State of California 

AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

Resolution 07-20 

June 14, 2007 

Agenda Item No.: 07-6-2 

WHEREAS, the Legislature in Health and Safety Code section 39602 has 

designated the State Air Resources Board (ARB) as the air pollution control agency 

for all purposes set forth in federal law; 

WHEREAS, the ARB is responsible for the preparation of the State lmplementation 

Plan (SIP) for attaining and maintaining the national ambient air quality standards 

(NAAQS) as required by the federal Clean Air Act (the Act; 42 U.S..C. section 7401 

et seq.), and to this end is directed by Health and Safety Code section 39602 to 

coordinate the activities of all local and regional air pollution control and air quality 

management districts (districts) necessary to comply with the Act; 

WHEREAS, section 39602 of the Health and Safety Code also .provides that the SIP 

shall include only those provisions necessary to rneet the requirements of the Act; 

WHEREAS, section 41650 of the Health and Safety Code requires the ARB to 

approve the nonattainment pian adopted by a district as part of the SIP unless the 

Board ~inds, after a public hearing, that the plan does not meet the requirements of 

the Act; 

WHEREAS, the ARB has responsibility for ensuring that the districts meet their 

responsibilities under the Act pursuant to sections 39002, 39500, 39602, and 41650 

of the Health and Safety Code; 

WHEREAS, the ARB is authorized by section 39600 ofi the Health and Safety Code 

to do such acts as rnay be necessary for the proper execution of its powers and 

dvties; 

WHEREAS, sections 39515 and 39516 of the Health and Safety Code provide that 

any duty may be delegated to the Board's Executive Officer as the Board deems 

appropriate; 

WHEREAS, the local air districts have primary responsibility for controlling air 

pollution from nonvehicular sources and for adopting control measures, rules, and 

regulations to attain the NAAQS within their boundaries pursuant to sections 39002, 

40000, 40001, 40701, 40702, and 41650 of the Health and Safety Code; 
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WHEREAS, the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (District) 

was established pursuant to sections 40150 and 40151 of the Health and Safety 

Code as the.unified air pollution control district responsible for carrying out these 

responsibilities in the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin; 

WHEREAS, the San Joaquin Valley Air Qasin includes Fresno, Kings, Madera, 

Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, and western Kern Counties; 

WHEREAS, in July 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S„ EPA) 

promulgated an 8-hour NAAQS for ozone of 0.08 parts per million; 

WHEREAS, in April 2004, U.S. EPA d.esignated the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin as 

nonattainment of the 8-hour ozone standard; 

WHEREAS, in April 2004, U..S.; EPA finalize>r! "Phase I" of the 8-hour ozone 

implementation rule (Phase 1 Implementation Rule), which established the 

classification scheme for nonattainment areas and identified continuing obligations 

with respect to the existing 1-hour ozone requirements; 

WHEREAS, as part of that action U.,S, EPA classified the San Joaquin Valley Unified 

Air Pollution Control District as a"serious" nonattainment area with an initial 

attainment date of June 15, 201.3, and subject to the requirements of 

Subpart 2 of Part D of Title i of the Act; 

WHEREAS, in November 2005, U.S. EPA supplemented its Phase 1 Implernentation 

Ru1e with a"Phase 2" rule that specifies the emission controls and planning . 

elements that nonattainment areas must address in their SIPs; 

WHEREAS, the Act require.s that areas classified moderate or greater, demonstrate 

that Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) toward attainment of the 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS will occur; 

WHEREAS, section 182(e)(5) of the Act provides that S1Ps for extreme ozone 

nonattainrnent areas may rely in part upon the developrnent of new technologies or 

the improvement of existing technologies; 

WHEREAS, federal law set forth in section 110(l) of the Act and Title 40, Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR), section 51„102 requires that one or more public 

hearings, preceded by at least 30 days notice and opportunity for public review, 

must be conducted prior to the adoption and submittal to the U.S. EPA of any SIP 

revision; 

WHEREAS, the District staff developed the 2007 Ozone Plan forthe San Joaquin 

Va11ey Air Basin (2007 Ozone Plan) to fulfill the planning requirements of both the 

federal Act and the Ca(ifornia Clean Air Act; 
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WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan includes'updated air quality and emissions data, a 

control strategy based on State, local, and federal measures, a modeled attainment 

demonstration, an RFP demonstration, transportation conformity emission budgets, 

and contingency measures; 

WHEREAS, the air quality rnodeling for the San Joaquin Valley demonstrates the 

need for a 75 percent reduction in NOx emissions and a 25 percent reduction in 

ROG emissions from current levels, beyond the benefits of the existing emission 

control program, in order to attain the 8-hour ozone NAAQS by the June 15, 2013, 

attainment date for serious nonattainment areas; 

WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan control strategy relies on adopted State 

regulations, as well as proposed commitments for new statewide measures; 

WHEREAS, the District was unable to identify control measures with emission 

reductions sufficient for the San Joaquin ualley to attain the 8-hour ozone NAAQS 

by either June 15, 2013, or the severe-17 attainment date of June 15, 2021; 

WHEREAS, in section 181(b)(3) of the Act allows an area to request recfassification 

to a higher nonattainment status with a later attainment date; 

WHEREAS, as required by federal law, the District made the 2007 Ozone Plan 

.availabte for public reviev+i at least 30 days prior to the hearing; 

WHEREAS, foliowing a public hearing on Apri130, 2007, the Governing Board of the 

District voted to request a reclassification to extreme nonattainment and adopted the 

2007 Ozone Plan to fulfill the requirements of the Act for extreme 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment areas; 

WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan includes a dual path approach to attain the 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS in which "Path 1 -sets out a federally approvable SIP to attain the 

ozone standard, and "Path 2" charts a course to early attainment through important, 

but notfederally approvable, policy initiatives; 

WHEREAS, Path 1 was developed to provide a federally approvable SIP and 

includes the comm'rtments and timelines needed in such a plan, and recognizes the 

constraints piaced on such a plan by State and federal law, policy, and guidance; 

WHEREAS, Path 2 includes important, but not federally approvable, policy initiatives 

such as the use of increased, but as yet unsecured, incentive funding to expedite 

attainment; 

WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan has been submitted to ARB as a SIP revision, 

along with proof of public notice publication and environmental documents in 

accordance with State and federal law; 
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WHEREAS, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation provided to ARB staff 

updated pesticide.emission data which reflect changes to the emission estimating 

methodology, afterthe final draft of the 2007 Ozone'Plan was made available, and 

which were not included in the 2007 Ozone Plan emissions inventory; 

WHEREAS, the updated pesticide ernission estimates result in the need for ARB 

staff to update.the RFP demonstration in the 2007 Ozone Pian; 

WHEREAS, the updated RFP demonstration continues to show that the San 

Joaquin Valley will meet the required progress milestones and will continue to have 

additional emission reductions needed to meet the contingency measure 

requirements for progress; 

WHEREAS, ARB stafP has updated the transportation conformity emission budgets 

included ih the 2007 Ozone Plan, in order to correct a data entry error in the 2008 

budget for San Joaquin County and to update Madera County's budgets in all years 

to accommodate updated vehicle activity data provided by the Madera County 

Metropolitan Planning Organization; 

WHEREAS, updating the transporkation conformity emission budgets does not result 

in a need to update the RFP or attainment demonstrations; 

WHEREAS, Appendix E of the 2007 Ozone Plan specifically addresses the 

California Clean Air Act requirements for a Triennial Progress Report and Plan 

Revision, which the Board is not acting on at this time; •. 

WHEREAS, the District is not submitting as a SlP revision Chapter 7, sections 6 and 

7, of the 2007 Ozone Plan, which outline the poteritial incentive funding plan which 

would be used when additional incentive funding sources. are secured under Path 2; 

WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan, excluding Appendix E and Chapter 7, 

sections 6 and 7, comprises the 2007 S1P for ozone in the San Joaquin Valley 

(2007 •Ozone SIP); 

WHEREAS, the 2007 Ozone Plan relies on emission reductions to be achieved by 

the proposed State' Strategy for California's 2007 SIP (State Strategy), which has not 

yet bee.n approved by the ARB; 

WHEREAS, it .is appropriate to defer•final action on the 2007 Ozone Plan until soch 

time as the State Strategy has been approved by ARB; 

WHEREAS, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that no 

project which may have significant adverse environmental impacts be adopted as 

originally proposed if feasible alternatives or mitigation measures are available to 

reduce or eliminate such impacts;. 
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WHEREAS, to meet the requirements of CEQA the District prepared an Initial 

Study/Negative Declaration for the 2007 Ozone Plan and adopted it on 

April 30, 2007; 

WHEREAS, the Board finds that: 

It is necessary to reduce NOx emissions by 75 percent and ROG emissions 

by 25 percent, frorn 2006 levels, in order to attain the federal ozone 

standard; 

2. Combined emissions of ROG and NOx in the San Joaqu in Valley are 

projected to decline urrtil 2024 and continue declining thereafter due to 

adopted State, federal, and local controls; 

3. The existing emission control program, combined with the new local 

measure commitments and.the estimated benefits of the proposed State 

Strategy will achieve all of the necessary ROG emission reductions needed 

to attain the federal ozone standard by 2014; 

4, The existing emission control program, combined with the new local 

measure commitments and the estimated benefits of the proposed State 

Strategy, will achieve 84 percent of the NOx emission reductions needed to 

attain the federal ozone standard by 2023; 

5. Advancements in emission ccintrol technologies for.stationary, area-wide 

and mobile sources are necessary in order to achieve the last increment of 

NOx emission reductions necessary to attain the federal ozone standard; 

6. State and local commitments to achieve additional emission reductions 

through the reliance on advancemerits in emission control technologies are 

onty allowed for areas classifi.ed as extreme nonattainment; 

7. The- State, federal, and local control strategy identified in the 2007 Ozone 

Plan provides the necessary emission reductions to demonstrate attainment 

of the 8-hour ozone standard by 2024; 

8, Already adopted State mobile source control regulations will provide the 

required contingency measures in the event that the San Joaquin Valley 

does not attain the standard by 2024; these measures will achieve 

additional emission reductions beyond those relied on in the attainment 

demonstration; 

9. The 2007 Ozone Plan meets all applicable pianning requirements 

estabiished by the Act and U.S. EPA regulations; 
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10. More than 80 percent of the current NOx emissions in the San Joaquin 

Valley are from mobile sources not under the direct regulatory control of the 

District; and 

11 ~ It is appropriate for the District to pursue a dual path strategy in order to 

meet State and federal a'ir quakity planning requirements, whife at the same 

time pursuing local policy initiatives to encourage early clean-up of older, 

higher emifting vehicles and equipment. 

WHEREAS, the .Board further finds that: 

1. ARB has reviewed and considered the 2007 Ozone Plan, along with the 

I nitial Study/Negative Declaration prepared 'for the Plan, and finds that the 

2007 Ozone Plan is consistent with the requirements of the Act; and'. 

2. ARB finds that the lnitial Study/Negative Declaration prepared for the 

2007 Ozone Plan meets the requirernents of CEQA„ 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board is initiating steps toward 

final adoption of the Plan, and directs the Ekecutive Officer to: (1) take final action to 

adopt the Plan, including the updated emissions inventory, RFP demonsfiration, and 

transportation conformity emission budgets, as a SIP revision after the State 

Strategy has been adopted, or (2) return the Plan to,the Board for further 

consideration if the Executive Ofi'tcer determines that this is warranted in (ight of any 

changes to the proposed State Strategy that would affect the emission reductions 

from State measures that are relied on in the Plan.. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Officer to submit 

to U.S. EPA, as a separate SIP submitEal, the District's requost for reclassification to 

extreme nonattainment. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that once final action has been taken to adopt the 

Plan as a SIP revision, the Board directs the-Executive Officer to forward the Plan to 

the U.S.. EPA for inclusion in the SIP to be effective, for purposes of federal law, 

upon approval by U.S. EPA. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive OfPicer to work 

with U.S. EPA and take appropriate action to resofve any completeness or 

approvability issues that may arise regarding the SiP submission. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board directs the Executive Officer, as part of 

the submittal to U„S, EPA, to request expedited adequacy findings for the 

transportation conformity emission budgets., 
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board authorizes the Executive Officer to 

include in the SIP submittal any technical corrections, clarifications, or additions that 

may be necessary to secure U..S, EPA approvaL 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board hereby certifies pursuant to 

40 CFR section 51.102 that the San Joaquin Valley 2007 Ozone Plan was adopted 

after notice and pubfic hearing as required by 40 CFR section 51.102, 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Officer to work 

with the District and stakeholders during the next six months to fuliy investigate 

additional measures, including operational measures, that can feasibly be 

irnplemented to achieve emissiori reductions more quickly in the San Joaquin Valley. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Officer to 

carefully review the finai report being prepared by the Intemational Sustainable 

Systems Research Center, entitled "Clearing the Air," and to evaluate the feasibiiity 

of the recommendations contained in the report., 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Officer to form a 

task force of Board members and Valley stakeholders, end to conduct outreach and 

townhall rneetings with community members and stakeholders, in order to foster 

better communication and identify additionai actions to accelerate air quality 

improvement in the San Joaquin Valley, 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Officer to report 

back to the Board within six months with the results of staff's investigation, art 

analysis of feasible suggestions received frorn community members and 

stakeholders, and staft's recommendations on appropriate revisions to strengthen 

the SIP. 

BE IT FURTHER.RESOLVED, that after reporting to the Board within six rnonths, 

the Board directs the Executive Officer to report annually thereafter regarding 

progress by the District and ARB in meeting their SIP commitments, and whether. 

additional measures or SIP revisions could be adopted: 

I hereby certify that the above is a true 

and correct copy of Resolution 07-20, as 

adopted by the. Air Resou rces Board . 

~ 

ri Andreoni, Clerk of the Board ~