SCH Number 2014032012

Project Info

Title

Amendments to the Truck and Bus Regulation

Description

The Truck and Bus Amendments provide fleet owners still suffering from economic recession impacts more flexibility to comply with the regulation to better preserve the emissions benefits the regulation was designed to achieve. The Amendments focus on three objectives: (1) protecting emission reductions by providing lower cost compliance options to small fleets, low mileage fleets, & certain rural fleets in areas with cleaner air; (2) providing new opportunities for fleets to access public incentive funds; and (3) recognizing fleets that made early investments to comply. To achieve these objectives, the amendments include: -A longer phase-in period for PM requirements in certain rural areas while continuing to ensure compliance with diesel risk reduction program goals. -Additional time and a lower cost pathway for small fleets to achieve compliance with PM requirements, while re-opening opportunities for these fleets to apply and receive public incentive funding. -A compliance pathway for owners currently financially unable to comply and cannot qualify for a loan to finance compliance. -A longer compliance timeline for low-use and certain vocational or work trucks that travel fewer annual miles and are not competitive in obtaining incentive funding. -Recognition of fleets that took early action to comply by providing additional useable life or retrofit trucks. The regulation, as amended, will lead to continued reductions in pollutant, continued improvement to air quality, and will meet the goals established when the regulation was initially adopted.

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