File #: 09-0024    Version:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 12/22/2008 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 9/12/2017 Final action: 9/12/2017
Title: Air Quality Management District (AQMD) recommending the Board, acting as the AQMD Board of Directors: 1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 141-2017, approving the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan (Plan); and 2) Direct staff to forward the Plan to the California Air Resources Board for transmittal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to the State Implementation Plan. FUNDING: None required.
Attachments: 1. 2A - Resolution approving 2008 8-hr Ozone SIP Update - 9-12-2017, 2. 2B - Blue Route - Resolution 9-12-17, 3. 2C - Sac Regional 2008 NAAQS Attainment and RFP Plan 9-12-17, 4. 2D - CEQA Notice of Exemption 9-12-17, 5. 2E - Notice of Public Hearing - Mt. Demo - Aug 2, 2017 9-12-17, 6. 2F - Notice of Public Hearing - Tahoe Tribune - Aug 2, 2017 9-12-17, 7. Executed Resolution 141-2017, 8. SFNA 8-hr Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan, 9. Appendices A-I (except Appendices A2-A4 and C), 10. Appendix A2 - SFNA NOX Summary, 11. Appendix A2 - SFNA VOC Summary, 12. Appendix A3 - NOx Summer Planning Inventory, 13. Appendix A3 - SFNA Growth Parameter Description, 14. Appendix A4 - 2002 Offroad Detail, 15. Appendix A4 - 2002 Offroad Equipment Summary, 16. Appendix A4 - 2011 Offroad Detail, 17. Appendix A4 - 2011 Offroad Equipment Summary, 18. Appendix A4 - 2014 Offroad Detail, 19. Appendix A4 - 2014 Offroad Equipment Summary, 20. Appendix A4 - 2017 Offroad Detail, 21. Appendix A4 - 2017 Offroad Equipment Summary, 22. Appendix A4 - 2018 Offroad Detail, 23. Appendix C - Proposed Control Measures, 24. Final Environmental Impact Report, 25. Errata Sheet to the Plan, 26. Resolution_8 hr SIP Approval, 27. 2-10-09_Agenda Item_Presentation.pdf, 28. Letter from John Lindow att'd 2-23-09.pdf
Title
Air Quality Management District (AQMD) recommending the Board, acting as the AQMD Board of Directors:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 141-2017, approving the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan (Plan); and
2) Direct staff to forward the Plan to the California Air Resources Board for transmittal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to the State Implementation Plan.

FUNDING: None required.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
AQMD recommends adoption of the Plan to satisfy the requirements of Clean Air Act (CAA) Sections 110, 172, 176, 181, 182 and Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulation Part 51. The Plan was adopted by the Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD on August 24, 2017 and will be considered for adoption by the other Sacramento Federal Non-Attainment Area (SFNA) air districts’ (Placer County, Yolo-Solano and Feather River) Boards in the coming months.

DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Ozone is created by a reaction between Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in sunlight. Breathing ozone has short and long term negative health effects. In 1997 a health-based National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) of 84 parts per billion (ppb), averaged over eight hours, was established. In 2008 the NAAQS was lowered to 75 ppb. The SFNA, including the western portion of El Dorado County, is in "nonattainment" of the 2008 federal 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Federal regulations require the adoption and implementation of a plan to meet “reasonable further progress” goals and achieve 2008 NAAQS attainment “as expeditiously as practicable.”

The SFNA was initially classified as a "serious" nonattainment area for the 1997 NAAQS and an attainment deadline of June 15, 2013, was established. On February 14, 2008, CARB requested a 1997 NAAQS reclassification to "severe." US EPA granted the reclassification and the attainment deadline was extended to June 15, 2019. US EPA...

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