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E-Cert
This page last reviewed on January 8, 2013
What is E-Cert?
Manufacturers of motor
vehicles and engines must show compliance with the California emission
requirements before their products are legal for sale, use, or registration in
the state. To show compliance, manufacturers must supply applications to the
Air Resources Board (ARB) for certification of their vehicles and engines.
Traditionally, manufacturers have submitted these applications in paper format.
They are reviewed by the certification staff and stored at the ARB. To reduce
the bulk of paper and facilitate the review of applications, the ARB has
introduced E-Cert. It is an electronic system that allows manufacturers to send
certification applications to the ARB. E-Cert loads these files and allows
staff to review the application. Manufacturers receive an electronic
notification when their application has been loaded into E-Cert.
Usage of E-Cert will eventually be required for all manufacturers seeking
certification of new mobile source categories of motor vehicles and engines:
passenger cars, light-duty trucks, medium-duty vehicles, on-road and off-road
motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, heavy-duty
engines and vehicles, off-road compression ignition engines, small off-road engines,
large spark ignition engines, and spark-ignition marine engines.
Heavy Duty
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A public workshop was held on
Thursday November 6, 2008 to present new data requirements for heavy-duty
diesel E-Cert certification applications. For more information please see the workshop notice.
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The ARB has started the process of
designing Heavy-Duty E-Cert. The initial step involves gathering data
requirements for the Heavy-Duty vehicle/engine category. Like other E-Cert
categories, Heavy-Duty Diesel will be submitting certification applications
through XML. The data requirements contain the information that Heavy-Duty
manufacturers will need to supply for a certification application. As
Heavy-Duty E-Cert development progresses, additional information will be posted
on this page. Heavy-Duty Data Requirements (posted after the workshop)
o This document describes the database fields in detail such as field names,
description, data type, size, domain, and nullability.
The Light-Duty Vehicle
(LDV) category is the next category being phased into E-Cert. The ARB has
developed a website for manufacturer's to submit XML formatted certification
applications directly to E-Cert. The certification applications should be
formatted using the Light-Duty Vehicle XML Schema.
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Upcoming Workshop (Register for Workshop
webinar) Presentation
Slides
o A public workshop will be held on January 10, 2013 to present new data
requirements for submitting mobile source emissions certification applications
electronically to the ARB for light-duty and medium-duty vehicle categories.
For more information please see the Workshop notice.
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Light-Duty Vehicle InfoPath Form
o Based on the comments that the ARB received during the workshop held on
January 23, 2008, the ARB created a user-friendly form that manufacturers can
use for entering certification data and saving this data as an XML file. The
form, which was created with Microsoft InfoPath 2003, provides manufacturers
with an alternative means for creating an XML file. The only requirement to
using this form is that you must have Microsoft InfoPath 2003 or greater, which
is part of Microsoft Office Professional Edition.
o InfoPath Form Last Updated: December 11, 2012
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Light-Duty
Vehicle Data Requirements
o This document describes the database's fields in detail. It contains
information pertaining to a field's name, description, size, and domain.
o Data Requirements Last Updated: December 11, 2012
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Light-Duty Vehicle XML Schema
o The XML schema is a guideline for describing how to form a valid XML document.
Formatting the applications based on the schema will ensure that the
applications will be processed by E-Cert. Applications not formatted correctly,
will not be loaded into E-Cert.
o XML Schema Last Updated: December 11, 2012
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Past Workshop
o A public workshop was held on Wednesday January 23, 2008. Click here
to download the documents from that workshop.
How to Use E-Cert?
Manufacturers cannot
access E-Cert directly, because E-Cert is used by our certification department
for reviewing applications. For the motorcycle categories, manufacturers submit
XML files to E-Cert by using EPA's Verify. If you do not have an account and
are interested in applying to ARB for a vehicle or an engine emission
certification, please contact EPA and request a CDX account. For LDV-MDV
categories, manufacturers will need to submit XML files directly to E-Cert
Application Loader. Details on this system will be posted at a later date.
Manufacturers must first
register in order to submit an application to E-Cert. It is important that your
contact information is in the E-Cert database prior to submitting an
application. This serves two purposes: First, it provides our certification
department a way to get in contact with you about any information that may be
in the application. Secondly, it ensures that the executive order is sent to
the correct person. If you receive an email indicating that you need to register
in E-Cert before your application can be accepted, please contact your
certification representative and they will be able to assist you.
E-Cert Computer
Requirements
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Internet Explorer 7.0+ browser
Acceptable Electronic
Document Formats
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XML
Contact
Us for More Information
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General Support
o Seong Kim (LDV),
(626) 450-6164
o Shobna Sahni
(HMC), (626) 450-6104
o Duc Nguyen,
(626) 575-6844
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Technical Support
o Mina Fanous,
(626) 575-6867
o Dilip Patel,
(626) 450-6141
