Sacramento Metro Region Air Quality Management Plans

This page last reviewed November 13, 2015

This page contains information regarding recent and historical SIP activity for the Sacramento Metro Region. The Region includes all or part of the following air districts: El Dorado, Feather River, Placer, Sacramento Metropolitan, and Yolo-Solano.

On April 14, 2014, the Board approved the 2014 Placer County Reasonably Available Control Technology State Implementation Plan Analysis. The plan shows the their rules fulfill Reasonable Available Control Technology requirements for ozone precursors.

On November 21, 2013, the Board approved the 2013 SIP Revisions to the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan. This revision incorporates improvements and updates in reasonable further progress and transportation conformity analyses, emissions inventories, and existing and proposed control measures developed since adoption of the 2009 Plan . This update also revises the attainment demonstration and reconfirms the strategy for attainment of the 1997 federal 8-hour ozone standard by 2018.

On November 18, 2010, the Board approved the PM10 Implementation/Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request for Sacramento County. The plan shows that the 1987 standard for PM10 was attained and establishes the strategy for maintaining the standard through 2022.

On March 26, 2009, the Board approved the 2009 Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan. The plan sets out a strategy for attaining the 1997 federal 8-hour ozone standard in the Sacramento Nonattainment Area by 2018.

On April 26, 1996, the Board approved the "Carbon Monoxide Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan for Ten Federal Planning Areas" as part of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Carbon Monoxide. U.S. EPA approved this revision on June 1, 1998 and redesignated the ten areas to attainment. On October 22, 1998, ARB revised the SIP to incorporate the effects of the recent Board action to remove the wintertime oxygen requirement for gasoline in certain areas. On July 22, 2004, ARB approved an update to the SIP that shows how the ten areas will maintain the standard through 2018, revises emission estimates, and establishes new on-road motor vehicle emission budgets for transportation conformity purposes. Below, you will find 2004 Plan update documents as well as the original 1996 Board action and the 1998 Plan revision.

2014 Placer County Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) SIP Analysis

The Placer County Air Pollution Control District recently adopted the 2014 Reasonably Available Control Technology State Implementation Plan Analysis and Federal Negative Declarations for 16 Control Technique Source Categories (2014 RACT SIP). ARB submitted the 2014 RACT SIP to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) as a revision to the California SIP.

ARB Documents

District Documents

FND Resolution 14-02

2013 Update to the 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan

ARB Documents

Plan Submittal Letter to EPA (pdf - 69 kb)
Plan (SIP) Resolution (pdf - 198 kb)
Public Notice (pdf - 139 kb)
Staff Report (FINAL) (pdf - 632 kb)

Staff Report as originally published with Public Notice (pdf - 462 kb)

Changes to Staff Report After Public Notice (pdf - 62 kb)

District Documents (links to District website)

EPA Documents

Final Rule: Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of California; Sacramento Metropolitan Area; Attainment Plan for 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard [EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0178; FURL-9921-99-Region 9] [80 FR 4795] (pdf - 257 kb)

2010 PM10 Implementation/Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request

ARB Documents

Plan Submittal Letter to EPA (pdf - 530 kb)
Plan (SIP) Resolution (pdf - 270 kb)
Public Notice (pdf - 186 kb)
Staff Report (pdf - 278 kb)

District Documents (links to District website)

2009 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable Further Progress Plan

ARB Documents

Plan Submittal Letter to EPA (pdf - 205 kb)
Plan (SIP) Resolution (pdf - 175 kb)
Staff Report (pdf - 1.75 Mb)
State Strategy for California's Implementation Plan (link to other ARB webpage)

Public Notice

Public Notice to Consider Approval of the 2009 Sacramento Metro Area 8-Hour Ozone Plan (pdf - 79 kb)

District Documents

Final Plan (pdf - 712 kb)

Appendices (pdf - 2.77 Mb)

District Resolutions

Sacramento (pdf - 256 kb)
El Dorado (pdf - 170 kb)
Feather River (pdf - 735 kb)
Placer County (pdf - 471 kb)
Yolo-Solano (pdf - 123 kb)

Transmittal Letters to ARB

Sacramento (pdf - 124 kb)
El Dorado (pdf - 86 kb)
Feather River (pdf - 272 kb)
Placer County (pdf - 193 kb)
Yolo-Solano (pdf - 24 kb)

Response to Comments

Sacramento

Public Hearing (pdf - 611 kb)
Draft Plan (pdf - 4.94 Mb)

El Dorado (pdf - 30 kb)
Feather River (pdf - 349 kb)
Placer County (pdf - 24 kb)
Yolo-Solano (pdf - 114 kb)

Carbon Monoxide Plans

2004 Revisions to the Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan (July 2004)

Hearing Notice (pdf - 51 kb)
2004 Plan Update (pdf - 1.09 Mb)
Transmittal Letter to U.S. EPA (pdf - 108 kb)
ARB Board Resolution 04-20 (pdf - 51 kb)
Inventories and Conformity Budgets Documentation (link to other ARB webpage)

1998 Revisions to the Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan (October 1998)

Hearing Notice (pdf - 45 kb)
1998 Plan (pdf - 40 kb)

Final Carbon Monoxide Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan for Ten Federal Planning Areas (April 1996)

Overview (pdf - 72 kb)
1996 Plan (pdf - 66 kb)
Resolution of Adoption (pdf - 80 kb)
U.S. EPA Rulemaking on 1996 Plan (pdf - 45 kb)

California State Implementation Plan