BOARD MEETING DATE: December 3, 2010
AGENDA NO. 2

PROPOSAL:

Set Public Hearing January 7, 2011 to Consider Amendments and/or Adoption to AQMD Rules and Regulations:

Adopt Proposed Rule 1315 Federal New Source Review Tracking System.  Proposed Rule 1315 was developed to maintain AQMDs ability to issue permits to major sources that require offsets, but obtain offset credits from the AQMD's Priority Reserve under Rule 1309.1 and/or that are exempt from offsets under AQMD Rule 1304 through December 31, 2030.  The rule will also memorialize in rule form the procedures to be followed to both establish the equivalency of AQMDs NSR program with federal NSR offset requirements for such major sources and demonstrate that sufficient emission reductions, including previously-untracked emission reductions, exist beyond regulatory requirements under federal law to be used as offset credits to establish that AQMDs NSR program is equivalent with federal NSR offset requirements for those major sources.  The rule includes provisions designed to ensure equivalency with federal offset requirements is achieved and additional backstop provisions to ensure the actual impacts of implementing the proposed rule do not exceed the impacts analyzed in the CEQA process.  (Review: Stationary Source Committee, November 19, 2010)

The complete text of the proposed rule, staff report, and other supporting documents will be available from the Districts Public Information Center, (909) 396-2550, and on the Internet (www.aqmd.gov) on December 7, 2010.

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:

Set Public Hearing January 7, 2011 to adopt Proposed Rule 1315.
 

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Executive Officer

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Note from the Web Editor: Additional information on PR1315 can be found on the Proposed Rules page

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