State of California AIR RESOURCES BOARD EXECUTIVE ORDER G—125-335 Transmittal

of Sacramento Regional Nonattainment Area 8-Hour Ozone Rate-of-Progress
Plan WHEREAS, section 39602 of the California Health and Safety Code designates the Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) as the State air pollution control agency for all purposes set forth in federal law and as the State agency responsible
for the preparation

of any State Implementation
Plan (SIP) required by the Clean Air Act (Act); WHEREAS,
the Board

is authorized

by the California Health and Safety Code sections 39600, 39602, and 41650-41652

to adopt SIP revisions proposed
by local or regional air quality agencies

if the requirements

of the Act are met; WHEREAS,
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has promulgated

an eight-hour national ambient air quality standard for ozone (8-hour ozone standard); WHEREAS,

on April 30, 2004, U.S. EPA published

a final notice

in the Federal Register designating
the Sacramento Metro Area (SMA) nonattainment

for the federal 8-hour ozone standard with

a classification

of Serious, effective June 15, 2004; WHEREAS,
the SMA includes the Sacramento Metropolitan
Air Quality Management District, Yolo-Solano
Air Quality Management District, and parts of the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District, Feather River Air Quality Management District, and Placer County Air Pollution Control District; WHEREAS,

on November
29, 2005, the U.S. EPA promulgated

its Phase

II Final Rule to Implement
the 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standard (Phase

II Rule) which includes requirements

for Serious nonattainment areas to demonstrate reasonable further progress (REP) toward attainment

of the new 8-hour ozone standard; WHEREAS, consistent with section

1 82(c)(2)(B)

of the Act, the Phase

II Rule specifies that Serious nonattainment areas must submit

a REP SIP revision providing for an average
of a three percent per year reduction

in emissions from 2002 to 2008; WHEREAS,
the Phase

II Rule allows REP requirements

to be met by using nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission reductions

in addition

to volatile organic compound (VOC) emission reductions

if the area has an approved 1990 to 1996 1-hour ozone
15 percent VOC rate of progress (ROP) plan;EXECUTIVE ORDER G-125-335

-2- WHEREAS,

on December
29, 1994, as part of the 1994 1-hour ozone SIP, ARB submitted

to U.S. EPA the 1990 to 1996 15 percent VOC ROP Plan for the SMA; WHEREAS,

on January

8, 1997, U.S. EPA approved the SMA emission inventories, control measures, modeling, and demonstrations

of post-1996 ROP and attainment demonstrations,

and indicated they would take action on the SMA 1990 to 1996 15 percent VOC ROP Plan in a separate rulemaking; WHEREAS, U.S. EPA has never approved the SMA 1990 to 1996 15 percent VOC ROP Plan; WHEREAS,
the Sacramento Regional Nonattainment Area 8-Hour Ozone Rateof-Progress Plan (Early Progress Plan) contains
an updated 1-hour ozone 15 percent VOC ROP demonstration

for 1990 to 1996 from already adopted measures without NOx substitution; WHEREAS,
the Early Progress Plan sets forth reasonable further progress calculations from 1990 through 1996 indicating annual reductions

in VOC of 15 percent which are based solely on reductions from rules which have already been adopted; WHEREAS,
the Early Progress Plan also sets forth reasonable further progress calculations from 2002 through 2008 indicating combined annual reductions

in VOC and NOx of three (3) percent per year, calculated

in accordance with U.S. EPA guidelines; WHEREAS,
the Early Progress Plan includes
an updated emissions inventory and sets new motor vehicle emission budgets for 2008 for transportation conformity purposes; WHEREAS,

on January 26, 2006, the Sacramento Metropolitan

Air Quality Management District adopted the Early Progress Plan to fulfill the requirements of the Act; WHEREAS,

on February

6, 2006, the Feather River Air Quality Management District adopted the Early Progress Plan to fulfill the requirements

of the Act; WHEREAS,

on February

7, 2006, the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District adopted the Early Progress Plan to fulfill the requirements of the Act; WHEREAS,

on February

8, 2006, the Yolo-Solano
Air Quality Management District adopted the Early Progress Plan to fulfill the requirements

of the Act;EXECUTIVE ORDER G-125-335

-3- WHEREAS,

on February

9, 2006, the Placer County Air Pollution Control District adopted the Early Progress Plan to fulfill the requirements

of the Act; WHEREAS, federal law set forth in section 110(l) of the Act and Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, section 51.102 require that one or more public hearings, preceded
by at least 30 days notice and opportunity
for public review must be conducted prior to the adoption and submittal

to U.S. EPA of any SIP revision; WHEREAS,
the Early Progress Plan was available for public review and comment for at least 30 days as required
by U.S. EPA regulations and public hearings were conducted prior to the air districts’ adoption
of the Early Progress Plan; WHEREAS,
the Sacramento Metropolitan
Air Quality Management District,
as the lead air district, has submitted the adopted Early Progress Plan to ARB for inclusion

in the California SIP, along with proofs of publication and environmental documents,

in accordance with State and federal law; WHEREAS,
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that no project which may have significant adverse environmental impacts may be adopted
as originally proposed

if feasible alternatives

or mitigation measures are available

to reduce
or eliminate such impacts, unless specific overriding considerations

are identified which outweigh the potential adverse consequences

of any unmitigated impacts; WHEREAS, pursuant

to CEQA, the Sacramento Metropolitan
Air Quality Management District,
as the lead air district, prepared
an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Early Progress Plan,
in consultation with the other SMA air districts; WHEREAS,
the Sacramento Metropolitan
Air Quality Management District approved and certified the Early Progress Plan EIR on January 26, 2006, after

a public review and comment period as required
by CEQA; WHEREAS,
the Feather River Air Quality Management District approved and certified the Early Progress Plan EIR on February

6, 2006, after

a public review and comment period as required
by CEQA; WHEREAS,
the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District approved and certified the Early Progress Plan EIR on February

7, 2006, after

a public review and comment period as required
by CEQA; WHEREAS,
the Yolo-Solano
Air Quality Management District approved and certified the Early Progress Plan EIR on February

8, 2006, after

a public review and comment period as required
by CEQA;EXECUTIVEORDERG-125-335-4-WHEREAS,thePlacerCountyAirPollutionControlDistrictapprovedandcertifiedtheEarlyProgressPlanEIRonFebruary9,2006,afterapublicreviewandcommentperiodasrequiredbyCEQA;WHEREAS,ARBfindsthattheEarlyProgressPlanEIRmeetstherequirementsofCEQA;WHEREAS,sections39515and39516oftheCaliforniaHealthandSafetyCodedelegatetotheARBExecutiveOfficertheauthoritytoactfortheBoardinthismatter;NOW,THEREFORE,ITISORDERED,thattheExecutiveOfficerherebyadoptsasaSIPrevisiontheEarlyProgressPlanwhichincludesupdatedemissioninventories,a2002to2008REPPlan,a1990to199615PercentVOCROPPlan,andupdatedmotorvehicleemissionsbudgets.BEITFURTHERORDERED,thatARBherebysubmitstoU.S.EPAtheEarlyProgressPlan,andrequeststhatU.S.EPAapproveitasarevisiontotheCaliforniaSIP.BEITFURTHERORDERED,thataspartoftheplansubmittaltoU.S.EPA,ARBrequestsexpeditedadequacyfindingsforthetransportationconformityemissionbudgets.BEITFURTHERORDEREDthatARBcertifiespursuantto40C.F.R.section51.102thattheEarlyProgressPlanbeingsubmittedasaSIPrevisionwasadoptedafternoticeandpublichearing.ExecutedatSacramento,Californiathis__________dayofFebruary2006.7’k’CatherineWitherspoonExecutiveOfficer