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RCED-96-44R 1 (1995-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackzv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division 155716 B-270501 November 16, 1995 The Honorable Lauch Faircloth Chairman, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This interim report responds to your request for an assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the information that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided to you on grants, interagency agreements, and cooperative agreements issued or used by the agency's Office of Mobile Sources. During hearings before your Subcommittee on June 29, 1995, witnesses argued over the fairness of EPA's decision to give states different emissions reduction credits under the Clean Air Act, depending on the type of automobile emissions testing used by the state. The credits are based, among other things, on whether the state has a test-only or a test- and-repair program. Test-only programs require the testing of automobile emissions in facilities that do not repair vehicles, while test-and-repair programs permit the facilities to do both. According to EPA's November 5, 1992, rule, a state having a test-and-repair program would receive, for certain tests, only 50 percent of the emissions reduction credits that it would receive if it had a test-only network. In a July 20, 1995, letter to EPA's Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, you asked EPA a series of questions about its inspection and maintenance programs for automobile emissions testing. Included in the questions, you specifically requested (1) a listing of the date, amount, and purpose of all contracts, grants, interagency agreements, cooperative agreements, or other funding mechanisms issued or used by the Office of Mobile Sources after November 5, 1992, and (2) the same information from November 1989 to the present for 19 organizations that you identified, including environmental groups and business coalitions. EPA replied to your request by letter dated August 18, 1995, and by a follow-up letter dated September 1, 1995. Subsequently, you asked us to (1) determine the completeness of EPA's list, (2) verify the information contained in EPA's responses, (3) describe GAO/RCED-96-44R, EPA's Grants and Agreements 5,(051 3

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