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Show Air quality hearing tonight A proposal for vehicle emission testing in Utah County will be considered at a public hearing tonight fit 7 p.m. at the American - Fork High iehool. 1 A'ft'-r hearing will held toiiibrrow night at the Pfovo City Center. According to Glade S. Shelley, environment health supervisor for Utah County, county residents will have to have cars tested annually to see that they meet air pollution standards. The testing program proposed for Utah County is similar to those already being used in Salt Lake and Davis Counties. Shelley said the county will be required to follow En-vironmentalProtection En-vironmentalProtection Agency standards 'or' ,the .testin?. but said public comment might be used to modify the proposed plan. The EPA allows a community to exceed nine parts of carbon monoxide per million parts of air only once a year. The Provo-Orem area exceeds the standard about 25 times a year, Shelley said. |