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[CITE: 42USC7544]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 85--AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--EMISSION STANDARDS FOR MOVING SOURCES
 
            Part A--Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards
 
Sec. 7544. State grants

    The Administrator is authorized to make grants to appropriate State 
agencies in an amount up to two-thirds of the cost of developing and 
maintaining effective vehicle emission devices and systems inspection 
and emission testing and control programs, except that--
        (1) no such grant shall be made for any part of any State 
    vehicle inspection program which does not directly relate to the 
    cost of the air pollution control aspects of such a program;
        (2) no such grant shall be made unless the Secretary of 
    Transportation has certified to the Administrator that such program 
    is consistent with any highway safety program developed pursuant to 
    section 402 of title 23; and
        (3) no such grant shall be made unless the program includes 
    provisions designed to insure that emission control devices and 
    systems on vehicles in actual use have not been discontinued or 
    rendered inoperative.

Grants may be made under this section by way of reimbursement in any 
case in which amounts have been expended by the State before the date on 
which any such grant was made.

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, Sec. 210, formerly Sec. 209, as added 
Pub. L. 90-148, Sec. 2, Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 502; renumbered and 
amended Pub. L. 91-604, Secs. 8(a), 10(b), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1694, 
1700; Pub. L. 95-95, title II, Sec. 204, Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 754.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 1857f-6b of this title.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 210 of act July 14, 1955, was renumbered section 211 
by Pub. L. 91-604 and is classified to section 7545 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1977--Pub. L. 95-95 inserted provision allowing grants to be made by 
way of reimbursement in any case in which amounts have been expended by 
States before the date on which the grants were made.
    1970--Pub. L. 91-604, Sec. 10(b), substituted provisions authorizing 
the Administrator to make grants to appropriate State agencies for the 
development and maintenance of effective vehicle emission devices and 
systems inspection and emission testing and control programs, for 
provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants to appropriate State 
air pollution control agencies for the development of meaningful uniform 
motor vehicle emission device inspection and emission testing programs.


                    Effective Date of 1977 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-95 effective Aug. 7, 1977, except as 
otherwise expressly provided, see section 406(d) of Pub. L. 95-95, set 
out as a note under section 7401 of this title.
