|
Type
of Publication
|
Description
of What You Will Find
|
| Aftermarket
Parts with ARB Executive Orders |
Street legal add-on
and modified parts for motor vehicles are evaluated by ARB and the
resulting Executive Orders are housed in this area. |
| Air Toxic Control Measures |
These include all
ARB Mobile and Stationary Source Airborne Toxic Control Measures
(ATCMs). |
| Agricultural Burn
Decisions |
ARB's meteorology
personnel work with California's 35 local air districts to set daily
acreage limits by district. |
| Air
Quality/Emissions Data and Statistics |
This area includes
ARB's Air Quality Data, Almanac of Emissions
and Air Quality, Area Designations
and Standards, The
2007 California Ambient
Air Quality Data DVD, Emission Inventory, and Air Quality Models. |
| Area Source
Methodologies |
Area-Wide source
methods are used to estimate emissions for approximately 500 emission
source categories in the emission inventory. |
| Audit Reports / District Program Reviews |
ARB conducts reviews
of the air pollution control and air quality management districts' air
quality programs. |
| Board Meeting Documents |
Agendas, summaries
(meeting minutes), electronic board books, meeting transcripts (going
back to 1995), plus public comments received on all rulemakings since
January 2006. |
| Compliance
Assistance Handbooks, Pamphlets and Manuals |
Technical manuals,
Interactive CDs and on-line scanned files are comprehensive reference
materials written for the environmental engineer and local district air
pollution inspector. |
| District Rules and Regulations |
California's 35
local air districts draft rules and regulations for all stationary
sources. Current and historical copies of these rules are available
here. |
| Enforcement Actions |
The ARB Enforcement
Program routinely issues actions against polluters ranging from small
violations by owners of smoking heavy-duty vehicles to significant
enforcement actions against oil refineries and engine and vehicle
manufacturers. |
| Enforcement Advisories |
Advisories are
issued re: cargo tanks, consumer products, fuels, portable fuel
containers, mobile sources, vapor recovery, and variances. |
| Enforcement Case
Settlements |
Settlement
agreements, litigation and related documents may be available subject
to applicable exemptions from disclosure under California's Public
Records Act. |
| Enforcement Reports |
Annual reports of
ARB enforcement activities. |
| Environmental Impact
Reports |
Cal/EPA's
Environmental Impact Report/Statement (EIR/EIS) collection is made up
of EIR/EIS Notice of Preparation (NOP), Negative Declaration, and other
submissions to Cal/EPA dealing with environmental documents prepared
under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). |
| Executive Orders |
ARB certifies many
kinds of equipment, compounds, processes, etc. eligible to be used in
California. |
| Fact Sheets / FAQs |
Fact sheets and
"frequently asked question" materials are generated for many topics so
that sometimes complicated issues can be charactierized in a user
friendly manner (ideally, brief and easy to read). |
| Forms |
Check out this area
if you need something certified by ARB, you are soliciting grant
monies, you want to file an electronic complaint, you want to sign up
for some training, or you need a burn permit, etc. |
| Health Risk Assessments |
The ARB is preparing
health risk assessments (HRA) for major railyards across the state.
Information on the draft HRAs is provided here. There are additional
documents under our Ports and Goods
Movement area. |
| Health Updates |
ARB staff provide
monthly Board meeting updates regarding the latest research findings on
Health and Air Pollution. |
| Job Vacancy Duty
Statements |
This is ARB's link
to its job announcement hosted by the State Personnel Board's VPOS
database. |
| Journals - Electronic |
The Cal/EPA Library
provides online access to various e-journals. These journals are
accessible by only Cal/EPA staff or patrons of the Cal/EPA library. |
| Laboratory Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs) |
The laboratory
standard operating procedures (SOPs) are documents which describe the
steps necessary to conduct a measurement and the critical parameters to
be evaluated during the analysis |
| Laws / Statutes |
California's Air
Pollution Control Laws maintained by LexisNexis are available here back
to 1995 and searchable index for the current year. |
| Legislation |
California Air
Quality Legislation annual reports summarizing legislative activity
back to 1998. |
| Library for Cal/EPA |
The Cal/EPA Library
contains journals and reference materials that pertain to air
pollution, solid waste, and hazardous waste management. |
| Mandated Reports (by the Legislature) |
These legislatively mandated reports contain
information on various aspects of air pollution programs administered
within the ARB. |
| Manufacturers Advisory Corresp. (MAC) |
Comprehensive
Listing of Motor Vehicle Related Mailouts and Manufacturers Advisory
Correspondence (MAC) |
| Maps |
You want maps, we
got maps! Take a look at this list of topics and also try our "Find Your Community - Geographically-oriented Areas
of this Website" |
| Mobile Source
Mailouts |
Sequentially-numbered
mailouts on a variety of mobile source subjects. Mailouts include such
things as meeting notices, meeting summaries, surveys and survey
results, subgroup meetings, teleconference agendas, staff reports, and
45-day notices, to name a few. |
| News Releases |
All ARB-generated
news releases issued since 1990 can be found here. |
| Organization Charts |
View the
organization structure of ARB as a whole and its individual divisions |
| Public Comments to
the Board |
All public comments
to our Board are available for review. |
| Public Record Act
Requests |
Learn how you can
request access documents from the ARB. |
| Regulations |
To get to the individual current program
regulations, please proceed to the program area. You might find our A-Z Index to be a fast way to
find the program area of interest. To access the actual text for each
regulatory section, please to the OAL website, select either
Title 13 or 17, and then select "Division 3 - Air Resources (Board)" to
find the current text of all ARB regulations. |
| Research Studies (completed projects) |
The California Air
Resources Board sponsors a comprehensive program of research into the
causes and effects of, and possible solutions to, the air pollution
problem in California. |
| Rulemakings |
An addition,
deletion or change to California Code of Regulations Titles 13 and 17
occurs as a result of a "formal" rulemaking approved by our Board.
There are a variety of documents required to facilitate these changes
and they are located here, plus you'll find a link to the "informal"
regulatory process that preceded the formal rulemaking process. |
| Seminars - Chairperson's
Series |
The Chairperson of
the ARB sponsors this series of seminars on a variety of air quality
managment topics and these presentations are then made available in
powerpoint and in some instances in video format i.e., wmv. |
| Software |
ARB develops,
publishes and/or contributes to the development of software for air
modeling. |
| Staff Directories |
White pages, Yellow
pages, staff directories for all Cal/EPA staff and all State of
California staff. Also, we provide links for emergency contacts,
Americans with Disabilities (ADA), local air districts, hard copy and
email list serve subscriptions, etc. |
| Staff Reports ("formal regulatory
process") |
Formal "rulemaking"
documents include: Board Hearing Notices (a.k.a. 45-Day Notices);
Notices of Public Availability of Modified Text (15-Day Notices);
Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR), Final Statement of Reasons (FSOR),
Resolutions, Proposed vs. Final Regulation orders (proposed vs. final
changes to regulatory language), Notices of Postponement or
Continuance, etc.
Please select the year that the rulemaking was heard by the Board, find
the rulemaking topic for that year, and finally select the document of
interest. |
| Staff Reports
("informal regulatory process") |
Before an item goes
to formal regulatory process, there are meeting notices, agendas, and
summaries for workshops, work group meetings, teleconference and video
conference calls, draft staff reports, stakeholder and ARB staff
Powerpoint presentations, interim guidance documents, etc.
For these documents, please locate the program or
topic of interest, or try our detailed A-Z Index. |
| Scientific Review Panel Findings on Toxic Air
Contaminants |
The Scientific
Review Panel (SRP) is charged with evaluating the risk assessments of
substances proposed for identification as toxic air contaminants by the
ARB and the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). |
| State Implementation Plans |
Federal clean air
laws require areas with unhealthy levels of ozone, carbon monoxide,
nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and inhalable particulate matter to
develop plans, known as State Implementation Plans (SIPs), describing
how they will attain national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS).
|
| Stationary Source Performance Standards |
Under the California
Clean Air Act, local air districts develop plans to attain the State
ambient air quality standard for ozone. We also include summary tables
which identify the performance standards for the first set of
stationary source categories reviewed. |
| Test Methods / Test
Procedures |
ARB test methods are
formal written procedures for measurement of physical parameters
related to air pollution including pollutant emissions concentration
and mass flow rate, materials properties such as asbestos content of
solids and volatile organic content of wastes, and various aspects of
the performance of vapor recovery systems at service stations, bulk
plants and terminals. |
| Toxic Air
Contaminant (TAC) Identification Reports |
The ARB is
responsible for the identification and control of toxic air
contaminants, except in their pesticidal use. ARB prepares
identification reports on candidate substances. The reports and
summaries describe the uses of and the extent of emissions in
California resulting in public exposure, together with their potential
health effects. |
| Training Course
Descriptions |
ARB provides
training on a host of air quality management enforcement areas. |
| Videos / Flash Pages |
Click on this to
find a variety of videos concerning air quality management. May videos
will be of specific interest to the air inspectors community. |
| Webcasts |
Currently, only some
Chair Seminar Series events are available for download, and most of
these events have not yet been converted to a downloadable format. We
will get these on the server as staffing resources permit. |
| What's New Archive |
As of June 2007,
both the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and ARB's What's New
archive point to a single chronological listing of all list serve
broadcasts sent to our public list serves. Or you can view the archive
for any individual list. |
