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EPA rules may impact rail operations

Just two years ago, DMN was reporting UTA as buying 11 locomotives with EPA TIER 1 emissions, then the standad, as predicted in their EIS.

Did they magically metamorphose into TIER-2 locomotives???

Also, the Legislative Audit noted UTA buses producing 300 tons more NOx than they save. Dirty buses wipe out small gains from TRAX, vanpools.

The net result is, UTA produces 185 tons a year more NOx than it saves.

Enter commuter rail...It is worse than a fleet of buses for NOx pollution.

North FrontRunner extension will add 200 tons of and South FrontRunner extension over 150 tons, both net, of NOx a year into our air . (Utah DAQ considers 100 tons, a �major new source�. But, transit gets a pass to pollute.

The present 185-ton excess by UTA bus & TRAX will swell to over 500 excess tons of NOx pollution per year after both FrontRunner extensions are in operation.

Rather than being a part of the solution, UTA is part of the problem.

(UTA violated provisions of NEPA by hiding this 350+ ton jump in NOx in its Environmental Impact Statements for FrontRunner.)

UTA feels it has a duty to deceive you into buying expensive trains.