Memorandum
Date: June 2, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair,
Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors
From: Douglas Gearhart, Air Pollution Control Officer
Subject: Authorize the APCO to sign and submit the Grant agreement between the District and ARB for AB197 Emissions Inventory District Grant, and sign all other program documents.
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
The passage of AB197 Quality Assurance Review of Point Source Emissions Data occurred in 2016 which required the State to update and post emissions inventory and toxics emissions annually to an online mapping tool. To implement this, the State is providing a Grant to the District to perform the annual inventory and toxics work. The funds for this year are intended to fund review of sources in their current inventory, update as much of the inventory as possible from 2008 to today, and update our reporting processes to obtain this information annually rather than the quadrennial cycle we have been under. Funds are appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Lake County AQMD will receive a small portion of funding to offset additional requirements to do this reporting to the State.
The AB197 program is an overly paper heavy and legalistic process to implement and administer due to the funding source and reporting requirements of the State. The program is setup as a reimbursement program, but we may be able to obtain advance funding. The funding helps cover costs of increased reporting requirements and could be utilized to start the process of streamlining the toxics reporting process.
Attached is the grant agreement and provisions. The grant agreement does require significant reporting and documentation requirements which do not work well for us as we do not have staff dedicated to grant programs, but the reporting is required whether we accept the grant funds or not. ARB staff has stated they will provide some assistance on the grant requirements.
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Recommended Action: Authorize the APCO to sign and submit the Grant agreement between the District and CARB for AB197 Emissions Inventory District Grant, and sign all other program documents.