Hearing
Board
to
Consider
Applications
to
Modify
the
SVRA
Stipulated Order of Abatement
State
Parks
submitted
its
draft
2022
Annual
Report
and
Work
Plan
(AWRP)
on
August
1,
2022,
the
last
day
allowed
by
the
Stipulated
Order
of
Abatement
(SOA).
The
draft
AWRP
reports
on
the
cumulative
dust
control
works
completed
as
of
July
1,
2022,
and
the
projected
particulate
matter
mass
emissions
reduction
these
controls
will
have
when
mature.
State
Parks
included
in
its
projection
the
estimated
benefit
of
the
year-round
closure
of
the
Plover
Habitat.
It
is
State
Parks’
assertion
that
these
measures
will
eventually
achieve
a
40.7%
reduction
in
particulate
matter
mass
emissions,
which,
according
to
computer
modeling,
is
the
reduction
needed
to
achieve
the
emissions
level
that
existed
before
significant
off-highway
vehicle
activity
disturbed
the
natural
condition
of
the
dunes.
Based
on
this,
State
Parks
proposed
to
not
install
any
more
acres
of
dust
control
and
stated
that
it
would
petition
the
Air
Pollution
Control
District
(APCD)
Hearing
Board
to
reduce
the
ordered
mass
emissions
goal
from
50%
to 40.7%.
On
August
23,
2022,
Gary
Willey,
the
Air
Pollution
Control
Officer
(APCO),
advised
State
Parks
that
the
submitted
draft
2022
ARWP
was
not
in
compliance
with
the
requirements
of
the
SOA,
and
therefore,
could
not
be
approved.
He
also
required
State
Parks
to
submit
a
revised
ARWP
by
September
14,
2022,
and
stipulated
that
it
include
a
dust
control
work
plan
that
did
comply
with
the
SOA
requirements
as
they
stood
then.
On
September
13,
2022,
State
parks
did
submit
a
revised
ARWP,
which
included
a
primary
plan
that
was
essentially
the
same
as
proposed
in
the
first
draft,
and
a
secondary
plan
that
included additional proposed dust control projects acreage for 2023.
In
response
to
the
second
AWRP,
Willey
has
published
an
application
to
the
Hearing
Board
to
modify
the
existing
SOA
and
a
draft
of
the
proposed
modifications.
These
documents
will
be
submitted
to
the
Hearing
Board
for
consideration
at
its
meeting
on
October
14,
2022.
State
Parks’
application
to
modify
the emissions goal is also expected to be heard at this meeting.
See
all
the
documents
related
to
the
draft
ARWP
(
click
here)
and
the
documents
pertaining
to
the
Hearing Board meeting (
click here
).
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