If the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has its way, Miami Valley drivers won't have to undergo E-Check after this year.

Ohio EPA Director Joe Koncelik said Tuesday the agency is recommending that the Ohio legislature drop E-Check in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas when the contract with Envirotest expires at the end of this year.
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The test will continue in Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland-Akron area has some of the highest ozone levels in the country, and the state is under a federal mandate to keep vehicle emissions testing in that area, the state EPA said.

The agency will recommend that the test be modified there, however, so cars that are four years or younger will be exempt from the test. The current rule exempts cars two years or younger.

--Dayton Daily News

That's good news for Dayton and Cincinnati residents but I still have to think that there's a better way to do things in the Cleveland-Akron area.