I saw this link on another forum saying that emissions testing including a visual inspection of equipement is proposed to return in 2009 to every major population center in the state.

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594717

Hopefully, the orginal poster will be able to answer my question about which agency gave him the info so we can get more details. I wasn't able to find anything on google to confirm.