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Hello, My name is Andy Recalde I am a lifetime California resident,
taxpayer, and a registered voter. I am employed as the Equipment
Manager for The Don Chapin Co. Inc. a family-owned general
engineering contractor that has been working in the Monterey Bay
Area since 1978 that currently employs 230 fellow Californians.

I am a member of the CARB Off-Road Implementation Advisory Group
known as ORIAG. I believe that I was selected because of my 25
years of experience with diesel powered on and off-road equipment
management.

Here is a list of concerns that should be addressed before any
further decisions are made by the Air Resources Board regarding the
on or off-road diesel emissions regulations.

1.	Compare the assumed quantity and horsepower of all diesel
powered equipment affected by the regulations to the actual numbers
now that we have actual data due to all of this equipment having
been registered. You have the correct information at your disposal
now, please use it appropriately.
2.	Compare the actual emissions output for each engine family that
you have in your records with the CARB minimum requirement
standards. You’ll find that the engine manufacturers have been
building engines that run cleaner than required. CARB staff used
the minimum standards in all their calculations which does not
reflect the true diesel emissions output in California. Here again
you have a huge database with very accurate information.
3.	Terminate Mr. Hein Thanh Tran’s employment with CARB and hire a
legitimate panel of scientists to review Mr. Tran’s estimated
premature deaths due to fine particulate matter that the new diesel
regulations used for justification.
4.	Adjust and change the on and off-road diesel regulations to
reflect the new accurate data that has been collected.

Thank you