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arbcombo -- Delay of Board Hearing to Nov for Consideration of Amendments to the Truck and Bus, Off-Road, Tractor-Trailer GHG, and Port Truck Regs
Posted: 03 Aug 2010 15:54:47
To address stakeholder requests, ARB staff is postponing consideration of regulatory amendments until November and will be scheduling additional workshops in August/September to discuss the emissions inventory and proposed amendments. Staff held workshops in June and July regarding proposed amendments to the Truck and Bus, Off-Road, Tractor-Trailer GHG, and Drayage Truck regulations. At the workshops, stakeholders requested additional time to review and comment on the following: • Details of planned emissions inventory updates for trucks and off-road vehicles, • Specific draft regulatory language, • ARB’s revised report on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) mortality estimates, a draft of which will be released later this summer, and • Proposed changes to the Drayage Truck Regulation. To address stakeholders’ requests, the Board Hearing to consider the proposed amendments, currently slated for September 2010, will be moved to November. In the interim, staff will hold workshops in August and September to discuss the revised emission inventory and the proposed amendments. This delay in the hearing date will provide sufficient time to hold the workshops and to make any necessary adjustments after the workshops. A workshop notice will be forthcoming. Background The Truck and Bus, Off-Road, and Drayage Truck Regulations are intended to reduce toxic and smog-forming emissions from trucks, buses, and off-road vehicles. Reducing such emissions is necessary to meet federally imposed clean air standards and to reduce the adverse health effects from air pollution throughout the state. The Tractor-Trailer GHG regulation is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tractor-trailers traveling California’s roadways. While staff is proposing to amend several elements of the truck and bus and off-road regulations, many provisions are in effect and not being considered for amendment. These include: • Off-road reporting and labeling requirements; • Off-road idling limits and sales disclosure requirements; and • Requirements to report vehicles utilizing the agricultural vehicle provisions and some two engine street sweepers under the truck and bus regulation. However, due to the pending amendments to the truck and bus and off-road regulations, several requirements have been postponed: • On February 11, 2010, ARB issued a delay of the off-road regulation's retrofit and turnover requirements pending further notice. • The truck and bus regulation reporting originally required by March 31, 2010, has been delayed until early 2011. The truck and bus retrofit and turnover requirements (scheduled to begin January 1, 2011) will also be extended. For further information on ARB’s diesel vehicle and equipment regulations, please call the California Air Resources Board Diesel Hotline at 866-6DIESEL (866-634-3735). You may also visit the ARB’s truck stop website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truckstop/truckstop.htm to learn more regarding ARB’s programs for trucks, buses, and trailers. For further information about the off-road diesel vehicle regulation, please visit the off-road regulation website at:http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ordiesel/ordiesel.htm You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: hdghg, onrdiesel, ordiesel, porttruck, schoolbus.