MEETING STATE OF CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD

BYRON SHER AUDITORIUM SECOND FLOOR 1001 I STREET SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95814

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

9:15 A.M.

TIFFANY C. KRAFT, CSR CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER LICENSE NUMBER 12277

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BOARD MEMBERS Ms. Mary Nichols, Chairperson Dr. John Balmes Mr. Hectar De La Torre Mr. John Eisenhut Mayor Pro Tem Judy Mitchell Mrs. Barbara Riordan Supervisor Phil Serna Dr. Alex Sherriffs Dr. Daniel Sperling

STAFF Mr. Richard Corey, Executive Officer Mr. Alberto Ayala, Deputy Executive Officer Ms. Edie Chang, Deputy Executive Officer Ms. Lynn Terry, Deputy Executive Officer Ms. Ellen Peter, Chief Counsel Ms. La Rhonda Bowen, Ombudsman Mr. John Ellis, Manager, OBM Implementation Section, Engineering Studies Branch, MSCD Ms. Jennifer Gress, Legislative Director Ms. Elizabeth Melgoza, Air Pollution Specialist, Air Quality Data Branch, AQPS Division

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ALSO PRESENT Mr. Louie A. Brown, Jr., Kahn, Soares & Conway, LLP Mr. Tim Corcoran, Bureau of Automotive Repair Mr. Casey Kramer, California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations, Western Agricultural Processors Associations Mr. Bill Magavern, Coalition for Clean Air Mr. Kevin Messner, AHAM Mr. Sayed Sadredin, SCAQMD

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Consent Items 13-10-1 Motion 5 Vote 6 13-10-2 Motion 6 Vote 6 13-10-3 Motion 6 Vote 7 13-10-5 Motion 7 Vote 7 Item 13-10-6 Chairperson Nichols 7 Executive Officer Corey 8 Staff Presentation 9 Mr. Sadredin 17 Mr. Kramer 22 Motion 23 Vote 23 Item 13-10-7 Chairperson Nichols 23 Executive Officer Corey 25 Staff Presentation 27 Mr. Brown 37 Item 13-10-8 Chairperson Nichols 38 Executive Officer Corey 40 Staff Presentation 41 Mr. Magavern 60 Mr. Messner 62 Adjournment 74 Reporter's Certificate 75

J&K COURT REPORTING, LLC (916)476-3171PROCEEDINGS CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Good morning, everybody. The November 21st, 2013, public meeting of the Air Resources Board will come to order. And I guess we'll begin as usual with the Pledge.

(Thereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was Recited in unison.) CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: The Clerk will please call the roll.

BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Dr. Balmes? BOARD MEMBER BALMES: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Ms. Berg? Mr. De La Torre? BOARD MEMBER DE LA TORRE: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Mr. Eisenhut? BOARD MEMBER EISENHUT: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Supervisor Gioia? Mayor Pro Tem Mitchell? Mrs. Riordan? CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Supervisor Roberts? Supervisor Serna? BOARD MEMBER SERNA: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Dr. Sherriffs? BOARD MEMBER SHERRIFFS: Yes.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Professor Sperling? BOARD MEMBER SPERLING: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Chairman Nichols? CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Here. BOARD CLERK JENSEN: Madam Chair, we have a quorum. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Great.

The usual announcements. Anyone who wants to testify should fill out a card and turn it into the Clerk. We will impose our usual three-minute time limit.

The emergency exits are to the back of the room and to either side of the podium. And I think that's all I need to do by way of official announcements.

Before we get to the consent calendar, I thought it might be a good idea actually to give a brief report since several of us were at the Los Angeles Auto Show yesterday and had an opportunity to see the fruits of some of our work in the form of some very attractive and desirable cars that are available for sale or lease. But particularly interesting that this year the focus is on the fuel cell vehicles. And there was one in particular very exciting announcement yesterday. I will to leave before the press announcement, so Dr. Albert Ayala was there. I'm going to ask Dr. Ayala to give us a brief summary of what was announced.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25DEPUTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER AYALA: Thank you. Good

morning.It was, indeed, a good day. As the Board knows, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are going to be instrumental in our ability to reach our goals, not only for air quality, but also our climate goals. And as the Board also knows, we are very lucky that -- very fortunate that we've had ongoing and very significant State commitment to electric vehicles both in the form of battery electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. And it's also the case that the car makers, the OEMs, have made significant investment in developing the technology and getting it to the point where they can actually start selling it.

And one of the good news stories that we all heard yesterday was an announcement from specifically Hyundai, who is rolling out the very first mass-produced commercially available fuel cell electric vehicle starting in the spring of 2014.

What is significant about the announcement is that the car manufacturer has actually stepped it up and is taking a bigger roll in the development and deployment of infrastructure. As you all know, we are working very hard to make sure that the stations get built, that they get built where they really need to be built, and that they stay in operation so that when consumers start buying

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25the cars, they can go and refuel. Hyundai is taking direct approach, and they're basically -- the plan they have is a lease agreement where the fuel is included, unlimited fueling, so the consumer will essentially get the vehicle and they will have access to all the fuel they need. And in my view, I think this is really the game changing strategy because it helps us. It helps all of us that are trying to deploy the infrastructure to really take it to in next level and the next step, because truly the way these vehicles are going to succeed is from the consumer standpoint, it's a completely seamless transition. They should be able to use these vehicles and refuel them the same way that we've been doing it with conventional technology.

And I was very impressed. We stuck around for the announcement. I think it is commendable. Obviously, it's a great day because the race is on. The question on the table is what are Honda going to do? What are Toyota going to do? What are some of the other OEMs that are also planning to deploy a fuel cell vehicles, what is going to be their strategy?

All in all, I think it was the kind of enhanced commitment that we were looking for. And it was essentially worth sticking around for that announcement.

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Yes. So yesterday was the

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25day for Air Resources Board folks mostly touring the

global manufacturers groups and the Japanese and Korean offerings in particular. Some of us are going back again next week to look at more cars. There are a great array of plug-in vehicles, too. It looks like it's quite an exciting show. But I thought it would be a good idea to share this with everybody, because it's nice to see the progress that's happening there.

Okay. Let's move to the consent calendar. We've got several items that don't require a hearing unless anybody wants to. They will come off of consent if there are any witnesses who have signed up to testify or Board members who request they come off consent.

So the first of these items is the greenhouse gas quantification determination for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments' Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Community Strategy.

Madam Clerk, have we got any witnesses on this item? Are there any Board members who would like to have the off consent? Okay. If not, then I will close the record and ask the Board members if they've reviewed the Resolution. And if I can get a motion and a second.

BOARD MEMBER RIORDAN: I'd be happy to move the motion presented by staff on this item.

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Do we have a second?

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25BOARD MEMBER BALMES: Second. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All in favor please say aye. (Ayes)

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Any opposed? Okay. That's Santa Barbara.

The next one is the 2013 updates to the 2009 Sacramento Metro Ozone Nonattainment Area State Implementation Plan for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard.

Mr. Serna, I trust you're familiar with this one. BOARD MEMBER SERNA: I would be happy to move it. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Is there a second? BOARD MEMBER BALMES: I'll second. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All right. All in favor please say aye.

(Ayes) CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Any opposed? Great. The next one is a research proposal. We have just one research proposal for this meeting. And if there's -- if everybody has had a chance to look at it, I think that can also go on consent.

Do we have a motion on that? BOARD MEMBER BALMES: I'll move. BOARD MEMBER RIORDAN: Second.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All in favor, aye. (Ayes) CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Any opposed? Abstentions? And then the last one on consent is the PM2.5 area designation recommendation for the revised federal PM2.5 annual standard. Again, no witness has signed up for this one. So I think we can go ahead and close the record and move that one as well.

BOARD MEMBER RIORDAN: I'd move approval, Madam Chairman.CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All right. Second? Do we have a second?

BOARD MEMBER BALMES: I'll second. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All in favor, please say aye. (Ayes)

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Any opposed? None. Okay. So that was simple. Now, we move on toa slightly more complicated issue, which is the San Joaquin Valley 2013 1-Hour Ozone State Implementation Plan.

This one has frustrated many of us I think because of its legal complexity. And apparently it would seem to defy common sense assistance that although U.S. EPA revoked the 1-Hour Ozone Standard in 2005, never the

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25less, we still have to submit a plan for this revoked

standard. The Valley's 2013 plan addresses the remaining planning requirements.

Mr. Corey is going to explain this all to us, and then we will take action on it.

DEPUTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER COREY: Maybe I'll just explain some of it.

Thank you, Chairman Nichols. The San Joaquin Valley is nearing attainment of the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard. However, it did not meet its 2010 attainment deadline. Although the U.S. EPA revoked the 1-Hour Standard in 2005, the Clean Air Act does not allow states to set aside any of the requirements. One of these requirements is an attainment demonstration. Hence, the need to continue to develop a plan to meet the standard.

The good news is that the strategies developed to meet the more stringent 8-Hour Ozone Standard are the same as those needed to meet the 1-Hour Ozone Standard.

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District prepared this 1-Hour Ozone Plan demonstrating how these strategies bring the area into attainment by 2017.

I'll now ask Elizabeth Melgoza of the Air Quality Planning and Science Division to give the staff presentation.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Elizabeth. (Thereupon an overhead presentation was presented as follows.) AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: Thank you, Mr. Corey. And good morning, Chairman Nichols and members of the Board.

Today, I will describe the San Joaquin Valley 2013 State Implementation Plan for the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard you have before you begin today. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: I'll begin by providing background on the ozone air quality planning in the San Joaquin Valley, including why this plan is needed.

Next, I'll describe attainment status with respect to the 1-Hour Ozone Standard and how close the Valley currently is to meeting this standard.

Finally, I'll highlight ongoing 8-Hour ozone planning efforts in the Valley. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set air quality standards and directs areas that violate those standards to develop the State Implementation Plan, or SIP. The SIP documents how the area will attain the standard.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25The San Joaquin Valley currently has planning

requirements for both the 1-Hour and 8-Hour ozone standards. The Valley's most recent 8-Hour ozone SIP was approved by EPA in 2012, showing how they will meet the 8-Hour Ozone Standard of 84 parts per billion by 2023. A more stringent 8-Hour Ozone Standard of 75 parts per billion was established by EPA in 2008, which requires a new SIP in 2016.

Prior to establishing the 8-Hour Ozone Standard, the national standard was a 1-Hour Ozone Standard set at 124 parts per billion. Although EPA revoked this standard in 2005, most of the Clean Air Act planning obligations remain, including the requirement that regions develop SIPs that show how they will attain the revoked standard.

Therefore, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District prepared the 2013 1-Hour plan to meet the remaining federal planning requirements for the 1-Hour Ozone Standard. --o0o--

AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: In 2004, the Valley districts prepared a plan to address the 1-Hour ozone planning requirements for extreme areas. That plan showed that the Valley would attain the 1-Hour Ozone Standard by 2010. Although the Valley is close to meeting the standard, the region did not attain the standard in

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 252010. This plan before you today is a replacement for the

2004 plan and includes updated air quality modeling and emission inventories.

This plan also includes all other applicable extreme area SIP requirements as specified in the Clean Air Act. This plan is based on the benefits of ARB and the district control measures adopted subsequent to the 2004 plan, resulting in significant reductions of ozone-forming precursors which are predicted to bring the Valley into attainment by 2017, if not much sooner. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: As mentioned in the prior slide, the Valley is close to meeting the 1-Hour Ozone Standard of 124 parts per billion. A violation of the 1-Hour Ozone Standard occurs when there are four or more exceedances at any monitoring site in a three-year period.

In the 1990s, ozone exceedances in the Valley occurred more than 50 days a year. In 2012, the number of exceedance days dropped to three, with none occurring in 2013. As a result of this progress, only one location, the Fresno Drummond monitoring site, violates the standards.

The district is preparing exceptional event documentation for one of the exceedances in 2012 and will

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25send the evaluation to ARB and EPA sometime next year. An

exceptional event is an exceedance due to a source such as a wild fire that is beyond an agency's control. If EPA approves the exceptional event, Fresno Drummond would then be considered in attainment.

Despite the improvement in 1-Hour ozone air quality that has occurred since the 1990s, the Valley is still significantly over the 8-Hour Ozone Standards. This past summer, the Valley exceeded the 8-Hour Ozone Standard on more than 90 days. Therefore, attaining the 1-Hour Ozone Standard is a milestone in the long-term goal of attaining the more stringent 8-Hour Ozone Standards in 2023 and 2032. --o0o--

AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: Examining the nature of the Valley's 1-Hour ozone problem in more detail shows that historically 1-Hour ozone exceedances occurred throughout the Valley, but were more common in Fresno and Bakersfield regions.

In Fresno County, there are seven ozone monitoring locations. Over the years, two of these locations, Clovis and Fresno Drummond have alternated in recording the highest one-hour ozone concentrations in the Fresno area. Ozone concentrations at the Clovis site have declined over the years, and this location attains the

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 251-Hour Ozone Standard as of this year. The Fresno

Drummond site is now the only remaining site violating the standard in the Fresno area. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: Moving to the south, in the Bakersfield-Arvin area, there are six monitoring locations. Two of these locations, Arvin and Edison, have alternated in recording the highest 1-Hour ozone concentrations in the Bakersfield area. Concentrations have declined throughout the region, and Edison attained the 1-Hour Ozone Standard in 2011. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: In addition to the exceptional event analysis I mentioned earlier, a determination of attainment will require resolving air quality monitoring issues in the Arvin area.

ARB maintained an air quality monitoring station at the Arvin-Edison water storage district facility from 1989 through 2010. At times, the site measured the highest ozone levels in the Valley.

After ARB lost its lease for the site, located on Arvin BearMountain Boulevard in Arvin, a new site about two miles to the north near an elementary school was established.

Before the old site was closed, we were able to

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25monitor at both the old and new Arvin sites during the

summer of 2010. However, to further evaluate variability in ozone concentrations in the Arvin region, this past summer the district conducted a special saturation monitoring study. --o0o--

AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: The saturation study consisted of 23 ozone monitors set up in 21 different locations as shown on the map on this slide. These monitors will provide information on the relationships between ozone concentrations at the new monitoring site, the prior Bear Mountain site and other locations within the town of Arvin during the peak ozone

season.We anticipate the study report will be finalized by the end of the first quarter of 2014. In addition, as part of ongoing work, ARB staff have developed a statistical method to account for missing air quality data. The results of this work, along with the saturation study, will provide the information necessary for ARB, the district, and EPA to evaluate the near-term attainment status related to the 1-Hour Ozone Standard as well as determining longer-term monitoring needs for the 8-Hour Ozone Standard. --o0o--

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: The

significant progress in reducing 1-Hour ozone levels in the Valley has occurred as a result of ongoing reductions in NOx emissions. The chart on this slide shows the downward trend of NOx emissions from 1990 through 2020. These emission reductions are due to control measures adopted by the ARB and the district that are bringing the Valley into attainment of the 1-Hour Ozone Standard. --o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: The Clean Air Act requires the use of air quality modeling to relate ozone levels to emissions in a region and simulate future air quality based on changes in emissions. Modeling uses emission inventories with measurements of meteorology and air quality to establish this relationship.

Consistent with EPA guidelines, ARB modeled air quality to predict the future 1-Hour ozone concentrations at each monitoring site in the valley. The modeling used a base year of 2007 and a future year of 2017. The 2017 attainment year meets the attainment time frame specified in the Clean Air Act.

The modeling shows that all sites in the Valley will have attained the 1-Hour ozone standard by 2017 based on implementation of ongoing ARB and district control programs.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25The 2013 addresses all applicable Clean Air Act

requirements for an extreme nonattainment area, which includes a summer season emission inventory, a reasonably available control measure demonstration, an attainment demonstration for 2017, a rate of progress demonstration, contingency measures, provisions for clean fuels and technologies for boilers, and a vehicle miles traveled offset demonstration.

The 2013 plan also includes a weight of evidence demonstration that examines air quality trends. These trends are consistent with the results of the modeled attainment demonstration that indicate the Valley will attain by 2017. --o0o--

AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: The Valley has made great progress in lowering 1-Hour ozone concentrations as well as progress towards attainment of the 8-Hour Ozone Standard by 2023.

In 2016, we will be looking beyond 2023 with a plan to attain the revised 8-Hour Ozone Standard by 2032.

In addition, next year ARB will update the air quality modeling as committed to in the eight-our ozone plan that was approved by EPA in 2012. This update will reflect the latest emission inventory estimates developed for the region.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25--o0o-- AIR POLLUTION SPECIALIST MELGOZA: That concludes staff's review of the 2013 1-Hour Ozone Plan. This plan is complete and meets the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Staff recommends that the Board approve the San Joaquin Valley's 2013 State Implementation Plan for the Federal 1-Hour Ozone Standard.

Thank you. And staff is prepared to answer any questions you may have.

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Thank you. Despite the complexity of this, we are using this opportunity as a way to continue to move forward on one of our more challenging air quality areas. And I think it's great. Seems as though everything is on track.

We do have two witnesses who have signed up, the first being the Air Pollution Control Officer from the San Joaquin Valley, Sayed Sadredin, and he'll be followed by Casey Kramer.

Good morning, Sayed. MR. SADREDIN: Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the Board.

First of all, I want to thank your staff, in particular, Lynn Terry and her staff for the great work they did in exercising their dual role of both helping us

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25with the modeling and some of the strategies that involved

mobile source emissions reductions and also their oversight responsibilities and making sure that they hold our feet to the fire to make sure everything that we do satisfies the legal requirements.

I may go a minute two or over the time allotted. I have one other staff member --

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: We'll give you permission. It's a pretty short agenda this morning.

MR. SADREDIN: I wanted to share some great news related to this item. Staff has alluded to performance that's been made. Last week in San Joaquin Valley, we had major celebrations up and down the Valley, which was extensively covered by the broadcast media, print media, and a really a sense of pride in San Joaquin Valley after years of having that black mark in terms of air quality to have the first sign of huge achievement doing something that none of us thought would happen in our lifetime. That was a great opportunity for the Valley to really reflect back on the efforts that have worked.

Just to share some statistics with you, in 1996, we had 281 hours over the standard. In 2012, only seven hours. And 2013, as your staff mentioned, zero hours.

We're not talking about days anymore of exceedance of the standard; we're talking about hours. We

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25might be one hour away, depending on what the sort of

analysis you want to use from attaining the standard.

And this wasn't just some lucky, you know, turn of events but climate or meteorology. We had strings of triple digit temperatures, huge wild fires, the Rim Fire you might have heard about that in the area. But in spite of that, we had zero violations. That's something that never happened in the recorded history of San Joaquin Valley. But really I want to take the opportunity to thank you for helping us to achieve that. I think this might be the first concrete evidence that your much talked about controversial truck rule may actually be paying some dividends because this is all about NOx in San Joaquin Valley. Fifty percent of our NOx emissions come from trucks. And there was no way that we could see this progress without significant reductions in NOx emissions.

This is -- again, I know the decline in the 1-Hour Ozone Standard. But I think it's important as we reflect on this major historic achievement becoming the first region in the nation to go from extreme non-attainment to attainment of the standard that we should take some time and tank the people that made this possible. I think first and foremost the investment by the businesses, the farmers, the dairy families in San

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Joaquin Valley. Our estimate is they spend over $40

million in complying our regulations, modernizing their facilities. And without their investment and sacrifice, we could not see this achievement.

And also the residents. Valley residents have historically listed air quality throughout the years through various economic cycles, with crime, immigration being a concern to them, they always ranked air quality as a top quality of life issue that they cared about. And that care really helped support some of the tough decisions we had to make in San Joaquin Valley to achieve what we had to do.

So I want to thank the Valley residents. In recent years, we're actually asking them to do things themselves to reduce air pollution. Last year, for instance, we instituted the Air Alert Program, which is similar to our no burn day for fireplaces. We had days when the district was projecting based on meteorology potential exceedences of the 1-Hour Ozone Standard and we asked people on those days to do what they can to cut back on driving, idling and all that. And I think they responded to that. The last five or six stubborn hours we had over this 1-Hour standard, I think the public's work on that was crucial as well.

And also on the 8-Hour Ozone Standard, which is

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25really one of the conclusions that we can reach from this

whole exercise that we've gone through, our journey toward clean air is not over. We still have some ways to go. As you can see even for the 8-Hour Ozone Standard, there has been significant achievement both for the '97 standard and 2008 standard. 2013 was the cleanest year on record. Thirty-three violations for the '97 standards and 91 for the 2008 standard. We still have a long ways to go and we really -- as we thank these groups that helped us get there, I have to tell them that we have to come back to them for more. Hopefully they have some confidence what we have asked of them to do and their investment and sacrifice has paid off, and that would be a good foundation for the more that we have to ask them.

With that, I thank you for your time and attention and ask that you approve your staff recommendation.

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Thank you. And congratulations to you and your Board. I know it hasn't been easy for you all the time either. I understand sometimes your Board meetings can be even more contentious than some of ours. So I really want to thank you for your persistence. And the partnership has been great. Let's hear from Mr. Kramer, and then we'll go to

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25the Board for any discussion. MR. KRAMER: Good morning, Chair Nichols and Board of the members.

Casey Kramer with the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations and Western Agricultural Processors Associations.

We're a part of a group of other agricultural organizations that formed the Air Coalition Team Act that watched this progress that as happened in the San Joaquin Valley very closely. Some of the other members of Agriculture Coalition are the Rice Commission, rice industry, cotton, citrus, Neisi Farmers League, Grape and Treefruit League, and several of the valley farm bureaus all participating and seeing that progress is made in the San Joaquin Valley.

I just want to highlight one of the things that Sayed did not highlight is that this progress happened a lot because of the incentives that were available in helping our farmers and ranchers replace a lot of tractors. It's achieving a lot of emission reductions prior to any regulation. And that I think helped San Joaquin in achieving that 2013 no violation.

So I'm here today just to support your approval of this plan. And we look forward to working with you as things get even more challenging. Thank you very much.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Thank you, Mr. Kramer. The agricultural industry has really pushed the incentives approach I think from the very beginning and obviously has had a lot of success with that. So congratulations to you, too. All right.

Are there any questions of the Board members have on this item? If not, I'm going to ask Dr. Sherriffs to move it. BOARD MEMBER SHERRIFFS: With pleasure. So moved. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All right. Do we have a second? BOARD MEMBER SERNA: Second.

BOARD MEMBER DE LA TORRE: Second. CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: All those in favor, please say aye. (Ayes)

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: Any opposed? Any abstentions? Great. Thanks. BOARD MEMBER RIORDAN: It's a real pleasure to have this item. Congratulations, everybody note rear.

CHAIRPERSON NICHOLS: The next item on the agenda is the report to the Board on this year's air quality and climate legislative. And while Jennifer Gress, our

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