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State <br />In California, the CARB, which became part of the California Environmental Protection Agency in <br />1991, is responsible for meeting the State requirements of the federal CAA, administering the <br />California CAA, and establishing the CAAQS. The California CAA, as amended in 1992, requires all air <br />districts in the State to endeavor to achieve and maintain the CAAQS. The CAAQS are generally <br />more stringent than the corresponding federal standards and incorporate additional standards for <br />sulfates, hydrogen sulfide, vinyl chloride and visibility reducing particles. The CARB regulates mobile <br />air pollution sources, such as motor vehicles. The agency is responsible for setting emission <br />standards for vehicles sold in California and for other emission sources, such as consumer products <br />and certain off-road equipment. The CARB established passenger vehicle fuel specifications, which <br />became effective on March 1996. The CARB oversees the functions of local air pollution control <br />districts and air quality management districts, which in turn administer air quality activities at the <br />regional and county level. <br />Regional <br />The BAAQMD is responsible for assuring that the federal and State ambient air quality standards are <br />attained and maintained in the Bay Area. The BAAQMD is also responsible for adopting and <br />enforcing rules and regulations concerning air pollutant sources, issuing permits for stationary <br />sources of air pollutants, inspecting stationary sources of air pollutants, responding to citizen <br />complaints, monitoring ambient air quality and meteorological conditions, awarding grants to <br />reduce motor vehicle emissions, conducting public education campaigns, as well as many other <br />activities. <br />The BAAQMD adopted the 2017 Clean Air Plan (2017 Plan) on April 19, 2017 as an update to the <br />2010 Clean Air Plan. The 2017 Plan, which focuses on protecting public health and the climate, <br />defines an integrated, multi-pollutant control strategy that includes all feasible measures to reduce <br />emissions of O3 precursors (including transport of ozone and its precursors to neighboring air <br />basins), PM, and toxic air contaminants (TACs). To protect public health, the control strategy will <br />decrease population exposure to PM and TACs in communities that are most impacted by air <br />pollution with the goal of eliminating disparities in exposure to air pollution between communities. <br />The control strategy will protect the climate by reducing GHG emissions and developing a long- <br />range vision of how the Bay Area could look and function in a year 2050 post-carbon economy <br />(BAAQMD 2017b). <br />Local <br />The City’s 2035 General Plan Environmental Hazards Chapter contains the following goal and related <br />policies specific to air quality: <br />Goal EH-7. Promote and participate in efforts to improve the region’s air quality. <br />Policy EH-3.1: Clean Air Plan Implementation. Cooperate with the appropriate reginal, <br />state, and federal agencies to implement the regional Clean Air Plan and enforce air quality <br />standards. <br />Policy EH-3.2: Transportation Control Measures. Promote strategies that help improve air <br />quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the necessity of driving. These <br />strategies include more reliable public transportation, carpooling and vanpooling programs, <br />employer transportation demand management (TDM) programs, better provisions for <br />145