BAGUIO CITY – The city government will push for the
standardization of the testing benchmarks and procedures in the conduct of
smoke emission tests for adoption by both the government and private testing
centers.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan said this was the agreement
reached to put to rest the doubt and questions on the credibility of the city’s
Roadside Inspection, Testing and Monitoring Team (RITMT) operation which the
mayor suspended recently.
City environment and parks management
officer-in-charge Cordelia Lacsamana said they are now framing the guidelines
for the synchronized motor specification engine particularly the average
maximum RPM (revolutions per minute) standard of vehicles during the testing
and procedures in the conduct of the tests in collaboration with the Land
Transportation Office and the Technical Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
representatives.
Once finalized, these guidelines will be contained
in a memorandum of agreement to be signed by all the stakeholders including the
transport groups, line agencies and the private emission testing centers for
implementation.
Lacsamana said the guidelines will address the
tachometer requirement which came out as one of the causes of the disparity
between the city RITMT test results and those of the private companies.
Domogan said they also agreed that the transport
group and private testing centers will be given representation in the RITMT
committee to involve them in the emission testing concerns.
He said the city will resume the RITMT operations
as the issues are now being addressed and warned private emission testing
centers that will continue to defy the standardized procedures in the conduct
of the tests that the city will invoke its police power to stop their business
operation.
Domogan said this is in line with his
administration’s program to continue improving the city’s air quality as part
of his thrust for green governance in his new term as city executive. – Aileen P. Refuerzo
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