The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)

Letter from David Gardiner to James Lents

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

James M. Lents, Executive Officer
South Coast Air Quality Management District
21865 Copley Drive
Diamond Bar, California 91765

Dear Mr. Lents:

We thank you for your early application and entry into the Project XL program. Your Agency showed commendable initiative in identifying the need for increased flexibility in the Clean Air Act as related to ride share programs. Since the Clean Air Act has now been revised to address the area of concern to your XL project, the intent of the XL program has been met for this project.

As you know, Project XL was developed to test innovative environmental management strategies and, through this process, nurture eXcellence and Leadership in environmental protection. Your participation in Project XL demonstrated that the South Coast Air Quality Management District possesses these qualities. Should there be other issues which you may choose to address via the Project XL process, we would very much welcome such a proposal. Thank you for working with us in a process that holds such promise for the future of environmental protection.

Sincerely,

David Gardiner
Assistant Administrator

cc: Connie Day, SCAQMD Project Lead
James Strock, Secretary, California EPA
James D. Boyd, Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board

cc:
Connie Day
South Coast Air Quality Management District
21865 Coply Drive
Diamond Bar, California 91765

James Strock
Secretary
California EPA
Attn: Val Siebal
555 Capitol Mall, Ste. 235
Sacramento, CA 95814

James D. Boyd
Executive Officer
California Air Resources Board
2020 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

bcc:
Mark Brucker
EPA, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

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