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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 2156

Continuing evaluation. Disapproval notice.

Judicial review. 5 USC 701 et seq.

PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983

(G) requires registrants of commercial motor vehicles to make a declaration of knowledge of applicable Federal and State safety rules, regulations, standards, and orders. (2) If a plan submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection is rejected, the Secretary shall provide the State a written explanation of the Secretary's action and shall permit the State to modify and resubmit its proposed plan for approval, in accordance with the procedures formulated in such paragraph. (c) The Secretary shall, on the basis of reports submitted by the State agency, and on the Secretary's own inspections, make a continuing evaluation of the manner in which each State with a plan approved under this section is canning out such plan. Whenever the Secretary finds, after affording due notice and opportunity for comment, that a State plan previously approved is not being followed or that it has become inadequate to Eissure the enforcement of Federal rules, regulations, standards, or orders applicable to commercial motor vehicle safety or compatible State rules, regulations, standards, or orders, he shall notify the State of withdrawal of approval of such plan. Upon receipt of such notice such plan shall cease to be in effect. Any State aggrieved by a determination of the Secretary pursueint to this subsection may seek judicial review pursuant to chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code. The State may, however, retain jurisdiction in any administrative or judicial enforcement proceeding commenced before the withdrawal of the plan whenever the issues involved do not directly relate to the reasons for the withdrawal of approval of the plan. (d) The Secretary shall not approve any plan under this section which does not provide that the aggregate expenditure of funds of the State and political subdivisions thereof, exclusive of Federal funds, for commercial motor vehicle safety programs will be maintained at a level which does not fall below the average level of such expenditure for its last two full fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of this section. FEDERAL SHARE OF COSTS

49 USC 2303.

SEC. 403. By grants authorized under this peirt, the Secretary shall reimburse any State an amount not to exceed 80 per centum of the costs incurred by that State in that fiscal year in the development and implementation of programs to enforce commercial motor vehicle rules, regulations, standards, or orders adopted pursuant to this title. The funds of the State and political subdivisions thereof which are required to be expended under section 402(d) of this title shall not be considered to be part of the non-Federal share. The Secretary is authorized to allocate, among the States whose applications for grants have been approved, those amounts appropriated for grants to support such programs, pursuant to such criteria as may be established. AUTHORIZATIONS

49 USC 2304.

SEC. 404. To carry out the purposes of section 402 of this title, there is authorized to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund not to exceed $10,000,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, not to exceed $20,000,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, not to exceed $30,000,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, not to exceed $40,000,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, and not to exceed $50,000,000 in the