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Show LPoDDdflflodBon Rta7 'si! Farts BOUNTIFUL Some Wasatch Front Counties, notably no-tably Salt Lake, could stand to lose a lot of federal aid money if vehicle pollution inspect-tion inspect-tion guidelines aren't quickly established. THAT DISCOURAGING, word came to members of the five-county Wasatch Front Regional Council planning agency, that includes Davis County, as they met in a special session late last week. Under federal guidelines, a state implementation plan coverine a vehicle emission inspection program must be in force, or, WFRC members! hope, a reasonable attempt to that end, by June 30. If not, sanctions could be levied against those counties affected, affect-ed, including Davis, Weber, Salt Lake and Utah. FEDERAL MONIES could be cut to projects including a sewage treatment plants and freeways proposed for Salt Lake County. Other counties, including Davis, would not suffer serious cutbacks, at least immediately, members were told. But it isn't as though the state has been dragging its feet, on the matter, either. WFRC Executive Director Wijbur Jeffries said, "The state implementation plan provides that it will be required in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties and would be implemented through the legislature." SUCH A measure was proposed in the last legislature, legisla-ture, passed the Senate but never made it to the House floor, he continued. The law states an implementation program must be implement-ed implement-ed within two years (by 1982). If that deadline can't be met, then sanctions could be taken. ' "We could implement it in two years," he said, assuming assum-ing the measure could be taken before the next legisla- ture, a budget session that-could that-could include other matters at , the governor's discretion. AT PRESENT, indications point to the ability to meet carbon monoxide levels in all but Salt Lake County by 1982 and ozone levels in all but Davis and Salt Lake counties, Mr. Jeffries said. "If the state continues work for implementation, will that be sufficient to avoid sanctions?" sanc-tions?" He said some officials have talked of allowing local officials of-ficials (county commissioners) commis-sioners) the option of implementing a local inspection inspec-tion program. "1 don't know if we could make it or not. What if one county does and others don't (pass such a system into law)? 1 SUGGEST local officials get together and decide if they want to get behind the state and legislature," he said. "I think time is of the' essence. A decision has to get to EPA (Federal Environmental Environ-mental Protection Agency) so they can say if it (implementation (implemen-tation plan) is acceptable and avoid sanctions." But the best way to solve the problem is through state action, he said. At the same time, other officials urged working through state channels chan-nels first before acting by individual in-dividual counties. "IT WAS the wish of Transcom (WFRC transportation transpor-tation subcommittee) to refer this back to the governor and see if he can get a special session or work with EPA," said Bountiful Mayor Elmer Barlow. "As last resort we can come back to the counts but I think EPA will givtj ;more time if we comt br' that way." to |