State of California
AIR RESOURCES BOARD
State Building
Room 1194 - Auditorium
350 McAllister Street
San Francisco, California
December 12, 1979
9:00 a.m.
AGENDA
PAGE
79-30-1 Approval of Minutes for July 26, 1979. 001
79-30-2 Public Hearing to Consider the Adequacy of the New 012
Source Review Rule of the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District to Meet the Requirements of the Clean Air Act.
79-30-3 Other Business
a. Executive Session
Personnel
Litigation
b. Research Proposals
c. Delegations to the Executive Officer
ITEM NO.: 79-30-2
Public Hearing to Consider the Adequacy of the New Source Review
Rule of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to Meet the
Requirements of the Clean Air Act.
SUMMARY
This hearing is held pursuant to SB 815 which added Sections
41650-41652 to the Health and Safety Code. Section 41650
provides that the ARB shall adopt, as part of the California
State Implementation Plan (SIP), the nonattainment area plan
approved by designated local agencies unless the Board fins,
after a public hearing, that the plan will not meet the
requirements of the Clean Air Act.
This hearing is also governed by SB 2167 which added Section
41500.5 to the Health and Safety Code and Article 5.5 to the
Government Code. This legislation provides that in the event the
ARB finds that the Bay Area's Air Quality Plan "does not satisfy
an applicable environmental protection standard required by
federal law, or regulation adopted pursuant thereto,..." the ARB
"shall return such plan, or portion thereof to the Association of
Bay Area Governments for appropriate revision..." (Gov. Code
Section 53098.2).
This hearing, then, is held to consider the adequacy, within the
context of the SIP, of the New Source Review rule adopted by the
Bay Area Air Quality Management district and incorporated into
the Air Quality Plan by the Association of Bay Area Governments,
to Meet the Clean Air Act requirements. If the Board finds the
rule inadequate it must remand the rule to ABAG and the District
for appropriate revision.
The staff recommends that the Board, pursuant to applicable
procedures established by state law, find that the Bay Area new
source review rule does not satisfy the requirements of the Clean
air Act, and return the NSR rule to the Association of Bay Area
Governments and the Bay Area air Quality Management District.
The Board should also recommend that the District revise the rule
to correct the following two deficiencies which affect other air
basins.
First, it is the staff's conclusion, based on available
information, that increased NOx emissions from stationary sources
within the San Francisco Air Basin will increase ozone levels in
the Central Valley in the future and will effectively undermine
the SIP control strategies of affected downwind areas. This
deficiency would be eliminated if the District revises the NSR
rule to require new or modified sources which increase emissions
of any oxidant precursor more than 250 lbs/day to offset
increased NOx emissions.
Second, available data indicate that wind patterns in coastal
waters off the Bay Area will bring emissions ashore into both the
Bay Area and North Central Coast Air Basin (NCCAB). Those
emissions entering the NCCAB could adversely affect air quality
in the Monterey Bay Area and are inconsistent with the ozone
control strategy adopted in the NCCAB SIP. This deficiency of
the Bay Area NSR rule would be eliminated if the District revises
the rule to extend consideration of emissions from cargo carriers
to those occurring within California Coastal Waters adjacent to
the District.