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 submit 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.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 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

that 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 Valley Air Basin was designated nonattainment for the 35 μg/m3 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/m3 24-hour PM2.5 standard (2012 PM2.5 Plan). The 2012 

PM2.5 Plan was developed to meet requirements of the Act, including requirements to 

demonstrate reasonable further progress (RFP) toward attainment of the standard. The 

2012 PM2.5 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 Plan included the benefits of 

incentive programs and the District’s employee trip reduction rule. Those same benefits 
were not included in the Plan’s RFP demonstration because 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 conformity 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

Copies 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

Interested members of the public may present comments orally 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: 

Postal 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

Jonathan Taylor, Chief of the Transportation Planning Branch, Air Quality Planning and 

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

Quality Planning and Science Division at (916) 322-6007 

2
SPECIAL 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.

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.

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 your energy 

costs, see our website at www.arb.ca.gov.

3