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Matthew Rodriquez 

Secretary for 

Environmental Protection 

Air Resources Board 

Mary D. Nichols, Chairman 

1001 1 Street • P.O. Box 2815 

Sacramento, California 95812 • vvww.arb.ca.gov Edmund G. Brown Jr. 

Govemor 

September 29, 2014 

Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

Regional Administrator 

Region 9 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

75 Hawthorne Street 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Dear Mr. Blumenfeld: 

The Air Resources Board (ARB) is pleased to submit to the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) the Feather River Air Quality Management District 

(District) Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) Analysis as a revision to the 

California State Implementation Plan (SIP). The District is designated nonattainment for 

the 2008 75 parts per billion 8-hour ozone standard, with a classification of severe-15. 

For areas classified as severe-15, RACT evaluations and analyses are required for 

specific stationary sources for which U.S. EPA has published Control Technique 

Guidelines (CTG) and for major non-CTG stationary sources. The District reviewed its 

existing rules for these sources to determine if its rules continue to meet RACT. 

This SIP submittal consists of the following enclosures: 

I. ARB Executive Order S-14-011 adopting the Feather River Air Quality 

Management District Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis as a 

revision to the California SIP; 

II. The Feather River Air Quality Management District Reasonably Available Control 

Technology Analysis; and 

III. Two (2) CDs, each containing electronic copies of the District's adopted RACT 

Analysis and supplemental documentation. The electronic copies are exact 

duplicates of the paper materials provided. 

The enclosed submittal includes the complete package received by ARB from the 

District. In addition to the RACT Analysis, the submittal includes evidence of public 

notice, certification of public hearing, and evidence of adoption. ARB staff reviewed the 

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September 29, 2014 

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submittal for technical adequacy, public notice, public comments, and completeness, as 

indicated on the Completeness Checklist included with the District submittal package. 

I encourage you to approve the Feather River Air Quality Management District RACT 

Analysis as an amendment to the California SIP. If you have any questions, please call 

Ms. Lynn Terry, Deputy Executive Officer, at (916) 322-2739 or have your staff contact 

Mr. Kurt Karperos, Division Chief, Air Quality Planning and Science Division at 

(916) 322-5350. 

Sincerely, 

, 

Ri ~ ard W. Core y 

Executive Officer 

Enclosures 

cc: (w/o Enclosures) 

Mr. Christopher D. Brown, AICP 

Air Pollution Control Officer 

Feather River Air Quality Management District 

1007 Live Oak Boulevard, Suite B-3 

Yuba City, California 95991 

Ms. Lynn Terry 

Deputy Executive Officer 

Executive Office 

Mr. Kurt Karperos, Division Chief 

Air Quality Planning and Science Division 
Mr. Jared Blumenfeld 

September 29, 2014 

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bcc: (via email w/o Enclosures) 

Daniel Whitney, OLA 

Karen Magliano, AQPS 

Sylvia Vanderspek, AQPS 

Carol Sutkus, AQPS 

Webster Tasat, AQPS 

Earl Withycombe, AQPS 

Laura Lawrence, AQPS 

(hard copies) 

EO Chron (with Enclosures) 

AQPS Chron (with Enclosures) 

SIP Library (with Enclosures) 

Assignment: AQPS #9264 / EO #18713 

External bcc: (via email with Enclosures) 

Sondra Spaethe, Feather River Air Quality Management District 

Andrew Steckel, U.S. EPA, Region 9 

Stanley Tong, U.S. EPA, Region 9 

John Ungvarsky, U.S. EPA, Region 9 

Letter: 

X:12014 RACT SIPslFeather RiverlARB DocumentslTransmittal Letter Feather 

River.doc 

Executive Order: 

X:12014 RACT SIPslFeather RiverWRB DocumentslEO S-14-011.doc 

Enclosure (for e-mail): 

X:12014 RACT SIPslFeather RiverlEnclosure to Feather River RACT SIP Submittal.pdf 

Enclosure (for CD, all files in folder): 

X:12014 RACT SIPslFeather RiverlEnclosures to Feather River RACT SIP Submittal