Existing law, the federal Clean Air Act, requires the state to adopt and submit to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a state implementation plan designed to attain and maintain national ambient air quality standards. Under existing law, the State Air Resources Board is designated as the state agency responsible for the preparation of the state implementation plan. Existing law also requires each air pollution control district or air quality management district that has been designated a nonattainment area for state ambient air quality standards to prepare and submit to the state board a plan for attaining and maintaining those standards.

This bill would require the state board to publish on a quarterly basis, or on a more frequent basis if necessary, a list of each district’s rules or rule amendments that are submitted during that quarter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency as revisions to the state implementation plan.