New EOs added July 03, 2009

CERTIFICATION

BACKGROUND

The On-Road Certification/Audit Section is responsible for the certification and production audit of new passenger cars (PC), light-duty trucks (LDT), medium-duty vehicles (MDV), heavy-duty engines (HDE) and vehicles (HDV) including urban buses (UB), on- and off-road motorcycles (ONMC and OFMC), all-terrain vehicles (ATV), and electric golf carts (eGC). Vehicles and engines (hereinafter, vehicles) are not legal for sale in California until certified. Violation of the requirement for certification can subject the vehicle manufacturers and/or selling dealers to enforcement actions including a fine of up to $5000 per vehicle.

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CERTIFICATION OVERVIEW

To be certified, a vehicle must demonstrate that its exhaust and (as applicable, depending on the specific vehicle category) evaporative emission control systems are durable and comply with the emission standards for the vehicle's useful life. This is done through durability and certification testing of the prototype certification vehicle(s). Compliance with on-board diagnostics, anti-tampering, fuel tank fill-pipe and openings, crankcase emissions, etc., as applicable, must be demonstrated also. An application for certification must be submitted to, and approved by, the Air Resources Board (ARB) (and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) concurrently).

Production vehicles must be identical in all material respects to those (of the certification vehicles) for which the certification was granted; all emissions-related production running changes and field fixes must be approved. Production vehicles must be properly labeled and their emission control systems are warranted for the specified duration. New and customer-owned production vehicles are subject to compliance testing (by either the manufacturers or ARB) and warranty repairs reporting by the manufacturers, either of which can result in remedial actions.

Certification is granted only to the manufacturer of the vehicles who controls the vehicle specifications to ensure compliance by all production vehicles. Certification can be granted to an importer only if the importer demonstrates that it has control of the vehicle specifications. As an example, this demonstration can be effected by a contractual agreement between the vehicle manufacturer and importer giving the importer the sole authority to approve any changes to the production vehicles in the certified engine/evaporative family. Importers lacking this vehicle specifications control are subject to the direct-import (a.k.a. grey-market) vehicle certification.

CERTIFICATION REGULATIONS, TEST PROCEDURES AND POLICIES

For current regulations, test procedures, and policies, please click on the appropriate links below.

PC-LDT-MDV-MDEV [for PC; LDT; MDV certified under chassis test procedure; and incomplete or diesel MDV of 8501-14000 pound GVWR certified under engine test procedure]

HDE-HDV-UB-MDE [for HDE, HDV and UB (all with GVWR > 14000 pounds); and engines for use in incomplete or diesel MDV of 8501-14000 pound GVWR]

ONMC

OFMC-ATV-ATVE-eGC [for OFMC; ATV certified under chassis test procedure; ATV certified under engine test procedure; and (zero-emissions) eGC]

EXECUTIVE ORDERS OVERVIEW

For certification purposes, vehicles are grouped in engine families or test groups for exhaust emissions (hereinafter, engine families) and evaporative families for evaporative emissions. Within each family, the vehicles share similar designs and are expected to have similar emission characteristics. An Executive Order is issued to certify an engine family in combination with one or more evaporative families. An Executive Order is valid for production during the specified model year. Vehicles produced for another model year require another Executive Order.

Pertinent certification information is included in an Executive Order. Among the information available are the vehicle model year, engine and evaporative families, vehicle category, emission standard category, engine displacements, operating fuel, emission control systems, values of the exhaust and evaporative emission standards and certification emissions, and vehicle models.

Note that Executive Orders are issued to the vehicle manufacturers. Some manufacturers have multiple brands ("Makes") of vehicles. To find the Executive Order for a specific vehicle, you should search among the Executive Orders of the manufacturer that has the brand of your interest. For example, you should search among General Motors Corporation's Executive Orders for Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saab, or Saturn vehicles. Other multi-brands manufacturers include [Manufacturer (brands)]: Ford (Ford, Lincoln, Mercury), DaimlerChrysler Corporation (Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep), Honda (Acura, Honda), Nissan (Infiniti, Nissan), Toyota (Lexus, Scion, Toyota), Volkswagen (Audi, VW) and BMW (BMW, Mini).

In a multi-manufacturers arrangement between manufacturers ABC and XYZ, an Executive Order issued to manufacturer "ABC" includes both ABC-branded vehicles and XYZ-branded vehicles. To find the Executive Order for an XYZ-branded vehicle, you may have to search among the Executive Orders issued to ABC as well as XYZ. Among the multi-manufacturers arrangements currently certified by the ARB are: Daimler Chrysler Corporation-Mitsubishi, Ford-Mazda, General Motors-GMDAT (Daewoo)-Isuzu-Subaru-Suzuki-Workhorse, Kawasaki-Suzuki, and NUMMI (General Motors-Toyota).

HOW TO SEARCH FOR AN EXECUTIVE ORDER

In the Executive Orders Listing section below, links to individual Executive Orders are provided. Each Executive Order is indicated by its file name. Useful information incorporated in the file names can help facilitate the search for any particular Executive Order.

The file name of each Executive Order provides information on: manufacturer, vehicle category(ies), Executive Order number, all engine displacements, emission standard(s), and the alternative fuel type (i.e., non-existence or blank here indicates that the vehicle uses the conventional fuel, gasoline). These types of information in the file name are shown in blocks, separated by "underscores" (_). There are no spaces in a block (e.g., astonmartin indicates the manufacturer Aston Martin). Multiple entries when needed in a block are separated by hyphens (-), for example, the multiple engine displacements (e.g., 3d3-3d5 indicates two engine displacements, 3.3 and 3.5) or multiple vehicle categories (e.g., pc-ldt indicates passenger car and light-duty truck vehicle categories) within that engine family. Dots and decimal points (.) are not used in the file name due to potential conflict with computer software convention. Thus, the file name of a revised Executive Order will have the lower-case letter "r" followed by the revision version number in lieu of the normal decimal number (e.g., a1234567r8 indicates the eighth (8th)- revision Executive Order A-123-4567-8). Similarly, the lower-case letter "d" will be used in lieu of the normal decimal point in engine displacements (e.g., 3d3 indicates 3.3) or emission standards (e.g., 0d10 indicates 0.10).

Manufacturer names generally are not abbreviated. The few exceptions are listed here. "bmw" stands for the manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG which produces BMW and Mini vehicles. "dcag" stands for the manufacturer DaimlerChrysler AG which generally produces Mercedes vehicles. "dcco" stands for the manufacturer DaimlerChrysler Corporation which generally produces Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth and Jeep vehicles. "gmdat" stands for the manufacturer General Motors-Daewoo Automotive Technology which is affiliated with General Motors Corporation and produces vehicles for General Motors and General Motors' affiliates (e.g., Suzuki) under multi-manufacturers arrangements. "nummi" stands for the manufacturer New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. which produces General Motors and Toyota vehicles under a multi-manufacturers arrangement. And, "subaru" is used in lieu of the manufacturer Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. which produces Subaru vehicles and other vehicles for General Motors and General Motors' affiliates (e.g., Saab, Suzuki) under multi-manufacturers arrangements.

Knowing the make, model, vehicle category, engine size, and fuel of the vehicle of your interest, you should be able to find the Executive Order certifying that particular vehicle in as few as just one try by applying the Executive Order file naming rules below.

Executive Order File Name for PC, LDT, MDV, and MDEV

Manufacturer_Vehicle Category 1A_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in liters)_Standard Category 2_Non Gasoline Fuel 3

Executive Order File Name for HDE, HDV, UB, and MDE (engines used in 8501-14000 Pound GVWR diesel or incomplete MDV)

Manufacturer_Category 1B_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in liters)_NMHC+NOX (or NOx) and PM (in that order) Standards or FELs (in g/bhp-hr)_Non Diesel or Non Gasoline Fuel 3

Executive Order File Name for ONMC

Manufacturer_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in cc)_HC or HC+NOx Standard_Standard Type 4

Executive Order File Name for Complying (i.e., Green-Sticker) OFMC, ATV, ATVE, and eGC

Manufacturer_Vehicle Category 1C_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in cc)

Executive Order File Name for Non-Complying (i.e., Red-Sticker) OFMC and ATV

Manufacturer_Vehicle Category 1C_EO Number_All Engine Displacements (in cc)

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CONTACTS

For any further questions concerning the certification program, please contact the following.

Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, Medium-Duty Vehicles:
Exhaust emissions: Kimberly Pryor, (626) 575-6640 or kpryor@arb.ca.gov
Evaporative emissions: Rhonda Runyon, (626) 575-6653 or rrunyon@arb.ca.gov
Zero emissions: Rhonda Runyon, (626) 575-6653 or rrunyon@arb.ca.gov
Production audit: (Mr.) Satya Devesh, (626) 575-6704 or sdevesh@arb.ca.gov
All others: William McDuffee, (626) 450-6159 or wmcduffe@arb.ca.gov

Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles:
Otto-standards: Tom Chang, (626)575-6809 or ychang@arb.ca.gov
Diesel-standards: Tom Chang, (626) 575-6809 or ychang@arb.ca.gov

On-Road Motorcycles:
Steven Hada, (626) 575-6641 or shada@arb.ca.gov

Off-Road Motorcycles, All-Terrain Vehicles, Electric Golf Carts:
Veronica Longhi, (626) 575-6642 or vlonghi@arb.ca.gov

Direct-Import (DI) (a.k.a. Grey-Market) Vehicles:
New DI vehicles: Steven Hada, (626) 575-6642 or shada@arb.ca.gov
Used DI vehicles/Licensing of test labs: Veronica Longhi, (626) 575-6642 or vlonghi@arb.ca.gov


EXECUTIVE ORDERS LISTING

To view a specific Executive Order, please click on the appropriate link to view a category, or use the search box below. The link for each category is the date that new Executive Orders were last added to that directory. Links with "new" next to them have been updated in the last 5 days.

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