In the present work, an infrared LED is used to photodope MBE-grown Si:Al 0.3 Ga 0.7 As, a well known persistent photoconductor, to vary the effective electron concentration of samples in situ. Using this technique, we examine the transport properties of two samples containing different nominal doping concentrations of Si (1x10 19 cm -3 for sample 1 (S1) and 9x10 17 cm -3 for sample 2 (S2)) and vary the effective electron density between 10 14 and 10 18 cm -3 . The metal-insulator transition (MIT) for S1 is found to occur at a critical carrier concentration of 5.7x10 16 cm -3 at 350 mK. The mobilities in both samples are found to be limited by ionized impurity scattering in the temperature range probed, and are adequately described by the Brooks-Herring screening theory for higher carrier densities. The shape of the band-tail of the density of states (DOS) in Al 0.3 Ga 0.7 As is found electrically through transport measurements. It is determined to have a power law dependence, with an exponent of -1.25 for S1 and -1.38 for S2.