State of California
AIR RESOURCES BOARD
State Office Building
455 Golden Gate Avenue-Room 1194
San Francisco, CA
September 15, 1971
9:30 a.m.
AGENDA
1. Opening Statement . . . . . . . . . .A.J. Haagen-Smit, Ph.D.
Chairman
2. Minutes of July 21, 1971 Meeting.
3. Report of Technical Advisory Committee. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Robert Brattain
Chairman
4. Public Hearing; Standards & Test Procedures for 1973 and
Later Model Light-Duty Vehicles.
5. Used Car Control.
a. Executive Committee Report.
b. Air Quality Products, Inc.
6. Public Hearing; Air Basin Boundaries in Kern County.
7. Board Policy on Granting Extension to Open Burning Dumps.
8. Approvals.
a. New Car.
b. Experimental.
c. Ford - Heavy-Duty Evaporative Loss Controls.
d. Others.
9. Report on Manufacturers' Programs for Engine Adjustments.
10. Other Business.
a. Low Emission Standards for State Purchase of Vehicles.
b. San Luis Obispo County Request For Exemption to
Agricultural Burning Guidelines.
c. New Resolutions for findings Under Vehicle Code Section
27156.
d. Emission Data on LPG and NG Conversions.
e. Federal Requirements for Implementation Plans.
f. Miscellaneous.
11. Committee Reports.
12 Remarks from the Audience.
ITEM
Application for Accreditation of an Exhaust Emission Control
System for Used Vehicles.
INTRODUCTION
This report presents the staff evaluation of the Emission Control
Technology, Inc., exhaust emission control system for used
vehicles. The bases of evaluation and the requirements set forth
in the California Health and Safety Code, Sections 39107 and
39175 to 39184, and Title 13 of the California Administrative
Code, Chapter 3, Subchapter 2, Articles 2 and 3.
ITEM
Staff Report on Petition for Boundary Change Between San Joaquin
Air Basin and Southeast Desert Air Basin.
The coordinating councils of the San Joaquin Valley and the
Southeast Desert air basins in letters dated June 9, 1971 and
August 5, 1971, have requested that the common boundary between
the air basins be revised to place the Tehachapi area within the
Southeast Desert Basin.
A notice of the public hearing to consider this change issued on
August 12, 1971, is attached. No statements or arguments
relative to this change have been received to date.
The topographic openness of this area to the southeast direction
and the predominant wind direction toward the desert make the
control of sources in this area more important to the desert
community than to the valley community.
Approval of this request is recommended.
ITEM
San Luis Obispo County Requests for Exemption from Agricultural
Burning Guidelines.
INTRODUCTION
The Board's's guidelines on agricultural burning provide that
areas above 4000 feet are exempted from the guidelines, and that
air pollution control districts may apply to the Board to have
large, remote and sparsely populated areas between 2000 feet and
4000 feet elevation exempted from the guidelines. In accordance
with these provisions, San Luis Obispo County has requested that
an 864 square mile area be exempted. The area encompasses that
part of the county south of 35ø 30' N latitude and east of 120ø
7.5' W longitude (see Figure 1). Included in the area are the
Carrizo Plain, and the Northern part of Cuyama Valley.
ITEM
Emission Measurements from Vehicles Modified to Operate on
Natural Gas or Liquid Petroleum Gas Fuel.
INTRODUCTION
The Air Resources Board has requested the staff to submit an
updated report on emissions from vehicles utilizing liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas fuels.
The Board's Laboratory started emission tests in May 1969 on a
fleet of ten State vehicles supplied by the Department of Public
Works and modified to run on natural gas or gasoline. A similar
fleet of five vehicles belonging to the City of Los Angeles was
modified and tested. The two fleets of natural gas fueled
vehicles received periodic tests over a one year period. In July
1970, a total of ten State vehicles (4 sedans, 2 pickup trucks,
and 4 utility body trucks) were converted to operate entirely on
LPG.