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CARB confirms International and MaxxForce 2010 EPA
CARB confirms International and MaxxForce 2010 EPA
This week, I was pleased to read a letter confirming CARB recognition of emissions credits for 2010 emissions compliance, same as the EPA does.
As you may know, there is flexibility for all on-highway diesel engine manufacturers to meet 2010 EPA emissions requirements, with the option to either be at or below 0.50 g/bhp-hr of NOx through the use of accumulated credits earned since 2007 or to be at 0.20 g/bhp-hr of NOx if they were unable or chose not to generate credits. International® trucks will meet 0.50 g/bhp-hr NOx through MaxxForce® Advanced EGR technology through emissions credits earned by being cleaner than current 2007 regulations. And, since we can only carry over 80% of credits earned before 2010, Navistar will actually clean more pollutants out of the air over time than if we simply had been meeting the acceptable limits for 2007 and 2010. Credits are a benefit to manufacturers who are greener, and are also a tremendous benefit to the environment.
The CARB letter I read this week inarguably confirms and accepts the approach on which we’ve been working with the EPA since 2004.
In the attached letter to Navistar, Inc., California’s ARB acknowledges that engines that use averaging, banking and trading (ABT) provisions fully comply with the 2010 emissions requirements. CARB adds that engine families both using credits and creating credits are compliant and receive "an Executive Order making them legal for sale in California." Furthermore, our 2010 engines are considered Best Available Control Technology requiring no retrofitting and are essentially at all times on equal footing with those at 0.20 g/bhp-hr of NOx.
We think this affirmation by CARB should resolve any doubts about the acceptability of credits for meeting emissions requirements. Navistar is the only manufacturer who chose meet 2010 emissions with an in-cylinder solution and we planned ahead for it. We have worked tirelessly to give our customers a solution that takes the burden of 2010 compliance off their shoulders; our Advanced EGR technology, combined with our emission credits, enables us to do that.
We are fully confident in our 2010 emissions solution. And thanks to this letter from CARB, we believe our customers will be, too.
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Regards,
Tim Shick
Director of Business and Product Strategy
Navistar Engine Group
Fire Truck Exemptions
PROPOSED REGULATIONS (See new proposed regulations below in red, as of August 26, 2009.)
ORIGINAL PROPOSED REGULATIONS: On October 31, 2008, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for fire apparatus was published in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Notice Register). The proposed amendment would apply to the California Code of Regulations, Title 21, Division 2, Chapter 7, Section 1411.7. The proposed action would (1) increase the existing axle weight exemptions on fire trucks, (2) extend the length of a single-unit fire truck to 52 feet, and (3) expand both these exemptions to include all fire apparatus, which includes other emergency vehicles.
ORIGINAL NOTICE PUBLISHED: The original proposed regulations can be viewed in the Notice Register dated October 31, 2008 on this website: http://www.oal.ca.gov/notices/October2008_notice_pdf.htm. This published version has a minor typo on Page 1941. In the sentence at the 6th bullet, "complete" should read "compete." Since the correction was non-substantive, OAL granted permission to post the corrected version on the Caltrans website, which can be accessed at: Fire Apparatus Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
ORIGINAL REGULATIONS PACKAGE: See also the INITIAL STATEMENT OF REASONS and the PROPOSED TEXT OF REGULATION MARK-UP.
INITIAL COMMENTS: The initial comment period lasted 45 days, from October 31, 2008, to December 15, 2008. Comments were submitted to Casey Robb at the mailing address listed in the "Notice," or by e-mail at: casey_robb@dot.ca.gov. (The apparent blank space in the e-mail address is an underscore.)
NEW PROPOSED REGULATIONS as of August 25, 2009
1071 Report on Proposals
You can download it here and the instructions for submitting comments are in the report:
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