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Engines in California Need Equipment Registration

All engines with at least 50 horsepower are required by Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District to be registered in the statewide Portable Equipment Registration Program (PERP).  This scheme is being managed by the California Air Resources Board to make certain that every automobile in the district follows the air regulation requirement. 

Deputy Air Pollution Control Officer Paul Hensleigh said, “Time is running out for owners and operators of unregistered or non-permitted portable engines and equipment.”  The registration of older types of engines will take place for a certain period of time.

There are certain requirements that must be met before an engine obtains a permit.   First, the engine must have existed in California from March 4 of 2004 to October 1 of 2006.  Second, the engine must comply with emission standards set by authorities.  To secure a PERP permit, an engine must acquire a strict emission standard of at least Tier 1. 

On the other hand, engines that would not be able to meet the emission standard are still allowed to function until the first of January 2010.  Using these unregistered engines beyond the grace period will make the owners pay stern fines.

Being a public health agency, Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District is committed in promoting the welfare, especially the health, of human beings.  The engine registration program is certainly in line with their duty to safeguard the health of people from the detrimental consequences of air pollution.  “Estimates of the cumulative emissions reductions will result in fewer premature deaths, fewer hospital admissions due to respiratory causes and cardiovascular causes and fewer cases of asthma-related and other lower respiratory symptoms," said Hensleigh.