BOARD MEETING DATE: March 4, 2005
AGENDA NO. 25

Stationary Source Committee

SYNOPSIS:

The Stationary Source Committee met Friday, February 25, 2005. Following is a summary of that meeting. The next meeting will be March 25, at 10:30 a.m., in Conference Room CC8.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Receive and file.

Attendance

The meeting began at 10:30a.m. Present were, Jane Carney, Acting Chair (left for agenda #1 due to conflict of interest) and Dennis Yates. William Burke was appointed as an ad hoc member of the committee for this meeting by Jane Carney and participated by Videoteleconference. Absent was Ronald Loveridge.

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS

Committee Member Jane Carney left the meeting for the first item due to a conflict of interest. Inland Concrete Enterprises, Inc., Delilah Properties, Maruhachi Ceramics of American, Inc., and J.R. Pipeline are sources of income for Ms. Carney.

1. Rule 1157 - Implement Status Report
   Lee Lockie, Director of Area Sources, presented a brief progress report on the implementation of Rule 1157 affecting aggregate and related operations. This rule was adopted by the Governing Board at their January, 2005 meeting. She stated that staff was working with the affected industry to review several issues that were raised during the public hearing. The two key issues are the emissions inventory and the 50% opacity performance standard. She stated that there have been four meetings with the industry that have focused on a review of the emissions inventory. She concluded by stating that the meetings have been suspended, but that staff is continuing to review the documents submitted by the industry on the emissions inventory.
    
2. Update on
   EJ I-2 – Emissions Data on the Web and
   EJ I-3 – Continued Support of CHAPIS
   Jill Whynot, Planning and Rules Manager, provided an update on two items from the Environmental Justice (EJ) work program. Both items, like the entire EJ work plan will come to the full Board in October, which is the due date for completion. EJ I-2 involves listing criteria and toxic pollutant emissions on the web from facilities that are part of the Annual Emissions Reporting program. Significant work has been done so far, and staff is close to having the data available on the web site. Query capabilities will be included. The information on the web site will be annual emission totals, which is currently available by public record requests.
    
   EJ I-3 relates to AQMD staff supporting an ARB internet-based mapping tool called Community Health Air Pollution Information System (CHAPIS). This is a very sophisticated program that enables visual displays of facility locations and provides emission information. AQMD staff has sent FY02/03 criteria and toxic inventories for stationary sources over 4 tpy of criteria pollutants and has also sent information on over 3,000 gas stations. Next steps will be to send data for dry cleaners using perchloroethylene and the next set of data for the stationary sources reporting through AQMD’s annual emissions reporting program.
    
   A concern was expressed that unscrupulous attorneys have, in the past, used AQMD data to intimidate businesses into paying money. An industry representative commented that this was a big issue in the past, but the attorney general took action against some individuals, so this practice diminished. AQMD legal staff is not aware of any recent problems of this type. The small business industry association has some concerns, but is willing to see how this works.
    
   Questions were raised regarding the update frequency and ability to correct errors in the data. AQMD staff will have the ability to correct errors fairly quickly. ARB staff has indicated that they will do an annual update. Elaine Chang pointed out that one reason to put data on our web site even though it is available from ARB is that our site has the potential to be more current.
    
3. Amendments to Rules 1304 – Exemptions and 1306 Emission Calculations
   Larry Bowen, Planning and Rules Manager, presented this item. These proposed rule amendments to our new source review (NSR) regulation are administrative in nature and clarify current and past staff practice. Rule 1304 exempts from the offset requirement concurrent facility modifications that result in a net emission decrease. Rule 1306 specifies how emissions are calculated. The amendments clarify that sources that have been subject to NSR calculate emissions on a potential to emit to a potential to emit basis. Sources that have never been subject to NSR calculate the emission increase from actual emissions adjusted for BACT.
    
4. Status Report on PR 1401.1 – New Source Review of Toxic Air Contaminants for New and Relocated Facilities Near Schools
   Susan Nakamura, Planning and Rules Manager, presented this item. The two main issues for the proposal are whether there is a need for a proposed rule and the appropriate distance from the new/relocated facility to the school. Data analysis showed that few new/relocated facilities site near schools and there are other sources of toxics, such as freeways and idling cars, that contribute far more to the risk at schools than stationary sources. Proposed Rule 1401.1 would minimize additional toxic risk from new or relocated facilities. Consideration is being given to proposing a shorter distance than the original concept due to comments received and analysis of additional data such as emission profiles. The objective of the pre-hearing is for staff to receive guidance from the Board whether to proceed with rulemaking. The pre-hearing is scheduled for April 1, 2005. Public comments focused on concerns that this rulemaking effort targeted facilities with risks that are small in comparison to other sources that pose a greater risk to schools, such as freeways. Comments were received regarding limited site selection for relocated facilities.

WRITTEN REPORTS

All written reports were acknowledged by the Committee.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m.

Attachments

February 25, 2005 Committee Agenda (without its attachments)

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