S.Amdt. 675

SA 675. Mrs. BOXER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 3, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways,
highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

SEC.  . CERTIFICATION OF VEHICLE EMISSION PERFORMANCE
STANDARDS.

(a) Vehicle Emission Performance Standards.--Section 13902
(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as
subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively, and,
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
``(B) the requirement that a motor carrier certifies that,
beginning in 2007, the vehicle or vehicles purchased in that
year or afterwards and operated by the motor carrier comply
with the heavy duty vehicle and engine emissions performance
standards and related regulations established by the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant
to section 202(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act (42 USC
7521(a)(3));''
(b) Study.--Within 180 days following the date of enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall make
recommendations to Congress on ways to ensure that trucks
built prior to 2007 operating in the United States comply
with all emissions performance standards of the Clean Air Act
applicable to such engines at the time the engine was
manufactured.
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