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effective and highly visible to assure the public of the 

 efficacy of the inspection/maintenance program. 



2. One of the major advantages of the decentralized approach 



in a nonattainment area in Ilorth Carolina is that the safety 

 and emission inspections can be combined into one test so that 

 the motorists' trips are reduced. If these inspections were 

 separated, a motorist might have to make two trips and the 

 paperwork may be unnecessarily doubled. 



3. Since the N. C. Division of Motor Vehicles currently 

 administers the safety inspection and since the emission 

 test will actually become a part of the safety inspection, 

 the natural choice for the administering agency is the 

 Division of Motor Vehicles. 



4. A major task of the inspection/maintenance program will be 

 the determination of standards that the different years and 

 makes of motor vehicles will have to meet. The standards will 

 be based to a large degree on the reduction in carbon monoxide 

 emissions that will be necessary to eliminate violations of the 

 national health standard in a timely manner. Thus^ the 

 standards must continually consider air quality trends and 

 reductions in carbon monoxide emissions through other programs. 

 Since the N. C. Division of Environmental Management will be 

 analyzing air quality trends and monitoring the effectiveness 

 of other control programs, the determination of emission standa 



