Posted on Jun 30, 2014
Has anyone else been hit up about complying with the Clean Air Act on military installations?
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I'm Army stationed on Andrews Air Force Base and was notified today that I had to go complete a form certifying my vehicle as to whether or not it met the standards of the Clean Air Act, Section 118(d). Apparently every vehicle operating on a federal installation for more than 60 days per year has to comply or face "administrative" actions.
I went in and filled out the form which gives you very few options. Basically either you have a current state inspection, have an exemption (for very specific short list of reasons), or you have nothing.
As Active Duty military, we often bounce from base to base but keep our vehicles registered somewhere else, often in our state of residence. I live in Virginia, work in Maryland, and hold residency (and plates) from Tennessee. Tennessee does not require emissions tests, so I have nothing currently. So now I get to go out and pay to have an emissions test done, since it's apparently a requirement. Anyone else heard of anything like this at any other installations?
I went in and filled out the form which gives you very few options. Basically either you have a current state inspection, have an exemption (for very specific short list of reasons), or you have nothing.
As Active Duty military, we often bounce from base to base but keep our vehicles registered somewhere else, often in our state of residence. I live in Virginia, work in Maryland, and hold residency (and plates) from Tennessee. Tennessee does not require emissions tests, so I have nothing currently. So now I get to go out and pay to have an emissions test done, since it's apparently a requirement. Anyone else heard of anything like this at any other installations?
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JBLM in WA had something similar. To have your vehicle registered on post, it needed to comply with the requirements for Pierce county (I think you had to me the "most stringent" standards, which just happen to also be the standards for Pierce), meaning it needed a current passing emissions test. Despite the fact that Thurston County (were a large % of JBLM folks live, just a few miles to the south has no emissions requirement.
In my case, it meant I had to make a special trip to another county so that I could get my emissions checked every four (?) years. And the last time, I had to make a special trip to a "state certified emissions specialist" to get the system worked on, at least to the magic $ amount (If you spend X amount, you are deemed to "have tried.").
I THINK this requirement went away when they did away with DOD stickers at JBLM, but it might still be required.
In my case, it meant I had to make a special trip to another county so that I could get my emissions checked every four (?) years. And the last time, I had to make a special trip to a "state certified emissions specialist" to get the system worked on, at least to the magic $ amount (If you spend X amount, you are deemed to "have tried.").
I THINK this requirement went away when they did away with DOD stickers at JBLM, but it might still be required.
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