Attachment A 

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

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 

The Air Resources Board (ARB or the Board) will conduct a public hearing at the time. 

and place noted below to hear a report on the status of ARB's efforts to implement the 

2007 State Strategy and consider adoption of a technical revision to the 2007 State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). 

DATE: April 23, 2009 

TIME: 1 9:00 a.m. 

PLACE: California Environmental Protection Agency 

Air Resources Board 

. Byron Sher Auditorium 

1001 I Street 

Sacramento, California 95814 

This item will be considered at a two-day hearing .of the Board, which will commence at 

9:00 a.m., April 23, 2009, and may continue at 8:30 a.m:, on April 24, 2009. This item 

may not be considered until April 24, 2009: Please consult the agenda for the hearing, 

which will be available at least ten days before April 23, 2009 ; to determine the day on 

which this item will be considered. 

If you require special accommodations or language needs, please contact the Clerk of 

the Board at (916) 322-5594 or by Fax at (916) 322-3928 as soon as possible, but no 

later than ten business days before the scheduled board hearing .. TTY/TDD/Speech to 

Speech users may dial :711 for the California Relay Service. 

Background 

ARB and local air districts are responsible for developing clean air plans to demonstrate 

how and when California will attain federal 8-hour ozone and PM2.5•standards 

established under the federal Clean Air Act. For the areas within California that have 

not attained federal air quality' standards, ARB works with local air districts to develop 

and implement State and local attainment plans. 

In September 2007, ARB adopted the 2007 State Strategy for the California SIP. In 

doing so, the Board set out how the State will achieve the needed emission reductions 
from cars, trucks, locomotives, consumer products, and other sources to meet healthbased federal air quality standards for ozone and fine particulates (PM2:5).. Air districts 

in each nonattainment area incorporate the 2007 State Strategy into an attainment 

demonstration that includes a commitment to achieve the emission reductions 

necessary to achieve federal 8-hour ozone and PM2.5 standards by the applicable 

attainment date. 

ARB staff has prepared a status report that documents the progress made in 

implementing the 2007 State Strategy in terms of actions taken by ARB and emission 

reductions achieved since the 2007 State Strategy was adopted. In 2007 and 2008, 

ARB adopted 13 pollution-reducing regulations to implement the SIP. Eleven of these 

regulations implement ten of the new measures identified in the 2007 State Strategy. 

Two additional measures were adopted that were not envisioned in the 2007 State 

Strategy but will help California meet the commitments in the 2007 State Strategy. 

The most significant of the rules adopted is the cleaner in-use heavy-duty diesel truck 

rule adopted in December 2008. This rule represents a multi-year effort and is.ARB's 

most comprehensive undertaking yet to turn over the legacy fleet of engines and 

replace them with the cleanest technology available. 

Proposed Action 

Staff will propose for Board consideration a revision to the SIP reflecting 

implementation of the 2007 State Strategy since it was adopted. The 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has requested this revision to aid 

U.S. EPA's approval of the SIP. The proposed revisiori accounts for emission 

reductions from the regulations adopted in 2007 and 2008, clarifies ARB's legal 

commitments in light of U.S. EPA's approval criteria, and clarifies the discussion of the 

long-term strategy for identifying future technologies to achieve the last increment of 

reductions. The proposed revision does not change the emission reductions of oxides 

of nitrogen, reactive organic gases; oxides of sulfur and direct PM2.5 that the Board 

committed to achieve by specific years when it adopted the 2007 State Strategy. 

The proposed revision also includes a commitment.for emission reductions in the 

Sacramento area, since its attainment plan will be considered by the Board at its 

March 2009 hearing when it considers approVal of the SIP for the Sacrarriento area. 

The reductions in Sacramento from the statewide measures in the 2007 State Strategy 

had not been quantified at the time the 2007 State Strategy was adopted and so are 

not reflected in the 2007 State Strategy. For clarity, staff is now proposing to revise the 

State Strategy to reflect this commitment. 

ARB staff has prepared a document entitled, Status Report on the State Strategy for 

California's •2007 State Implementation Plan and Proposed Revision to the State 

Implementation Plan Reflecting Implementation of the 2007 State Strategy (Status 

Report and Proposed SIP Revisions). 

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ARB staff will make an oral presentation at the hearing and will present the Proposed 

SIP Revision for Board action. Copies of the Status Report and Proposed SI,P Revision 

may be obtained from the Board's Public Information Office, 1001 "1" Street, First Floor, 

Environmental Services Center, Sacramento, California, 95814, (916) 322-2990, ' 

April 13, 2009. The report may also be obtained from ARB's Web site at 

http:ifwww.arb.ca.gov/pianningisip/sip.htm : 

Interested members of the public may also. present comments orally or in writing at the 

.hearing, and in writing or by email before the hearing. To be considered by the Board, 

written comments submissions not physically submitted at the hearing must be received 

no later than 12:00 noon, April 22, 2009, and addressed to the following: 

Postal mail: Clerk of the Board, Air Resources Board 

1001 1 Street, Sactamento, California 958:14 

Electronic submittal:http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php 

Facsimile submittal: (916) 322-3928 

Please note that under the California Public Records Act (Government 'Code 

sectiori 6250 et seq:), your written. and oral comments, attachments, and associated 

contact information (e.g., your address, phone, email, etc.) become part of the public 

record and can be released to the public upon request. Additionally., this information 

may become available via Google, Yahoo, and any other search engines. 

The.Board requests, but does not require 30 copi.es of any written submission. Also, 

ARB requests that written and email statements be filed at least ten days. prior to the 

hearing so that ARB staff and Board members have time to fully consider each 

comment. Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to Carol Sutkus, 

Air Pollution Specialist, (916) 322-1229, or Ravi Ramalingam,. Manager of the Northern 

California SIP Section, (916) 322-2085, 1001 "1" Street, Sacramento, Califorriia, 95814. 

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

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James N. Goldstene 

Executive Officer 

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Attachment B Page 1 of 1 

Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:58:17 -0700 

Subject: arbcombo -- Status Report on the State Strategy for California's 2007 State Implementation Plan 

From: tbalcaza@arb.ca.gov 

The Air Resources Board will conduct a 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 Strategy. 

The report may also be.obtained from ARB,'s Web site at . : 

http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/sip/sip.htm: 

To view the hearing notice or provide your comments before the 

Board Hearing, please go to: 

http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php 

Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to 

Carol Sutkus, Air Pollution Specialist, (916) 322-1229, or Ravi 

Ramalingam, Manager of the Northern California'SlP Section, (916) 

322-2085, 1001 "I" Street, Sacramento, California, 95814. 

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