Ventura County 2022 Air Quality Management Plan
November 10, 2022
Public Hearing December 13, 2022
Air Pollution Control Board
Proposed Adoption of the Final Draft of the Ventura
County 2022 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP):
Notice is hereby given that the Air Pollution Control Board
will hold a public hearing to adopt the final draft of the
Ventura County 2022 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) and
certify its Initial Study Negative Declaration, pursuant to
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Staff is recommending the adoption of the 2022 Ventura
County AQMP, which presents Ventura County’s strategy
(including related mandated elements) to attain the 2015
federal 8-hour ozone standard, as required by the federal
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Photochemical air quality modeling indicates that Ventura
County will attain the 2015 federal 8-hour ozone standard by
2026 using local, state, and federal clean air programs. The
previous Ventura County AQMP, prepared in 2016, projected
attainment of the 2008 federal 8-hour ozone standard by
2020. The United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking on July 14,
2022, determining that Ventura County has attained that
standard by its July 20, 2021 attainment date.
The 2022 AQMP presents a combined state and local
strategy for attaining the 2015 federal 8-hour ambient air
quality standard for ozone, the only federal clean air
standard Ventura County does not meet, by the statutory
compliance deadline of August 3, 2027. It was prepared to
satisfy federal Clean Air Act planning requirements for
areas designated as serious federal 8-hour ozone
nonattainment areas, including, but not limited to, updated
air quality information, an updated emissions inventory,
local and state air pollutant control measures, new emission
forecasts and projections, a new federal conformity budget
for transportation projects, a reasonable further progress
demonstration for precursors of ozone (reactive organic
gases and nitrogen oxides), a new countywide emission
carrying capacity, and a demonstration that Ventura County
will attain the federal 8-hour ozone standard.
Information regarding the proposed plan, including the
Initial Study/Negative Declaration, is available for review
by any interested party at the APCD offices located at 4567
Telephone Road 2nd Floor, Ventura, California, 93003 during
normal business hours (Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm
excluding holidays). The documents are also available on the
District website at
www.vcapcd.org.
Both the Draft 2022 Ventura County AQMP and accompanying
Negative Declaration were posted and available for a 30-day
public review period that ended on September 30, 2022. The
final AQMP draft contains a newly added section, Appendix K,
that addresses the county’s unmonitored areas with respect
to 8-hour ozone design values.
The public hearing will be held at the following time and
location:
December 13, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Ventura County Government Center
Board of Supervisors Meeting Room
800 South Victoria Avenue
Ventura, CA 93009
You are invited to attend this meeting and be heard on
this matter. For instructions on how to attend virtually or
how to submit comments, you may read the instructions
located inside the public agenda for the hearing, to be
posted on our website the week prior to the scheduled
hearing. You may visit
http://www.vcapcd.org/agendas.htm#The_Air_Pollution_Control_Board
to access the District’s Boards and Committees webpage.
Written comments should be directed to
John Henkelman,
Supervising Air Quality Engineer,
john@vcapcd.org, 4567
Telephone Road, Ventura, CA 93003.
