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Show health department study. Industrial controls are Staff Writer projected to reduce emissions as much as 54 percent FARMINGTON As early as next January, Davis in the same period of time. The goal in Davis County is to reduce hydrocarbon County residents may be required to have their vehicles checked annually for air polluting emissions. emissions by 13,690 tons per year by 1987. The Davis County Board of Health postponed Certain industrial controls have already been making a final decision on the inspection and started in the county, but the final decision on immaintenance program this month in order to see the plementing the vehicle emissions is still being results of a survey currently being conducted by a awaited. Colorado firm. Salt Lake County earlier this year opted for a ; The survey is being taken to determine the levels of centralized approach to I & M. Salt Lake is the only public awareness on air pollution in the county and other county in the state which is also designated as a area. feelings toward the implementation of the I & M The centralized approach calls for inspections program. r Results are due back near the end of April and once being conducted by the county health department in they are received the health board will decide one or two special stations. whether to go with the I & M program. Davis County is considering, if officials decide to "I & M involves a regular inspection of a vehicle's adopt an I & M program, going with a decentralized emissions to determine if there is a violation of approach. This would involve inspections being done standards set by the EPA. at existing service stations in the county in a similar Bryant Evenson of the Davis County Health fashion to the safety inspections. The program would be monitored by the county Department explained that Davis County has been area for health department with monthly checks on the designated sirce 1978 as a ozone levels. The county gained approval from the stations doing the inspections. Evenson said EPA in 1979 to delay making a decision on how to health department would be making sure combat the problem for 18 months. caliberations of the equipment are correct. A vehicle emission check involves taking Evenson said Davis-wa- s the only county in the nation to obtain this delay on making a decision on I & vehicle to a station and having the emissions from the M and must act by July 1981. cars tailpipe monitored. This would be checked with a piece of equipment Designating an area as a classification allows the EPA certain leverages to called an infrared gas analyzer which measures the concentrations of carbon monoxide and hydrocarimplement air quality controls. This leverage in Davis County could amount to a bons coming out of the tailpipe. Violations would then be determined by standards possible $9 million in federal aid being taken away and the placement of a moratorium on certain types adopted by the county and approved by EPA. of industrial growth in the county. Evenson said different types of vehicles have difThe 89 million which could be lost would impact fering standards. The current plan of the health local and regional transportation and waste water board is to eliminate vehicles older than 1975 from the emission checks. projects. Evenson said the impact represents Evenson said the older vehicles without certain potential funding levels, and the full impact cannot be figured because the funds are not actually designated pollution controls would be difficult to monitor and set standards for. yet. Once a vehicle is checked and it is determined it Industrial growth moratoriums would be placed on types of industry which emit hydrocarbons into the fails because of too high emission levels the owner would be responsible for making corrections to bring atmosphere. In Davis County the major contributors are oil refineries which Evenson said would not be it up to standard. allowed expansion or new growth. Evenson said the owner would be given a list of Ozone violations in Davis County have averaged possible adjustments which could help to reduce the since 1975 in the range of 0.15 to 0.20 parts per million. emission levels in the car. The list would be divided The national standard for ozone levels average at 0.02 between what affects carbon monoxide and what to 0.04 parts per million. affects hydrocarbon emissions. He said that if an owner wants a more specific Evenson explained that the readings are taken on a hourly basis, and the violations are determined from answer to exactly what in his vehicle is causing the the range consistently in violation. high emission level he would have to have another Ozone is monitored because it is an indicator test run by a private garage. chemical and its presence will indicate the presence This would involve having good diagnostic of other potentially dangerous substances. Evenson equipment hooked up to the vehicle to determine said when ozone is at high levels the other substances where the problem was, he said. Once this was completed and repairs were finished, are at levels which could be hazardous to the health of the vehicle owner would return to the inspection county residents. He said ozone is created through photochemical reactions of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The EPA has set four approaches to controlling the Without advertising, hydrocarbon emissions in the county. These include a terrible thing the I & M program, industrial emission controls, Jiappens emission vehicle systems by improvements in manufacturers, and various mass transit systems. Nothing. ".The I & M program could reduce the ozone problem to a 13.7 in the 1987, according county by percent by By LUCINDA M. SCHUFT nt nt nt Man Faces Theft Charges TKAYSVILLE ' registration. Air Force Many people do not realize that the number of aircraft in the Army inventory qualifies it as one of the largest air forces in the world, Col. Burke Harrell, professor of military science at Weber State College, said today. The Army has a great need for highly qualified The proposed plan at this time hinges on control of the program through vehicle registration renewals. Evenson said this is not firm yet but is felt to be the most effective approach since not all vehicles in the county will be affected by the program. Cost to vehicle owners for this program could range e from $7.50 for a inspection without repairs to $100 if major repairs were needed to bring the vehicle into standard. Evenson said the health department believes the inaverage cost to a vehicle owner who has a vehicle fail 'and motivated the first inspection and pass the second with minor dividuals to its airfly repairs would be around $22. craft, he added. Vehicle owners whose vehicles fail the inspection To qualify for the Army could be required to put a maximum of $75 to $100 in programs, the flight repairs on their vehicles and bring them into com- applicant must pass the pliance. flight physical, which He said once this was done and the vehicle still allows for vision to be 0 failed inspection the owner would be eligible for a correctable to waiver on the inspection by coming to the health and pass the written flight department for an interview. test. If the applicant He said the major reasons these could be granted passes both tests, he or would involve cases where ring and valve jobs were she is then qualified to needed to bring the vehicle into compliance. attend Army Flight He said automobile owners who have tampered School at Fort Rucker, with or removed emission control devices on their Ala., after graduation vehicles would be caught with this program. These from the Officer Basic people are already in violation of existing state law Course. and would be required to replace or remount these inFor detailed devices, he said. formation, contact Maj. 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