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Committee advances plan to study removing Lake, Porter counties from emissions-testing region
Summary
Senate Bill 103, amended to create a process and timeline for evaluating whether Lake and Porter counties can be removed from the Region 5 vehicle-emissions testing requirement, passed the House Environmental Affairs Committee; IDEM will conduct a comprehensive ambient air-quality evaluation and recommend pollution reduction strategies.
The House Environmental Affairs Committee voted unanimously to advance Senate Bill 103 as amended, directing the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to perform a comprehensive evaluation of ambient air quality and to identify pollution-reduction strategies that could allow Lake and Porter counties to exit the Region 5 vehicle-emissions testing program.
Senate Bill 103 was described by its sponsor as a multi-step process intended to give northwest Indiana residents relief from a vehicle-emissions testing requirement that has applied to portions of Lake and Porter counties since about 1993. Chairman Niemeyer said the region’s…
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