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Re: Amending the San Joaquin Valley Ozone SIP with enforceable
pollution control measures that will result in attainment of ozone
standards by 2017. 

To Chair Nichols and members of the California Air Resources
Board:

Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is doing intolerable
damage to our health and our economy. Air pollution harms
children’s lungs for life. The situation is critical and demands
immediate, aggressive action from CARB. As a resident of the San
Joaquin Valley I request that you do everything in your power to
clean the ozone pollution as soon as possible, including at a
minimum:

•	Improve the Valley’s Ozone SIP by using your authority to amend
it yourself. Include all of the best available and upcoming
technology for reducing ozone-forming emissions. Do not simply
make suggestions to the Valley Air District and expect them to
make the improvements. The Air District had its chance to prepare
an effective plan but chose instead to ignore the pollution
control measures which you consider worth adding to the plan. 

•	Make the additional pollution control measures enforceable under
the law of the Federal Clean Air Act by adding them to the SIP as
amendments. This will ensure that the Valley Air District can be
held accountable for carrying out the new control measures.

•	Do not submit the Valley’s Ozone Plan to the EPA until you have
corrected the significant mistakes in the “emissions inventory”
that is used in the Plan. This will allow you to demonstrate that
the added pollution control measures are enough to move the clean
air attainment date up from 2024 to 2017. 

•	Move the legal clean air attainment date up to 2017.

The families and children of the entire Valley deserve nothing
less!

John Grant
Merced, CA