Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 18/09/1995

Inspection/Maintenance Flexibility Amendments

Today's action revises the motor vehicle Inspection/ Maintenance (I/M) Program Requirements. EPA announced its intent to amend the I/M Program Requirements in December 1994 and held stakeholders' meetings on January 24, 1995 and January 31, 1995. This action creates an additional, less stringent enhanced I/M performance standard which allows areas that can meet the 1990 Clean Air Act requirements for Reasonable Further Progress and attainment to implement an I/M program that falls below the originally promulgated enhanced I/M performance standard. Because the new low enhanced I/M performance standard eliminates the need for the special enhanced performance standard for El Paso, Texas, today's action repeals that special performance standard. This action also revises the high enhanced I/M performance standard to include a visual inspection of the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) valve on all light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks from model years 1968 to 1971, inclusive, and of the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve on all light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks from model years 1972 through 1983, inclusive. The low enhanced performance standard contains similar testing