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Our customers, our employees, our fellow platers urge CARB to
reconsider the bans on decorative hexavalent chromium plating, hard
hexavalent chromium plating, and chromic acid anodizing. The bans
would provide little, if any, environmental benefits, will not
decrease customer demands for hexavalent chromium plating and
anodizing, will impose undue economic hardships on California
plating shops, and will likely result in a net increase in
hexavalent chromium emissions. 

An emissions-based rule could continue the surface finishing
industry's long-standing record to reduce hexavalent chromium
emissions without imposing significant economic hardships on
California plating companies and the communities that they serve
with good paying jobs and financial contributions to local
businesses. 

We urge the committee to focus on the facts and overall impacts a
decision to ban this industry in California will honestly have. An
industry that has contributed to its success, been a loyal partner
and provided many opportunities to it's purveyors does not deserve
to be cancelled based on incomplete or speculative data. A ban is
not the answer in the overall goal of reducing emissions as it will
just shift elsewhere.