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Show Diesel owners to poy fees Harvey told the commission that there are about 3.000 diesel-powered diesel-powered vehicles in Davis County. "It may be a burden to get the program pro-gram started up front, but owners of diesel-engined vehicles will be paying pay-ing less in the long run." The state will have until 1993 to implement the program of testing diesel-driven vehicles for emission violations, and it needs a couple of years to obtain data, plan, experi-men) experi-men) and set up the proper procedures. pro-cedures. Harvey added that UTA buses, heavy trucks and school buses are some of the worst offenders of diesel fuel air pollution emissions in the county. "California started testing diesel vehicles in July at port-of-entries, and we can obtain data from that source to helps us set up a similar method of catching offenders in Utah," Harvey said. Commissioner Dub Lawrence asked about the trucks that use the freeway and only pass through Davis County and help raise the pollutants level. Harvey answered, saying only 40 percent of the trucks are from other areas and out of state. "Hopefjlly, they will be checked by California, as most trucks pass through that state," he said. L Lawrence questioned whether the ordinance could be approved with one of the three commissioners absent, ab-sent, but Chairman Gayle A. Stevenson said the process has been followed and discussed in several other meetings, and for the health and welfare of the citizens the ordinance or-dinance should be OK'd. He made the motion and it carried 2-0. By PAUL CHALLIS FARMINGTON The Davis County Commission has adopted an ordinance to enforce the collection of a $10 fee from owners of diesel-operated diesel-operated vehicles beginning on Jan. 1, 1991 to create a fund for future emission testing. According to Richard Harvey, state environmental officer from the Bureau of Air Quality, Wasatch Front (Salt Lake, Davis and Utah) counties are currently in violation of PM10 regulations, which monitor moni-tor the amount of toxins and other pollutants emitted from diesel fuels into the air that can be absorbed into people's lungs. The new federal Clean Air Act that goes into effect Jan. 1, 1992 will require metropolitan counties to comply with new air quality regulations or lose federal funding. Automobiles are already tested and monitored under new laws and diesel fuel driven vehicles, air polluting businesses and wood burning bur-ning stoves are targeted for future testing and control. |