality data submitted to AQS) r. Letter dated Jul y 18, 2008, from Michael Scheible, Deputy Executive Officer, CARB, to Way

ne Nastri, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 9 (transmitting several California regulation s, including SOON program (Rule 2449) , to EPA). s. “Revisions to Implementation Plan, South Coast Air Quality Management District” Final Rule, signed August 22, 2013 (pre - publication copy). D. Public comments D - 1. Email from Joy ce Dillard, sent Wednesday , July 24, 2013 4:02 PM, to Doris L o, re: Comments to EPA - R09 - OAR - 2013 - 0468 SCAQMD due 7.24.2013.Docket No. EPA - R09 - OAR - 20 13 - 0384 Page 5