- Introduced -

SB 822 - This act modifies the motor vehicle emission inspection program (I/M 240) for the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The inspections were authorized in SB 590, from 1994, but have not been implemented.

The act requires that the I/M 240 program including a remote sensing testing and approval system (known as Clean Screen) if including such system results in no more than a five percent loss of the air emission reduction credits granted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the I/M 240 program.

A vehicle shall be exempted from the I/M 240 inspection and approval requirement if it is determined by a remote sensing tester that such vehicle meets the requirements established by the Commission. The test and determination must be made within six months prior to the date of registration or registration renewal, unless a shorter period of time is required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

If a vehicle is determined to meet the remote sensing test emission standards, the tester shall mail a determination of compliance to the owner of the vehicle. If the owner pays the remote sensing test fee, which shall not exceed twenty-four dollars, the tester shall issue an emissions compliance certificate and an emissions compliance sticker to the vehicle owner. Use of the remote sensing clean screening program by vehicle owners is voluntary.

The remote sensing tester shall be allowed access motor vehicle registration records of the Department of Revenue in the same manner and to the same extent as is allowed for the contractor or contractors selected to provide the I/M 240 motor vehicle emissions inspection program.

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