# Husqvarna
> **Judicial** · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601204874`
- **Case Number:** EF-2017-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Husqvarna AB (complaint) (settlement)
- Husqvarna Consumer Outdoor Products N.A., Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

This settlement concerns the failure of Swedish company Husqvarna AB and its U.S. affiliate, Husqvarna Consumer Outdoor Products N.A., Inc. (Husqvarna) to provide EPA with complete and accurate emissions testing information relating to engines used in handheld lawn, garden and forestry equipment manufactured during the 2011-2013 period. Husqvarna is the largest U.S. manufacturer of handheld equipment containing small, spark-ignited nonroad engines, such as leaf blowers and chainsaws.
EPA administers a certification program to ensure that small, spark-ignited nonroad equipment used in the U.S. meets applicable emissions standards. Manufacturers of such equipment must test prototypes of each model (engine family) to ensure that each model does not exceed a self-selected emissions limit, or ?family emissions limit,? and EPA issues a certificate of conformity. If the selected emissions limit for an engine family is below the maximum allowable limit, manufacturers can generate emissions credits which may be used to allow other current or future models to emit more than they otherwise would be allowed to emit.
In order to ensure that the equipment that is actually produced and sold meets the emissions limit of the tested prototype, EPA requires that equipment coming off the assembly line be tested in specified numbers and according to a specified method. If, on average, the tested equipment does not meet the family emissions limit, the manufacturer must raise the family emissions

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