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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas environmental regula
tors unanimously agreed Wednesday to adopt fed
eral auto-emission standards favored by the in
dustry instead of tougher standards favored by
Gov. George W. Bush and environmentalists.
But members of the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission (TNRCC) said the deal
they have struck with automakers could become a
national model.
Auto manufacturers have agreed in writing to
voluntarily equip new passenger vehicles with the
same pollution-fighting parts required in Califor
nia, the commission said.
The automakers also promised to make alterna
tive vehicles such as electric cars available.
"We set the national standard to not only have
cleaner air for Texas but for the entire country," said
Jeff Saitas, the commission's executive director.
Texas is the nation's second-largest new auto
buying market, estimated at upward of $30 billion
a year.
California leads the nation in new sales.
Under the federal Clean Air Act, states can
choose from the two standards. Each is slightly dif
ferent but both phase in cleaner vehicles.
"There is a big victory that happened here today
because of the commission having stood up and
saying we want to adopt the same evaporative
standards as California," said Tom Smith, execu
tive director of Texas Public Citizen, a government
watchdog group.
"They may have forced a national change in the
cars sold across the nation, and they should be
complimented on their courage," he said.
But Smith was disappointed with the overall de
cision, saying adopting the entire California plan
would have gone further to solve long-term pollu
tion problems in Texas, where Houston surpassed
Los Angeles last year as the nation's smoggiest city.
By adopting the federal standard, "They're only
solving the short-term pollution problem and not
the long-term problem of global warming gases
and the small particles that are choking our lungs,"
Smith said.
The commissioners said the agreement, ap
proved by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), would bring cleaner cars, pickup
trucks and sport utility vehicles toTexas beginning
in 2004.
New equipment would cut emissions from
sport-utility vehicles by 95 percent, and on new
“There is a big victory
that happened here to
day because of the com
mission having stood
up and saying we want
to adopt the same
evaporative standards
as California”
— Tom Smith
executive director of Texas Public Citizen
cars and light trucks by 77 percent.
The cost to consumers is projected at about $200
per vehicle.
TNRCC's three commissioners are appointees
of Bush, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee.
In December, he asked them to consider the Cal
ifornia plan, which requires the sale of some "zero-
emission vehicles," such as cars powered by elec
tricity.
Bush was satisfied with the plan approved
Wednesday, said spokesperson Mike Jones.
"Gov. Bush asked TNRCC to be bold and inno
vative in finding the best solution forTexait
they've come up with a solution that hastk!
parts of both the national and the Californiaf j
Jones said. "In the next few years, we
cleaner fuel and better cars on the streets of 15
Saitas last month recommended the federal
dards to the commissioners, saying extensive!
sis showed those requirements are better!*
state's immediate needs, including reducing
causing nitrogen oxide by a 2007 federal dea!
The commissioners on Wednesday also**
mended that Bush designate Austin, SanArt
Longview, Tyler and Marshall as nonclassi’
zones for measuring ozone levels, meaning
cannot be properly monitored and arenotsr
to federal penalties.
Environmentalists had been pushing for*
tainment designations in those areas, meanini
regularly violate the federal government's'
hour standard for ozone.
Such a designation would require thosetf
work harder to cut air pollution or facep* 11
ranging from a loss of federal highwayf>
rewriting their pollution-control plans.
The commissioners cited a pending
court challenge over the law for its decision,
as current, aggressive ozone-reducing measi
those areas.
The cities will be required to develop ait
ty improvement plans before federal deadl*
Houston, Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth,
mont and Port Arthur areas were again cl*'
as nonattainment cities.
"The last thing they want to do is declaf*
tional counties nonattainable when Gov.Ge« ,:
Bush is running for president," Smith said'
"We shouldn't be playing politics wi^
pie's lives," agreed Ramon Alvarez of E* 1
mental Defense.
Bush has 30 days to accept or reject th
mission's decision, then seek EPA approval