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Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards

air-emissions · Rule · Published 2023-01-24 · Effective 2023-03-27 · 88 FR 4296

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Document number
2022-27957
Federal Register citation
88 FR 4296
CFR reference
40 CFR 2
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2023-01-24
Effective date
2023-03-27
EPA docket
EPA-HQ-OAR-2019-0055

Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing a program to further reduce air pollution, including ozone and particulate matter (PM), from heavy-duty engines and vehicles across the United States. The final program includes new emission standards that are significantly more stringent and that cover a wider range of heavy-duty engine operating conditions compared to today's standards; further, the final program requires these more stringent emissions standards to be met for a longer period of when these engines operate on the road. Heavy-duty vehicles and engines are important contributors to concentrations of ozone and particulate matter and their resulting threat to public health, which includes premature death, respiratory illness (including childhood asthma), cardiovascular problems, and other adverse health impacts. The final rulemaking promulgates new numeric standards and changes key provisions of the existing heavy-duty emission control program, including the test procedures, regulatory useful life, emission-related warranty, and other requirements. Together, the provisions in the final rule will further reduce the air quality impacts of heavy-duty engines across a range of operating conditions and over a longer period of the operational life of heavy- duty engines. The requirements in the final rule will lower emissions of NO<INF>X</INF> and other air pollutants (PM, hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), and air toxics) beginning no later than model year 2027. We are also finalizing limited amendments to the regulations that implement our air pollutant emission standards for other sectors (e.g., light-duty vehicles, marine diesel engines, locomotives, and various other types of nonroad engines, vehicles, and equipment).

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