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As part of the recently signed California budget, the California
legislature has directed the Air Resources Board to make several
changes to the in-use off-road diesel vehicle regulation.  

PLEASE NOTE that the reporting deadlines for the off-road
regulation remain in place and unchanged - April 1, 2009 for
large fleets, June 1, 2009 for medium fleets, and August 1, 2009
for small fleets.  For more information on reporting, please
visit the DOORS webpage at 
https://secure.arb.ca.gov/ssldoors/doors_reporting/reporting.php

The changes ARB has been directed to make will lessen the
requirements of the regulation for many large fleets in the early
years of the regulation and include the following:

1.  Fleets who are now using their off-road vehicles less than
they did as of July 1, 2007 may take credit for this reduced
fleet activity to satisfy turnover and retrofitting requirements
in 2010 and 2011. 

2.  Fleets will be given credit (both PM and NOx) for any
vehicle retirements made between March 1, 2006 and March 1, 2010
as long as total fleet horsepower decreased from the previous
year.

3.  For the total cumulative turnover and retrofit requirements
for the years 2011 through 2013, fleets may complete 20 percent
of the total turnover and retrofitting by March 1, 2011, an
additional 20 percent by March 1, 2012, and the balance by March
1, 2013.

ARB staff will be holding a workshop to discuss how to implement
these changes and ways to mitigate for the loss in emission
benefits caused by these changes sometime in March.  Staff will
release a public notice with details regarding this workshop as
soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please contact Kim Heroy-Rogalski at
kheroyro@arb.ca.gov or 916-327-2200.  However, please note that
staff does not have any more specific information regarding how
the changes will be implemented than is listed above.  When more
specific information is available, it will be sent out via
listserve and posted on our homepage at 
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ordiesel/ordiesel.htm