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I believe that the regulations will come faster than we can keep up
with. I sold 19 Caterpillar twin engine scrapers (657B and 657E) 7
of which I repowered through stste grant money to tier 1, those
machines that I repowered would not be considered clean by the new
regulations. I then purchased 15 Caterpillar off-road end dump rock
trucks. I did this partly to try to stay ahead of the up and
comming regulations. We are currently repowering the 4 oldest
machines (those being tier 1) with tier 3 engines. 10 of these new
machines are tier 2, and 1 is tier 3. This all sounds pretty good I
have done a lot to stay ahead and to help clean the air, but with
the new regulations I will only be good until 2012 then I will
need to start repowering or replacing machines at the rate of 1.5
per year. That sounds pretty extreme.. 
They say that we need to act very quickly to save lives. I grew up
in Covina, ca. from 1968 to 1991. The smog was so thick that we
regularly couldn't play during recess at school or during the
summer our mother would make us stay inside the house because if
we played outside we couldn't breath because of the smog. We would
regularly have 3rd stage smog alerts. 30 years later with the
population doubled and we only have 1 to 2 1st stage smog alerts a
year it sounds like we have made trememdous progress towards
cleaner air. Why can't we now set a pace that is workable to all
affected by these new regulations. Thank You.