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Dear Members of the California Air Resources Board:

Northwest Excavating has helped build our communities
infrastructure for over 45 years.  We have been a positive
influence in our community.  We have supplied jobs, benefits and
education to our employees. We have also supported our local
venders for many years, not to mention taxes to the State of
California.

We maintain a clean fleet of on road and off road trucks and
equipment.  We have a variety of equipment, some new and some
older machines.  Most of our new machines will not meet the new
regulations.  When we made our purchases, we relied on the
standards that applied to us at that time.  It is unfair to
require us to retrofit or replace equipment that was legal when we
bought it.  The cost of purchasing and repowering is in the
millions.  CARB has suggested that the cost of this regulation
will be passed on to our customers.  This is unrealistic. 
Increasing our expenses will overwhelm our already narrow profit
margin.

We can only ask that you take another look at the ramifications of
these new regulations.  Today’s economy and rising fuel cost will
make this hard to implement.  We want to do our part in cleaning
up the environment but we need to do it within a reasonable time
line.

We look forward to working with you to find a solution that
achieves the state’s air quality goals while keeping California’s
economy and business’s moving forward. 

Sincerely, 

Ron Nuss
Equipment Manager