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Show Vehicle Emission Proffmm Ready To Befin April 1 By TOM BUSSELBERG North County Editor FARMINGTON April Fool's Day may be less than three weeks away, but with that dubious date approaching, so nears the start of the Davis County vehicle inspection and maintenance program. BY FORCE of law, motorists must obtain an inspection from any of about 60 certified inspection stations certifying a "clean bill of health" for their "vehicle's emission' start- 7' dards-at least to an acceptable point depending de-pending on car or truck age, excepting diesel vehicles. As outlined by Richard Harvey, county environmental health director, the necessary neces-sary government forms are due to arrive this week and will be mailed with vehicle registration reg-istration forms for those needing to renew in April. SPEAKING TO the board of health Tuesday Tues-day morning, Mr. Harvey emphasized a red inked notation motorists should note on the forms to be distributed. It urges those thinking think-ing the inspection wasn't conducted to county standards or feel they were overcharged over-charged to contact the county environmental environmen-tal health department. Citing plaudits already received for Davis County's I&M program, Delane McGar-vey, McGar-vey, who's administering it, quoted a Weber We-ber State College professor who indicated it was rated top in the nation behind the California Cali-fornia State program because of its philosophy philoso-phy to help vehicles mechanically function at their peak while hopefully improving air quality. MOTORISTS WILL have six months prior to their registration date to complete the I&M testing and any needed repairs, the health board was told, with a $9 station inspection in-spection fee plus $1 to the county assessor's office standard charges although Mr. Harvey Har-vey said stations may compete to lower their fee. Repairs would be extra. Signs carrying a new logo will be posted at participating service stations and garages within the next few weeks, he added. IN OTHER business. Mr. Harvey, in an update of the controversial resource recovery recov-ery plant proposal, said city councils and others may not realize the problems being found with landfills, such as has occured at HAFB. Some $1 million has been spent there in the past three months with another $2 million anticipated, to reduce acid migration, migra-tion, he said. "I'm very pessimistic we will have the ' problem' in the" future," he said, adding, "what was a very inexpensive landfill for HAFB isn't now." IN ADDITION, Mr. Harvey said while Bountiful may feel they have some leverage because of Bay Area Refuse Disposal land ownership, Layton, whose council opposed joining the resource recovery plant project, would have little option. "What they (city officials) don't realize is that the EPA eventually will clamp down on permits. The cost for land gets more and more expensive," County Com. Harry Ger-lach Ger-lach explained, while the "physical problems" prob-lems" of mixing garbage into wet environment environ-ment must be dealt with. "IT'S NOT just air quality" that's a concern, con-cern, Mr. Harvey said further, reiterating state authorization has been received for the plant's construction in Clearfield although a group of neighbors is opposing further action towards the plant's fruition. Requiring acid scrubbers and dry scrubbing scrub-bing "wouldn't be functionally feasible," however, he said of the present ruling, adding "I'm sure we will have to have some volumn reduction in the solid waste program". "THE STATE is requiring the most stringent strin-gent requirements in the U.S. that we could find-l'm interested to see what this all will mean," Mr. Harvey said, indicating "there isn't an existing facility that has an acid scrubber." expressing feelings that the philosophy phi-losophy behind such requirements comes from the "highest levels of state government". |