Public Meeting Agenda

Some appliances so/d as indoor air deaners, indoor air purifiers, and personal air purifiers, purposely emit ozone, purportedly to clean the air. Manufacturers often fa/se/y c/aim that these devices eliminate bacteria, mold, and chemical contaminants from the air, and that they he/p persons WMI asthma and allergies. Advertising and sales of such devices is increasing. Staff will report on a recent article on ozone generators, and discuss current activities and concerns regarding ozone generators currently marketed in California. The Air Resources Board (the~Board or ARB) will conduct a public hearing at the time and place noted below to consider adoption of amendments to the regulations designating areas of California as attainment, nonattainment, nonattainment-transitional, or unclassified for pollutants with State ambient air quality standards set forth in section 70200 of tile 17, California Code of Regulations. If you have a disability-related accommodation need, please go to or contact the ADA Coordinator at (916) 3234916. If you are a person who needs assistance in a language other than English, please contact the Bilingual Coordinator at (916) 324-5049. llY/TDD/Speech-to-Speech users may dial 7-l-l for the California Relay Service. Backwound: Pursuant to section 39606 of the Health and Safety Code (H&SC), the Board is charged with the responsibility of adopting standards of ambient air quality for each air basin in consideration of the public health, safety, and welfare. The Board has adopted State ambient air quality standards (State Standards) for ten pollutants, set forth in CCR, tie 17, section 70200. The California Clean Air Act in H&SC section 39607(e) 2 requires the Board to establish designation criteria which provide the basis for designating areas of California as attainment, nonattainment, nonattainment-transitional, or unclassified with respect to the State standards. The Board originally adopted designation criteria in 1989 and has modified them several times since then, the last time in January 2004. The designation criteria are set forth in CCR, title 17, sections 70300 through 70306, and appendices 1 through 4, thereof. Based on these designation criteria, the California Clean Air Act in H&SC section 39608 further requires the ARB to establtsh and annually review area designations for State standards. During the annual review, ARB determines whether changes to the existing area designations are warranted, based on an evaluation of recent air quality data. The ARB makes area designations for ten pollutants: ozone, suspended particulate matter (PMIO), fine suspended particulate matter (PM2.5), carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, …