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Model Year 2027 and Later Heavy-Duty New Engine and Vehicle Standards and Requirements, and Diesel Vehicle Inspection Tests and Procedures

Model Year 2027 and Later Heavy-Duty New Engine and Vehicle Standards and Requirements, and Diesel Vehicle Inspection Tests and Procedures

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AIR QUALITY, ENERGY, AND SUSTAINABILITY
DIVISION OF AIR QUALITY

Model Year 2027 or Later Heavy-Duty New Engine and Vehicle Standards and Requirements; Diesel Vehicle Inspection Tests and Procedures
Proposed Amendments: N.J.A.C. 7:27-14.1, 14.5, 15.1, 15.3, and 15.7 and 7:27A-3.10
Proposed New Rules: N.J.A.C. 7:27-28A
Proposed Repeals: N.J.A.C. 7:27-14 Appendix and 7:27-28
Authorized By: Shawn M. LaTourette, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection.
Authority: N.J.S.A. 13:1B-3(e), 13:1D-9, 26:2C-1 et seq., particularly 26:2C-8.1, 26:2C-8.15 et seq., and 39:8-2 and 61.
Calendar Reference: See Summary below for explanation of exception to calendar requirement.
DEP Docket Number: 07-22-10.
Proposal Number: PRN 2022-150.

A public hearing concerning this notice of rule proposal and the proposed State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 9:30 A.M. The hearing will be conducted virtually through the Department of Environmental Protection’s (Department) video conferencing software, Microsoft Teams. A link to the virtual public hearing and telephone call-in option will be provided on the Department’s rules proposal website at https://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/notices.html.

Submit comments by close of business on January 6, 2023, electronically at www.nj.gov/dep/rules/comments. Each comment should be identified by the applicable N.J.A.C. citation, with the commenter’s name and affiliation following the comment.

The Department encourages electronic submittal of comments. In the alternative, comments may be submitted on paper to:

Alice A. Previte, Esq.
Attention: DEP Docket No. 07-22-10
Office of Legal Affairs
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
401 East State Street, 7th Floor
Mail Code 401-04L
PO Box 402
Trenton, NJ 08625-0402

If you are interested in providing oral testimony or submitting written comments at the virtual public hearing, please email the Department at monica.miranda@dep.nj.gov no later than 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, with your contact information (name, organization, telephone number, and email address). You must provide a valid email address so
the Department can send you an email confirming receipt of your interest to testify orally at the hearing and provide you with a separate option for a telephone call-in line if you do not have
access to a computer or mobile device that can connect to Microsoft Teams. Further, this hearing will be recorded. It is requested (but not required) that anyone providing oral testimony at the public hearing provide a copy of any prepared remarks to the Department via email. The proposed repeals, new rules, and amendments will become operative 60 days after they are adopted by the Commissioner of the Department (see N.J.S.A. 26:2C-8). This notice of proposal may be viewed or downloaded from the Department’s website at www.nj.gov/dep/rules.

DEP Proposal

DEP Notice


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US EPA Memorandum on Tampering Impacts

Last modified on September 7th, 2022 at 12:20 pm

US EPA Memorandum on Tampering Impacts

The Air Enforcement Division (AED) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the emissions controls have been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks in the last decade. As a result of this tampering, more than 570,000 tons of excess oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and 5,000 tons of particulate matter (PM) will be emitted by these tampered trucks over the lifetime of the vehicles. These tampered trucks constitute approximately 15 percent of the national population of diesel trucks that were originally certified with emissions controls. But, due to their severe excess NOx emissions, these trucks have an air quality impact equivalent to adding more than 9 million additional (compliant, non-tampered) diesel pickup trucks to our roads. This Report describes these estimates in greater detail and explains AED’s underlying analysis.

View the Report


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Tampering Compliance Advisory

Tampering of Emission Control Systems on Diesel and Gasoline Vehicles is Prohibited

Who is affected by this advisory?

Vehicle owners, operators, automotive technicians and repair facilities, fleet managers, and car and truck dealers.

Why is DEP issuing this advisory?

It is illegal under state and federal law to tamper with the emissions system of any vehicle. All vehicles, diesel or gasoline powered, light, medium, or heavy-duty, are subject to the regulation.

View the Compliance Advisory

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Grants available for publicly accessible EV fast charging stations within communities

DEP offers $4 million in grants for publicly accessible electric vehicle fast charging stations within communities. For more information, click here.

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New Jersey joins forces with 14 States and the District of Columbia to accelerate truck and bus electrification

Last modified on September 7th, 2022 at 12:24 pm

New Jersey joins forces with 14 States and the District of Columbia to accelerate truck and bus electrification.

Click here to view the MOU

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NESCAUM Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles: Action Plan Development Process

NESCAUM launched a new webpage (Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles: Action Plan Development Process – NESCAUM) to enable the public to learn more about the medium- and heavy-duty action plan development process and to provide input on the plan.

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Governor Murphy announces $100 million to electrify vehicles in Environmental Justice communities

Governor Phil Murphy announced an investment of more than $100 million in clean, equitable transportation projects that will improve air quality and reduce the effects of climate change while moving New Jersey towards 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Leveraging proceeds from the State’s participation in the Regional Green House Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Funds will bring electrification programs, equitable mobility projects, and electric charging infrastructure to New Jersey’s environmental justice communities.

The $100 million investment of proceeds from the State’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and its prosecution of Volkswagen for emissions cheating, will fund the following projects:

  • $9 million in grants for local government electrification projects that will help to improve air quality in environmental justice communities through the deployment of electric garbage and delivery trucks.
  • $13 million in grants for low- and moderate-income communities to reduce emissions that affect our children’s air quality through the deployment of electric school buses and shuttle buses.
  • $5 million in grants for equitable mobility projects that will bring electric vehicle ride hailing and charging stations to four more New Jersey towns and cities.
  • $5 million in grants for deployment of fast charging infrastructure at 27 locations statewide.
  • $36 million to reduce diesel and black carbon emissions in environmental justice communities by electrifying port, cargo handling, and other medium- and heavy-duty equipment in port and industrial areas.
  • $15 million towards New Jersey Transit bus electrification.
  • $15 million towards flex funding to further deploy additional funding to the listed initiatives.

For more information, visit the spending information page.

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Joint Governors’ Letter

Governor Phil Murphy and a group of bipartisan governors from across the country issued a letter calling on President Biden to further advance transportation infrastructure improvements and work quickly toward a zero-emission transportation future by leveraging the American Jobs Plan investments with additional regulatory action, as well as increased funding and financing.

Press Release

Joint Governors’ Letter