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AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 85, 86, 1036, 1037, 1065,
1066, and 1068
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
49 CFR Parts 523, 534, and 535
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel
Efficiency Standards for Medium- and
Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles—
Phase 2—Notice of Data Availability
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and Department of
Transportation (DOT) National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability.
AGENCIES:
This Notice provides an
opportunity to comment on new
information being made available by the
EPA and by NHTSA, on behalf of DOT,
related to the proposed Phase 2 HeavyDuty National Program proposed July
13, 2015, to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and fuel consumption for
new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and
engines. The new information,
including memoranda and data, have
been placed in the public dockets. Data
relating to the potential stringency of
the proposed standards includes:
Powertrain data; additional
aerodynamic test data; supplemental
test data relating to drive cycles (and
frequency thereof) for vocational
vehicles; and cycle average mapping
data. The agencies are soliciting
additional comment on certain revised
test reports, and a revised version of the
Greenhouse Gas Emission Model (GEM)
used both in developing certain of the
proposed standards and in
demonstrating compliance with those
standards. Additionally, EPA is
soliciting further comment on
memoranda relating to standard
applicability and implementation.
These memoranda address potential
requirements for selective enforcement
audits and confirmatory testing related
to greenhouse gas emissions, and
applicability of emission standards and
certification responsibilities for trailers,
glider vehicles, and glider kits. Finally,
EPA is soliciting additional comments
on issues discussed in a late comment
related to light-duty motor vehicles used
for racing.
SUMMARY:
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Comments must be received on
or before April 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2014–0827 (for EPA’s docket) and
NHTSA–2014–0132 (for NHTSA’s
docket), by one of the following
methods:
• Online: www.regulations.gov:
Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
• Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov.
• Mail:
EPA: Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460.
NHTSA: Docket Management Facility,
M–30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground
Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery:
EPA: EPA Docket Center, EPA WJC
West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC
20460. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket’s normal
hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
NHTSA: West Building, Ground
Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590,
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827 and/or NHTSA–2014–0132, as
follows:
EPA: Direct your comments to Docket
ID No EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0827. EPA’s
policy is that all comments received
will be included in the public docket
without change and may be made
available online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit
information that you consider to be CBI
or otherwise protected through
www.regulations.gov or email. The
www.regulations.gov Web site is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly
to EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
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available on the Internet. If you submit
an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
NHTSA: Your comments must be
written and in English. To ensure that
your comments are correctly filed in the
Docket, please include the Docket
number NHTSA–2014–0132 in your
comments. Your comments must not be
more than 15 pages long.1 NHTSA
established this limit to encourage you
to write your primary comments in a
concise fashion. However, you may
attach necessary additional documents
to your comments, and there is no limit
on the length of the attachments. If you
are submitting comments electronically
as a PDF (Adobe) file, we ask that the
documents submitted be scanned using
the Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
process, thus allowing the agencies to
search and copy certain portions of your
submissions.2 Please note that pursuant
to the Data Quality Act, in order for the
substantive data to be relied upon and
used by the agency, it must meet the
information quality standards set forth
in the OMB and Department of
Transportation (DOT) Data Quality Act
guidelines. Accordingly, we encourage
you to consult the guidelines in
preparing your comments. OMB’s
guidelines may be accessed at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/
reproducible.html. DOT’s guidelines
may be accessed at https://www.dot.gov/
dataquality.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed on the www.regulations.gov
Web site. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., confidential business
information or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, is not placed on
the Internet and will be publicly
available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are
available either electronically through
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the following locations:
EPA: Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, EPA/DC, EPA WJC West
Building, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Room
3334, Washington, DC. The Public Reading
Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the Air Docket is
(202) 566–1742.
NHTSA: Docket Management Facility, M–
30, U.S. Department of Transportation, West
Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590. The telephone number for the docket
management facility is (202) 366–9324. The
docket management facility is open between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
EPA: Tad Wysor, Office of
Transportation and Air Quality,
Assessment and Standards Division
(ASD), Environmental Protection
Agency, 2000 Traverwood Drive, Ann
Arbor, MI 48105; telephone number:
(734) 214–4332; email address:
wysor.tad@epa.gov.
NHTSA: Ryan Hagen, Office of Chief
Counsel, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 366–2992;
ryan.hagen@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action relates to a previously
promulgated Proposed Rule that would
potentially affect companies that
manufacture, sell, or import into the
United States new heavy-duty engines
and new Class 2b through 8 trucks,
including combination tractors, all types
of buses, vocational vehicles including
municipal, commercial, recreational
vehicles, and commercial trailers as
well as 3⁄4-ton and 1-ton pickup trucks
and vans. The heavy-duty category
incorporates all motor vehicles with a
gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500
pounds or greater, and the engines that
power them, except for medium-duty
passenger vehicles already covered by
the greenhouse gas standards and
corporate average fuel economy
standards issued for light-duty model
year 2017–2025 vehicles. Proposed
categories and entities that might be
affected include the following:
Category
NAICS Code a
Examples of potentially affected entities
Industry ......................
336110
336111
336112
333618
336120
336212
441310
541514
811112
811198
336111
336112
422720
454312
541514
541690
811198
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Engine Manufacturers, Engine Parts Manufacturers, Truck Manufacturers, Truck Trailer Manufacturers, Automotive Parts and Accessories Dealers.
Industry ......................
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Industry ......................
Commercial Importers of Vehicles and Vehicle Components.
Alternative Fuel Vehicle Converters.
Note:
a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
1 See
49 CFR 553.21.
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This table is not intended to be
exhaustive, but rather provides a guide
for readers regarding entities likely
covered by these rules. This table lists
the types of entities that the agencies are
aware may be regulated by this action.
Other types of entities not listed in the
table could also be regulated. To
determine whether your activities are
regulated by this action, you should
carefully examine the applicability
criteria in the referenced regulations.
You may direct questions regarding the
applicability of this action to the
persons listed in the preceding FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
B. Public Participation
EPA and NHTSA request comment on
the information identified in this
Notice. We are not requesting comment
on other aspects of this joint proposed
rule. This section describes how you
can participate in this process.
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(1) How do I prepare and submit
comments?
There are many issues common to
EPA’s and NHTSA’s proposals. For the
convenience of all parties, comments
submitted to the EPA docket will be
considered comments submitted to the
NHTSA docket, and vice versa.
Therefore, a commenter only needs to
submit comments to either of the agency
dockets (or choose to submit a comment
to both). Comments that are submitted
for consideration by one agency should
be identified as such, and comments
that are submitted for consideration by
both agencies should be identified as
such. Absent such identification, each
agency will exercise its best judgment to
determine whether a comment is
submitted on its proposal.
(2) Tips for Preparing Your Comments
When submitting comments, please
remember to:
• Identify the rulemaking by docket
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number)
• Explain why you agree or disagree,
suggest alternatives, and substitute
language for your requested changes
• Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information
and/or data that you used
• If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced
• Provide specific examples to illustrate
your concerns, and suggest
alternatives
• Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
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• Make sure to submit your comments
by the comment period deadline
identified in the DATES section above
(3) How can I be sure that my comments
were received?
NHTSA: If you submit your comments
by mail and wish Docket Management
to notify you upon its receipt of your
comments, enclose a self-addressed,
stamped postcard in the envelope
containing your comments. Upon
receiving your comments, Docket
Management will return the postcard by
mail.
(4) How do I submit confidential
business information?
Any confidential business
information (CBI) submitted to one of
the agencies will also be available to the
other agency. However, as with all
public comments, any CBI information
only needs to be submitted to either one
of the agencies’ dockets and it will be
available to the other. Following are
specific instructions for submitting CBI
to either agency. If you have any
questions about CBI or the procedures
for claiming CBI, please consult the
persons identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
EPA: Do not submit CBI to EPA
through www.regulations.gov or email.
Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI.
For CBI information in a disk or CD
ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the
outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI
and then identify electronically within
the disk or CD ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI.
Information not marked as CBI will be
included in the public docket without
prior notice. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that includes
information claimed as CBI, a copy of
the comment that does not contain the
information claimed as CBI must be
submitted for inclusion in the public
docket. Information so marked will not
be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
NHTSA: If you wish to submit any
information under a claim of
confidentiality, you should submit three
copies of your complete submission,
including the information you claim to
be confidential business information, to
the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, at the
address given above under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. When you send a
comment containing confidential
business information, you should
include a cover letter setting forth the
information specified in our
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confidential business information
regulation.3
In addition, you should submit a copy
from which you have deleted the
claimed confidential business
information to the Docket by one of the
methods set forth above.
(5) How can I read the comments
submitted by other people?
You may read the materials placed in
the docket for this document (e.g., the
comments submitted in response to this
document by other interested persons)
at any time by going to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
You may also read the materials at the
EPA Docket Center or NHTSA Docket
Management Facility by going to the
street addresses given above under
ADDRESSES.
C. Background
As part of the Climate Action Plan
announced in June 2013,4 the President
directed the EPA and NHTSA to set the
next round of standards to reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and
improve fuel efficiency for medium- and
heavy-duty vehicles and engines. More
than 70 percent of the oil used in the
United States and 28 percent of GHG
emissions come from the transportation
sector, and since 2009 EPA and NHTSA
have worked with industry and the
State of California to develop ambitious,
flexible standards for both the fuel
economy and GHG emissions of lightduty vehicles and the fuel efficiency
and GHG emissions of heavy-duty
vehicles and engines.5 6 Throughout
every stage of development for these
programs, EPA and NHTSA
(collectively, the agencies, or ‘‘we’’)
have worked in close partnership not
only with each other, but with the
vehicle and engine manufacturing
industries, environmental community
leaders, and the State of California,
among other entities, to create a single,
effective set of national standards.
The agencies’ proposed Phase 2
standards (80 FR 40138, July 13, 2015)
would phase in through model year
3 See
49 CFR part 512.
White House, The President’s Climate
Action Plan (June, 2013). https://
www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan.
5 The White House, Improving the Fuel Efficiency
of American Trucks—Bolstering Energy Security,
Cutting Carbon Pollution, Saving Money and
Supporting Manufacturing Innovation (Feb. 2014),
2.
6 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2014.
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and
Sinks: 1990–2012. EPA 430–R–14–003. Mobile
sources emitted 28 percent of all U.S. GHG
emissions in 2012. Available at https://www.epa.gov/
climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-GHGInventory-2014-Main-Text.pdf
4 The
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2027, and were intended to result in an
ambitious, yet achievable program that
would allow manufacturers to meet
standards through a mix of different
technologies at reasonable cost. The
proposed Phase 2 program would build
on and advance the model years 2014–
2018 Phase 1 program in a number of
important ways including: Basing
standards not only on currently
available technologies but also on
utilization of technologies now under
development or not yet widely deployed
while providing significant lead time to
assure adequate time to develop, test,
and phase in these controls; developing
standards for trailers; further
EPA
Docket No.
encouraging innovation and providing
flexibility; including vehicles produced
by small business manufacturers;
incorporating enhanced test procedures
that (among other things) allow
individual drivetrain and powertrain
performance to be reflected in the
vehicle certification process; and using
an expanded and improved compliance
simulation model.
This notice alerts the public to new
information placed in the agencies’
public dockets, and solicits comment on
that information. The information takes
the form of raw data, revised test
reports, and memoranda that in some
instances indicate potential
implications of the data for purposes of
NHTSA Docket No.
A new release of the GEM simulation tool contains revisions that include fixing bugs identified by commenters; enhancements to accommodate cycle averaged fuel maps, transmission efficiency test results, and axle efficiency test results; refinements to the transmission shifting strategies; revised vocational
vehicle drive cycle weightings; and a revised
road grade profile. Details regarding the revisions are included in the summary file in the
docket entry.
EPA sponsored testing of a heavy-duty gasoline
engine at Southwest Research Institute. Those
results were used to develop a new default fuel
map that could be used to develop the final
spark-ignited vocational vehicle standards.
EPA sponsored additional testing on heavy-duty
powertrains at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Cycle results are presented from two
powertrain configurations.
EPA sponsored additional testing on two heavyduty engines each with two different horsepower ratings. Information includes the cycle
average testing results and findings are included.
A pre-peer review draft version of this report was
released in June of 2015. Independent peer review and public release of the draft report identified errors in the analysis in the draft report
that were corrected in this final version.
EPA conducted additional aerodynamic testing
using the coastdown, constant speed, wind
tunnel, and computational fluid dynamics test
procedures since the NPRM was issued. This
docket entry includes the raw data from each
of these test programs.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL) collaborated with EPA and conducted
a vocational vehicle segmentation evaluation
based on NREL’s Fleet DNA database. This
analysis is intended to inform the final vocational vehicle drive cycle weightings.
Commenters raised concerns about the proposed
audit testing and the need for consideration of
compliance margins for the audit’s results. The
memorandum provides additional discussion of
how EPA’s audits could be conducted, and key
principles related to these requirements.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1620.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0182.
Default Gasoline Engine Fuel Map
for Use in GEM.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1622.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0183.
Oak Ridge National
Powertrain Data.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1619.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0184.
Southwest Research Institute Program Update on Cycle Average
Mapping Data.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1623.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0185.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1624.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0186.
Final Southwest Research Institute
Report to NHTSA: Commercial
Medium- and Heavy-Duty Truck
Fuel
Efficiency
Technology
Study—Report #2.
Supplemental Aerodynamic Data
from EPA Testing.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1621.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model
(GEM) P2v2.1.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0187.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1625.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0188.
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the Agencies Are Seeking Public
Comment
Description
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0181.
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standard stringency and
implementation. In addition to
information placed into the docket by
the agencies, EPA also solicits
comments on issues discussed in a late
public comment that addresses
proposed regulations related to lightduty motor vehicles used for racing. The
agencies will accept comments on these
materials through April 1, 2016. The
agencies will not address new
comments extraneous to these materials
in the final rulemaking or its associated
documents.
Title
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1626.
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Laboratory
Vocational Vehicle Drive Cycle Data:
Draft Report produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory entitled ‘‘The Development of
Vocational Vehicle Drive Cycles
and Segmentation’’.
Additional Discussion of Selective
Enforcement Audit and Confirmatory Testing for Aerodynamic Parameters.
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EPA
Docket No.
NHTSA Docket No.
Title
Description
Draft legal memorandum discussing issues relating to authority under the Clean Air Act to promulgate emission standards for trailers and
glider vehicles, certification responsibilities of
manufacturers of trailers and glider kits, and
potential CO2 emission standards for different
model year glider vehicles.
This comment addresses how a proposed
amendment related to the Clean Air Act’s prohibition of tampering of emission controls
would impact light-duty vehicles used for racing
and raises questions about whether adequate
notice was given for this proposed amendment.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1627.
NHTSA–2014–0132–
0189.
Legal
Memorandum
Discussing
Issues Pertaining to Trailers, Glider Vehicles, and Glider Kits under
the Clean Air Act.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–
0827–1469–A1.
Not Applicable; this is in
relation to an EPAspecific section of the
NPRM.
Public Comment from the Specialty
Equipment Market Association.
Issued under authority of 49 U.S.C.
32901, 32905, and 32906; delegation of
authority at 49 CFR 1.95.
Dated: February 24, 2016.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
Dated: February 24, 2016.
Christopher Grundler,
Director, Office of Transportation and Air
Quality, Environmental Protection Agency.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 85, 86, 1036, 1037, 1065, 1066, and 1068
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
49 CFR Parts 523, 534, and 535
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827; NHTSA-2014-0132; FRL-9942-94-OAR]
RIN 2060-AS16; RIN 2127-AL52
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for
Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles--Phase 2--Notice of Data
Availability
AGENCIES: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of
Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability.
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SUMMARY: This Notice provides an opportunity to comment on new
information being made available by the EPA and by NHTSA, on behalf of
DOT, related to the proposed Phase 2 Heavy-Duty National Program
proposed July 13, 2015, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel
consumption for new on-road heavy-duty vehicles and engines. The new
information, including memoranda and data, have been placed in the
public dockets. Data relating to the potential stringency of the
proposed standards includes: Powertrain data; additional aerodynamic
test data; supplemental test data relating to drive cycles (and
frequency thereof) for vocational vehicles; and cycle average mapping
data. The agencies are soliciting additional comment on certain revised
test reports, and a revised version of the Greenhouse Gas Emission
Model (GEM) used both in developing certain of the proposed standards
and in demonstrating compliance with those standards. Additionally, EPA
is soliciting further comment on memoranda relating to standard
applicability and implementation. These memoranda address potential
requirements for selective enforcement audits and confirmatory testing
related to greenhouse gas emissions, and applicability of emission
standards and certification responsibilities for trailers, glider
vehicles, and glider kits. Finally, EPA is soliciting additional
comments on issues discussed in a late comment related to light-duty
motor vehicles used for racing.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2014-0827 (for EPA's docket) and NHTSA-2014-0132 (for NHTSA's
docket), by one of the following methods:
Online: www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov.
Mail:
EPA: Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460.
NHTSA: Docket Management Facility, M-30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery:
EPA: EPA Docket Center, EPA WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
NHTSA: West Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W12-140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern
Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2014-0827 and/or NHTSA-2014-0132, as follows:
EPA: Direct your comments to Docket ID No EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827.
EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public docket without change and may be made available online at
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or email. The
www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment
directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public docket and made
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available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot
contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your
comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters,
any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For
additional information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket
Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
NHTSA: Your comments must be written and in English. To ensure that
your comments are correctly filed in the Docket, please include the
Docket number NHTSA-2014-0132 in your comments. Your comments must not
be more than 15 pages long.\1\ NHTSA established this limit to
encourage you to write your primary comments in a concise fashion.
However, you may attach necessary additional documents to your
comments, and there is no limit on the length of the attachments. If
you are submitting comments electronically as a PDF (Adobe) file, we
ask that the documents submitted be scanned using the Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) process, thus allowing the agencies to search and
copy certain portions of your submissions.\2\ Please note that pursuant
to the Data Quality Act, in order for the substantive data to be relied
upon and used by the agency, it must meet the information quality
standards set forth in the OMB and Department of Transportation (DOT)
Data Quality Act guidelines. Accordingly, we encourage you to consult
the guidelines in preparing your comments. OMB's guidelines may be
accessed at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/reproducible.html.
DOT's guidelines may be accessed at https://www.dot.gov/dataquality.htm.
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\1\ See 49 CFR 553.21.
\2\ Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of
converting an image of text, such as a scanned paper document or
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Docket: All documents in the docket are listed on the
www.regulations.gov Web site. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., confidential business
information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not
placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the
following locations:
EPA: Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center, EPA/DC,
EPA WJC West Building, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Room 3334,
Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and
the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202) 566-1742.
NHTSA: Docket Management Facility, M-30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. The telephone number for
the docket management facility is (202) 366-9324. The docket
management facility is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
EPA: Tad Wysor, Office of Transportation and Air Quality,
Assessment and Standards Division (ASD), Environmental Protection
Agency, 2000 Traverwood Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; telephone number:
(734) 214-4332; email address: wysor.tad@epa.gov.
NHTSA: Ryan Hagen, Office of Chief Counsel, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-2992; ryan.hagen@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action relates to a previously promulgated Proposed Rule that
would potentially affect companies that manufacture, sell, or import
into the United States new heavy-duty engines and new Class 2b through
8 trucks, including combination tractors, all types of buses,
vocational vehicles including municipal, commercial, recreational
vehicles, and commercial trailers as well as \3/4\-ton and 1-ton pickup
trucks and vans. The heavy-duty category incorporates all motor
vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or greater,
and the engines that power them, except for medium-duty passenger
vehicles already covered by the greenhouse gas standards and corporate
average fuel economy standards issued for light-duty model year 2017-
2025 vehicles. Proposed categories and entities that might be affected
include the following:
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Examples of potentially
Category NAICS Code \a\ affected entities
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Industry...................... 336110 Motor Vehicle
336111 Manufacturers, Engine
336112 Manufacturers, Engine
333618 Parts Manufacturers,
Truck Manufacturers,
Truck Trailer
Manufacturers,
Automotive Parts and
Accessories Dealers.
336120
336212
441310
Industry...................... 541514 Commercial Importers of
811112 Vehicles and Vehicle
811198 Components.
Industry...................... 336111 Alternative Fuel
Vehicle Converters.
336112
422720
454312
541514
541690
811198
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Note:
\a\ North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
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This table is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a
guide for readers regarding entities likely covered by these rules.
This table lists the types of entities that the agencies are aware may
be regulated by this action. Other types of entities not listed in the
table could also be regulated. To determine whether your activities are
regulated by this action, you should carefully examine the
applicability criteria in the referenced regulations. You may direct
questions regarding the applicability of this action to the persons
listed in the preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
B. Public Participation
EPA and NHTSA request comment on the information identified in this
Notice. We are not requesting comment on other aspects of this joint
proposed rule. This section describes how you can participate in this
process.
(1) How do I prepare and submit comments?
There are many issues common to EPA's and NHTSA's proposals. For
the convenience of all parties, comments submitted to the EPA docket
will be considered comments submitted to the NHTSA docket, and vice
versa. Therefore, a commenter only needs to submit comments to either
of the agency dockets (or choose to submit a comment to both). Comments
that are submitted for consideration by one agency should be identified
as such, and comments that are submitted for consideration by both
agencies should be identified as such. Absent such identification, each
agency will exercise its best judgment to determine whether a comment
is submitted on its proposal.
(2) Tips for Preparing Your Comments
When submitting comments, please remember to:
Identify the rulemaking by docket number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number)
Explain why you agree or disagree, suggest alternatives, and
substitute language for your requested changes
Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used
If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced
Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and
suggest alternatives
Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats
Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified in the DATES section above
(3) How can I be sure that my comments were received?
NHTSA: If you submit your comments by mail and wish Docket
Management to notify you upon its receipt of your comments, enclose a
self-addressed, stamped postcard in the envelope containing your
comments. Upon receiving your comments, Docket Management will return
the postcard by mail.
(4) How do I submit confidential business information?
Any confidential business information (CBI) submitted to one of the
agencies will also be available to the other agency. However, as with
all public comments, any CBI information only needs to be submitted to
either one of the agencies' dockets and it will be available to the
other. Following are specific instructions for submitting CBI to either
agency. If you have any questions about CBI or the procedures for
claiming CBI, please consult the persons identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
EPA: Do not submit CBI to EPA through www.regulations.gov or email.
Clearly mark the part or all of the information that you claim to be
CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD ROM that you mail to EPA, mark
the outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then identify
electronically within the disk or CD ROM the specific information that
is claimed as CBI. Information not marked as CBI will be included in
the public docket without prior notice. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy
of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI
must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so
marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set
forth in 40 CFR part 2.
NHTSA: If you wish to submit any information under a claim of
confidentiality, you should submit three copies of your complete
submission, including the information you claim to be confidential
business information, to the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, at the address given
above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. When you send a comment
containing confidential business information, you should include a
cover letter setting forth the information specified in our
confidential business information regulation.\3\
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In addition, you should submit a copy from which you have deleted
the claimed confidential business information to the Docket by one of
the methods set forth above.
(5) How can I read the comments submitted by other people?
You may read the materials placed in the docket for this document
(e.g., the comments submitted in response to this document by other
interested persons) at any time by going to https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for accessing the dockets. You may also
read the materials at the EPA Docket Center or NHTSA Docket Management
Facility by going to the street addresses given above under ADDRESSES.
C. Background
As part of the Climate Action Plan announced in June 2013,\4\ the
President directed the EPA and NHTSA to set the next round of standards
to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve fuel efficiency
for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and engines. More than 70 percent
of the oil used in the United States and 28 percent of GHG emissions
come from the transportation sector, and since 2009 EPA and NHTSA have
worked with industry and the State of California to develop ambitious,
flexible standards for both the fuel economy and GHG emissions of
light-duty vehicles and the fuel efficiency and GHG emissions of heavy-
duty vehicles and engines.5 6 Throughout every stage of
development for these programs, EPA and NHTSA (collectively, the
agencies, or ``we'') have worked in close partnership not only with
each other, but with the vehicle and engine manufacturing industries,
environmental community leaders, and the State of California, among
other entities, to create a single, effective set of national
standards.
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\4\ The White House, The President's Climate Action Plan (June,
2013). https://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan.
\5\ The White House, Improving the Fuel Efficiency of American
Trucks--Bolstering Energy Security, Cutting Carbon Pollution, Saving
Money and Supporting Manufacturing Innovation (Feb. 2014), 2.
\6\ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2014. Inventory of
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2012. EPA 430-R-14-
003. Mobile sources emitted 28 percent of all U.S. GHG emissions in
2012. Available at https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-GHG-Inventory-2014-Main-Text.pdf
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The agencies' proposed Phase 2 standards (80 FR 40138, July 13,
2015) would phase in through model year
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2027, and were intended to result in an ambitious, yet achievable
program that would allow manufacturers to meet standards through a mix
of different technologies at reasonable cost. The proposed Phase 2
program would build on and advance the model years 2014-2018 Phase 1
program in a number of important ways including: Basing standards not
only on currently available technologies but also on utilization of
technologies now under development or not yet widely deployed while
providing significant lead time to assure adequate time to develop,
test, and phase in these controls; developing standards for trailers;
further encouraging innovation and providing flexibility; including
vehicles produced by small business manufacturers; incorporating
enhanced test procedures that (among other things) allow individual
drivetrain and powertrain performance to be reflected in the vehicle
certification process; and using an expanded and improved compliance
simulation model.
This notice alerts the public to new information placed in the
agencies' public dockets, and solicits comment on that information. The
information takes the form of raw data, revised test reports, and
memoranda that in some instances indicate potential implications of the
data for purposes of standard stringency and implementation. In
addition to information placed into the docket by the agencies, EPA
also solicits comments on issues discussed in a late public comment
that addresses proposed regulations related to light-duty motor
vehicles used for racing. The agencies will accept comments on these
materials through April 1, 2016. The agencies will not address new
comments extraneous to these materials in the final rulemaking or its
associated documents.
D. Newly Docketed Materials on Which the Agencies Are Seeking Public
Comment
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EPA Docket No. NHTSA Docket No. Title Description
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EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1626.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0181.. Greenhouse Gas A new release of the GEM
Emissions Model (GEM) simulation tool contains
P2v2.1. revisions that include
fixing bugs identified by
commenters; enhancements
to accommodate cycle
averaged fuel maps,
transmission efficiency
test results, and axle
efficiency test results;
refinements to the
transmission shifting
strategies; revised
vocational vehicle drive
cycle weightings; and a
revised road grade
profile. Details regarding
the revisions are included
in the summary file in the
docket entry.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1620.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0182.. Default Gasoline EPA sponsored testing of a
Engine Fuel Map for heavy-duty gasoline engine
Use in GEM. at Southwest Research
Institute. Those results
were used to develop a new
default fuel map that
could be used to develop
the final spark-ignited
vocational vehicle
standards.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1622.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0183.. Oak Ridge National EPA sponsored additional
Laboratory Powertrain testing on heavy-duty
Data. powertrains at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. Cycle
results are presented from
two powertrain
configurations.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1619.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0184.. Southwest Research EPA sponsored additional
Institute Program testing on two heavy-duty
Update on Cycle engines each with two
Average Mapping Data. different horsepower
ratings. Information
includes the cycle average
testing results and
findings are included.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1623.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0185.. Final Southwest A pre-peer review draft
Research Institute version of this report was
Report to NHTSA: released in June of 2015.
Commercial Medium- Independent peer review
and Heavy-Duty Truck and public release of the
Fuel Efficiency draft report identified
Technology Study-- errors in the analysis in
Report #2. the draft report that were
corrected in this final
version.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1624.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0186.. Supplemental EPA conducted additional
Aerodynamic Data from aerodynamic testing using
EPA Testing. the coastdown, constant
speed, wind tunnel, and
computational fluid
dynamics test procedures
since the NPRM was issued.
This docket entry includes
the raw data from each of
these test programs.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1621.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0187.. Vocational Vehicle The National Renewable
Drive Cycle Data: Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Draft Report produced collaborated with EPA and
by the National conducted a vocational
Renewable Energy vehicle segmentation
Laboratory entitled evaluation based on NREL's
``The Development of Fleet DNA database. This
Vocational Vehicle analysis is intended to
Drive Cycles and inform the final
Segmentation''. vocational vehicle drive
cycle weightings.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1625.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0188.. Additional Discussion Commenters raised concerns
of Selective about the proposed audit
Enforcement Audit and testing and the need for
Confirmatory Testing consideration of
for Aerodynamic compliance margins for the
Parameters. audit's results. The
memorandum provides
additional discussion of
how EPA's audits could be
conducted, and key
principles related to
these requirements.
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EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1627.......... NHTSA-2014-0132-0189.. Legal Memorandum Draft legal memorandum
Discussing Issues discussing issues relating
Pertaining to to authority under the
Trailers, Glider Clean Air Act to
Vehicles, and Glider promulgate emission
Kits under the Clean standards for trailers and
Air Act. glider vehicles,
certification
responsibilities of
manufacturers of trailers
and glider kits, and
potential CO2 emission
standards for different
model year glider
vehicles.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0827-1469-A1....... Not Applicable; this Public Comment from This comment addresses how
is in relation to an the Specialty a proposed amendment
EPA-specific section Equipment Market related to the Clean Air
of the NPRM. Association. Act's prohibition of
tampering of emission
controls would impact
light-duty vehicles used
for racing and raises
questions about whether
adequate notice was given
for this proposed
amendment.
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Issued under authority of 49 U.S.C. 32901, 32905, and 32906;
delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95.
Dated: February 24, 2016.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
Dated: February 24, 2016.
Christopher Grundler,
Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Environmental
Protection Agency.
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