Posted by buickanddeere on March 11, 2011 at 13:41:40 from (209.240.118.183):
Somebody must have gotten to the lame brained green do gooder CARB organization in California. The California specs which are even worse thane Tier IV have been delayed at least four years.
CARB Takes Sting Out of the Off-Road Diesel Emissions Rule
by Larry Stewart, Editor Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, and Mike Kennedy, the Associated General Contractors’ lawyer teleconferenced with the media on Thursday to announce their agreement on substantial revision to CARB’s In-Use Off-Road Diesel Emissions Rule.
The proposed changes call for the board to delay the first compliance dates for off-road diesel equipment four years, until 2014. Rather than requiring equipment owners to comply with two different emissions standards – one for oxides of nitrogen and another for particulate matter – the revisions suggest combining NOx and PM into a single fleet average, allowing more lenient levels.
Rather than require minimum applications of best-available control technologies to some machines as well as replacement of others, the revisions allow any combination of the two strategies – turnover alone can satisfy the requirements. And the new approach reduces the percentage of total fleet horsepower that owners are required to address each year from 28% to 8 to 10%.
The proposed changes also call for the board to give contractors credit for the efforts they have already made to reduce emissions and to reward contractors for voluntarily reducing emissions before 2014. However, the proposed changes would also extend the rule further into the future.
There are many more detailed revisions that ease the annual burden California equipment owners have to bear, and offer more choices to of how to comply.
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