Docket Index

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans;

1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, California

(EPA-R09-OAR-2015-0048)

December 24, 2015

A. Rulemaking Documents

A-1. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan 

for San Joaquin Valley, California; Proposed rule. December 24, 2015 (pre-publication 

version)

A-2. “Technical Support Document, Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 1-

Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, California, Additional 

Supporting Information for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,” Air Division, EPA Region 

9, December 24, 2015

B. State Submittals

B-1. Letter, Richard Corey, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board (CARB) to 

Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, December 20, 2013 with 

enclosures 

a. 2013 Plan for the Revoked 1-Hour Ozone Standard, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air 

Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD), September 19, 2013

b. San Joaquin Valley 2013 Plan for the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard, CARB 

Resolution 13-45, November 21, 2013

c. Resolution No. 2013-9-13, In the Matter of: Adopting the San Joaquin Valley 

Unified Air Pollution Control District 2013 Plan for the Revoked 1-Hour Ozone 

Standard, Governing Board of Directors of the SJVAPCD, September 19, 2013

d. Letter, Samir Sheikh,, SJVAPCD to Richard Corey, CARB, September 25, 2006

e. Notice of Public Meeting to Consider Approval of the San Joaquin Valley 2013 Plan 

for the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard, Richard W. Corey, Executive Officer, 

CARB, October 21, 2013

f. Transcript of November 21, 2013, CARB Meeting

g. Staff Report, San Joaquin Valley 2013 Plan for the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard, 

November 8, 2013

h. Memo from Sadredin to SJVAPCD Board for 2013 Plan for the 1-Hour Ozone 

Standard, September 19, 2013
i. SJVAPCD notice and proof of public hearings. See D-26 in this index.

C. Federal registers and EPA Guidance Documents

C-1. 44 FR 8202 (February 8, 1979), Revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Photochemical Oxidants 

C-2. 44 FR 20372 (April 4, 1979), State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for 

Proposed Rulemaking on Approval of Plan Revisions for Nonattainment Areas,

C-3. 56 FR 56694 (November 6, 1991)

C-4. 57 FR 13498 (April 16, 1992), 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

C-5. USEPA NOx Substitution Guidance (December 1993)

C-6. 58 FR 51735 (October 4, 1993)

C-7. 59 FR 7629 (February 16, 1994)

C-8. Memorandum, G.T. Helms, Chief, Ozone/Carbon Monoxide Programs Branch to Air 

Directors, “Contingency Measures for Ozone and Carbon Monoxide (CO) 

Redesignations,” June 1, 1992

C-9. 62 FR 1150 (January 8, 1997), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 

California-Ozone; Final rule

C-10. 62 FR 15844 (April 3, 1997), Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plan; 

Indiana; Direct final rule

C-11. 62 FR 19885 (April 23, 1997)

C-12. 62 FR 38856 (July 18, 1997), National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone; Final 

Rule

C-13. 62 FR 66279 (December 18, 1997), Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation 

Plan; Illinois; Final rule

C-14. 63 FR 18978 (April 16, 1998)

C-15. 63 FR 56968 (October, 23, 1998)

C-16. 64 FR 43255 (August 10, 1999)

C-17. Memorandum, John Seitz, Director, OAQPS to Regional Air Directors, “Guidance on 

the Reasonably Available Control Measure Requirement and Attainment Demonstration 

Submissions for Ozone Nonattainment Areas,” November 30, 1999
C-18. 65 FR 67249 (November 9, 2000)

C-19. Memorandum, John S. Seitz, Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

“Additional Submission on RACM from States with Severe One-Hour Ozone 

Nonattainment Area SIPs,” December 14, 2000

C-20. 66 FR 586 (January 3, 2001)

C-21. 66 FR 634 (January 3, 2001)

C-22. 66 FR 5001 (January 18, 2001)

C-23. 66 FR 28355 (May 22, 2001)

C-24. 66 FR 30811 (June 8, 2001), Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation 

Plans; Rhode Island; Post-1996 Rate of Progress; Direct final rule

C-25. 66 FR 56476 (November 8, 2001), Clean Air Act Reclassification, San Joaquin Valley 

Nonattainment Area; Designation of East Kern County Nonattainment Area and 

Extension of Attainment Date; California; Ozone

C-26. Memorandum, Lydia Wegman and Peter Tsirigotis to Regional Air Division Directors, 

“2002 Base Year Emission Inventory SIP Planning: 8-hr Ozone, PM2.5 and Regional 

Haze Programs,” November 18, 2002

C-27. 67 FR 61784 (October 2, 2002), Finding of Failure To Submit State Implementation Plan 

Revisions for Ozone (1-Hour Standard), California-San Joaquin Valley

C-28. 68 FR 32802 (June 2, 2003), Proposed Rule to Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National 

Ambient Quality Standards; Proposed rulemaking 

C-29. 69 FR 5412 (February 4, 2004), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans for 

California-San Joaquin Valley PM10 Nonattainment Area; Serious Area Plan for 

Attainment of the 24-Hour and Annual PM10 Standards 

C-30. 69 FR 20550 (April 16, 2004), Clean Air Act Reclassification, San Joaquin Valley 

Nonattainment Area; California; Ozone

C-31. 69 FR 23858 (April 30, 2004), Air Quality Designations and Classifications for the 8-

Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Early Action Compact Areas with 

Deferred Effective Date; Final Rule

C-32. 69 FR 23951 (April 30, 2004), Final Rule to Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards –Phase I; Final rule

C-33. 69 FR 30005 (May 26, 2004), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans for 

California--San Joaquin Valley PM10 Nonattainment Area; Serious Area Plan for 

Attainment of the 24-Hour and Annual PM10 Standards; Final rule 
C-34. 69 FR 38958 (June 29, 2004), Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Nonroad 

Diesel Engines and Fuel

C-35. 70 FR 44470 (August 3, 2005), Identification of Ozone Areas for Which the 1-Hour 

Standard Has Been Revoked and Technical Correction to Phase 1 Rule

C-36. Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter 

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

EPA–454/ R–99–006, November 2005

C-37. 70 FR 71612 (November 29, 2005), Final Rule to Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards; Final rule

C-38. 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-39. 73 FR 16436, National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone, March 27, 2008

C-40. 73 FR 37096 (June 30, 2008), Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Locomotive 

Engines and Marine Compression-Ignition Engines Less Than 30 Liters; Republication

C-41. 73 FR 61381 (October 16, 2008), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: 

1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA

C-42. 74 FR 10176 (March 10, 2009), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 

State of California; 2003 State Strategy and 2003 South Coast Plan for One-Hour Ozone 

and Nitrogen Dioxide

C-43. 74 FR 33933 (July 14, 2009), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 1-

Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA; Proposed rule 

C-44. Fact Sheet, Proposal to Revise the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone, 

January 6, 2010 

C-45. 75 FR 1715 (January 13, 2010), Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, 

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

C-46. 75 FR 2938 (January 19, 2010), National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone; 

Proposed rule

C-47. 75 FR 10420 (March 8, 2010), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: 1-

Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA; Final rule

C-48. 75 FR 24409 (May 5, 2010), Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; 

California; San Joaquin Valley, South Coast Air Basin, Coachella Valley, and 

Sacramento Metro 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Areas; Reclassification; final rule
C-49. 75 FR 26102 (May 11, 2010), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans, 

State of California, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, New 

Source Review

C-50. 76 FR 41338 (July 13, 2011)

C-51. 76 FR 57846 (September 16, 2011)

C-52. 76 FR 57872, Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; California; South Coast; 

Attainment Plan for 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard, September 16, 2011

C-53. 76 FR 69896 (November 9, 2011), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 

California; 2008 San Joaquin Valley PM2.5

C-54. 76 FR 82133 (December 30, 2011), Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; California; Determinations of Failure To Attain the One-Hour 

Ozone Standard

C-55. 77 FR 1417 (January 10, 2012), Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley; Reasonably Available Control 

Technology for Ozone

C-56. 77 FR 12651 (March 1, 2012), Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 

California; San Joaquin Valley; Attainment Plan for 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standards 

C-57. 77 FR 30088 (May 21, 2012), Air Quality Designations for the 2008 Ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

C-58. Memorandum, Karl Simon, Director, Transportation and Climate Division, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, “Guidance on Implementing Clean Air Act Section 

182(d)(1)(A): Transportation Control Measures and Transportation Control Strategies to 

Offset Growth in Emissions Due to Growth in Vehicle Miles Travelled,” (August 30, 

2012)

C-59. 77 FR 58078 (September 19, 2012), Withdrawal of Approval of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley; 1-Hour and 8-Hour Ozone 

Extreme Area Plan Elements

C-60. 77 FR 66548 (November 6, 2012), Revisions to the California State Implementation 

Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

C-61. 77 FR 70376 (November 26, 2012), Withdrawal of Approval of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans and Findings of Failure To Submit Required Plans; California; 

San Joaquin Valley; 1-Hour and 8-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan Elements

C-62. 77 FR 70707 (November 27, 2012), Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 

California; San Joaquin Valley and South Coast; Attainment Plan for the 1997 8-hour 

Ozone Standards; Technical Amendments
C-63. 77 FR 71129 (November 29, 2012), Revisions to the California State Implementation 

Plan, San Joaquin Valley United Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) and South 

Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)

C-64. 78 FR 14533, Official Release of EMFAC2011 Motor Vehicle Emission Factor Model 

for Use in the State of California, March 6, 2013

C-65. 79 FR 28650 (May 19, 2014), Revision to the California State Implementation Plan; San 

Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District; Quantification of Emission 

Reductions From Incentive Programs

C-66. 79 FR 29327 (May 22, 2014), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 

California; San Joaquin Valley; Contingency Measures for the 1997 PM2.5

C-67. 80 FR 1482 (January 12, 2015), Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; 

California; San Joaquin Valley; Reclassification as Serious Nonattainment for the 1997 

PM2.5

C-68. 80 FR 1816 (January 13, 2015), Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 

Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; California; San Joaquin Valley 

Moderate Area Plan and Reclassification as Serious Nonattainment for the 2006 PM2.5

C-69. 80 FR 7803 (February 12, 2015), Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, 

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

C-70. 80 FR 12264 (March 6, 2015), Implementation of the 2008 National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Ozone: State Implementation Plan Requirements

C-71. 80 FR 18528 (April 7, 2015), Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; 

California; San Joaquin Valley; Reclassification as Serious Nonattainment for the 1997 

PM2.5

C-72. 80 FR 19020 (April 9, 2015), Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan; San 

Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District; Quantification of Emission 

Reductions From Incentive Programs

D. Other Documents

D-1. SJVAPCD Governing Board Resolution 03-12-10, December 18, 2003

D-2. Letter from Catherine Witherspoon, Executive Officer, CARB, to Wayne Nastri, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, November 15, 2004 

D-3. Extreme Ozone Attainment Demonstration Plan, SJVAPCD, October 8, 2004 
D-4. Extreme Ozone Attainment Demonstration Plan, SJVAPCD October 20, 2005 

(amended)

D-5. Letter from Catherine Witherspoon, Executive Officer, CARB, to Wayne Nastri, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, March 6, 2006 

D-6. 2007 Ozone Plan (portions), SJVAPCD, April 30, 2007 

D-7. SJVAPCD Governing Board Resolution No. 07–04–11a, April 30, 2007

D-8. CARB Resolution No. 07–20, June 14, 2007

D-9. Proposed State Strategy for California’s 2007 State Implementation Plan (portions),

CARB, September 27, 2007

D-10. Letter from James Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB to Wayne Nastri, Regional 

Administrator, EPA Region 9, November 17, 2007

D-11. 2008 PM2.5 Plan (portions), SJVAPCD, April 30, 2008

D-12. Clarifications Regarding the 2004 Extreme Ozone Attainment Demonstration Plan (2008 

Clarifications), CARB, August 21, 2008 

D-13. Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reason for Proposed Rulemaking, Proposed Regulation 

for In-Use, On-road Diesel Vehicles, Table III-1, p. 19, CARB, October 2008 

D-14. 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 (pages 11–27 only), CARB, April 24, 2009

D-15. Letter from Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, EPA Region 9, to James Goldstene, 

Executive Officer, CARB regarding motor vehicle emission budget adequacy finding, 

July 16, 2009

D-16. Progress Report on Implementation of PM2.5 State Implementation Plans (SIP) for the 

South Coast and San Joaquin Valley Air Basins and Proposed SIP Revisions 

(Appendices B, C and D only), April 28, 2011 

D-17. Technical Support Document and Response to Comments Final Rule on the San Joaquin 

Valley 2007 Ozone Plan and the San Joaquin Valley Portions of the 2007 State Strategy, 

USEPA Region 9, December 15, 2011

D-18. 2012 PM2.5 Plan (portions), SJVAPCD, December 20, 2012

D-19. Letter from James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, CARB, to Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 9, with enclosures, March 4, 2013
D-20. Sarika Kulkarni, Ajith P. Kaduwela, Jeremy C. Avise, John A. DaMassa & Daniel Chau 

(2014), “An extended approach to calculate the ozone relative response factors used in 

the attainment demonstration for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards”, Journal 

of the Air & Waste Management Association, 64:10, 1204-1213, DOI: 

10.1080/10962247.2014.936984

D-21. Letter from Elizabth Adams for Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, EPA Region 9, 

to Richard Corey, Executive Officer, CARB Completeness Finding for the San Joaquin 

Valley 2013 Plan for the 1-Hour Ozone Standard and Termination of Clean Air Act 

Sanction Clocks, May 19, 2014

D-22. Letter, Lynn Terry, Executive Officer, CARB to Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, 

EPA Region 9, June 19, 2014 with attachments

a. Technical supplement to the revised San Joaquin Valley area VMT emissions offset 

demonstration submitted on December 20, 2013 (“technical supplement”), CARB, 

April 24, 2014

b. EMFAC Flow Chart

c. Summary data for VMT offset demonstration for 1-Hour Ozone Standard 

(Additional supporting data in xl spreadsheet format available upon request. Please 

contact John Ungvarsky at 415-972-3963 or ungvarsky.john@epa.gov.)

d. Summary data for VMT offset demonstration for 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard 

(Additional supporting data in xl spreadsheet format available upon request. Please 

contact John Ungvarsky at 415-972-3963 or ungvarsky.john@epa.gov.)

D-23. Email from Jonathon Taylor, CARB, to Matt Lakin, EPA Region 9, Final SJV VMT 

Offset Document for EPA, July 25, 2014 with attachments

a. San Joaquin Valley VMT Offset Demonstration, CARB’s technical supplement (with 

Draft Confidential removed from cover page), April 24, 2014

D-24. Email from Elizabeth Melgoza, CARB, to John Ungvarsky, EPA Region 9, January 30, 

2015

a. Notice of Public Hearing, SJVAPCD, Sept 2013

b. Notice of Public Hearing postcard, SJVAPCD, Sept 2013

D-25. Letter from Sylvia Vanderspek, Chief, Air Quality Branch, CARB to Matt Lakin, 

Manager, Air Planning Office, EPA Region IX, April 23, 2015
a. Estimating the San Joaquin Valley 1-hr Ozone Standard Carrying Capacity, 

CARB, April 21, 2015

D-26. Emails from SJVAPCD staff to John Ungvarsky, EPA Region 9, May 13, 2015 and May 

19, 2015

D-27. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley 

Unified Air Pollution Control District; Employer Based Trip Reduction Programs; 

prepublication version

D-28. 2010 Emission Inventory for SJV 2013 1-hr Ozone Plan, CARB; sent from Elizabeth 

Melgoza, CARB, to John Ungvarsky, EPA Region 9, December 18, 2015

D-29. Technical Support Document, Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; 1-

Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, California; Additional 

Supporting Information for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, USEPA, Region 9, 

December 23, 2015