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HOUSE BILL NO. 482<br /> – Vehicle inspection/maintenance prog

HOUSE BILL NO. 482

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H0482.................................by ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
AIR QUALITY - Adds to existing law relating to air quality to provide for
vehicle inspection and maintenance programs.

02/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/08    Rpt prt - to Env

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 482

                      BY ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO AIR QUALITY; AMENDING CHAPTER 1, TITLE  39,  IDAHO  CODE,  BY  THE
  3        ADDITION  OF  A  NEW  SECTION  39-116B, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR VEHICLE
  4        INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS, TO PROVIDE FOR  REGISTRATION  REVOCA-
  5        TION  OF CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES BY THE IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, TO
  6        PROVIDE FOR PERIODIC REVIEW OF AIR QUALITY DATA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVI-
  7        RONMENTAL QUALITY AND TO CLARIFY APPLICABILITY.

  8    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

  9        SECTION 1.  That Chapter 1, Title 39, Idaho Code,  be,  and  the  same  is
 10    hereby  amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and des-
 11    ignated as Section 39-116B, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:

 12        39-116B.  VEHICLE INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS. (1) The board shall
 13    initiate rulemaking to provide for  the  implementation  of  a  motor  vehicle
 14    inspection  and  maintenance program to regulate and ensure control of the air
 15    pollutants and emissions from motor vehicles if the  director  determines  the
 16    following conditions are met:
 17        (a)  An  airshed, as defined by the department, within a metropolitan sta-
 18        tistical area, as defined by the United States office  of  management  and
 19        budget,  has ambient concentration design values equal to or above eighty-
 20        five percent (85%) of a national ambient air quality  standard  for  three
 21        (3) consecutive years starting with the 2005 design value; and
 22        (b)  The  department determines air pollutants from motor vehicles consti-
 23        tute one (1) of the top two  (2)  emission  sources  contributing  to  the
 24        design value of eighty-five percent (85%).
 25        (2)  The  board  shall  establish  by rule minimum standards for the motor
 26    vehicle inspection and maintenance program  established  under  this  section,
 27    which shall provide for:
 28        (a)  Counties  and  cities  within the airshed that will be subject to the
 29        motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program;
 30        (b)  The requirements for licensing  authorized  inspection  stations  and
 31        technicians;
 32        (c)  The frequency with which inspections shall be required, provided that
 33        inspections shall occur every two (2) years at a minimum;
 34        (d)  The procedures under which authorized inspection stations and techni-
 35        cians inspect motor vehicles and issue evidence of compliance;
 36        (e)  The  criteria under which it is to be determined that a motor vehicle
 37        is eligible for a certificate of compliance;
 38        (f)  The parameters and diagnostic  equipment  necessary  to  perform  the
 39        required  inspection.  The  rules shall ensure that the equipment complies
 40        with any applicable standards of the United States  environmental  protec-
 41        tion agency;
 42        (g)  Any fee, bond or insurance which is necessary to carry out the provi-
 43        sions  of  this  section  and  to fund an air quality public awareness and

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  1        outreach program;
  2        (h)  The issuance of a pamphlet for distribution to owners of motor  vehi-
  3        cles explaining the reasons for and the methods of the inspections; and
  4        (i)  The  granting  of  a waiver from the minimum standards as provided by
  5        rule, which may be based on model year, fuel, size, or other factors.
  6        (3)  The director shall attempt to enter into a joint exercise  of  powers
  7    agreement  under  sections 67-2326 through 67-2333, Idaho Code, with the board
  8    of county commissioners of each county in which a motor vehicle inspection and
  9    maintenance program is required under this section, and the councils of incor-
 10    porated cities within those counties, to develop a standardized inspection and
 11    maintenance program. If the board of county commissioners or the  councils  of
 12    incorporated  cities within those counties fail to enter into a joint exercise
 13    of powers agreement with the director within one hundred twenty (120) days  of
 14    the director's written request to enter into a joint exercise of powers agree-
 15    ment, the department or its designee shall implement the motor vehicle inspec-
 16    tion  and maintenance program required pursuant to the provisions of this sec-
 17    tion.
 18        (4)  The Idaho transportation department shall revoke the registration  of
 19    any motor vehicle identified by the department or its designee, or any city or
 20    county  administering  a program established under the provisions of this sec-
 21    tion as having failed to comply with such motor vehicle inspection and mainte-
 22    nance program, except that no vehicle shall be identified to the Idaho  trans-
 23    portation department unless:
 24        (a)  The  department  or  its designee, or the city or county certifies to
 25        the Idaho transportation department that the owner of  the  motor  vehicle
 26        has been given notice and had the opportunity for a hearing concerning the
 27        program  and has exhausted all remedies and appeals from any determination
 28        made at such hearing; and
 29        (b)  The department reimburses the Idaho transportation department for all
 30        direct costs associated with the registration revocation procedure.
 31        (5)  Every five (5) years beginning with the implementation  of  the  pro-
 32    gram, the department shall review the air quality data and determine whether a
 33    program  initially  established  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this section
 34    should be continued, modified or terminated.
 35        (6)  Electric or hybrid motor vehicles shall  be  exempt  from  any  motor
 36    vehicle  inspection and maintenance program established pursuant to the provi-
 37    sions of this section.
 38        (7)  Nothing in this section shall prohibit a county or city  from  estab-
 39    lishing a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program that is more strin-
 40    gent than the program provided for in this section.
 41        (8)  Nothing  in  this  section  shall affect how the department addresses
 42    nonattainment area motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                            RS 17838C1

This legislation provides authority to the Department of
Environmental Quality to establish a vehicle emission testing and
maintenance program to control air pollution emissions from
vehicles in air sheds that are approaching non-attainment with
applicable air quality standards and rules.


                           FISCAL NOTE

None to the general fund.  The costs of any such program will be
paid from fees collected from the auto emission testing program.





Contact
Name:  Representative Snodgrass
       Senator Langhorst
Phone: 332-1000
      

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                         H 482