CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO CONSIDER THE APPROVAL O F THE
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY 2008 PM2.5 STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND

PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON OZONE

The Air Resources Board (the Board or ARB) will con duct a public meeting at the time and place noted below to consider the approval of t he proposed San Joaquin Valley 2008 PM2.5 State Implementation Plan (2008 PM2.5 Pl an) to attain the federal standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). If approved, ARB will submit these

elements to the United States Environmental Protect ion Agency (U.S. EPA) for its approval as a revision to the California State Impl ementation Plan (SIP). In this item, the Board will also hear a short update on the San Joaquin Valley’s Ozone SIP.

DATE: May 22, 2008

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

PLACE: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District 1990 East Gettysburg Avenue Fresno, California 93726

Or Via Videoconference (2 Locations)

District Northern Region Office 4800 Enterprise Way Modesto, California 95356

District Southern Region Office 2700 M Street, Suite 275 Bakersfield, California 93301

This item will be considered at an one-day meeting of the Board, which will commence at 8:30 a.m., May 22, 2008. Please consult the age nda for the meeting, which will be available at least ten (10) days before May 22, 200 8, to determine the schedule on

which this item will be considered.

For individuals with sensory disabilities, this doc ument is available in Braille, large print, audiocassette or computer disk. Please contact ARB 's Disability Coordinator at (916) 323-4916 by voice or through the California R elay Services at 711, to place your request for disability services. If you are a pers on with limited English and would like to request interpreter services, please contact ARB's Bilingual Manager at (916) 323-7053.2

BACKGROUND

The federal Clean Air Act (the Act) establishes pla nning requirements for those areas
that exceed the health-based National Ambient Air Q uality Standards (NAAQS). These nonattainment areas must develop and implement a SI P that demonstrates how they will attain the standards by specified dates.

In July 1997, U.S. EPA promulgated new PM2.5 NAAQS, both an annual and a 24-hour standard. On April 5, 2005, the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (District or Valley) was designated nonattainment f or the federal PM2.5 standards

based on violations of both the annual and 24-hour standards. The Valley is required to submit a SIP demonstrating attainment will occur as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than April 2015. The Act also requires that the SIP include reasonable further progress, reasonably available control measures and technologies, contingency measures, comprehensive emissions inventories, and transportation conformity budgets. The District prepared the 2008 PM2.5 Plan to address these requirements and to attain the PM2.5 standard as expeditiously a s practicable. The District Governing Board adopted the 2008 PM2.5 Plan on Apri l 30, 2008.

The 2008 PM2.5 Plan relies on both District and ARB measures to demonstrate attainment. The ARB measures were adopted at the S eptember 2007 Board hearing and include commitments to reduce nitrogen oxides a nd direct PM2.5 by 76 tons per day and 5 tons per day, respectively, in 2014. In addition, the 2008 PM2.5 Plan establishes county-level on-road motor vehicle emis sion transportation conformity budgets for each milestone year, as well as for the attainment year. The emissions budgets in the 2008 PM2.5 Plan reflect the latest p lanning assumptions and were developed with EMFAC2007.

Regarding the ozone update, at the November 15, 200 7 ARB meeting, the Board directed staff to provide an update to the Board, b y June 2008 at a meeting held in the Valley, on recent activities that may accelerate at tainment of the federal ozone standard in the San Joaquin Valley. ARB staff will provide an update as an element of staff’s presentation to the Board on this item.

PROPOSED ACTION

ARB staff has reviewed the District’s 2008 PM2.5 Pl an and concluded that it meets applicable federal requirements. ARB staff has als o concluded that the implementation

of the 2008 PM2.5 Plan would reduce PM2.5 levels th roughout the San Joaquin Valley

and result in attainment of the 1997 PM2.5 standard s by April 2015. Staff is recommending that the Board approve the 2008 PM2.5 Plan, as well as the transportation conformity budgets, emission invento ry, reasonable further progress, reasonably available control measures and technologies demonst ration, contingency measures, and attainment demonstration as a revisio n to the California SIP, and to

direct staff forward the 2008 PM2.5 Plan to U.S. EP A.3

AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS

ARB staff has prepared a written Staff Report. Cop ies of the Staff Report may be

obtained from the Board's Public Information Office , 1001 “I” Street,

1 st Floor, Environmental Services Center, Sacramento, California 95814, (916) 322-2990. This notice, the Staff Report, and the District’s 2008 PM2.5 Plan may

also be obtained from ARB’s internet site http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/sip/sjvpm25/sjvpm25. htm

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SUBMITTAL OF COMMENTS

Interested members of the public may also present c omments orally or in writing at the meeting, and in writing or by e-mail before the mee ting. To be considered by the Board, written comment submissions not physically s ubmitted at the meeting must be

received no later than 12:00 noon, May 21, 2008, and addressed to the following:

Postal mail: Clerk of the Board, Air Resources Boa rd 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814

Electronic submittal: http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php

Facsimile submittal: (916) 322-3928

The Board requests, but does not require that 30 co pies of any written statement be

submitted and that written and e-mail statements be filed at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting so that ARB staff and Board members hav e time to fully consider each

comment.

Please note that under the California Public Record s Act (Government Code Section 6250 et seq.), your written and oral commen ts, attachments, and associated contact information (e.g., your address, phone, ema il, etc.) become part of the public record and can be released to the public upon reque st. Additionally, this information may become available via Google, Yahoo, and any oth er search engines.4

Further inquiries regarding this matter should be d irected to Ms. Sylvia Zulawnick, Manager of the Particulate Matter Analysis Section, Planning and Technical Support Division, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 958 14 or by e-mail at szulawni@arb.ca.gov , or Dr. Patricia Velasco, Staff Air Pollution Spec ialist, Planning and Technical Support Division at (916) 323-7560, 1 001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814 or by e-mail at pvelasco@arb.ca.go v.

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD

/s/

James N. Goldstene

Executive Officer

Date: 4/25/08