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Dear CARB Members--

I am pleading with you, in the name of my three year old
daughter's health and the health of all children in California's
central valley, to reject the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution
Control District's extreme non-attainment/air quality delay
tactic. Their actions are not based in law and are immoral. At
every turn they have sought to distort,limit, reject, or refuse to
implement meaningful strategies for meeting the current 2013
deadline for compliance with clean air laws. The real purpose of
the local air board in the central valley is to run interference
for big ag and big business. By refusing to require implementation
of new generation catalytic converters, they bow to the trucking
industry. By refusing to remove all diesel pumps and to make
meaningful pesticide regulations, they bow to ag interests. By
refusing to implement strict standards on in-use off road heavy
equipment, they bow to the construction industry. (In the interest
of space I will not continue a long list of similar actions.)In
each case they abuse language regarding the "fesibility" of
technologies for controlling air pollution in order to save ag and
business interests the costs of complying with air quality
regulations.

But what are the costs to my daughter's lungs? What is the dollar
value of the children who have asthma attacks? Who are
hospitalized? Who die?

Please, I am pleading with you, to take a principled stand and
protect us from our local air board. They have been negligent. I
ask you to be responsible and responsive to the air quality public
health crisis that the SJVAPCD largely ignores.

Michael Becker