Matthew Rodriquez Secretary for Environmental Protection
November 6, 2014
Jared · Blumenfeld Regional Administrator 

# Air Resources Board Mary D. Nichols, Chairman

1001 I Street • P.O
. Box 2815 Sacramento, California 95812 • www.arb.ca.gov

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 94105 Dear Mr
. Blumenfeld: Edmund G. Brown Jr
. Governor

I am writing to request that the U.S
. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S
. EPA) conduct a parallel processing review of the revised transportation conformity budgets included in the Air Resources Board (ARB) letter dated October 7, 2014. The public hearing notice and staff report for the 2014 updates to the transportation conformity budgets for the San Joaquin Valley have been posted on the ARB web-site at http ://www.arb
. ca .gov/planning/sip/sjvpm25/24hrsjvpm25
. htm
. This item will be considered at a meeting of the Board, on November 20, 2014. If adopted, ARB will submit these updates to the U
. S
. Environmental Protection Agency as revisions to the State Implementation Plan for California. ARB provided the revised budgets in the October 

## ih letter at U.S. EPA 's request. In subsequent discussions, U.S. EPA staff further requested clarification that the October 

## ih letter was a request for parallel processing. If you have any questions , please call Ms
. Lynn Terry, Deputy Executive Officer, at (916) 322-2739, or have your staff contact Mr. Kurt Karperos, Chief, Air Quality Planning and Science Division, at (916) 322-5350
. Sincerely ,

cc : See next page .

Th e ener gy chall e nge f acing Cali f ornia is real
. Every Californi an nee d s t

o t

ake i mmediate action to reduce en er gy consumpti on. For a list ofsi mpl e w ay

s you can reduce d emand and cut yo ur ener gy cost s, see o ur websit e : h ttp :// www.arb
.ca.gov . Ca lif o rni a E nvi ro nm e nta l Pr otecti o n Age n cy Pri

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e d on Recyc led P aperMr
. Jared Blumenfeld November 6 , 2014 Page 2
cc : Ms
. Deborah Jordan, Director Region 9 , Air Division U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, California 94105 Mr
. Seyed Sadredin Executive Director/Air Pollution Control Officer San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District 1990 East Gettysburg Avenue Fresno , California 93726 Mr
. Andrew Chesley Executive Director San Joaquin Council of Governments 555 East Weber Avenue Stockton, California 95202 Mr
. Carlos Yamzon Executive Director Stanislaus Council of Governments 1111 I Street, Suite 308 Modesto, California 95354 Ms
. Marjie Kirn Executive Director Merced County Association of Governments 369 West 18th Street Merced, California 95340 Ms. Patricia Taylor Executive Director Madera County Transportation Commission 2001 Howard Road , Suite 2 01 Madera , California 93637 Mr. Tony Boren Executive Director Fresno Council of Governments 2035 Tulare Street , Suite 201 Fresno , California 9372 1 Continued next page .Mr. Jared Blumenfeld November 6, 20 14 Page 3 (continued) Ms. Terri King Executive Director Kings County Association of Governments 339 West "D" Street , Suite B Lemoore , California 93245 Mr
. Ted Smalley Exec utive Director Tulare County Association of Governments 210 North Church Street , Suite B Visalia , California 93291 Mr
. Ahron Hakimi E xecutive Director Kern Council of Governments 1401 19th Street , Suite 300 Bakersfield , California 93301 Ms
. Lynn Terry Deputy Executive Officer Executive Office Mr. Kurt Karperos, Chief Air Quality Planning and Science DivisionMr. Jared Blumenfeld November 6, 2014 Page 4 bee: (Via email, w/o enclosures) Karen Magliano , AQPS Jon Taylor , AQPS Sylvia Vanderspek, AQPS Nesamani Kalandiyur , AQPS Webster Tasat , AQPS Cari Anderson, AQPS Patricia Velasco , AQPS External bee : (Via email, w/o enclosures) Jessica Fierro , SJVAPCD , Jessica
. Fierro @va lleya i r . org Errol Villegas , SJVAPCD , Erroi.Villegas @val leyair
. org Matt Lakin , U
. S. EPA , Lakin
. Matthew@epa
. gov Karina O ' Connor, U
. S. EPA Oconnor
. Karina@epa
. gov Frances Wicher, U.S. EPA , Wicher.Frances@epa.gov bee : (Hard copies) EO Chron (w/ Enclosures) AQPS Chron (w/ Enclosures) SIP Library (w/ Enclosures) Assignment# 9337 X :\SJV 2014- SJV 24-hour PM2.5 SIP Update\Nov Board conformity i tem \con fo rmity budget replacem e nt letter to EPA (2)
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