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Approval of California Air Plan; Owens Valley Serious Area Plan for the 1987 24-hour PM10 Standard

(Docket No. EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0660)

Docket Index - Table of Contents

A. U.S. EPA Guidance Documents, Policies, and Rulemakings

B. State Plans, Rules, Support Documents, Reports, and Correspondence

C. Additional Documents for Proposed Rulemaking

D. Notices of Proposed Rulemaking and Technical Support Document

E. Public Comments and Related Documents

F. Additional Documents Considered for Final Plan Action

G. Notice of Final Rulemaking, Plan Action

A. EPA Policy, Guidance, Rulemaking Documents, and Correspondence 

1. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; SIP Development Guideline (EPA-450/2-86-001, June 

1987).

2. “Designations and Classifications for Initial PM-10 Areas,” 56 FR 11101, March 15, 1991.

3. “State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of the Clean Air Act 

Amendments of 1990,” 57 FR 13498 (April 16, 1992).

4. State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of the Clean Air Act 

Amendments of 1990; Supplemental,” 57 FR 18070 (April 28, 1992).

5. “Reclassification of Moderate PM-10 Nonattainment Areas to Serious Areas,” 58 FR 3334 (January 8, 1993).

6. “State Implementation Plans for Serious PM-10 Nonattainment Areas, and Attainment Date Waivers for 

Nonattainment Areas Generally; Addendum to the General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of the 

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,” 59 FR 41998 (August 16, 1994).

7. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California—Owens Valley Nonattainment Area; PM10,” Proposed Rule, 64 FR 34172 (June 25, 1999).

8. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California—Owens Valley Nonattainment Area; PM10,” Final Rule, 64 FR 48305 (September 3, 1999).

9. Findings of Failure to Attain; State of Arizona, Phoenix Nonattainment Area; State of California, Owens Valley 

Nonattainment area; Particulate Matter of 10 Microns or Less,” Final Rule, 72 FR 31182 (June 6, 2007).

10. “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans—Maricopa County PM-10 Nonattainment Area; Five 

Percent Plan for Attainment of the 24-Hour PM-10 Standard,” Final Rule, 79 FR 33107, June 10, 2014.

11. “Revision to the Guideline on Air Quality Models – Proposed Rule,” 80 FR 45340 at 45349 (July 29, 2015).
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12. EPA web site “Preferred/Recommended Models,” “CALPUFF Modeling System 07-26-16 UPDATE,” 

https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/scram/dispersion_prefrec.htm#calpuff.

13. “Approval of California Air Plan Revisions, Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District,” Proposed Rule,

81 FR 62849 (September 13, 2016).

14. Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Regional Haze Regulations (draft), September 29, 2016.

15. Letter from Elizabeth J. Adams, Acting Air Division Director, U.S. EPA Region 9 to Richard W. Corey, Executive 

Officer, California Air Resources Board, dated November 21, 2016.

16. Letter from Elizabeth J. Adams, Acting Air Division Director, U.S. EPA Region 9, to Norman Wilder, Chairman, 

Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation, December 1, 

2016.

17. Letter from Elizabeth J. Adams, Acting Air Division Director, U.S. EPA Region 9, to Mary Wuester, 

Chairperson, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, December 1, 2016.

18. Letter from Elizabeth J. Adams, Acting Air Division Director, U.S. EPA Region 9, Shannon Romero, 

Chairwoman, Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley, December 1, 2016.

19. Letter from Elizabeth J. Adams, Acting Air Division Director, U.S. EPA Region 9, to Deston Rogers, Chairman, 

Bishop Paiute Tribe, dated December 1, 2016.

20. “Approval of California Air Plan Revisions, Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District,” Proposed Rule. 

Pre-publication version signed November 10, 2016.

21. “PM-10 Emission Inventory Requirements,” U.S. EPA, EPA-454/R-94-033, September 1994.

B. State Plans, Rules, Support Documents, Reports, and Correspondence

1. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District 2016 Owens Valley Planning Area “Approval and 

Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State Implementation Plan. April 13, 2016.

a. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District. April 13, 2016 Staff Report – Supporting Document. 

(Separately bound supplement).

b. Letter from Richard W. Corey, CARB Executive Officer to Alexis Strauss, Acting Regional Administrator, 

U.S. EPA Region 9, dated June 9, 2016.

c. State of California Air Resource Board Resolution 16-3, dated May 19, 2016.

d. Staff Report - ARB Review of “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State 

Implementation Plan for Owens Valley. April 29, 2016.

e. California Air Resources Board Notice of Public Meeting to Consider the 2016 Revision to the Owens 

Valley “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Planning Area Demonstration of 

Attainment State Implementation Plan.

f. California Air Resources Board Completeness Checklist for SIP Revision: 2016 Owens Valley “Approval 

and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; SIP (2016 Plan).

g. Letter from Phillip L. Kiddoo, Air Pollution Control Officer, GBUAPCD to Richard W. Corey, CARB 

Executive Officer, dated April 26, 2016.
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2. Letter from Phillip L. Kiddoo, Air Pollution Control Officer, GBUAPCD to Elizabeth Adams, Acting Air Division 

Director, US EPA, Region 9, dated October 26, 2016.

3. Letter from Phillip L. Kiddoo, Air Pollution Control Officer, GBUAPCD to Richard W. Corey, CARB Executive 

Officer, dated April 29, 2016.

C. Additional Documents for Proposed Rulemaking

1. Owens Valley PM10 Attainment Demonstration Draft Modeling Protocol, prepared for the Great Basin Unified 

Air Pollution Control District by MFG, Inc., Lynnwood, Washington, March 16, 2001. 

2. Memorandum from Duane Ono, GBUAPCD to Owens Lake Dust ID File, Subject: Owens Lake Background PM10 Calculation Method, September 13, 2002.

3. “Locating and Quantifying Wind-Blown Dust Emissions at Owens Lake, California,” Ono, et al., A&WMA’s 96th 

Annual Conference & Exhibition, June 2003, San Diego, California, Paper #69487, Air & Waste Management 

Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2003.

4. “A combined modeling and measurement technique for estimating windblown dust emissions at Owens (dry) 

Lake, California,” Gillette, et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, F01003, doi:10.1029/2003JF000025, 

2004.

5. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, Owens Lake Dust Source Identification Program – Dust ID 

Field Manual, January 24, 2007. 

6. “Owens Valley Air Quality Modeling Study Final Report, Owens Valley PM10 Planning Area State 

Implementation Plan 2008 Revision,” Geomatrix Consultants, July 24, 2007; included as Appendix B to 2008 

Owens Valley “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Planning Area Demonstration of 

Attainment State Implementation Plan, Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, January 28, 2008.

7. “MAG 2012 Five Percent Plan for PM-10 for Maricopa County Nonattainment Area,” Maricopa Association of 

Governments, May 2012. Excerpts from main plan Chapter 6.

8. “MAG 2012 Five Percent Plan for PM-10 for Maricopa County Nonattainment Area,” Maricopa Association of 

Governments, May 2012; approved by EPA in 79 FR 33107, June 10, 2014. Excerpts from Appendix B, Exhibit 1, 

section V.

9. Memorandum from Duane Ono and Chris Howard, GBUAPCD to Phill Kiddoo, et al., Subject: “Off-lake PM10 

Reductions in Areas Adjacent to Lakebed Dust Controls,” October 9, 2015.

10. “Dust Sources in the Owens Valley Planning Area,” Grace A. McCarley Holder, Ph.D, R.G., Great Basin Unified 

Air Pollution Control District, January 2016.

11. Email from Chris Howard, Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District to Ken Richmond, Ramboll 

Environ, Subject: Background PM10 is 10.5 g/m3. January 27, 2016.
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12. Ass’n of Irritated Residents v. United States EPA, 423 F.3d 989, 993-94 (9th Cir. 2015).

D. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Technical Support Document

1. “Approval of California Air Plan; Owens Valley Serious Area Plan for the 1987 24-Hour PM10 Standard.” 

Proposed Rule – prepublication version, December 1, 2016.

2. “Technical Support Document for EPA’s notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the California State 

Implementation Plan – Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District 2016 Owens Valley Planning Area PM10

State Implementation Plan,” U.S. EPA Region IX, November 2016.

E. Public Comments and Related Documents - Reserved

F. Additional Documents Considered for Final Plan Action - Reserved

G. Notice of Final Rulemaking, Plan Action - Reserved