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The number of days the Bay Area has exceeded the ozone standard varies year by year, with most exceedances occurring on hot summer days in the inland valleys. The last three years have been fairly clean ozone years, with a total of only 7 days over the standard. For 2001, the standard was only exceeded one day.
