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2003 AIR QUALITY ATTAINMENT PLAN
CHAPTER V – CONTROL MEASURES

V.1      INTRODUCTION

The Northern Sacramento Valley Air Basin (NSVAB) triennial air quality planning requirements of the California Clean Air Act (Act) state that air districts which could not demonstrate attainment of applicable state standards by December 31, 2002, are to submit a comprehensive plan update, unless the California Air Resources Board (CARB) determined that such update was unnecessary.

The CARB has outlined, in the approved State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone, new control strategies that will be developed and implemented over the next decade in California.  These new strategies will reduce air pollution throughout California and ensure continued progress towards meeting federal standards, as well as progress towards California’s more health protective standards.  With the SIP as the state’s established control strategy for the future, the CARB found that the NSVAB air districts would not be required to prepare a comprehensive plan update for the 2003 update.  Instead, CARB directed the air districts to continue to focus on adoption and implementation of “feasible” control measures identified in the most recent Attainment Plan update.  These control measures were chosen based on the following criteria:  technical feasibility; cost effectiveness; emission reduction potential; rate of emission reductions; public acceptability; and enforceability.  CARB provided guidance and assistance to air districts in development of the listed measures.

Table V-I summarizes the feasible control measure adoption status of each air district in the NSVAB.  Each air district adopts the control measure as a “rule”.  This table also lists proposed adoption dates in those air districts where the rule has yet to be considered by the local governing board and emission reduction estimations for the pertinent pollutant based on adoption date and implementation during the planning cycle (calendar years 2001, 2002, and 2003).

The “new” control measures from Table V-II of the 2003 Attainment Plan were added to the existing Table V-I.  These measures (categories) were taken from the CARB document “Identification of Performance Standards for Existing Stationary Sources”; April 1999; Tier I Stationary Source Categories.  The measures listed are part of the first tier of three tiers that include over 80 stationary source categories that are potential candidates in the first tier applicable to the NSVAB and showing promise for emission reductions were listed as proposed new measures.

Due to the regional nature of the ozone nonattainment problem in the NSVAB, it is anticipated that adoption of the new measures will benefit air quality for all air districts within the NSVAB even though some of the sources affected by the control measures may not exist in each air district within the NSVAB planning area.

TABLE V-I  DISTRICT STATUS OF FEASIBLE CONTROL MEASURES

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