| CARB 15-Day Modifications to the Original Proposal |
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This is the latest revisions released on May 18, 2011 to the CARB On-Road Truck & Bus rule below. Friday, June 3rd is the deadline to provide any written comments. 15-Day Modifications to the Original Proposal (PDF) You’ll note the following definition for a “low mileage construction truck” has been added: (40) “Low Mileage Construction Truck” means a vehicle that meets the definition in (A) or (B) as follows: (A) A truck with a GVWR greater than 26,000 lbs that operates less than 20,000 miles per calendar year and is designed to transport construction materials such as dirt, asphalt, rock or construction debris including a transfer truck, or a tractor trailer combination used exclusively to pull bottom dump, end dump or side dump trailers, or (B) A truck with a GVWR greater than 26,000 lbs that travels less than 15,000 miles per calendar year and is a concrete mixer truck, truck with a concrete placing boom, a water tank truck, a single engine crane with a load rating of 35 tons or more, a tractor that exclusively pulls a low-boy trailer, or a truck owned by a company that holds a valid license issued by the California Contractors State License Board. The new requirements for “low mileage construction trucks” are: (p)(2) Extension for Low Mileage Construction Trucks Beginning January 1, 2012, fleets with low-mileage construction trucks as defined in section 2025(d)(40) may opt to have a limited number of low-mileage construction trucks in the fleet comply by meeting all of the requirements as set forth below and do not need to include such vehicles in meeting the fleet requirements of sections 2025(g) through (i). (A) Beginning, January 1, 2012, up to ten low-mileage construction trucks in the fleet may use the extension. Fleets electing this option must meet the PM BACT requirements for the qualifying low-mileage construction trucks pursuant to the schedule set forth in Table 9, and then comply with the requirements of section 2025(g) starting January 1, 2020. Rounding will be done by the same method as describe for the phase-in option of section 2025(i)(2). (B) A one truck owner with a low-mileage construction truck must meet PM BACT by January 1, 2016. (C) If fewer than 9,000 trucks use the extension in 2012, then the Executive Officer will approve additional trucks for the extension by approving one additional extension per fleet owner in a series of rounds until 9,000 trucks have been identified as using the extension. A random selection process will be used to assign extensions that cannot be distributed equally among fleet owners. Table 9: Compliance Schedule for Fleets with Low-Mileage Construction Trucks Compliance Deadline, as of January 1 Percent of Fleet Complying with PM BACT 2014 33% 2015 66% 2016 100%
(D) Alternately, fleets that have low-mileage construction trucks and vehicles with a GVWR greater than 26,000 lbs that comply with section 2025(e) may demonstrate that the combined fleet meets the phase-in schedule of Table 9 and, if so, the low-mileage construction vehicles in the fleet qualifying for the extension under sections 2025(p)(1)(A) and (C) above may delay having to comply with PM BACT until as late as 2016. (E) Fleets may use the extension based on unavailability of highest level VDECS of section 2025(p)(9) for low-mileage construction trucks. (F) Fleet owners using this provision must comply with the reporting and record keeping requirements of sections 2025(r) and (s) beginning January 31, 2012. (G) Fleet owners using this provision must comply with the reporting and record keeping requirements of sections 2025(r) and (s) beginning January 31, 2012. (H) A low-mileage construction truck that has been approved for the extension may be replaced by another truck and continue to qualify for the extension if the replacement truck has a 1996 model year or newer engine, and the miles traveled after it is placed in service combined with the miles traveled by the original vehicle stays below the annual mileage threshold. The replacement vehicle must be placed in service within one year of removing the original vehicle from the fleet or by the next compliance date, whichever is longer. (I) Labeling Requirements for Low Mileage Construction Trucks 1. By January 31, 2012, fleet owners must affix or paint an identification label on up to ten low mileage construction trucks and within thirty days after notification that any additional trucks have been approved as follows: a. The letters CT shall be white block lettering on a black background. Both letters shall be at least three inches high on a five by eight inch background, b. The label shall be located on the left and right door of the vehicle and be in clear view at all times. (J) Low-mileage construction truck exemptions are not transferrable except with appropriate documentation of a change of business form approved by the Executive Officer such as sole proprietorship to partnership, partnership to corporation, mergers or acquisitions of the entire company and fleet of vehicles, or for changes such as from estate tax or inheritance tax planning. The general compliance schedule for vehicles with GWVR greater than 26,000 has also been revised to now be as follows: Engine Model Year Compliance Date Install PM Filter by Compliance Date 2010 Engine by 1993 & older N/A January 1, 2015 1994-1995 N/A January 1, 2016 1996 – 1999 January 1, 2012 January 1, 2020 2000 -2004 January 1, 2013 January 1, 2021 2005-2006 January 1, 2014 January 1, 2022 2007 or newer January 1, 2014 if not OEM equipped January 1, 2023 Also note the revised definition of “Low-use Vehicle” that are exempt from the rule (I’ve removed all the strikeouts): (41) “Low-use Vehicle” means a vehicle that will be operated fewer than 1,000 miles in California in any compliance year. If that vehicle has an engine that powers other equipment that can only be used while stationary, the engine or power take off (PTO) must also operate less than 100 hours in any compliance year. The hour limitation does not apply for vehicles where the engine is used to power an auxiliary mechanism that strictly loads and unloads cargo from the vehicle (examples include, but are not limited to, dump trucks, cement powder trucks, or trucks with attached lift devices).
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