1. Quarterly Meeting November 30, 2016

2. Agenda Introductions BAAQMD Rule Updates Greenhouse Gas Items
Lunch & Member Updates
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center Tour
Next Meetings:
March 15th (invite to be sent)
June 21st with BAAQMD (to be confirmed)

3. BAAQMD Rule Updates
Regulation 2, Rule 5 – proposed amendments: New Source Review of Toxic Air Contaminants
Regulation 2, Rule 2 – recent changes: New Source Review Permitting
Regulation 11, Rule 18 – proposed regulation: Reduction of Risk from Air Toxic Emissions at Existing Facilities
Update on potentially partnering with BAAQMD to develop BMPs for POTW digester gas venting

4. Greenhouse Gas Related Items
Federal GHG Tailoring Rule update
CA 2030 Target Scoping Plan Draft Paper
SB 1425 – Voluntary Water-Energy Nexus Registry
BAAQMD GHG Control Measures for POTWs in draft Clean Air Plan Update

5. Regulation 2, Rule 5 NSR of TACs Proposed Amendments
Impact: Facility cancer risk may increase even though emissions remain the same
Incorporates OEHHA’s 2015 Health Risk Assessment Guidelines
Incorporates CARB/CAPCOA’s Risk Management Guidelines
Revises emission calculation procedures for modified sources (installed before 1987) to match NSR procedure
Exemption for ICEs<50 hp (to match Rule 9-8 and other regulations)
Risk factors for many TACs +40%; some as much as 5 times
May result in about 60 more projects/year requiring TAC control
Risk trigger levels remain unchanged (source cancer risk <1/million for TBACT; project cancer risk <10/million)
Public Hearing: December 7

6. Regulation 2, Rule 2 NSR Newly Effective
No new amendments (still dated December 2012)
EPA recently approved the BAAQMD revised regulations into SIP and made the regulations “effective”
Applicable to applications “complete” after 8/31/2016
EPA identified new changes – expect w/in 18 months
Now considers:
PM-2.5
GHG (under certain conditions)
Revised emission calculation methodologies (increase & decrease)
Fugitive emissions

7. DRAFT Regulation 11, Rule 18 Risk Reduction at Existing Facilities
Health Risk Assessment (30 days for input)
Risk Reduction Plan (180 days to conduct)
Risk Reduction Measures (3 years to implement)
Phased Implementation based on cancer prioritization number
Draft comment letter review

8. Digester Gas Venting BMPs
Update on potentially partnering with BAAQMD to develop BMPs for POTW digester gas venting
Call with Brenda scheduled for week of December 5th

9. Greenhouse Gas Related Items
Federal GHG Tailoring Rule update
CA 2030 Target Scoping Plan Draft Paper
SB 1425 – Voluntary Water-Energy Nexus Registry
BAAQMD GHG Control Measures for POTWs in draft Clean Air Plan Update

10. Federal GHG Tailoring Rule Proposed Revisions
Ensure neither PSD or Title V rules require a source to obtain a permit based on GHGs alone
Establish “Significant Emission Rate” for GHGs (i.e., 75,000 tons CO2e per year) to determine whether PSD permits are required to contain an emissions limit for GHGs and implement best available control technology (BACT)
Focus on large, fossil-fueled combustion units - turbines, boilers, process heaters/furnaces, and stationary IC engines fired with either diesel fuel or natural or process gas
Process emissions not considered
Posted October 3rd

11. CARB “2030 Target” Scoping Plan Concept Paper
Potential concepts to achieve GHG levels 40% below 1990 levels focused on the Governor’s “5 pillars”
Reviewing progress toward meeting GHG targets:
Considering GHG inventory improvements (e.g.,adding Natural & Working Lands land-based activities)
Supporting collaborative projects
Mitigation of upstream GHG sources
Input from Environmental Justice Advisory Committee
Renewable gas in the transportation/electricity sectors or displace fossil natural gas in the residential/industrial sectors?
Pursue policies needed for the 2050 target even without reducing GHG emissions in the near-term?

12. Additional Policies are Needed to Achieve 2030 and 2050 Targets
None of the 2014 California State Agencies' PATHWAYS Project scenarios achieve 2030 target
Transportation, electricity, and industrial sectors are the largest emitters = largest opportunities for reductions
4 Concepts:
Complementary Policies with Cap-and-Trade
Ambitious Complementary Policies without Cap-and-Trade – Focus on Industrial Sources
Ambitious Complementary Policies without Cap-and-Trade – Focus on Transportation
Complementary Policies with a Carbon Tax

13. Schedule for Draft “2030 Target” Scoping Plan Update
Summer 2016: Scenario development (for achieving targets)
Late Summer 2016: EJAC input via community meetings
Late Summer/Early fall: Draft Scoping Plan to be released (not yet released)
November 17: First Board hearing
December 14: Workshop on Carbon Sequestration Modeling Methods and Initial Results for Natural & Working Lands
March 2017: Second Board hearing
SB 1383 approved by Governor Brown September 19th requires the reduction of short-lived climate pollutants (methane) by 2030
Regulation to be developed & adopted by 2018

14. SB 1425: Voluntary Water-Energy Nexus Registry
Adopted September 2016
CalEPA to oversee development of registry by non-profit
Non-profit: The Climate Registry (3-year term)
Voluntary registry to account for GHG emissions associated with the “water system” using best available data
Establish emissions baselines
Encourage voluntary actions to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Recognize, publicize, and promote participants
Recruit broad participation
Facilitate streamlined data reporting

15. BAAQMD GHG Control Measures for POTWs
Goal of Climate Strategy: Bay Area region to reduce GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050
POTWs represent only 0.5% of the total emissions inventory
GHG Control Measures for POTWs:
WR1: Limit GHGs from POTWs
SS18: Revisions to Air Toxics Hot Spots Program
SS21: Biogas Flares
SS38: Odors

16. Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center Tour
4190 Zanker Road, San José, CA 95134
Walking tour
Approximately 45 minutes
Questions at end

17. Next Meetings March 15, 2017 Location: TBD
Targeting June 21, 2017 with BAAQMD