Docket Index 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

San Joaquin Valley 2008 PM2.5 Plan 

(Docket No. EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0516) 

November 18, 2010 

A. Rulemaking Documents 

A-1. Docket Index, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, San Joaquin Valley 2008 PM2.5 

Plan (Docket No. EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0516), November 18, 2010 

A-2. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of California; 2008 San 

Joaquin Valley State Implementation Plan for Fine Particulate Matter; 2007 State 

Strategy; PM2.5; Proposed rule. November 8, 2010 (pre-publication version) 

A-3. Air Division, EPA-Region 9, Technical Support Document for the Proposed State on 

the SJV 2008 PM2.5 Plan and the SJV Portions of the 2007 State Strategy. November 

8, 2010.

B. State Submittals 

B-1. CARB, Notice of Public Meeting to Consider Approval of the Proposed State 

Strategy for California’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Federal 8-Hour 

Ozone and PM2.5 Standards, May 7, 2007 

B-2. CARB, Notice of Continuation, Notice of Public Meeting to Consider Approval of 

the Proposed State Strategy for California’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the 

Federal 8-Hour Ozone and PM2.5 Standards, July 19, 2007 

B-3. California Air Resources Board, Proposed State Strategy for California’s 2007 State 

Implementation Plan, adopted September 27, 2007, 

B-4. CARB Resolution No. 07-28, September 27, 2007 with attachments A & B 

B-5. State of California, Air Resource Board, Executive Order No. S-07-002, November 

16, 2007. 

B-6. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB, to Wayne Nastri, Regional 

Administrator, EPA Region 9, November 16, 2007 

B-7. November 16, 2007 SIP comments 

B-8. CARB, Notice of Public Meeting to Consider the Approval of the SJV 2008 PM2.5 

SIP, April 25, 2008 

B-9. San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, 2008 PM2.5 Plan, April 30, 2008. 

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B-10. San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District Governing Board 

Resolution: In the Matter of Adopting the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution 

Control District 2008 PM2.5 Plan, April 30, 2008 

B-11. Letter, Scott Nester, SJVAPCD to James Goldstene, CARB, May 2, 2008 

B-12. CARB, Staff Report, Analysis of the San Joaquin Valley 2008 PM2.5 Plan, May 7, 

2008 

B-13. CARB Board Comment Log - May 22, 2008 

B-14. Public comments received during CARB hearing on SJV 2008 PM2.5 Plan, May 22, 

2008 

B-15. CARB Resolution No. 08-28, May 22, 2008 

B-16. CARB, Board Hearing Transcript, May 22, 2008 

B-17. CARB, Board Hearing Transcript, June 21-22 and September 27, 2007 

B-18. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB to Wayne Nastri, Regional 

Administrator, EPA Region 9, June 30, 2008 with enclosures. 

B-19. CARB, Notice of Public Hearing to Consider a Status Report on the State Strategy 

for California’s 2007 State Implementation Plan and Consider Approval of a 

Proposed Revision to the State Implementation Plan Reflecting Implementation of 

the 2007 State Strategy, March 24, 2009 

B-20. California Air Resources Board, Status Report on the State Strategy for California’s 

2007 State Implementation Plan (SIP) and Proposed Revisions to the SIP Reflecting 

Implementation of the 2007 State Strategy, adopted April 24, 2009 

B-21. CARB Resolution No. 09-34, April 24, 2009 

B-22. CARB, Board Hearing Transcript, April 24, 2009 

B-23. CARB, documents related to public notice on 2009 State Strategy Update 

B-24. Public comments received during CARB hearing on the 2009 State Strategy Update, 

April 24, 2009 

B-25. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB, to Laura Yoshii, Acting 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, August 12, 2009 with enclosures 

B-26. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB, to Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, September 15, 2010 with enclosures 

B-27. SJVAPCD, Draft 2008 PM2.5 Plan, Appendix B “Emissions Inventory,” December 

4, 2007. 

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C. EPA Guidance Documents 

C-1. State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of 

the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990; General preamble for future proposed 

rulemakings. 57 FR 13498 (April 16, 2992) 

C-2. National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter; Final Rule. 62 FR 

38652 (July 18, 1997) 

C-3. Transportation Conformity Rule Amendments for the New 8-hour Ozone and 

PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards and Miscellaneous Revisions for 

Existing Areas; Transportation Conformity Rule Amendments: Response to Court 

Decision and Additional Rule Changes; Final Rule. 69 FR 40004 (July 1, 2004) 

C-4. EPA, Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter, No. EPA/600/P–99/002aF and 

EPA/600/P–99/002bF, October 2004. 

C-5. Air Quality Designations and Classifications for the Fine Particles (PM2.5) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards; Final Rule. 70 FR 944 (January 5, 2005) 

C-6. Transportation Conformity Rule Amendments for the New PM2.5 National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards: PM2.5 Precursors; Final Rule. 70 FR 24280 (May 6, 2005) 

C-7. Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Regional Haze Regulations, 

EPA–454/ R–05–001, November 2005 

C-8. Proposed Rule to Implement the Final Particle National Ambient Quality Standards; 

Proposed rulemaking. 70 FR 65984 (November 1, 2005) 

C-9. National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter, Final rule. 71 FR 

61144 (October 17, 2006) 

C-10. EPA, Lists of Potential Controls for PM2.5 and Precursors, Draft, Version 1.0 

C-11. Guidance on the Use of Models and Other Analyses for Demonstrating Attainment 

of Air Quality Goals for Ozone, PM2.5, and Regional Haze, EPA -454/B-07-002, 

April 2007 

C-12. Clean Air Fine Particulate Implementation Rule; Final Rule. 72 FR 29586 (April 

25, 2007) 

C-13. Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter 

Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5); Final rule. 73 FR 28321 (May 16, 2008) 

C-14. Air Quality Designations for the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particle (PM2.5) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards; Final Rule. 74 FR 58688 (November 13, 2009) 

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C-15. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area 

Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA; Final rule. 75 FR 10420, 10424 (March 8, 2010) 

C-16. EPA, Policy Assessment for the Review of the Particulate Matter NAAQS, Second 

External Review Draft, June 2010 

C-17. Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; California; Motor 

Vehicles Inspections and Maintenance Program; Final rule. 75 FR 38023 (July 1, 

2010) 

C-18. California Plan Revision; SIP Chapter 4-California Air Quality Control Strategy; 

Notice of proposed rulemaking. 44 FR 60758 (October 22, 1979) 

C-19. California State Implementation Plan Revisions: Chapter 4 -- California Air Quality 

Control Strategies; Final rule. 45 FR 63843 (September 26, 1980) 

C-20. California State Implementation Plan Revisions, Notice of proposed rulemaking. 48 

FR 5074 (February 3, 1983) 

C-21. Subchapter C--Air Programs; California 1982 Ozone and CO Revisions; Notice of 

final rulemaking. 48 FR 57130 (December 28, 1983) 

C-22. Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plan; Indiana; Direct final rule. 

62 FR 15844 (April 3, 1997) 

C-23. Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plan; Illinois; Final rule. 62 

FR 66279 (December 18, 1997) 

C-24. Approval an Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of 

Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; Post 1996 Rate-of-Progress Plans, One-Hour Ozone 

Attainment Demonstrations and Attainment Date Extension for the Metropolitan 

Washington D.C. Ozone Nonattainment Area; Final rule. 66 FR 586 (January 3, 

2001) 

C-25. Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Connecticut; 

One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration and Attainment Date Extension for the 

Greater Connecticut Ozone Nonattainment Area; Final rule. 66 FR 634, January 3, 

2001 

C-26. Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Rhode Island; 

Post-1996 Rate of Progress; Direct final rule. 66 FR 30811, June 8, 2001 

C-27. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Houston/Galveston 

Nonattainment Area; Ozone; Final rule. 66 FR 57160 (November 14, 2001). 

C-28. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District and South Coast Air Quality Management District; 

Direct final rule. 68 FR 33005 (June 3, 2003) 

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C-29. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans for California--San Joaquin 

Valley PM-10 Nonattainment Area; Serious Area Plan for Attainment of the 24-

Hour and Annual PM-10 Standards; Final rule. 69 FR 30006 (May 26, 2004) 

C-30. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution control District; Direct final rule. 72 FR 29887 (May 30, 2007) 

C-31. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Sacramento Metropolitan Air 

Quality Management District and San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District; 

Direct final rule. 72 FR 41894 (August 1, 2007) 

C-32. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Air 

Pollution Control District and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management 

District; Direct final rule. 73 FR 1819 (January 10, 2008) 

C-33. Official Release of EMFAC2007 Motor Vehicle Emissions Factor Model for Use in 

the State of California; Notice of Availability. 73 FR 3464 (January 18, 2008) 

C-34. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air 

Quality Planning Purposes; State of California; PM-10 Revision of Designation; 

Redesignation of the San Joaquin Air Basin PM10 Nonattainment Area to 

Attainment; Approval of PM-10 Maintenance Plan for the San Joaquin Valley Air 

Basin; Approval of Commitments for the East Kern PM-10 Nonattainment Area; 

Final rule. 73 FR 66759 (November 12, 2008) 

C-35. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area 

Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA; Proposed rule. 74 FR 33933 (July 14, 2009) 

C-36. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District; Final rule. 74 FR 53888 (October 21, 2009) 

C-37. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, California Air Resources 

Board Consumer Products Regulations, Final rule. 74 FR 57074 (November 4, 

2009). 

C-38. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District and South Coast Air Quality Management District; 

Final rule. 74 FR 57907 (November 10, 2009) 

C-39. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District; Final Rule. 74 FR 65042 (December 9, 2009) 

C-40. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District; Final Rule. 75 FR 1715 (January 13, 2010) 

C-41. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Air 

Pollution Control District; Final rule. 75 FR 2079 (January 14, 2010) 

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C-42. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Air 

Pollution Control District; Final rule. 75 FR 3996 (January 26, 2010) 

C-43. Letter, Deborah Jordan, EPA Region 9, to James Goldstene, CARB, RE: Adequacy 

Status of San Joaquin Valley PM2.5 Reasonable Further Progress and Attainment 

Plan Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets, dated April 23, 2010 

C-44. Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets in Submitted San Joaquin 

Valley PM2.5 Reasonable Further Progress and Attainment Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes; CA; Notice of adequacy and inadequacy. 75 FR 26749 (May 

12, 2010) 

C-45. Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Reformulated 

Gasoline and Diesel Fuels; California; Final rule. 75 FR26653 (May 12, 2010) 

C-46. EPA, Air Quality System, Design Value Report, August 9, 2010 

C-47. “Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District; Final rule.” 75 FR 60623 (October 1, 2010) 

C-48. Letter, Deborah Jordan, EPA-Region 9 to James Goldstene, CARB, September 23, 

2010. 

C-49. Letter, Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, EPA, to 

David Baron and Paul Cort, Earthjustice, May 13, 2010. 

C-50. Implementation of the New Source Review Program for Particulate Matter Less 

Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5), Final Rule; 74 FR 26098 (June 1, 2009) 

C-51. Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter 

Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5); Proposal To Extend Administrative Stay; 

Proposed Rule. 74 FR 36427 (July 23, 2009) 

C-52. Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter 

Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5); Final Rule To Stay the Grandfathering 

Provision for PM2.5; Final rule. 74 FR 48153 (September 22, 2009) 

C-53. Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter 

Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5); Notice of Proposed Rulemaking To Repeal 

Grandfathering Provision and End the PM10 Surrogate Policy; Propose Rule. 75 

FR 6827 (February 11, 2010). 

D. Other Documents 

D-1. H.R. Rep. No. 294, 95th Congr., 1st Sess. 301–2 (1977) 

D-2. Chapter 4, California Air Quality Control Strategies 

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D-3. Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, 

and Metropolitan Transportation Commission, 1982 Bay Area Air Quality Plan, 

December 1982 

D-4. SJVAPCD Rule 3170 Federally Mandated Ozone Nonattainment Fee (July 17, 2003) 

D-5. Letter, Catherine Witherspoon, CARB, to Wayne Nastri, EPA-Region 9, February 

11, 2004 

D-6. SJVAPCD Rule 4352 Solid Fuel Fired Boilers (May 18, 2006) 

D-7. SJVAPCD, 2007 Ozone Plan, April 30, 2007, Chapter 6 and Appendix C 

D-8. SJVAPCD, Staff Report on 4703, September 20, 2007, Appendix B 

D-9. SJVAPCD, Final Staff Report for Revised Proposed Amendments to Rule 4311, June 

18, 2009 

D-10. Earthjustice, Petition for Reconsideration in the Matter of the Final Clean Air Fine 

Particulate Implementation Rule, June 25, 2008 

D-11. SJVAPCD, Final Staff Report for Proposed Amendments to Rule 4306, 4307, and 

4320, October 16, 2008, Appendix B 

D-12. SJVAPCD Rule 4354 Glass Melting Furnaces (September 16, 2010) 

D-13. SJVAPCD Rule 4307 Boilers 2 to 5 MMBTU/hr (October 16, 2008) 

D-14. SJVAPCD Rule 4320 Advanced Emission Reduction Options for Boilers, Steam 

Generators, and Process Heaters Greater than 5.0 MMBTU/Hr (October 16, 2008) 

D-15. SJVAPCD Rule 4901Wood Burning Fireplace and Wood Burning Heaters (October 

16, 2008) 

D-16. Letter, James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB to Laura Yoshii, Acting 

Regional Administrator, EPA - Region 9, June 29, 2009 

D-17. SJVAPCD, Final Draft Staff Report, Revised Proposed Amendments to Rule 4692 

Commercial Charbroiling, September 17, 2009 

D-18. SJVAPCD, Final Staff Report for Proposed Amendments to Rule 4308, December 

17, 2009 

D-19. SJVAPCD, Final Staff Report for Revised Proposed Amendments to Rule 9410, 

December 17, 2009, Appendix B 

D-20. SJVPACD, 2010 Ozone Mid-Course Review, draft May 2010 

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D-21. SJVAPCD, Final Staff Report, Proposed Amendments to Rule 4354 (Glass Melting 

Furnaces), August 19, 2010 

D-22. Kleeman, M.K., Ying, Q., and Kaduwela, A., 2005, “Control strategies for the 

reduction of airborne particulate nitrate in California's San Joaquin Valley”, 

Atmospheric Environment, 39: 5325-5341 September 2005. (hardcopy only) 

D-23. Livingstone, P.L., et. al., 2009, “Simulating PM Concentrations During a Winter 

Episode in a Subtropical Valley and Sensitivity Simulations and Evaluation 

methods”, Atmospheric Environment, 43: 5971-5977. (hardcopy only) 

D-24. Lurmann, F.W., Brown, S.G., McCarthy, M.C., and Roberts P.T., 2006, “Processes 

Influencing Secondary Aerosol Formation in the San Joaquin Valley During Winter”, 

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 56: 1679-1693. (hardcopy 

only) 

D-25. McCarthy, M., 2005, “The Role of Nighttime Chemistry in Winter Ammonium 

Nitrate Formation in the San Joaquin Valley”, presented at the American Association 

for Aerosol Research (AAAR), Supersites Conference, February 2005, Atlanta, GA. 

(hardcopy only) 

D-26. Pun, B.K. and Seigneur, C., 1998, “Conceptual Model of Particulate Matter Pollution 

in the California San Joaquin Valley”, prepared by Atmospheric and Environmental 

Research for Pacific Gas & Electric, Document Number CP045-1-98, 8 September 

1998. (hardcopy only) 

D-27. Pun, B.K. and Seigneur, C., 2001, “Sensitivity of Particulate Matter Nitrate 

Formation to Precursor Emissions in the California San Joaquin Valley”, 

Environmental Science and Technology, 35: 2979-2987. (hardcopy only) 

D-28. Pun, B., 2004, “CRPAQS Task 2.7 When and Where Does High O3 Correspond to 

High PM2.5? How Much PM2.5 Corresponds to Photochemical End Products?”, 

prepared by Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. for the San Joaquin 

Valleywide Air Pollution Study Agency. (hardcopy only) 

D-29. Pun, B.K., Balmori R.T.F, and Seigneur, C., 2009, “Modeling Wintertime Particulate 

Matter Formation in Central California”, Atmospheric Environment, 43: 402-409. 

(hardcopy only) 

D-30. Stockwell, W.R., Watson, J.G., Robinson, N.F., Steiner, W., and Sylte, W.W., 2000, 

“The Ammonium Nitrate Particle Equivalent of NOx Emissions for Continental 

Wintertime Conditions”, Atmospheric Environment, 34: 4711-4717 (hardcopy only). 

D-31. Ying, Q., Lu, J., and Kleeman, M., 2009, “Modeling air quality during the California 

Regional PM10/PM2.5 Air Quality Study (CPRAQS) using the UCD/CIT sourceoriented air quality model - Part III. Regional source apportionment of secondary and 

total airborne particulate. (hardcopy only) 

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E. Comments 

E-1. Letter, James Goldstene, CARB to Deborah Jordan, EPA, September 16, 2010