Air Resources Board
 

Mary D. Nichols, Chairman 

1001 I Street· P.O. Box 2815 

Linda S. Adams Sacramento, California 95812· www.arb.ca.gov Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Secretary for Governor 

Environmental Protection 

October 22, 2010 

Mr. Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 

Region 9
 

75 Hawthorne Street
 

San Francisco, California 94105
 

Dear Mr. Blumenfeld: 

Enclosed are two compact discs and two paper copies of a revision to the State of 

California Implementation Plan for Achieving and Maintaining the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (SIP). The revision consists of a negative declaration for three 

source categories that was adopted on August 23, 2010 by the Mojave Desert Air 

Quality Management District (District) to comply with certain requirements of the federal 

Clean Air Act. The negative declaration addresses Clean Air Act requirements for the 

adoption or amendment of rules and regulations that prescribe reasonably available 

control technologies for volatile organic compounds. 

Also, enclosed is the Air Resources Board (ARB) Executive Order S-1 0-005 adopting 

the District's negative declaration as a revision to the SIP. The District has the primary 

responsibility for control of air pollution from sources other than vehicular sources within 

its jurisdiction pursuant to Health and Safety Code (H&SC) sections 39002 and 40000. 

The District is also authorized to adopt rules to meet and maintain the national ambient 

air quality standards pursuant to H&SC section 40001. ARB is authorized by H&SC 

sections 39601,39602, and 41650 through 41652 to adopt this District's SIP submittal 

as a revision to the SIP. 

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this SIP revision, please contact
 

Mr. Jorge Fernandez, Chief, Program Evaluation Branch at (916) 324-7659.
 

Sincerely, 

')/0 '/',1) JIA-' ~\L t~ftI1L

Robert D. Fletcher
 

Deputy Executive Officer
 

Enclosures 

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California Environmental Protection Agency 

Printed on Recycled Paper 
Mr. Jared Blumenfeld, Administrator 

October 22, 2010 

Page 2 

cc:	 Mr. Eldon Heaston 

Executive Director 

Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District 

14306 Park Avenue 

Victorville, California 92392-2310 

Mr. Jorge L. Fernandez, Chief
 

Program Evaluation Branch
 

Stationary Source Division
 
California Environmental Protection Agency
 

AIR RESOURCES BOARD
 

Executive Order 5-10-005
 

WHEREAS, the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision identified below 

was adopted by the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (District) on 

August 23,2010: 

Federal negative declaration certifying that no major stationary sources 

emitting volatile organic compounds (VaC) from petroleum refinery 

equipment; manufacture of high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, 

and polystyrene resins; and fugitive emissions from synthetic organic 

chemical polymer and resin manufacturing equipment are located within 

the District. 

WHEREAS, the District has primary responsibility for control of air pollution from all 

sources other than vehicular sources (California Health and Safety Code Sections 

39002 and 40000); and 

WHEREAS, the District is authorized by California Health and Safety Code Section 

40702 to adopt rules and regulations and do such acts as may be necessary to execute 

the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, the District; and 

WHEREAS, the District is a designated nonattainment area for the 8-hour ozone 

standard under Section 181 of the federal Clean Air Act; and 

WHEREAS, the Clean Air Act Section 182 requires the District, as an ozone 

nonattainment area classified as moderate and above, to implement vac reasonably 

available control technology rules and regulations for major stationary sources existing 

in the District; and 

WHEREAS, for source categories not represented within the area designated 

nonattainment for ozone, the United States Environmental Protection Agency requires 

the submission of a negative declaration certifying that those sources are not present; 

and 

WHEREAS, The District has found that no major stationary sources for the three source 

categories identified in the above federal negative declaration exist within the District; 

and 

WHEREAS, the District has adopted the negative declaration and has submitted it to 

the Air Resources Board (ARB) for inclusion in the SIP; and 

WHEREAS, ARB has determined that the SIP revision is necessary to meet the 

requirements of the federal Clean Air Act; and 
THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that ARB hereby adopts the federal negative 

declaration identified above as a revision to the SIP. 

I certify, pursuant to 40 CFR 51.1 02(f), that the SIP revision identified above was 

adopted after notice and public hearing as required by 40 CFR 51.1 02(a) and 51.1 02(d). 

Executed in Sacramento, California, this;!) 1'£-')day of Cc,- C"'fit;:' Ie ,2010.