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# Air Resources Board

Mary D. Nichols, Chairman

1001 I Street • P.O. Box 2815

Sacramento, California 95812 • www.arb.ca.gov Edmund G. Brown Jr.

Governor

November 18 , 2011

Mr. Jared Blumenfeld

Regional Administrator

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Region 9

75 Hawthorne Street

San Francisco, California 94105

Dear Mr. Blumenfeld:

Enclosed are revisions to the State of California Implementa tion Plan for Achieving and

Maintaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standar ds (SIP). Two compact discs and

two paper copies, each containing the revisions in their entirety, are enclosed.

These revisions consist of adopted and amended rules of the following air pollution

control and air quality management districts (districts):

Placer County Air Pollution Control District

San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District

South Coast Air Quality Management District

Also enclosed is the Air Resour ces Board (ARB) Executive Order S

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the districts’ rules as revisions to the SIP. The districts are authorized to adopt and

enforce the rules by California Health and Safety Code section 40001. ARB is

authorized to adopt the rules as revisi ons to the SIP by Health and Safety Code

section 39601, 39602, and 41650 through 41652. Enclosure A lists the specific rules

that were adopted or amended by the districts and that have been adopted as revisions

to the SIP by ARB through Executive Order S

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To meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) criteria for determining

that rule submittals are administratively and technically complete, we have enclosed

evaluations of the effects of the rules on emissions, evaluations of the rule s’ consistency

with 40 CFR 51, and other supporting documentation provided to us to date by the

districts. We have made every reasonable effort to obtain from the districts all

documentation necessary to comply with U.S. EPA’s SIP Completeness Policy.Mr. Jared Blumenfeld

November 18 , 2011

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cc: Mr. Tom Christofk

Air Pollution Control Officer

Placer County Air Pollution Control District

110 Maple Street

Auburn, California 95603

Mr. Seyed Sadr edin

Air Pollution Control Officer

San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution

Control District

1990 East Getty s burg Avenue

Fresno, California 93726

D r. Barry Wallerstein

Executive Officer

South Coast Air Quality Management District

21865 East Copley Dr ive

Diamond Bar, California 91765

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Mi chael J. Guzzetta , Manager

Rule Evaluation Section

Stationary Source DivisionDate: November 18, 2011

California E nvironmental Protection Agency

AIR RESOURCES BOARD

Enclosure A

Rules That Were Adopted, or Amended by the Following

Air Pollution Control and Air Quality Management Districts

and Are Submitted As Revisions to the

State of California Implementation Plan f or Achieving

and Maintaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standards

District Rule

Number Date Adopted

or

Amended Title

Placer County

APCD 502 10/13/2011 New Source Review

(amended)

San Joaquin Valley

APCD 4566 8/18/2011 Organic Material Composting

Operations (adopted)

San Joaquin Valley

APCD 4694 8/18/2011 Wine Fermentation and

Storage Tanks (amended)

South Coast AQMD 1 133.1 7/8/2011 Chipping and Grinding

Activities (amended)

South Coast AQMD 1133.3 7/8/2011 Emission Reductions from

Greenwaste Composting

Operations (amended)