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Dear Chairman Nichols,

As a pediatrician and director of the pediatric asthma program for
a 6-office community clinic organization caring for over 7000
children, I urge you and the California Air Resources Board to
support AB 32, the Administrative Fee regulation.

This Administrative Fee regulation will have a great and positive
impact on both individual health (children with asthma, for
example) and on the health of our planet's ecosystem. The stable
funding source it provides is vital, literally health-protecting
and life-saving. Opponents, I believe, are looking at this fee
through a lens focused on a too-narrow view of the public and
private good. We must pay, sooner or later...either now for
prevention...or later and much more for trying to correct the
damage to our health and environment. 

I thank you for your consideration and attention to this issue and
urge you to adopt the AB 32 administrative fee.

   Robert Vinetz, MD, FAAP
   Los Angeles, California