CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO CONSIDER THE APPROVAL OF 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 conduct a public meeting at the time 

and place noted below to consider the approval of the proposed San Joaquin Valley 

2008 PM2.5 State Implementation Plan (2008 PM2.5 Plan) to attain the federal 

standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). If approved, ARB will submit these 

elements to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) for its 

approval as a revision to the California State Implementation 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 agenda for the meeting, which will be 

available at least ten (10) days before May 22, 2008, to determine the schedule on 

which this item will be considered. 

For individuals with sensory disabilities, this document 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 Relay Services at 711, to place your 

request for disability services. If you are a person with limited English and would like to 

request interpreter services, please contact ARB's Bilingual Manager at 

(916) 323-7053. 
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BACKGROUND

The federal Clean Air Act (the Act) establishes planning requirements for those areas 

that exceed the health-based National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). These 

nonattainment areas must develop and implement a SIP 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 for 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 as practicable. The District 

Governing Board adopted the 2008 PM2.5 Plan on April 30, 2008. 

The 2008 PM2.5 Plan relies on both District and ARB measures to demonstrate 

attainment. The ARB measures were adopted at the September 2007 Board hearing 

and include commitments to reduce nitrogen oxides and 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 emission 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 planning assumptions and were 

developed with EMFAC2007. 

Regarding the ozone update, at the November 15, 2007 ARB meeting, the Board 

directed staff to provide an update to the Board, by June 2008 at a meeting held in the 

Valley, on recent activities that may accelerate attainment 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 Plan and concluded that it meets 

applicable federal requirements. ARB staff has also concluded that the implementation 

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

and result in attainment of the 1997 PM2.5 standards by April 2015. Staff is 

recommending that the Board approve the 2008 PM2.5 Plan, as well as the 

transportation conformity budgets, emission inventory, reasonable further progress, 

reasonably available control measures and technologies demonstration, contingency 

measures, and attainment demonstration as a revision to the California SIP, and to 

direct staff forward the 2008 PM2.5 Plan to U.S. EPA. 
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AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS

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

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

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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. 

SUBMITTAL OF COMMENTS

Interested members of the public may also present comments orally or in writing at the 

meeting, and in writing or by e-mail before the meeting. To be considered by the 

Board, written comment submissions not physically submitted 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 Board 

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 copies 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 have time to fully consider each 

comment. 

Please note that under the California Public Records Act (Government Code 

Section 6250 et seq.), your written and oral comments, attachments, and associated 

contact information (e.g., your address, phone, email, etc.) become part of the public 

record and can be released to the public upon request. Additionally, this information 

may become available via Google, Yahoo, and any other search engines. 
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Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to Ms. Sylvia Zulawnick, 

Manager of the Particulate Matter Analysis Section, Planning and Technical Support 

Division, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814 or by e-mail at 

szulawni@arb.ca.gov, or Dr. Patricia Velasco, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, Planning 

and Technical Support Division at (916) 323-7560, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, 

California 95814 or by e-mail at pvelasco@arb.ca.gov. 

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD 

 

 /s/ 

 James N. Goldstene 

Executive Officer 

Date: 4/25/08