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SACRAMENTO, CA CLEAN AIR ACT SECTION 185

TERMINATION DETERMINATION (1-Hour Ozone NAAQS);

INTERIM FINAL, PROPOSED RULE and CLEAN DATA FINDING

CATEGORY I. NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING

Final Rule, “Determination of Attainment of the 1-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards in the Sacramento Metro Nonattainment Area in California,” pre-publication, signed version, October 3, 2012.

CATEGORY II. NOTICE OF INTERIM FINAL RULEMAKING

76 FR 28661, Interim Final Rule, “Interim Final Determination to Defer Sanctions, Sacramento Metro 1-hour Ozone Nonattainment Area, California,” May 18, 2011.

CATEGORY III. NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING

76 FR 28696, Proposed Rule, “Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; California; Determination of Termination of Section 185 Fees,” May 18, 2011.

CATEGORY IV. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

None.

CATEGORY V. OFFICIAL PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE IFR OR NPRM

A. Natural Resources Defense Council, Paul Cort, Earthjustice,

June 16, 2011.

B. BCCA Appeal Group and Section 185 Working Group, Zachary L.
Craft, Baker Botts, L.L.P., June 17, 2011.

C. National Environmental Development Association's Clean Air Project, Leslie Sue Ritts.

D. Western States Petroleum Association, Catherine H. ReheisBoyd, June 17, 2011.

E. American Chemistry Council, Tim Shestek, June 17, 2011.

CATEGORY VI. FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES

A. 56 FR 56694, “Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning2

Purposes,” final rule, November 6, 1991.

B. 58 FR 51735, “Executive Order 12866,” October 4, 1993.

C. 59 FR 7629, “Executive Order 12898,” February 16, 1994.

D. 60 FR 20237, “California, Sacramento Ozone Nonattainment Area, Reclassification to Severe,” final rule, April 25, 1995.

E. 62 FR 1150, “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California—Ozone,” final rule, January 8, 1997.

F. 62 FR 19855, “Executive Order 13045,” April 23, 1997.

G. 62 FR 38856, “National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone,” final rule, July 18, 1997.

H. 64 FR 43255, “Executive Order 13132,” August 10, 1999. 8

I. 65 FR 67249, “Executive Order 13175,” November 9, 2000.

J. 66 FR 28355, “Executive Order 13211,” May 22, 2001.

K. 68 FR 51184, “Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan; Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District,” direct final rule, August 26, 2003.

L. 69 FR 23858, “Air Quality Designations and Classifications for the 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Early Action Compact Areas With Deferred Effective Dates,” final rule, April 30, 2004.

M. 69 FR 23951, “Final Rule To Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard—Phase 1,” final rule, April 30, 2004.

N. 71 FR 61236, “Revisions to Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations,” final rule, October 17, 2006.

O. 72 FR 13560, “Treatment of Data Influenced by Exceptional Events,” final rule, March 22, 2007.

P. 73 FR 16435, “National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone,” final rule, March 27, 2008.

Q. 74 FR 23307, “The Treatment of Data Influenced by Exceptional Events (Exceptional Event Rule): Revised Exceptional Event Data Flagging Submittal and Documentation Schedule for Monitoring Data Used in Designations for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS,” final rule, May 19, 2009.3

R. 74 FR 33933, “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA,” proposed rule, July 14, 2009.

S. 74 FR 43654, “Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; California; San Joaquin Valley, South Coast Air Basin, Coachella Valley, and Sacramento Metro Ozone Nonattainment Areas; Reclassification,” proposed rule, August 27, 2009.

T. 75 FR 232, “Finding of Failure To Submit Certain State Implementation Plans Required for the 1-Hour Ozone NAAQS,” final rule, January 5, 2010.

U. 75 FR 2938, “National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone,” proposed rule, January 19, 2010.

V. 75 FR 10420, “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for San Joaquin Valley, CA,” final rule, March 8, 2010.

W. 75 FR 24409, “Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; California; San Joaquin Valley, South Coast Air Basin, Coachella Valley, and Sacramento Metro 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Areas; Reclassification,” final rule, May 5,

2010.

X. 75 FR 71294, “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation

Plans; State of California; 2007 South Coast State Implementation Plan for 1997 Fine Particulate Matter Standards; 2007 State Strategy; PM2.5,” proposed rule, November 22, 2010.

Y. 75 FR 74518, “Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of California; 2008 San Joaquin Valley State Implementation Plan for Fine Particulate Matter; 2007 State Strategy; PM 2.5,” proposed rule, November 30, 2010.

CATEGORY VII. OTHER DOCUMENTS

A. Letter from Sean Hogan, Manager, Technical Support Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, California Air Resources Board, approving “Annual Monitoring Network Plan for the Small Districts in California, Volume 1: June 2007,” June 9, 2008.

B. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources4

Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, certifying ambient air monitoring data for calendar year

2007, June 30, 2008.

C. Letter from Sean Hogan, Manager, Technical Support Office, U.S. EPA Region IX, to John Ching, Program Coordinator, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, approving, “Annual Monitoring Network Plan for the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District:

2007,” June 30, 2008.

D. Letter from Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, EPA Region IX, to James Goldstene, Executive Officer, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, transmitting the findings of EPA’s Summer 2007 Technical System Audit of the California Air Resources Board's ambient air monitoring program, August 18, 2008.

a. Enclosure “Technical System Audit of the California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, 2007” U.S. EPA, Region IX, August 2008.

E. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Laura Yoshii, Acting Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, certifying ambient air monitoring data for calendar year 2008, July 1, 2009.

F. Letter from Joe Lapka, Acting Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Larry Greene, Air Pollution Control Officer, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, approving district’s “2009 Annual Monitoring Network Plan,” September 29, 2009.

G. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, California Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Joe Lapka, Acting Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, U.S. EPA Region IX, providing documentation in support of calendar year 2008 1-hour ozone wildfire exceptional event flags in Sacramento Metro Area, with enclosure, September

17, 2009.

H. Letter from Joe Lapka, Acting Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, approving “2009 Annual5

Monitoring Network Report for Small Districts in California,” November 24, 2009.

I. Memorandum from Stephen D. Page, Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. EPA, to U.S. EPA Regional Office Air Division Directors, “Guidance on Developing Fee Programs Required by Clean Air Act Section 185 for the 1-hour Ozone NAAQS,” January 5, 2010.

J. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, certifying ambient air monitoring data for calendar year 2009, May 19, 2010.

K. Letter from James N. Goldstene, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, with enclosures, requesting termination determination for Sacramento Metro Area, July 7, 2010.

L. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, California Air Resources Board, to Dr. Matthew Lakin, Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, EPA Region IX, with enclosures, transmitting “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Report for Small Districts in California, July 2010,” and “Air Resources Board 2010 Monitoring Network Assessment, July 2010,” July 9, 2010.

a. “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Report for Small Districts in California, July 2010.”

b. “Air Resources Board 2010 Monitoring Network Assessment, July 2010.”

M. Electronic correspondence from John Ching, Program Coordinator, Technical Services Section, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, to Gwen Yoshimura, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, transmitting district’s “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Plan and public notice information” July

19, 2010.

a. “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Plan,” Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.

N. Letter from Matthew Lakin, Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Karen Magliano,6

Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, requesting additional information in support of exceptional events request, July

29, 2010,

a. Enclosure: “Review of Documentation on Sacramento, CA 2008 Fire Exceptional Events for Ozone,” U.S. EPA, Region IX, July 29, 2010.

O. Letter from Matthew Lakin, Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, approving California Air Resources Board’s “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Report for Small Districts in California, July 2010,” October 29, 2010.

P. Letter from Matthew Lakin, Manager, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, to Larry Greene, Air Pollution Control Officer, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, approving district’s “2010 Annual Monitoring Network Plan,” November 1, 2010.

Q. U.S. EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory, “List of Designated Reference and Equivalent Methods,” February 1,

2011.

R. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, with enclosures, certifying 2010 ozone air quality monitoring data for Sacramento Metro Area and mountain counties, March

2, 2011.

S. Electronic correspondence from Gayle Sweigert, Manager, Air Quality Analysis Section, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Katherine Hoag and Matthew Lakin, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, transmitting via file transfer protocol, “Exceptional Events

Demonstration for 1-Hour Ozone Exceedances in the Sacramento Regional Nonattainment Area Due to 2008 Wildfires: Updated Documentation, March 30, 2011,” March 30, 2011.

a. “Exceptional Events Demonstration for 1-Hour Ozone Exceedances in the Sacramento Regional Nonattainment Area Due to 2008 Wildfires: Updated Documentation, March 30,

2011.”7

b. Appendix A. “Wildfire Table.”

c. Appendix B. “Meteorological Analysis and Graphics—June

23.”

d. Appendix C. “Meteorological Analysis and Graphics—June

27.”

e. Appendix D. “Meteorological Analysis and Graphics—July

10.”

f. Appendix E. “Public Health Advisories.”

g. Appendix F. “News Reports.”

h. Appendix G. “Public Comments.”

i. Appendix X. “STI – Regression Analysis and Addendum.”

Document ID: EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0372-0032.9

j. Appendix Y. “STI – Rules of Thumb.”

T. Letter from Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, Region IX, U.S. EPA, to Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, concurring with CARB’s exceptional event requests for 1-hour ozone exceedances on June 23, June 27 and July 10, 2008, with enclosure; letter dated April 13, 2011.

a. Enclosure: “Review of Exceptional Event Request: Folsom, CA 1-Hour Ozone, June 23, June 27 and July 10, 2008,” U.S. EPA, Region IX, April 13, 2011.

U. Letter from James Goldstene, Executive Officer, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, with enclosures, updating California Air Resources Board’s July 7, 2010 termination determination request to include calendar year 2009 ambient air quality data, April 13, 2010.

V. Letter from Karen Magliano, Chief, Air Quality Data Branch, Planning and Technical Support Division, Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency, to Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region IX, certifying ambient air monitoring data for calendar year 2010, April 28, 2011.

W. Electronic correspondence from Brigette Tollstrup, Planning Manager, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management8

District, to Katherine Hoag, Air Quality Analysis Office, Air Division, U.S. EPA Region IX, with enclosure, transmitting “2010 Air Monitoring Network Assessment For Sacramento County, CA,” May 2, 2011.

a. “2010 Air Monitoring Network Assessment For Sacramento County, CA,” Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, April 29, 2011

X. Web page output, California Emissions Projection Analysis Model (CEPAM) 2009 Almanac, statistics and graphs for Sacramento Metro Area vehicle miles travelled, vehicle population, human population, fuel consumption, output generated May 2, 2011.

Y. Air Quality System Quicklook report, summarizing ozone monitoring data collected at monitoring sites in the

Sacramento Metro 1-hour ozone nonattainment area for 2001- 2010, report generated May 3, 2011.

Z. Sacramento Metro Area Quick Look Report, summarizing ozone monitoring data collected at monitoring sites in the

Sacramento Metro 1-hour ozone nonattainment area for 2008- 2012, report generated August 30, 2012.