[Don]

Renew1........great find on what is happening with the DEP !

From some research I had done earlier this year

With great assistance from the Support Services Dept of the CT DMV, I was able to obtain the number of Composites registered in CT by year. The recap does not include motorcycles, just Code 01 which is Passenger. Number does include all types of Composites such as T-Buckets etc. Included also are the spelling and abbreviation variations of " Composite "

The hard copy report was dated 10-01-2005 and an updated version will be available early in January, 2007. By viewing the existing printed report at the Wethersfield office, I did not have to request the data via FOI @ $0.25 a page for 600 pages:

1950 to 1960: 5
1961 to 1969: 17
1970 to 1979: 12
1980 to 1989: 74
1990 to 1999: 70
2000: 14
2001: 20
2002: 17
2003: 19
2004: 15
2005: 16 ( as of 10-01-05 )

2000 to 2005: 101

Total of 289



Assuming another 25 registered in the remaining months of 2005 and all of 2006, there would be approx 214 Composites of all types in CT, which does not include motorcycles. With the drving season being about 7 or 8 months and limited mileage of each Composite in the low thousands, the impact on air quality for tighter Composite standards on new registrations after January 2007 ....none

If I do not receive a reply by next week from the inquiries I made regarding the 2007 standards, I will contact the Chief of Staff in the DEP Commissioner's office.