State of California
                      AIR RESOURCES BOARD
                                
                           City Hall
                   531 "K" Street - Room 203
                           Eureka, CA
                          
                          May 19, 1971      
                             AGENDA

1.   Opening Statement . . . . . . . . . .A.J. Haagen-Smit, Ph.D.
                                          Chairman

2.   Minutes of April 21, 1971 Meeting.

3.   Report of Technical Advisory Committee. . . . . . . . . . . 
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Robert Brattain
                                               Chairman

4.   Air Pollution Control in Humboldt County. . . . . . . . . . 
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charles P. Sassenrath
                                            Director, APCD

5.   Public Hearing (Cont'd): Air Basin Boundaries in Solano and
     Sonoma Counties.

6.   Possible Boundary Changes in Other Counties.

7.   Exhaust Emissions Control - Used Cars.

8.   Policy on Open Dump Burning.

9.   Denial of Waiver of Assembly-Line Testing of Every Vehicle.

10.  ARB Schedule for Developing Implementation Plans for Federal
     Control Regions.

11.  Other Business.

12.  Remarks from the Audience.

                               ITEM

Action Concerning Implementation Plans - A Progress Report.

                           INTRODUCTION

The Federal Clean Air Amendments of 1970, which were enacted on
December 31, 1970, direct the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to promulgate national ambient air quality standards, and
require the states to formulate and adopt plans to implement
these standards.  This report discusses the effects of these
requirements on the Air Resources Board's program, and the steps
being taken by the staff to comply with the federal requirements.

The state law similarly requires local control agencies to
develop implementation plans.  The report also discusses the
activities of the staff and of the local agencies in fulfilling
these requirements of the state law.

In accordance with the federal law, the EPA has designated in
California, eleven federal air quality control regions which are
identical with the air basins adopted by the Air Resources board
on November 20, 1968.  The EPA also promulgated national primary
and secondary ambient air quality standards on April 30, 1971 for
six pollutants.  The primary standards were set at levels
necessary to protect the public health, and the secondary
standards were set at levels necessary to protect the public
welfare from adverse effects of air pollution.

California is, as are all other states, required by federal law
to adopt and submit to the EPA nine months after the ambient air
quality standards are promulgated, and implementation plan for
achieving these standards in each air quality control region.  As
the standards were adopted on April 30, 1971, the State's
implementation plan is due at the end of January 1972.  The
objectives of this plan are similar to the objectives of the
basin wide air pollution control plans required of local air
pollution control authorities pursuant to the Health and Safety
Code (AB 83, 1970).