RESOLUTION NO. 010-2016 

OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THEEl Dorado COUNTY 

AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 

WHEREAS, Section 110(a)(2)(G) ofthe federal Clean Air Act ("CAA'') provides authority of emergency 

powers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("USEPA") Administrator to restrain any source from 

causing or contributing to emissions that present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or 

welfare, or the environment; and 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the CAA authority, the USEPA promulgated regulations for emergency episodes to 

clarify requirements related to emergency episode planning requirements appearing at Code of Federal 

Regulations ("CFR") ( 40 CFR Part 51, Subpa11 H); and 

WHEREAS, under the requirement of 40 CFR 51.150, areas that (I) do not attain the federal standards for 

ozone, and (2) have hourly ozone concentrations above 0.10 parts per million ("ppm"), are required to develop 

an emergency episode contingency plan which must, at a minimum, provide for taking action necessary to 

prevent ambient ozone concentrations at any location in such region from reaching the significant harm level; 

and 

WHEREAS, El Dorado County has been classified as non-attainment for the 1997 National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard ("NAAQS") for ozone with an eight-hour averaging time of0.08 ppm (Federal Register, Vol. 

69, No. 84, pages 23858-23951 (April30, 2004)); and 

WHEREAS, El Dorado County has also been classified as non-attainment for the 2008 revised eight-hour 

ozone NAAQS of0.075 ppm (Federal Register, Vol. 77, No. 98, pages 30088-30160 (May 21, 2012)); and 

WHEREAS, El Dorado County has had more than one day with the maximum one-hour ozone concentration 

greater than 0.10 ppm between 20 11 and 20 12; and 

WHEREAS, the USEPA identified that the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District shall prepare 

an applicable emergency episode contingency plan for ozone (Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 205, pages 63350-

63363 (October 23, 2014)); and 

WHEREAS, the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District prepared the proposed Ozone Emergency 

Episode Plan to satisfy the requirements of 40 CFR 51 .151 and 51.152 for prevention of Air Pollution 

Emergency Episodes; and 

WHEREAS, on January 12, 2016 the Board of Directors of the ElDorado County Air Quality Management 

District held a duly noticed public hearing that was noticed in the Mountain Democrat, a newspaper of general 

circulation in El Dorado County, and posted on the website in order to hear and consider public comment on the 

El Dorado County Ozone Emergency Episode Plan. 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors of the ElDorado County Air Quality 

Management District does hereby approve the proposed Ozone Emergency Episode Plan; and 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDERED, that the Board of Directors of the El Dorado County Air 

Quality Management District directs staff to forward the Ozone Emergency Episode Plan to the California Air 

Resources Board for submittal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of El Dorado at a regular meeting of said 

Board, held the 121

h day of January, 201Q, by the following vote of said Board: 

Attest: 

James S. Mitrisin 

Clerk of the Board of Supervisors 

By l/m)~ Deputy Clerk 

Ayes: Ranalli,Novasel,Mikulaco,Frentzen, Veerkamp 

Noes: None 

Absent: None 

Ron Mikulaco 

Chair, Board of Supervisors