CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF UPDATES TO THE

TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY BUDGETS FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

The Air Resources Board ( ARB or Board ) will conduct a public meeting at the time and place noted below to consider approval of updates to the transportation conformity budgets for the San Joaquin Valley. If adopted, ARB will s ubmit these updates to the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as revisions to the State Implementation Plan for

California.

DATE: November 20, 2014

TIME: 9:00 a

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PLACE: California Environmental Protection Agency

Air Resources Board Byron Sher Auditorium

1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814

This item will be considered at a meeting of the Board, which will commence at

9:00 a.m., November 20, 2014

. This item is scheduled to be heard on the Board’s

Consent Calendar. All agenda items on the Consent Calendar

– unless removed upon the request of a Board member or if someone in the audience submits a request to speak card on that item

– will be voted on by the Board at the beginning of the public meeting.

BACKGROUND

The federal Clean Air Act (the Act) establishes planning requirements for those areas

tha t routinely exceed the health

- based National Ambient Air Quality Standards. These nonattainment areas must develop and implement a State Implementation Plan (SIP) that demonstrates how they will attain the standards by specified dates. The San Joaquin V alley Air Basin was designated nonattainment for the 35 μg/m 3 24

- hour PM2.5

standard in 2009.

In December 2012, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (District) adopted a SIP for the 35 μg/m 3 24

- hour PM2.5 standard (2012 PM2.5 Plan). Th e 2012

PM2.5 Plan was devel oped to meet requirements of the Act , including requirements to demonstrate reasonable further progress (RFP) toward attainment of the standard

. The

2012 PM 2.5 Plan also contains transportation conformity budgets as required by the

Act

. In January 2013, the Board approved the 2012 PM2.5 Plan.

The transportation conformity budgets in the 2012 PM2.5 P lan include d the benefits of incentive programs and the District ’s employee trip reduction rule. Those same benefitswere not included in the P lan’s RFP demonstration bec ause the region was able to

demonstrate RFP without them. U.S. EPA has requested that the State remove the benefits of incentive programs and the employee trip reduction rule from the transportation con formity budgets so that they are consistent with the plan’s RFP

demonstration.

PROPOSED ACTION

Staff is recommending that the Board approve the updates to the transportation conformity budgets for the San Joaquin Valley.

AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS

C opies of the Staff Report may be obtained from ARB’s Public Information Office,

1001 I Street, First Floor, Environmental Services Center, Sacramento, California

, 95814, (916) 322

- 2990

. This notice, the Staff Report and the transportation conformity budgets will be available from ARB’s website at : www.arb.ca.gov/planning/sip/sjvpm25/24hrsjvpm25.htm

SUBMITTAL OF COMMENTS

Intere sted members of the public may present comments o rally or in writing at the meeting and may provide comments by postal mail or by electronic submittal before the meeting. To be considered by the Board, written comments not physically submitted at the meeting

, must be received no later than 5 :00 pm Monday November 17, 2014

, and addressed to the following:

P ostal mail : Clerk of the Board

, Air Resources Board

1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814

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

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

section 6250 et seq.), your written and verbal 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.

ARB requests that written and email statements on this item be filed at least 10 days prior to the meeting so that ARB staff and Board members have additional time to consider each comment. Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to

Jon athan Taylor , Chief of the Transportation Planning Branch , Air Quality P lanning and Science Division at (916) 322

- 0285 , or Cari Anderson, Air Resources Engineer, Air Quality Planning and Science Division at (916) 322

- 6007

2SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION REQUEST

Consistent with California Government Code Section 7296.2, special accommodation or language needs may be provided for any of the following:

• An interpreter to be available at the meeting ;

• Documents made available in an alternate format or another language;

• A disability

- related reasonable accommodation.

To request these special accommodations or language needs, please contact the Clerk of the Board at (916) 322

- 5594 or by facsimile at (916) 322

- 3928 as soon as possible, but no later than 10 business days before the scheduled Board meeting

. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.

Consecuente con la sección 7296.2 del Código de Gobierno de California, una acomodación especial o necesidades lingüísticas pueden ser suministradas para cualquiera de los siguientes:

• Un intérprete que esté disponible en la audiencia ;

• Documentos disponibles en un formato alterno u otro idioma ;

• Una acomodación razonable relacionados con una incapacidad

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Para solicitar estas comodidades especiales o necesidades de otro idioma, por favor

llame a la oficina del Consejo al (916) 322

- 5594 o envié un fax a (916) 322

- 3928 lo más pronto posible, pero no menos de 10 días de trabajo antes del día programado para la audiencia del Consejo. TTY/TDD/Personas que necesiten este servicio pueden marcar el 711 para el Servicio de Retransmisión de Mensajes de California

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CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD

___ _______ _____________________ Richard W. Corey

Executive Officer

Date:

The energy challenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut yo ur energy costs, see our w ebsite at www.arb.ca.gov

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