Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 2.djvu/269

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PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 985 (B) contains satisfactory assurances the agency has or will have the legal authority, resources, and qualified personnel necessary to enforce the regulations, standards, and orders; (C) contains satisfactory assurances the State will devote adequate amounts to the administration of the plan and enforcement of the regulations, standards, and orders; (D) provides that the total expenditure of amounts of the State and its political subdivisions (not including amounts of the Government) for commercial motor vehicle safety programs for enforcement of commercial motor vehicle size and weight limitations, drug interdiction, and State traffic safety laws and regulations under subsection (c) of this section will be maintained at a level at least equal to the average level of that expenditure for its last 3 full fiscal years before December 18, 1991; (E) provides a right of entry and inspection to carry out the plan; (F) provides that all reports required under this section be submitted to the agency and that the agency will make the reports available to the Secretary on request; (G) provides that the agency will adopt the reporting requirements and use the forms for recordkeeping, inspections, and investigations the Secretary prescribes; (H) requires registrants of commercial motor vehicles to make a declaration of knowledge of applicable safety regulations, standards, and orders of the Government and the State; (I) provides that the State will grant maximum reciprocity for inspections conducted under the North American Inspection Standard through the use of a nationally accepted system that allows ready identification of previously inspected commercial motor vehicles; (J) ensures that activities described in subsection (c) of this section, if financed with grants under subsection (a) of this section, will not diminish the effectiveness of the development and implementation of commercial motor vehicle safety programs described in subsection (a); (K) ensures that fines imposed and collected by the State for violations of commercial motor vehicle safety regulations will be reasonable and appropriate and that, to the maximum extent practicable, the State will attempt to implement the recommended fine schedule published by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance; (L) ensures that the State agency will coordinate the plan prepared under this section with the State highway safety plan under section 402 of title 23; (M) ensures participation by the 48 contiguous States in SAFETYNET not later than January 1, 1994; (N) provides satisfactory assurances that the State will undertake efforts that will emphasize and improve enforcement of State and local traffic safety laws and regulations related to commercial motor vehicle safety; (O) provides satisfactory assurances that the State will promote activities— (i) to remove impaired commercial motor vehicle drivers from the highways of the United States through adequate enforcement of regulations on the use of alcohol