March 8, 2005
To represent Orange County cities
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has formally joined the Governing Board of
the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Pulido, sworn in at the March 4, 2005 AQMD Governing Board meeting, will
represent the 34 cities in Orange County on the AQMD Board.
Pulido is mayor of Santa Ana and a small business owner. He joined the
city council in 1986 and has served as mayor since 1994.
He is a member of the Orange County Transportation Authority, as well as
the State Teachers Retirement Board, the Federal Inter-Governmental Policy
Advisory Committee on Trade, Caltrans’ Management Information System
Advisory Committee, the Discovery Science Center Board, and the UC Irvine
Foundation Board, among others.
Pulido was born in Mexico City and raised in Orange County. Nearly a
decade ago he opened a business in Mexico City to replace catalytic
converters on automobiles to reduce smog in that area.
He earned his undergraduate degree from California State University,
Fullerton, in mechanical engineering.
AQMD Board members serve four-year terms. Pulido will fill the unexpired
term of former Mission Viejo Councilman William Craycraft, ending Jan. 15,
2008.
In other action on March 4, the Board:
- Approved AQMD’s submittal of a request to U.S. EPA to redesignate the
four-county region in attainment of the federal 1- and 8-hour average
carbon monoxide (CO) standards;
- Amended Rule 1470 – Requirements for Stationary Diesel-Fueled Internal
Combustion and Other Compression Ignition Engines -- to incorporate recent
changes to the California Air Resources Board’s Airborne Toxic Control
Measure for Stationary Compression Ignition Engines. Funding of $150,000
was also approved for an existing grant program to assist schools to
install particulate matter (PM) traps on school-owned diesel backup
generators on school grounds;
- Amended Rule 1401 – New Source Review of Toxic Air Contaminants and
Rule 1402 – Control of Toxic Air Contaminants from Existing Sources – to
update the cancer risk values for several chemicals for consistency with
new state risk guidelines;
- Adopted Rule 1469.1 – Spraying Operations Using Coatings Containing
Chromium – to reduce emissions from operations that spray primers or
coatings containing hexavalent chromium;
- Received the annual audit for the RECLAIM program; and
- Set a public hearing for April 1 to amend Rule 1304 – Exemptions, and
Rule 1306 – Emission Calculations, to clarify the emissions calculation
procedure for concurrent facility modifications.
AQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major
portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
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