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Document 166 of 228.
Copyright 1999 Denver Publishing Company
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
June
11, 1999, Friday
SECTION:
Business; Ed. FINAL; Pg. 8B
LENGTH:
240 words
HEADLINE:
DEBATE ON
SULFUR
CONTENT IN
GASOLINE
SET FOR DENVER
BYLINE:
Jerd Smith, News Staff Writer
BODY:
Proposed
regulations
designed to reduce the
sulfur
content in
gasoline
will be debated in Denver during a regional Environmental Protection Agency hearing Tuesday.
The rules are designed to reduce
sulfur
content in
gasoline
from 300 parts per million to 30 parts per million.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, 3203 Quebec St. in Denver.
The
regulations,
scheduled to be phased in beginning in 2004, are designed to dramatically reduce auto emissions and ensure the effectiveness of low-emission control technologies. California already has similar rules in place, said Dave Hirshfeld, president of the Bethesda, Md.-based consulting firm Mathpro Inc.
But the new national
sulfur
rules are causing concern among Rocky Mountain oil refiners and
gasoline
marketers who say the technologies used to remove the
sulfur
are unproven and the costs undoubtedly will be passed on to consumers, Hirshfeld said.
Mathpro will present a study it has conducted on the rules at a news conference Monday at 9 a.m. at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver. The study was sponsored by the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, which supports the new rules.
Hirshfeld said the rules are likely to cost Rocky Mountain oil refineries more to implement - roughly 3.5 cents to 4 cents a gallon - because the region's refineries are smaller and more isolated than others in the United States.
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