Posted on 05/12/2008 12:16:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
The California Air Resources Board has revised a draft regulation that will require retrofits and engine replacements for the estimated privately owned 300,000 diesel trucks and buses on California roadways beginning in 2012. The proposed regulation now calls for truckers to retrofit pre-2007 model year trucks with soot filters and then requires a gradual modernization of trucks beginning in 2012, so that ultimately all trucks are the cleanest, 2010 or newer models.
Staff re-worked an earlier version of the draft regulation, presented in January, to eliminate the need for truckers to replace two trucks in a nine-year span, instead relying more heavily on retrofits for the first two years of the regulation. The revised proposal has a lower cost while preserving important public health benefits.
The regulation is projected to cost the trucking industry somewhere between $3.6 to $5.5 billion from 2010 to 2021. ARB is in the midst of allocating $1 billion in Proposition 1B funds, much of which will go toward helping truckers retrofit and replace trucks. Other entities, including the US EPA and several California ports are offering financial assistance.
ARB is hosting a set of public workshops to discuss the revised regulation later this month and in June—the fifth set of workshops since the initial regulatory concept was presented during public workshops in April 2007. At the workshops, staff plans to discuss:
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Revisions to the proposed regulatory language presented in January 2008, and staff’s revised emission benefit and cost analyses. The proposed revisions include requirements for the installation of diesel particulate filters (DPFs) for some vehicles beginning in 2010 and 2011, and engine turnover requirements starting in 2012. The proposed revisions do not require more than a single engine/truck replacement. *
Revisions to the Public Agency and Utility Regulation to include light heavy-duty diesel engines operated by municipalities and utilities in that regulation, and to clarify the best available control technology requirements. *
Revisions to staff’s proposed concepts for efficiency improvements from tractors and trailers operating in the state. The proposed revisions include limiting the requirements to tractors/trailer combinations that are hauling 53 foot long box trailers.
Staff will also separately discuss in breakout sessions how school districts may be affected by the requirements in the proposed regulation for the installation of DPFs on public and private school buses.
The language of the proposed regulation will be available from the ARB On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation site.
This draft regulation addresses the largest unregulated source of diesel emissions in the state. Between 2010 and 2020, ARB estimates that the regulation will prevent 11,000 premature deaths associated with exposure to diesel exhaust, and save roughly $500 million in health care costs during that same period.
Emissions from diesel particulate matter are associated with causing a variety of health effects including premature death and a number of heart and lung diseases. A recent study looking at the health impacts to West Oakland, California residents posed by diesel emissions estimates the yearly non-cancer health impacts resulting from exposure to port-related diesel particulate matter emissions in the area: 18 premature deaths (age 30 and older), 290 asthma attacks, 2,600 days of work loss, and 15,000 minor restricted activity episodes. Most of the risk comes from diesel particulate matter emissions from trucks traveling on nearby freeways and marine vessel traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area unrelated to the Port of Oakland.
Later this year, ARB will also consider adopting another proposed regulation involving ocean-going vessel main engines to further reduce diesel soot. State control measures will contribute to an approximate decrease of 80% in harmful emissions by 2015.
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Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO DRIVE BACK IN TO CALIFORNIA..........THEY CHANGE THE RULES!.....
kALIFORNISTAN kNoCk!!!......
Egad!
I take it you are a OO.........
LOL!!!!Driven by illegals no doubt!................
Badger, where was the barf alert on this?
Idiots.
although the industry has to absorb the cost initially, the cost will be totally passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices for every single thing transported by truck.
Diesels used to be the hot setup.
Easy to repair.
Good mileage.
Cheaper fuel.
They’ve done a fine job of screwing up all 3.
It will be a bull market for diesel service techs though.
Kind of like gas engine cars in the early 80s.
Hopefully over the next 10 years they’ll be able to simplify again as the technology advances.
OO?
Some things are just beyond barfing........
Owner - Operator................
So lemme get this straight. California decides that they want to force retrofit of trucks... costing owners of these trucks millions and millions, right?
What if they simply stop trucking in Cali? Wouldn’t everyone die eventually?
Starved?
Not me per se, but my coal mining family has a number of men (my uncles, while my dad was a Heavy Equipment Operator, primarily running big D-7 dozers along high walls at strip mines) who drive big coal trucks for a living, and so I grew up around them and sympathize mightily with the truckers. My uncles were always working on their coal trucks late into the night EVERY day after work to keep them in prime operating order.
They’ll all switch to organic home grown veggies and sandals made from seaweed...........
This is gonna cost truckers, small fleet owners and owner operators a fortune!..................
California is governed by idiots, from Schwarzeneggar on down, and my stupid Pennsylvania state government is following Cali straight into the Red Sea.
Michigan, NY and Massachusetts have all adopted the Kalifornia model.........
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