## RESOLUTIONNO. 010-2016 OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THEEl Dorado COUNTY AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT


### WHEREAS, Section 110(a)(2)(G) ofthefederal Clean Air Act ("CAA'') provides authority ofemergency powers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("USEPA") Administrator to restrain any source from causing or contributingto emissions that present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare, orthe environment; and 

### WHEREAS, pursuant to the CAA authority, the USEPA promulgated regulations for emergency episodes to clarifyrequirements related to emergency episode planning requirements appearing at Code ofFederal Regulations ("CFR") (40 CFR Part 51, Subpa11 H); and 

### WHEREAS, under the requirement of40 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 ozoneNAAQS 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 2012; 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 of40 CFR 51

. 151 and 51.152 for prevention ofAir Pollution EmergencyEpisodes; and 

### WHEREAS, on January 12, 2016 the Board ofDirectors ofthe ElDorado County Air Quality Management District held a duly noticed public hearing that was noticed in the Mountain Democrat, a newspaper ofgeneral 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,BEITRESOLVED, that the Board ofDirectors ofthe ElDorado County Air Quality Management District does hereby approve the proposed Ozone Emergency Episode Plan; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDERED, that the Board ofDirectors ofthe El Dorado County Air Quality Management District directs staffto forward the Ozone Emergency Episode Plan to the California Air Resources Board for submittal to the U
.S

.Environmental Protection Agency

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PASSED AND ADOPTED bythe Board ofSupervisors ofthe County ofEl Dorado at a regular meeting ofsaid Board, held the 121 h day ofJanuary, 201Q, by the following vote ofsaid Board:
Attest: James S. Mitrisin Clerk ofthe Board ofSupervisors

# By**l/m) ~**  Deputy Clerk Ayes: Ranalli,Novasel,Mikulaco,Frentzen,Veerkamp Noes: None Absent: None

Ron Mikulaco Chair, Board ofSupervisors