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We need five additional years for implementation and we need
another $200 Million per year in Carl Moyer-type state funding.

As owners of off-road diesel equipment, we want cleaner air and in
the past 5 years regional contractors have voluntarily reduced over
3,787 tons of pollution annually.  But the CARB staff proposed rule
forces 18 years of changes (as originally planned in 2000) into
only 12 years.  This cannot be done without laying off employees
and could even result in our company leaving the state or going
out of business entirely – which means the loss of many high-wage
jobs.

We need five more years for the required emissions technology to
become available and to allow us to be able to afford such costly
equipment purchases and retrofits.  Restoring five years to the
implementation timeframe will give engine manufacturers time to
catch-up with California’s progressive air quality standards and
help us amortize the massive expense of purchasing new equipment
over a longer period, as our own equipment lenders are urging.

The $9 billion cost of CARB staff’s proposal will have a
devastating impact on construction companies that employ nearly
one million Californians and significantly reduce the buying power
of the Governor’s $43 billion infrastructure bonds the people of
California approved in November – fewer roads, schools, housing
and levees will be built.