County of El Dorado - File #: 09-1424

• File #: 09-1424
• Version: 2
• Type: Agenda Item
• Status: Department Matters
• File created: 10/19/2009
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 12/15/2009
• Final action: 12/15/2009
• Title: Environmental Management Department, Air Quality Management District, recommending adoption of Resolution certifying Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) prepared for the proposed DST Output West Printing Capacity Expansion Project. (Est. Time: 10 Min.) (Cont'd 12-10-09, Item 55) Resolution 271-2009

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/15/2009	2	Board of Supervisors	Approved	Pass
12/10/2009	1	Board of Supervisors	Continued	Pass

Title
Environmental Management Department, Air Quality Management District, recommending adoption of Resolution certifying Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) prepared for the proposed DST Output West Printing Capacity Expansion Project. (Est. Time: 10 Min.) (Cont'd 12-10-09, Item 55)
Resolution 271-2009
Body

Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost:
No net impact to County cost.

Background:
DST Output West, LLC (DST), has proposed to add several new printing machines that will result in additional Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions of up to 0.7 tons per year to their existing facility at 5220 Robert J. Mathews Pkwy, El Dorado Hills. The additional VOC emissions have the potential to exceed the cumulative 10 ton per year VOC emission threshold of significance, established by El Dorado County Air Quality Management District (EDCAQMD) Rule 523 - New Source Review. Pursuant to Health & Safety Code (HCS) Section 40709, in order to accomplish the proposed printing capacity expansion, potential VOC emission exceedances must be offset by emission reductions credited to a stationary source by EDCAQMD, or an other air district. Because currently no emission reduction credits (ERCs) are available in EDCAQMD, DST purchased 1.4 tons of VOC ERCs from a facility located in Sacramento Metro Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD). Pursuant to EDCAQMD Rule 523 a distance ratio of 2.1:1 must be applied to these specific ERCs, meaning that 1.4 tons ERCs obtained in SMAQMD represents only 0.7 tons ERCs when transferred to EDCAQMD.
HSC Section 40709.6 (a) (1) does not allow ERCs transfer from SMAQMD to EDCAQMD because the districts are located in different air basins and the upwind district (SMAQMD), where the source to which the ERCs are credited is located, is not classified as being in a worse non-attainment than the downwind district (EDCAQMD). Senate Bill (SB) 1662, approved on September 30, 2008, allows one stationary source in EDCAQMD to offset increas...