Beginning in 1954 the state air pollution program was centered in the State Department of Public Health, Air Sanitation Division, and later shared with the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, created in 1959 (Assembly Bill 17, Cameron Bill). The 1967 Legislature passed the Mulford-Carrell Act that related directly to the Federal Clean Air Act of 1967. This act combined the state air pollution control programs and formed a new agency, the Air Resources Board (ARB).

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