CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD
                                
             Sacramento Community Convention Center
                           Yolo Room
                       1100 - 14th Street
                         Sacramento, CA
                                
                         July 24, 1986
                           10:00 a.m.
                                
                             AGENDA

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86-8-1    Public Hearing to Consider Amendments to            001
          Regulations Regarding Certification Test
          Procedures Applicable to Passenger Cars,
          Light-Duty Trucks, and Medium-Duty Vehicles.

86-8-2    CONTINUATION OF the Board's Consideration of a 
          Proposed Benzene Control Plan.

86-8-3    Public Hearing to Consider the Adoption of          149
          Sections 90612-90615, Title 17, California
          Administrative Code, Regarding the Acid Deposition
          Fee Program.

Other Business

a.   Closed Session
     1.   Personnel (as authorized by State Agency Open Meeting
          Act, Govt. Code Sec. 11126(a).).
     2.   Litigation (Pursuant to the attorney-client privilege,
          Evidence Code Sec. 950-962, and Govt. Code Sec.
          11126(q).).
b.   Research Proposals
c.   Delegations to Executive Officer

                         ITEM NO.: 86-8-1

Public Hearing to Consider Amendments to Regulations Regarding
Certification Test Procedures Applicable to Passenger Cars,
Light-Duty Trucks, and Medium-Duty Vehicles.

                          RECOMMENDATION

The staff recommends that the Board adopt a revision to the
"California Exhaust Emission Standards and Test Procedures for
1981 and subsequent Model Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, and
Medium-Duty Vehicles" applicable to 1988 and subsequent model
year vehicles.  The existing test procedures would remain
applicable through the 1987 model year.  The staff also proposes
associated amendments to Title 13, California Administrative
Code, Sections 1960.1 and 1960.1.5.

                            DISCUSSION

The Board's new vehicle certification test procedures are used to
determine if new motor vehicles comply with California's exhaust
emission standards.  The procedures are generally based upon
federal requirements.  The existing procedures for 1981 and
subsequent model passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty 
vehicles incorporate the federal test procedures as they
existed on April 15, 1978, with various modifications.  The
federal procedures have changed considerably since 1978.  Many of
these changes are intended to reduce a vehicle manufacturer's
certification and administrative costs.  In order to keep pace
with federal amendments the ARB has issued Manufacturers Advisory
Correspondences (MACs) to accept many of the federal procedural
modifications where feasible.  However, it is necessary to
establish the modifications and other revisions through the
regulatory process.  This proposal would formally incorporate
into the California certification and test procedures the federal
procedures as they generally existed on August 30, 1985.  The
proposal would also provide for certain exceptions and additions
to the federal procedures, necessary to reflect unique California
certification requirements.

           SUMMARY AND IMPACTS OF PROPOSED BOARD ACTION

The proposed regulatory amendments will formally allow
manufacturers to utilize federally promulgated certification
procedures to reduce California certification and administrative
costs.  The staff has determined that no environmental impact
will result from this proposal.

                         ITEM NO.: 86-8-3

Public Hearing to Consider the Adoption of Sections 90612-90615,
Title 17, California Administrative Code, Regarding the Acid
Deposition Fee Program.

                          RECOMMENDATION

Staff is recommending continuation of fee regulations for the
fiscal year 1986-87.  No major changes are proposed in the 1986-87 
regulations; this action would simply extend the existing
regulations for one year.

                            DISCUSSION
Based on the continuing need to conduct a comprehensive research
and monitoring program to meet the objectives of the Kapiloff
Act, the Board needs to reauthorize and/or modify the emission
fee regulations to authorize the collection of emission fees for
the fiscal year 1986-87.  The proposed fee requirements are based
on 1985 emissions data, which are the most current data available
at this time.  The statutory maximum fee rate of $5 per ton of
sulfur oxides or nitrogen oxides, the same as the 1985-86 rate,
is recommended.

           SUMMARY OF IMPACTS OF PROPOSED BOARD ACTION

No significant adverse impacts are anticipated.