| First Name: | Robert |
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| Last Name: | Johnston |
| Email Address: | rajohnston@ucdavis.edu |
| Affiliation | University of California, Davis |
| Subject | Woodsmoke Reduction Draft Guidelines |
| Comment |
You will get more participation in stove changeouts if you include some sort of actual regulation in there. Forget about Guidelines, as they do not work well. Wood smoke kills thousands of people per yr in Calif. Get serious. I suggest that you start off with incentives only and that after say 5 years, a rule kicks in that requires all property owners to remove any wood-burning device on resale of the dwelling or commercial property. The second part should be that after say 15 years all such devices must be removed. Pellet stoves are wood burning. In Truckee 15 years ago, we had a successful changeout program that scaled the incentives to how clean they were. We gave out something like $500 for a gas log, $300 for a pellet burner, and $100 for a Stage II USEPA wood stove. Most people took the $500 and installed gas logs. We had good cooperation from the stove sellers in the area too. This program to incentivize gas logs will run into the problem that for new construction in Calif. now or soon you can't install gas lines, I believe. So, it will apply only to existing construction. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2022-11-08 12:05:45 |
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