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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is currently considering
the adoption of an on-road diesel truck and bus regulation that if
implemented as presently drafted would have a profound, negative
impact on California's economy.

My company supports improving the state's air quality.  However,
the Board's proposed regulation places a significant economic risk
on our businesstoday, which is already under stress from the recent
financial crisis.  

CARB is proposing this multi-milloin dollar regulation during the
worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and small
business are struggling to make ends meet.  Companies like mine are
being asked to dispose of equipment and assets before their useful
life has been completed and purchase new equipment before it would
otherwise be aquired.  A combination of this proposed rule and the
state of the economy have left trade-in or resale value of our
equipment worth pennies on the dollar.  My company and others like
us simply don't have the resources or access to capital to retrofit
our engines.  Some of us may be forced to sell off our trucks at a
loss or shutter our companies doors, ultimately costing jobs and
revenue to the states economy.

Given the multi-billion dollar cost of this regulation and the
current volatile economic environment, please support the
alternative proposal proposed by the Driving Toward Cleaner
California Coalition that would give companies like mine the
opportunity to comply in the most reasi=onable timeframe and
flexible manner possible while still attaining aggressive emission
reductions.  In fact CARB's own similar analysis of the DTCC
alternative confirms that the DTCC alternative proposal achieves
roughly similar emissions benefits to the proposed regulation in
the long term. 

Thank you for your consideration.