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 In a hearing on the recently introduced bill crafted to exempt
competition vehicles from the Clean Air Act, a government researcher
called to testify noted that the issue boils down to a "difference in
interpretation" between the Environmental Protection Agency and the
Specialty Equipment Market Association and that, before last year, the
EPA had never explicitly addressed the concept of race cars built from
street cars.
Brent Yacobucci, an energy researcher with the
Congressional Research Service, said Tuesday that his agency turned up
no documentation from the EPA before 2015 that "explicitly stated that
motor vehicles converted to racing were not eligible for exemption" from
the Clean Air Act. "However, nor can the CRS identify any provisions in
the act or regulations which would explicitly allow for a motor vehicle
to be reclassified" into a non-road vehicle exempt from emissions laws,
he said.
Sooo...what does that mean for the Clean Air Act and motorsports?
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Re: Gov't Researcher: EPA Had Never Permitted, Prohibited Racecar Conversions
