Air district will ask for extension of smog deadline (KGET 17 Bakersfield) The San Joaquin Valley's air won't be clean enough to meet federal standards within the next six years, so the state will have to ask that a critical deadline be extended, according to a report to be released Monday by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. A draft report of the SJVAPCD's 2007 ozone plan will say the district needs more money, more help and more time to meet ... [News Source]