Monday, March 01, 1999
E-check to be a bit kinder on cars today
Responding to vehicle owners' complaints, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) initiates modified emissions tests today at the 13 E-check stations in Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont counties.
Hours also are changing.
OEPA spokeswoman Heidi Griesmer said employees now will accelerate cars and light trucks to 25-30 mph instead of the 57 mph that upset so many owners.
This is the first step in a plan to improve the tests by MARTA Technologies, OEPA's Southwest Ohio contractor.
By Jan. 1, MARTA will have new equipment and software to allow quicker tests on dynanometer rollers, Ms. Griesmer said.
New, shorter hours will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Those changes, however, will not affect the most common complaint: that the $19.50 biennial tests are an unnecessary and costly way to catch the possibly 15 percent of cars and light trucks that do not meet federal emissions standards.
OEPA said it adopted E-check to reduce the raw materials of smog by cleaning up vehicle exhausts.
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