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The California Air Resources Board, also known as (CARB) is the "clean air agency" in the government of California. CARB was formed in 1967 by combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board and it is a department within the California Environmental Protection Agency.
The stated goals of CARB include attaining and maintaining healthy air quality, protecting the public from exposure to toxic air contaminants and providing innovative approaches for complying with national and state air pollution control rules and regulations.
Governance
CARB is governed by a board made up of eleven members appointed by the state's governor. Half of the appointees are experts in professional and science fields such as medicine, chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, business, and law. Others represent the air pollution control agencies of regional districts within California: Los Angeles region, San Francisco Bay area, San Diego, the San Joaquin Valley, and other districts.
CARB's Organizational Structure
CARB has nine major Divisions:[1]
- Administrative Services Division
- Enforcement Division
- Mobile Source Control Division
- Mobile Source Operations Division
- Monitoring and Laboratory Division
- Office of Information Services
- Planning and Technical Support Division
- Research Division
- Stationary Source Division
Planning and Technical Support Division
The Planning and Technical Support Division assesses the extent of California's air quality problems and the progress being made to abate them, coordinates statewide development of clean air plans and maintains databases pertinent to air quality and emissions. The Division's technical support work provides a basis for clean air plans and CARB's regulatory programs. This support includes management and interpretation of emission inventories, air quality data, meteorological data and of air quality modeling.[2]
The Planning and Technical Support Division has five branches:
- Emission Inventory Branch
- Modeling & Meteorology Branch
- Air Quality Data Branch
- Air Quality & Transportation Planning Branch
- Mobile Source Analysis Branch
Atmospheric Modeling & Support Section
The Atmospheric Modeling & Support Section is one of three sections within the Modeling & Meteorology Branch. The other two sections are the Regional Air Quality Modeling Section and the Meteorology Section.[2]
The air quality and atmospheric pollution dispersion models[3][4] routinely used by this Section include a number of the models recommended by the U.S. EPA.[5] The Section also uses models which were either developed by CARB or whose development was funded by CARB, such as:
- CALPUFFTemplate:Ndash Originally developed by the Sigma Research Company (SRC) under contract to CARB. Currently maintained by the TRC Solution Company under contract to the U.S. EPA.
- CALGRIDTemplate:Ndash Developed by CARB and currently maintained by CARB.[6]
- SARMAPTemplate:Ndash Developed by CARB and currently maintained by CARB.[7]
See also
- California Energy Commission
- California Environmental Protection Agency
- California Public Utilities Commission
References
- ↑ CARB's Divisions
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 CARB's Planning and Technical Support Division
- ↑ Turner, D.B. (1994). Workbook of atmospheric dispersion estimates: an introduction to dispersion modeling, 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 1-56670-023-X. www.crcpress.com
- ↑ Beychok, Milton R. (2005). Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion, 4th Edition. author-published. ISBN 0-9644588-0-2. www.air-dispersion.com
- ↑ Compilation of atmospheric dispersion models
- ↑ CALGRID Model
- ↑ CARB's SARMAP Model
External links
- California Air Resources Board web site. Retrieved on November 2, 2005.
- CARB's Low-Emission Vehicle Regulations and Test Procedures
- ARB's Diesel Emission Control Strategies Verification