California SIPs and Regional Haze

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California SIPs and Regional Haze

• Fire, Carbon Dust Workshop May 24-25, 2006

California Environmental Protection Agency
Air Resources Board
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OVERVIEW

• Overlapping Goals and Coordinated Approach for
  Reducing Emissions
• Federal and State health-based standards
• Comparable timelines for attainment
• Mutually beneficial reductions
• Involve stakeholders in process
• Multiple Initiatives
• State executive and legislative actions
• Air District programs and rules
• Incentives and Grants

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Californias Challenge
Lake
?Sacramento
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
34 million people
Federal State non-attainment
29 class 1 areas
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Regional Haze in California

• Current visibility (deciviews)
• Southern worse than northern
• Worst days throughout year
• Causes different each month
• Pollutants in worst months
• Ammonium nitrate (southern)
• Ammonium sulfate (coastal)
• Organic carbon (northern and
• Sierra Nevada)
• Fire, Carbon, Dust
• Differentiate combustion sources
• OC/EC ratios help determine source
• Dust generally less than 10 of light
  extinction on worst days

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Source - Attribution Analysis

• Understanding Key Source Contributions
• Mobile sources
• Fire
• Stationary sources
• Agriculture construction
• Biogenics
• Seasonality and Location
• Smoke and dust
• Fog and other natural conditions
• Uncontrollable Factors
• Population growth
• International boundary

Inter-Basin Transport
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Reducing Haze Pollutants

• Existing NAAQS SIPs (Ozone 1-hour and PM10)
• Federal fuels, offshore shipping, interstate
  commerce
• State mobile sources, off-road equipment,
  fuels, consumer products
• Local point sources, area sources
• Regional Haze Rule
• BART Controls refineries, power plants, cement
  plants, boilers, pulp mill, glass fiber
  processing, acid plants, lime plant, chemical
  process plants
• Smoke Management Program
• Dust Management (BACM RACM)
• Program Approach
• Diesel PM Risk Reduction Plan
• Ports and Goods Movement Emissions Reduction Plan
• Carl Moyer Funding and other Grant Programs
• Agriculture Controls (AB 700, AB 705)
• Federal State Criteria Pollutants and Toxic Air
  Contaminants
• Local Air District Programs

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Diesel Risk Reduction Plan

• Target Achieve 85 reduction in
• 2000 diesel PM levels by 2020
• New and existing on-road vehicles
• Off-road equipment
• Portable equipment
• Stationary engines
• Diesel Fuel

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Goods Movement Emissions Reduction Plan

• Adopted on April 20, 2006
• Plan addresses
• Ships and cargo handling
• Harbor craft
• Locomotives
• Trucks

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Carl Moyer Program Grants

• Reduces NOx, ROG, PM emissions
• Legislative funding 255 million for FY 05-06
• Incentive funds for the incremental cost of
• cleaner than required engines and equipment
• State and local partnership

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Agriculture Initiatives

• Locally Administered Programs
• NRCS funds conservation practices
• Conservation Management Practices
• State Legislative Actions
• Rice Straw Burning Phase Down (Sacramento Valley)
• Agricultural Burning (SB 705, San Joaquin Valley)
• SB 700 (in-field activities and confined animal
  facilities)

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Recent ARB Rulemaking

• 2004 - 2005 Rulemaking
• Fleet Rules
• Diesel Exhaust
• mobile, stationary, portable
• Air Toxics Control Measures (ATCMs)
• Consumer Products

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Current ARB Rulemaking

• 2006 Rulemaking calendar
• Industrial equipment
• Stationary diesel agricultural engines
• Construction equipment
• Aboveground gasoline storage tanks
• Harbor craft
• Private truck fleets

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Local Controls to Attain Federal State Standards

• Existing Regulatory Programs
• Ozone Transport Mitigation and BARCT for
  stationary sources
• All Feasible Measures
• Intra-Basin Trading, ERCs, RECLAIM
• SB 656 Districts Identify Critical PM Sources
• Implementation schedules to make progress to
  attain state standards
• Typical sources identified charbroiling, wood
  combustion, fugitive dust, coatings solvents,
  furnaces heaters, occasional stationary source,
  transportation measures
• List of Air District Measures that Reduce PM
• Identifies existing rules
• Cost-effectiveness considerations
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/pm/pmmeasures/board_approved
  _list.doc

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Additional Local Strategies

• Regulatory
• Indirect Source Reviews
• Construction Mitigation Practices
• Fireplace restrictions in new construction
• Voluntary
• Transportation Demand Management
• Dont Light Tonight
• Mow Down
• Spare-the-Air

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California Programs Websites

• Agricultural Activities
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/ag/ag.htm
• Carl Moyer Air Quality Attainment Program
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/moyer/moyer.htm
• Diesel Risk Reduction Program
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/diesel/dieselrrp.htm
• Particulate Matter Program
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/pm/pm.htm
• Ports and Goods Movement
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/gmp/gmp.htm
• Railyard Emission Reduction Program
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/railyard/railyard.htm
• Smoke Management Program
• http//www.arb.ca.gov/smp/smp.htm