1995 SESSION 0780L
95-0869
05/02
SENATE BILL 136-FN-LOCAL
AN ACT excluding Strafford county from motor vehicle emissions testing and relative to adding counties to the motor vehicle emissions testing program.
SPONSORS: Sen. Lovejoy, Dist 6; Sen. Fraser, Dist 4; Sen. Barnes, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Environment
ANALYSIS
This bill excludes Strafford county from the motor vehicle emissions testing program area.
This bill also prohibits the commissioner of the department of environmental services from including additional counties in the motor vehicle emissions testing program.
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EXPLANATION: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears in [brackets].
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
0780L
95-0869
05/02
SB 136-FN-LOCAL
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the year of Our Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Five
AN ACT
excluding Strafford county from motor vehicle emissions testing and
relative to adding counties to the
motor vehicle emissions testing program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Emissions Testing; Strafford County Excluded. Amend RSA 268:4, I to read as follows:
I. Each vehicle registered or to be registered in Hillsborough, Merrimack, and Rockingham [and Strafford] counties, each non-program area fleet vehicle primarily operated within the program area, and each commercial design military vehicle and federally registered vehicle operated on federal installations within the program area is subject to the inspection and maintenance requirements of this chapter. [Upon certification by the commissioner of environmental services that an additional county or counties need to be included in the program in order to comply with the Clean Air Act, the commissioner shall, after public hearing and consultation with the advisory committee, and upon approval of the governor, adopt rules to include such county or counties and associated registered vehicles within the coverage of this chapter. The same program requirements shall be instituted in the expanded program area as are in effect for the existing program area, except that, in Coos, Carroll, Grafton, Belknap, Cheshire and Sullivan counties, convenient public access as defined in RSA 268:7, I, shall mean that at least 80 percent of subject vehicles must be registered within a 15-mile radius of a station and 95 percent within a 30-mile radius of a station.]
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
LSR 95-0869
1/17/95
FISCAL NOTE for an act excluding Strafford county from motor vehicle emissions testing.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Safety has determined this bill will reduce state restricted revenue and expenditures by $71,900 in FY 1995, by $143,800 in FY 1996, by $121,331 in FY 1997, by $98,863 in FY 1998 and each year thereafter. There will be no impact on county and local revenues and expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department states that for every car tested, the state collects $2.75 deposited to the emissions inspection account and for two years, to recoup startup costs, $1.25 per vehicle is collected to reimburse the Highway Fund. For Strafford County, the Department has determined that there are approximately 71,900 vehicles registered that will become exempt upon passage of this bill.
Total
1995 71,900 1/4 $4.00 $ 71,900
1996 71,900 1/2 $4.00 $143,800
1997 71,900 1/4 $4.00 $ 71,900
1/4 $2.75 $ 49,431
1998 71,900 1/2 $2.75 $ 98,863
1999 71,900 1/2 $2.75 $ 98,863
The Department anticipates testing half of all cars registered in the county the first calendar year and the remaining half the second calendar year. The schedule above reflects the timing difference (CY vs FY) and the one-time $1.25 startup cost collected the first time the vehicle is inspected.