A letter was written by California Assembly member Anthony Portantino on February 23, 2009 and was sent to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Portantino is the Assembly member of the Forty-Fourth District. In it he is requesting that the Governor issue an executive order delaying implementation of the California Air Resources Board EVR Phase II regulation scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2009.
The upcoming debacle will not only immediately close a lot of low volume gas stations but high volume stations as well as any car washes with gasoline islands will not be able to comply as well. Currently over 50% of the 13,000 gasoline stations are anticipated not to be able to meet the imposed deadline.
This is currently a very hot subject being discussed between the California Air Resources Board and California service station owners. Andre van der Valk has been given the opportunity to speak before the CARB board meeting being held on Thursday, February 26, 2009 board at their Sacramento headquarters. It is during the public agenda part of the meeting, and the board does not have to respond to any of his concerns if they choose to do so.
Below this blog is the alert article I wrote last week about this issue.
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