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RESOLUTION NO. 021-2009- 

OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE EL DORADO COUNTY AIR 

QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 

RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE SACRAMENTO REGIONAL 8-HOUR OZONE 

ATTAINMENT AND REASONABLE FURTHER PROGRESS PLAN 

WHEREAS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) promulgated the 1997 National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard ("NAAQS") for ozone with an 8-hour averaging time of 0.08 parts per million 

and determined that the 8-hour ozone standard is necessary in order to protect public health (Federal Register, 

Vol. 62, No. 138, pages 2-37 (July 18, 1997); and 

WHEREAS, the Sacramento Federal Nonattainment Area ("SFNA"), includes part of the El Dorado 

Air Quality Management District ("EDCAQMD") as well as the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality 

Management District, and parts of the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, the Yolo-Solano Air 

Quality Management District, and the Feather River Air Quality Management District (Federal Register, Vol. 

69, No. 84, pages 23858-23951 (April 30, 2004)); and 

WHEREAS, the SFNA exceeds the primary NAAQS for 8-hour ozone, and was designated 

nonattainment for ozone with a classification of "Serious" and an attainment deadline of June 15, 2013 

(Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 84, pages 23858-24000 (Apri130, 2004)); and 

WHEREAS, the USEPA published its Final Rule to Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard, which requires nonattainment areas classified "Serious and above" to 

demonstrate Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) toward attainment of the 1997 8-hour ozone standard 

(Federal Register, Vol. 70, No. 228, pages 71611-71705 (November 29, 2005) and 42 USC §7511a 

(c)(2)(B)); and 

WHEREAS, the air districts determined that the SFNA could not meet the 2013 attainment deadline 

for "Serious" nonattainment areas; and 

WHEREAS, on February 14, 2008, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), on behalf of the 

SFNA Districts, requested that the USEPA reclassify the SFNA from a"Serious" to a"Severe" ozone 

nonattainment classification with an extended attainment deadline of June 15, 2019 (42 USC §7511 (b)(3)); 

and 

WHEREAS, the SFNA air districts have prepared the proposed Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone 

Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan (Plan) to satisfy the attainment and remaining reasonable 

further progress demonstration requirements associated with a"Severe" classification (42 USC §7502 (c) and 

§7511 a); and 

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WHEREAS, the proposed Plan shows that ambient ozone air quality is improving in the SFNA; and 

WHEREAS, the proposed Plan demonstrates that existing control strategies and approved control 

measure commitments will provide the future volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) 

emission reductions necessary to meet the federal Clean Air Act requirements for reasonable further progress 

for the 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018 milestone years (42 USC §7511a (c)(2)(B)); and 

WHEREAS, photochemical modeling conducted by CARB predicts lower future ozone levels, but 

concludes that additional emission reductions are needed to attain the federal 8-hour ozone standard by the 

mandated deadline (42 USC §7511 a(c)(2)(A)); and 

WHEREAS, the proposed Plan documents and recommends adoption and implementation of new 

state, regional, and local reasonably available control measures necessary to attain the ozone standard as 

expeditiously as practicable and no later than 2018 (42 USC §7502 (c)(1) and §7511 (a)(1)); and 

WHEREAS, the proposed Plan includes commitments to achieve 3 tons per day of VOC and 3 tons 

per day of NOx reductions from new regional and local control measures and includes a specific commitment 

to achieve emission reductions from the Regional Mobile On-road Incentive Program for 0.1 ton per day of 

VOC and 0.7 ton per day of NOx in 2011; 0.1 ton per day of VOC and 0.8 ton per day of NOx in 2014; 0.9 

ton per day of NOx in 2017 and 2018; and 

WHEREAS, the proposed Plan sets new 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018 Motor Vehicle Emission 

Budgets for transportation conformity purposes and updates future airport emissions for general conformity 

purposes consistent with attainment and reasonable further progress requirements (42 USC §7506); and 

WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the EDCAQMD and the other air districts of the 

SFNA, as responsible agencies, have consulted with the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management 

District, as lead agency, to prepare a Draft Environmenta) Impact Report ("DEIR"), dated September 2008, 

State Clearinghouse No. 2006102136, to analyze potential environmental impacts arising from the proposed 

Plan; and 

WHEREAS, the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District duly published notice 

of the availability of the DEIR and Draft Plan and held a noticed public workshop on September 25, 2008 to 

receive public comment on those documents; and 

WHEREAS, Comments and Responses to the DEIR have been prepared as Appendix C thereto, and 

together with the revised DEIR comprise a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), completed in full 

compliance with all procedural and substantive provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act; and 

WHEREAS, on January 5, 2009 and January 7, 2009, the EDCAQMD published a notice of the 

availability of the Plan and FEIR and invited public comment on those documents; and 

WHEREAS, on January 22, 2009 the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air 

Quality Management District duly certified the FEIR as having been prepared in full compliance with the 

provisions of CEQA; and 

WHEREAS, the FEIR concluded that the Plan would have no significant adverse environmental 

impacts, so no mitigation measures are required; and 

WHEREAS, on February 10, 2009 the Board of Directors of the EDCAQMD held a duly noticed 

public hearing in order to hear and consider public comment on the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone 

Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan; and 

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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the EDCAQMD has read and considered the environmental 

effects of the proposed Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan as 

identified and analyzed in the FEIR, and hereby incorporates by reference each of FEIR findings relative to 

the potential environmental impacts arising from adoption of the Plan. 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED effective February 10, 2009, the Sacramento Regional 

8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan, be, and hereby is, adopted, including the 

2002, 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018 emissions inventory, 2018 photochemical modeling results, 2018 

attainment demonstration the Reasonable Further Progress Demonstration, motor vehicle emission budgets 

and airport emission inventory for milestone years 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of the EDCAQMD commits to adopt 

and implement new control measures that satisfy federal Reasonably Available Control Measure 

requirements and achieve, collectively with measures adopted by the other SFNA air districts, total emission 

reductions of 3 tons per day VOC and 3 tons per day NOx in the SFNA. 

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Board of Directors of the EDCAQMD directs staff to 

forward the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan and all 

necessary supporting documents to the California Air Resources Board for submittal to the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to the California State Implementation Plan. 

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Air Quality Management District Board of Directors of the County of El Dorado 

at a regular meeting 

of said Board, held on the 10th day of February 2009 

by the following vote of said Board: 

Ayes: Sweeney, Knight, Nutting, Briggs 

ATTEST 

Suzanne Allen de Sanchez 

Clerk ofthe Board of isors 

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Noes: none 

Absent: Santi

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\/it; AQMD Board of Di ctors 

Norma Santiago 

I CERTIFY THAT: 

THE FOREGOING INSTRUMENT IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL ON FILE IN THIS OFFICE. 

DATE oL r/,~ D / 

A7"rEST: SUZANNE AL DE SANCHEZ, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of EI Dorado, State of 

California. 

By 

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