Port of Los Angeles will next week present to the Los Angeles Harbour Commission a plan to progressivly ban of older trucks from operation at the port, beginning in October 2008.

If approved by the commission, the proposed new tariff will also require mayoral and city council approval by adoption as a city ordinance. Port of Long Beach Harbour Commissioners will deliberate a similar ban at an October 29.

Tariff requirements will enable the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reduce port-related truck pollution by approximately 80 percent over a period of just over five years.