u 

Matthew Rodriquez 

Secretary for 

Environmental Protection 

Air Resources Board 

Mary D. Nichols, Chairman 

1001 1 Street • P.O. Box 2815 

Sacramento, California 95812 • www.arb.ca.gov Edmund G. Brown Jr. 

Governor 

December 31, 2013 

Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

Regional Administrator 

Region 9 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

75 Hawthorne Street 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Dear Mr. Blumenfeld: 

The Air Resources Board (ARB) is submitting to the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (U.S. EPA) the 2009 Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and 

Reasonable Further Progress Plan — 2013 SIP Revisions (2013 Update). This submittal 

revises the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the Sacramento Metropolitan 

Nonattainment Area (Sacramento Nonattainment Area) originally adopted and 

submitted in 2009. The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District 

(SMAQMD) adopted the 2013 Update on September 26, 2013, and ARB approved its 

submittal as a SIP revision on November 21, 2013. 

The 2013 Update submittal consists of two hard copies and two electronic copies on 

compact discs of the following items. 

The SMAQMD transmittal package, including: 

A. November 20, 2013 letter from Larry Greene, SMAQMD Executive Officer, to 

Mr. Richard W. Corey, ARB Executive Officer. 

B. 2013 Update proposal letter from Larry Greene to the SMAQMD Board. 

C. SMAQMD Board Resolution 2013-026 adopting the 2013 Update. 

D. SMAQMD Staff Report dated September 26, 2013. 

E. Response to Comments on the 2013 Update, September 2013. 

F. Proof of Publication for Notices of Public Hearings. 

G. Changes to the Plan Following April 22, 2013 Public Release. 

H. Final 2013 Update including Appendices A through I, November 2013. 

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California Environmental Protection Agency 

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Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

December 31, 2013 

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II. Materials related to ARB adoption, including: 

A. ARB Resolution 13-39 adopting the 2013 Update as a revision to the SIP for the 

Sacramento Nonattainment Area. 

B. ARB Staff Report, Proposed Revisions to the 8-Hour Ozone State 

Implementation Plan for the Sacramento Federal Nonattainment Area. 

C. Transcript for ARB November 21, 2013 Public Meeting to consider approval of 

the 2013 Update. 

III. SIP Submittal Checklist. 

IV. Changes to the ARB Staff Report Following October 22, 2013 Public Release. 

The 2013 Update includes a revised emission inventory that accounts for the 

implementation of control measures adopted through 2011, the effects of the recession, 

and updated transportation activity projections provided by the Sacramento Area 

Organization of Governments. 

The 2013 Update includes on-road motor vehicle emission budgets for the years of 

2014, 2017 and 2018. To ensure that any future updates to these budgets are used 

expeditiously in the conformity process, we request that U.S. EPA allow budgets to be 

replaced upon a finding of adequacy. To accomplish this, we ask U.S. EPA to limit its 

approval of the budgets submitted today to last only until the effective date of future 

U.S. EPA adequacy findings for replacement budgets. We anticipate Board action on 

new budgets as part of the 2016 SIP process to address the 2008 ozone standard in 

July 2016. 

ARB is committed to working with U.S. EPA staff to provide any additional clarifying 

information needed. If you have any questions, please call Ms. Lynn Terry, Deputy 

Executive Officer, at (916) 322-2739, or have your staff contact Ms. Sylvia Vanderspek, 

Chief, Air Quality Planning Branch, at (916) 324-7163. 

Sincerely, 

~ 

Richard W. Corey 

Executive Officer 

Enclosure 

cc: See next page. 
Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

December 31, 2013 

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cc: (with Board Resolution 13-39 only) 

Dr. Deborah Jordan, Director 

Region 9, Air Division 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

75 Hawthorne Street 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Mr. Larry Green 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality 

Management District 

777 12th Street, Third Floor 

Sacramento, California 95814 

Mr. Dave Johnson 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

EI Dorado County Air Quality 

Management District 

330 Fairlane Court 

Placerville, California 95667 

Mr. Tom Christofk 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

Placer County Air Pollution Control District 

110 Maple Street 

Auburn, California 95603 

Mr. Christopher D. Brown, AICP 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

Feather River Air Quality Management District 

1007 Live Oak Blvd, Suite B-3 

Yuba City, California 95991 

Mr. Mat Ehrhardt, P.E. 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District 

1947 Galileo Court, Suite 103 

Davis, California 95618 
Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

December 31, 2013 

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cc: (continued) 

Mr. Mike McKeever 

Executive Director 

Sacramento Area Council of Governments 

1415 L Street, Suite 300 

Sacramento, California 95814 

Mr. Steve Heminger 

Executive Director 

Metropolitan Transportation Commission 

101 Eighth Street 

Oakland, CA 94607-5769 

Ms. Lynn Terry 

Deputy Executive Officer 

Executive Office 

Ms. Sylvia Vanderspek, Chief 

Air Quality Planning Branch