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Subject: California Smog Law Bill
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:28:35 -0500
Don't know how much you all know about this, but I thought I'd pass it on.
I picked this up off the Spitfire list which got it from a Porche list.

John

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>This is from Gary on the Porsche 356 list.  Looks like it is now a 
>manditory smog test for cars over 30 years old that are driven over 12,000 
>miles a year.  All the more reason for me to keep at least two of my three 
>30+ year old cars that I drive every day - to keep them under 12,000 per 
>year.
>
>Jay
>
>Subject: SB 708
>From:    "GARY ERBECK" <gwerbeck@earthlink.net>
>Date:    Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:47:01 -0800
>
>Thought I'd forward this reply from Senator Florez on his bill to clean up 
>the air in the San Joaquin Valley.
>
>Thank you for contacting my office and sharing your thoughts on SB708. In 
>January of this year, I was appointed Chairman of the Senate Select 
>Committee on Air Quality in the Central Valley. To date, the committee has 
>conducted four hearings and nine more are scheduled to be held this year. 
>After all the hearings, a report to the legislature will be submitted 
>detailing the committee's findings from the hearings. 
>
>Why have I undertaken this initiative to clean up our air? Air pollutants 
>in the San Joaquin Valley have gone up 17 percent in the last three years 
>alone. According to the Los Angeles Times, air pollution is to blame for 
>more deaths in the San Joaquin Valley in the last three years than car 
>accidents and murders combined. The San Joaquin Valley has surpassed Los 
>Angeles as the worst air basin in the state and the second worst in the 
>country. The asthma rate for children in Fresno County is the highest in 
>California - twice that of Los Angeles and triple the national average. 
>Without swift and decisive intervention, this problem promises to escalate 
>into a public health crisis, if it isn't already.
>
>In response to this, I have introduced ten bills targeted at cleaning the 
>air in the San Joaquin Valley. SB708 is one of those bills. 
>Unfortunately,what much of the public does not understand is that SB708 is 
>a work in progress, and amendments have been written since the original 
>version was first circulated. Our bill has two important objectives. First 
>and foremost, I want to get the worst gross polluters off the road, to 
>mitigate ozone emissions into the air. Second, I am working hard to 
>preserve and protect the rights of car owners who keep well-maintained 
>older vehicles, many of them classic cars, as enacted in SB 42.
>
>SB708, with our most recent amendments, will require vehicles over 30 
>years old which are driven 12,000 or more miles a year to get a smog 
>check. Cars which are not used as a primary vehicle, driven on a dailty 
>basis, should not fall under this definition. The collector car industry 
>representatives we have worked with so far agree that this is a fair 
>compromise which protects collectors and hobbyists, while cutting down on 
>auto emissions.
>
>My staff and I have worked diligently on this issue. We have conducted 
>more than 30 hours of meetings on the subject, returned hundreds of phone 
>calls and collaborated with prominent people within the classic car 
>industry - even Jay Leno himself. Steve Davis, one of the leaders of the 
>initiative that became SB42, has worked closely with our office to craft 
>SB708 in a way that protects the classic car hobbyist and targets only 
>gross polluters. We are confident that the amended SB708 will prevent 
>gross polluters from taking advantage of SB42 and undermining the purpose 
>of the 30-year rolling exemption.
>
>I thank you for your input and your willingness to participate in our 
>effotrs to clean the San Joaquin Valley air basin.
>
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