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Re: "Smog Check Phase II" in California, USA

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Subject: Re: "Smog Check Phase II" in California, USA
From: ingate@shiseis.com (Shane F. Ingate)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 14:28:38 PDT
Cc: ak627@dayton.wright.edu
Tom,

        >Thanks for the information you posted, but maybe there was not much 
action
        >last time because the warnings sound slightly over-wrought, especially 
the
        >`confiscate and crush' part.  The most drastic law that I've heard of 
in-
        >volves a refusal to license a gross polluter; that's a very long way 
from
        >confiscation, and all the Police State implications of using the latter
        >[snip]
        >Best regards,
        >Tom Tweed

Amen on talk-radio shows!  Perhaps my email was of the "doom-and-gloom"
variety, but looking at the traffic on the Alfa and Datsun lists (those
guys are taking it really seriously), then perhaps my rantings and ravings
are not misplaced.

Voluntary submission of vehicles to EPA for "crushing" and monetary
payback apparently is available only for the next 2 years, after which
there will be no monetary payback.

I am (trying) to look through the various bills appropriate for Smog Check II
to find the exact wording on the "confiscate and crush" part; Smog Check II is
scattered among several different bills passed by the California legislature:

        1) section 44000 of the Health & Safety Code, as amended by Chapter
           27, of the Statutes of 1994 
        2) Vehicle Code sections 4000.6 or 4000.7; 
        3) M-1 strategy of the 1994 State Implementation Plan (SIP); 
        4) SB 501, Calderon 10/16/95; 
        5) SB 521, Presley 3/94; 
        6) SB 629, Russell 3/94. There are more. 

Why so many bills?  Several reasons, among them to achieve extra bonus
credits allowed in HR 101, "Clean Air Act" passed by Congress on
11/15/90, and also to allow the Bureau of Auto Repairs & Department of
Consumer Affairs to prepare a State Implementation Procedure (SIP)
which, when completed needed only the signature of the Governor to
make it law, bypassing review by Legislature. Gov. Wilson signed the
SIP in June 1995.

I'm not a politician, bureaucrat, or have any vested interest in any
of these organizations.  I'm just a guy who "likes his old cars" (as
my neighbours kids put it).

        Shane Ingate
        "Dont want a pickle, just wanna drive my mooooooootorsickle" (A Guthrie)

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