Compliance Planning for the Off-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulatio

This page last reviewed February 27, 2009

What is a compliance plan?

A compliance plan is a way to determine what you will need to do to meet the requirements of the regulation. It will allow you to determine, out of your fleet, which vehicles to retire, replace, repower, install exhaust retrofits on, designate low-use, or other actions which will reduce emissions and comply with the regulation.

How important is a compliance plan?

Finding an appropriate and effective method to comply with the regulation is extremely important. The cost of complying in an individual year can vary by a large amount, depending on the compliance method. Two fleets with the exact same vehicles could have very different costs if one plans ahead and the other does not.

How do I create compliance plan?

ARB staff recommend you use DOORS - the same tool used for reporting. To use the compliance planning tool in DOORS, you will first need to report all of your information on your vehicles and engines. DOORS will use the information you are required to report to determine what you can do to comply in future years, and build a compliance plan tailored to your fleet.

CLICK AN OPTION BELOW

1: Report your vehicles online, and then use the compliance plan in DOORS

Are there other options?

Fleets may also use the Fleet Average Calculators - Excel spreadsheets which accept information about your fleet and help you find a compliance path.

The fleet average calculators are not part of reporting, but are tools for planning only. Fleet owners can insert engine model years and horsepowers, and the spreadsheet will calculate their relevant emissions numbers. It will also allow fleets to experiment and see how retrofitting and turning over engines will allow them to comply with the future requirements.

DOORS is the recommended tool as fleets are required to report their information in DOORS, and as the deadlines for reporting are rapidly approaching, fleets should complete reporting prior to spending a large amount of time with the fleet average calculators.

Do I have to use both?

No. Reporting is required, but using the fleet average calculators is not. It is only for your personal planning use. If you are reporting or have already reported, you do not need to use the fleet average calculators. However, some fleets prefer to use Excel, and have become accustomed to the calculators, so we are still providing them as an option.

Once all fleets have reported, it is expected most will use the DOORS compliance planning tools. You cannot use the fleet average calculators to report your vehicles to ARB, they are a stand-alone tool.

2: Use the fleet average calculators in Excel
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