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sip -- NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS ACTIONS TO REDUCE OZONE-FORMING PESTICIDE EMISSIONS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 09:40:00
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and the Air
Resources Board (ARB) will hold a public meeting at the location
identified Below to discuss California’s efforts to reduce ozone
forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from pesticides in the
San Joaquin Valley.   California Department of Pesticide
Regulation
California Air Resources Board

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS ACTIONS TO REDUCE
OZONE-FORMING PESTICIDE EMISSIONS IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and the Air
Resources Board (ARB) will hold a public meeting at the location
identified Below to discuss California’s efforts to reduce ozone
forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from pesticides in the
San Joaquin Valley.  The meeting will provide the public with an
opportunity to learn about DPR’s recent actions to reduce
pesticide VOC emissions from fumigant use and to explore future
opportunities to reduce pesticide VOC emissions.  ARB and DPR
staff will make brief presentations.  The Majority of the meeting
is devoted to public comment and discussion.  DPR Director
Mary-Ann Warmerdam, ARB Member Dorene D’Adamo, and ARB Executive
Officer James Goldstene will lead the discussion.  Spanish
interpretation will be available.

DATE: 
September 28, 2009

TIME:	
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

LOCATION: 
Harvest Hall
Stanislaus County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office
3800 Cornucopia Way
Modesto

Volatile organic compounds are gases that can combine with
emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the presence of sunlight to
form ozone or smog.  Under the federal Clean Air Act (Act), each
state must specify how it will reduce smog-producing emissions,
detailing these measures in a federally-approved State
Implementation Plan (SIP).  Agricultural and structural pesticide
use is among many contributors of smog-forming VOC emissions in
the San Joaquin Valley.  DPR is the California agency responsible
for regulating pesticides, including the development and
implementation of strategies to reduce VOC emissions from
pesticides.  ARB has the overall responsibility for ensuring
federal Clean Air Act requirements are met. 

DPR has a well-established program for regulating the use of
agricultural and structural pesticides.  In California’s 1994 SIP
for the 1-hour ozone standard, DPR committed to reduce pesticide
VOC emissions in various federal nonattainment areas, including
the San Joaquin Valley.  To address the more health-protective
federal 8-hour ozone standard, DPR established a not-to-exceed
pesticide VOC emission limit of 18.1 tons per day for the San
Joaquin Valley, implemented regulations prohibiting the use of
high-emitting fumigant application methods, and committed to
reduce pesticide VOC emissions from non-fumigant pesticide
products.  Together, these commitments and regulations make up
California’s revised pesticide SIP.  

This meeting will provide the public with an opportunity to
learn about these regulatory efforts to reduce pesticide
emissions and the associated SIP revisions.  There will also be
discussion of DPR plans to evaluate the potential for additional
emission reductions from non-fumigant pesticides in the San
Joaquin Valley.  

Participation by the DPR Director will provide the public with
an opportunity to comment directly on actions to reduce pesticide
VOC emissions.  ARB’s participation will ensure that the ARB
hears public comment on DPR actions related to the SIP prior to
administrative action on the DPR SIP revision.  

For more information on DPR’s program to reduce pesticide VOCs,
go to http://www.cdpr.ca.gov, and click on the “Air” Quick Finder
link, then on “Volatile Organic Compound Emissions.” 

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