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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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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,

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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

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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