AB 742, as introduced, Gallagher. Heavy-duty diesel-fueled vehicles: safety review: filters.
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants, including standards for off-road and nonvehicle engine categories.
This bill would prohibit the state board from enforcing a certain regulation that restricts emissions from in-use, diesel-fueled vehicles until the state board completes a review of the safety of any particulate-matter filters required to be installed on affected vehicles.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 43018.3 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
(a) (1) For a regulation for the reduction of emissions
4of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria
5pollutants from in-use diesel-fueled vehicles, applicable to any
6person, business, federal government agency, school district, or
7school transportation provider that owns or operates, leases, or
8rents, affected vehicles that operate in California and to persons
9that sell affected vehicles in California, the state board shall not
10enforce that regulation until the state board completes a review of
11the safety of any particulate-matter filters required to be installed
12on those affected vehicles.
13(2) The state board shall notify the Secretary of State of both
14of the following:
15(A) The suspension of the enforcement of a regulation pursuant
16to paragraph (1).
17(B) The resumed enforcement of a regulation following the
18completion of the safety review required pursuant to paragraph
19(1).
20(b) As used in this section, “affected vehicles” means vehicles
21that operate on diesel fuel, dual fuel, or alternative diesel fuel that
22are registered to be driven on public highways, vehicles that were
23originally designed to be driven on public highways whether or
24not they are registered, yard trucks with on-road engines or yard
25trucks with off-road engines used for agricultural operations, both
26engines of two-engine sweepers, schoolbuses, and vehicles that
27have a manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating greater than
2814,000 pounds, except as exempted by the state board.
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