ATTACHMENT B Resolution

10-1

A Resolution

of the Governing

Board of the South

Coast Air Quatity Management

District (AQMD) approving the proposed

PM10 Redesignation Requests

and adopting

the PM10 Maintenance Plans for the South

Coast Air Basin and the Coachella

Valley Portionof the Salton Sea Air Basin.
A Resolution

of the Governing

Board of the South

Coast Air Quality Management

District (AQMD) certifyingthat the proposed PM10 Redesignation Requests

and PM10 Maintenance Plans for the South

Coast Air Basin

and the Coachella

Valley Portion of the Salton Sea Air Basin

are exempt

from the requirements

of the CaliforniaEnvironmental QualityAct (CEQA). WI{EREAS, the South

Coast Air Quality Management Diskict (AQMD) Governing

Boardhas

reviewed the proposed

PM10 Redesignation

Requests and Maintenance

Plans and determined

there are no adverse

environmental

impacts andthe plan is exempt

from CEQApursuant

to CEQA Guidelines

Section 15061(bX3),

anda notice of exemption

has been prepared pursuant o CEQA Guidelines

Section 15062 and will be filed with the county clerks of Los Angeles,

Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino

counties immediately

following the approval

of the PMIO Redesignation Requests and the adoption

of proposed

Maintenance

Plans; and WIIEREAS, the US Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) has

designated the South

Coast Air Basin(Basin)

and the Coachella

Valley portionof the Salton Sea Air Basin(Coachella

Valley) asserious

nonattainment

for PMtr0

and WHEREAS, theAQMD has certifi ed ur monitorin

g data demonstrating

that the Basinand Coachella Valley attained

the federal24-hour

PM10 standard

in 2005 through 2007andhas

continued

to maintain

attainment

through preliminary

data evaluation,

through 2008 as well; and WHEREAS, theAQMD maintains a comprehensive

PM10 monitoring network throughout

he Basin

and Coachella

Valley; and WIIEREAS, AQMD has committed,

enforceable

PM10 emission

reduction programs that will continue

to maintain

PM10 levels

belowthe federal

standard; and WHEREAS,AQMD has developed

PM10Maintenance

Plans that demonstrate

current andfuture

attainment

of the federal

PM10standard,

provides a PM10 emissions

budget for theCoachella

Valley for themaintenance year, requests CARBto provide

a PM10 emissions

budget for theBasin

for themaintenance

year, commits to continued

PM10monitoring,

and demonstrates

that future PM10 emissions will ensure

future compliance

of the standard

andcommits

to revising

the Planin two years prior to the horizon

year; andWHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board has determined that a need exists to request EPA to redesignate

the Basin and Coachella Valley attainment

for PM10; and WHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board obtains its authority to adopt, amend, or repeal

rules and regulations

from Sections

40000, 40001, 40440,4044I, 40463,40702, and 40725 through 40728

of the California Health and Safety Code; and WHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board has determined that Proposed PM10 Redesignation

Requests

and MaintenancePlans are written or displayed so that persons can easily understand

their meaningthat are directly affected by the plan; and WHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board determines that Proposed

PM10 Redesignation

Requests

and Maintenance

Plans are in harmony with, and not in conflict with or contradictory to, existing stafutes, court decisions,

or state or federal regulations; and WI{EREAS, the AQMD Governing Board determines that Proposed

PM10 Maintenance

Plans do not imposethe samerequirements as any existing stateor federal regulations,

and the proposedPlansare necess ary andproperto execute the powers and dutiesgranted to, and imposed upon, the AQMD; and

WHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board in approvingthis PM10 Redesignation

Requests

and adopting

these PM10 Maintenance Plans, references

the federal Clean Air Act, Section 107(dX3XE) (redesignation request),

Section 175(a) (maintenance

plan), Secfion 110 and part D (applicable SIP requirements), and Section 110(k) (approved implementation plan); and WHEREAS, the AQMD staff conducted interagency consultation

meetings and 5 regional public hearings regarding

the proposed

PM10 Redesignafion

Requests

and MaintenancePlans; and

WHEREAS, a public hearing has been properly noticed in accordance with all provisions of Health and Safety Code Section 40725; and

WHEREAS, the AQMD Governing Board has held a public hearing in accordance

with all provisions of law;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Governing Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District hereby certifies the Notice of Exemption for the PM10 Resignation Requests

and PM10 Maintenance Plans for the Basin and Coachella

Valley, prepared

to CEQA Guidelines 15002(k)(1) and 15061(bX3)

- Review for Exemption, and that it was presented to the AQMD Governing Board, whose members

reviewed and considered the information therein prior to acfing on the PM10 Redesignation

Requests

and PM10 Maintenance Plansand

### BE tt RtrSOtvEDmii itre coverning Bo;rd of the South e;;tAir Qrttity Management

District does

hereby approve the PM10 Redesignation Requests for the Basin and Coachella

Valley and

adopt, pursuant to the authority

granted by law, the PM10 Maintenance

Plans for the Basinand Coachella ValleS as'set

forth in the attached andincorporated

hereinby this reference. Attachments

AYES: Ashley, Burke, Cacciotti, Campbell,

Carney, Gonzales,

Lyou, and Yates.

-NOES: None. ABSENT: Antonovich, Loveridge, Perry, Pulido, and Reyes Uranga.



### DATE: McDaniel, Clerkof the Boards