Attachment 1

Resolution for the 2013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8

- Hour Ozone Attainment

a nd Reasonab le Further Progress Plan (Plan)

September 26 , 20132013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8

- hour Ozone Attainment

and Reasonable Further Progress Plan September 26 , 2013 Page 2

WHER EAS the USEPA has published new guidance to implement the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) requirement to offset the growth in emissions due to growth in vehicle miles travelled (VMT offset ) (Section 182(d)(1)(A) ; and

WHEREAS the 2011 Sacramento Regional 8

- Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan must be updated to reflect the approved updated emission inventory and VMT offset requirements; and

WHEREAS the 2013 Sacramento Re gional 8

- Hour Ozone Attainment a nd Reasonable Further Progress Plan ( Plan ) includes a VMT offset demonstration pursuant to new USEPA guidance implementing CAA Section 182(d)(1)(A) , which requires “Severe” nonattainment areas to offset the growth in emissions due to growth in VMT; and

WHEREAS the Plan revised the reas onable further progress demonstration (RFP) and

attainment demonstration to reflect the updated emissions inventory ; and

WHEREAS Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 93 requires that transportation emission budgets for certain criteria p ollutants be specified in the SIP; and

WHEREAS 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4) requires a demonstration that transportation emission budgets are consistent with the emissions inventory and applicable requirements for reasonable further progress or attainment; and

WHEREAS the Plan update s the on

- road motor vehicle emission budgets (Budgets), including a safety margin to accommodate uncertainties in population and employment growth,

which are used for transportation conformity purposes and are based on the revised em issions inventory; and

WHEREAS the updated transportation emission budgets will replace the previous transportation budgets that the USEPA found adequate on August 12 , 2009 ; and

WHEREAS the Plan revised the airport emission budgets used for general conformity based on the revised emissions inventory; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requires a demonstration that the region makes progress towards meeting the NAAQS by meeting minimum emission reduction targets at specif ic intervals

, and the Plan revisions include an updated RFP demonstration for 2014, 2017, and 2018 based on the revised emissions inventory and show that the Sacramento region achieves the required 3% per year reduction; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requ ires a demonstration that the region will meet the NAAQS as expeditiously as practicable and the Plan revisions include an updated demonstration based on the revised emissions inventory that attainment of the 1997 ozone NAAQS will be achieved by the 2018 deadline even without additional control measures; and

WHEREAS the revised Plan reflect s more recent projections of emission reductions and

available fund ing , and the emissions reduction s and funding of the Mobile Source Incentiv e Program have been updated; and2013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8

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and Reasonable Further Progress Plan September 26 , 2013 Page 3

WHEREAS Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District ( SMAQMD ) Automotive Refinishing Rule and Feather River Air Quality Management District ( FRAQMD ) Degreasing/Solvent Cleaning Rule have been adopted before the original schedule, the revised Plan updated their adoption and implementation dates; and

WHEREAS the adoption year for the Urban Forest Development Program (SMAQMD

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has be en reschedule d from 2012 to 2013; and

WHEREAS SMAQMD Rules 454 and 466 Degreasin g/Solvent Cleaning Rule and Large

Water Heaters and Rule 414 Small Boiler Rule have been adopted and their emission reductions are reflected in the updated emissions inventory, and they are removed from the list of rule

commitments ; and

WHEREAS El Dorado County Air Quality Management District ( EDCAQMD ) has no

emission sources under their Deg reasing/Solvent Cleaning Rule and Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products Rules and submitted two Negative Declarations to EPA in December 2012 and these
rules are removed from the list of rule commitments; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requires that the Plan provide for the implementation of all reasonably available control measures (RACM) as expeditiously as practicable; the Plan revisions

do not change the 2013 Plan conclusion that the estimated emission reductions from the potential control measures remain less than the revised threshold for advancing attainment; and

WHEREAS a notice announcing the May 23, 2013 public hearing on the 2013 Plan revision was published in all five air districts in the S acramento Nonattainment Area April 20

- 22, 2013 to invite public comment as shown in Attachment 3 ; and

WHEREAS the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management

District he ld a public hearing on behalf of all five air districts in the SNA, as required by Clean Air
Act Section 110, on the 2013 Plan revision at its May 23, 2013 meeting; and

WHEREAS at the May 23, 2013 hearing the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District continue d the public hearing to July 25, 2013 and continued the July 25 public hearing to August 22, 2013 and continued the August 22 public hearing to September 26, 2013 ; and

WHEREAS this action is exempt from the C alifornia E nvironmental Q uality A ct (CEQA pursuant to California Code of Regulations Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3, §15061(b)(3) (n o possibility of a significant adverse effect on the environment ) and §15308 (a ctions taken by regulatory agencies to assure the maintenance, restoration, enhancement, or protection of the

environment ) ; and

WHEREAS staff of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, at 777

12 th Street, Sacramento , California 95814

, maintain s the record of the proceedin gs upon w hich this

decision is based.