STATEWIDE WORKSHOP ON THE CALIFORNIA MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS STANDARDS INCLUDING GREENHOUSE GASES

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STATEWIDE WORKSHOP ON THE CALIFORNIA MOTOR
VEHICLE EMISSIONS STANDARDS INCLUDING GREENHOUSE
GASES

• August 23, 2007
• Department of Environmental Protection
• Division of Air Resource Management

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Executive Order 07-127

• Establishes Immediate Actions to Reduce
  Greenhouse Gas Emissions within Florida
• DEP to develop rules to achieve.....
• Adoption of the California motor vehicle emission
  standards in Title 13 of the California Code of
  Regulations, effective January 1, 2005, upon
  approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection
  Agency of the pending waiver, which includes
  emission standards for greenhouse gases,
  submitted by the California Air Resources Board.

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EPA Waiver Issues

• States follow the federal emission standards or
  adopt the California standards
• Status of the California waiver request
• Waiver requested in December 2005
• Discussion with EPA are on-going
• Waiver decision still pending
• Potential for legal remedy
• California want decision by October 2007
• Key court decision Massachusetts vs. EPA CO2
  considered a pollutant that could be regulated by
  EPA

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What Does Adopting the California Standards Mean?

• Adoption of California Emission Standards
• Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) program
• Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reductions
• States opting into the California program are
  adopting the identical California standards
• Cant deviate in substantive aspects
• Prevents the hypothetical 3rd vehicle

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Vehicle Emission Standards

• Comparison of California Standards (commonly
  referred to as LEV II) to the federal standards
  (commonly referred to as Tier 2)
• California standards are more stringent
• California LEV II results in lower overall
  emissions compared to the federal standard.
• California LEV II evaporative emission standards
  are more stringent than the federal standards
• California LEV II includes an optional Zero
  Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program which promotes
  advanced vehicles (e.g., fuel cell vehicles,
  battery,
• electric)

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Vehicle Emission Standards (continued)

• California LEV II establishes fleet average based
  on Non-Methane Organic Gases (NMOG) standard.
• Federal Tier 2 standard establishes fleet average
  based on oxides of nitrogen (NOx)

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Key Features of the California LEV II Requirements

• Phase In-Schedule
• Pollutants Regulated
• Criteria Pollutants
• Precursors of ground level ozone
• NMOG (similar to VOC)
• NOx
• Carbon Monoxide (CO)
• Particulate Matter (PM)
• Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)

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Key Features of the California LEV II
Requirements(continued)

• Requirements
• Statewide fleet average emission standard
• Standards applicable to different vehicle
  classifications
• California fleet average emission standards focus
  on NMOG
• Types of Vehicles Regulated
• Passenger cars
• Light duty trucks
• Medium duty vehicles up to 14,000 pounds
• Technical classification
• LEV Low Emission Vehicle
• ULEV Ultra Low Emission Vehicle
• SULEV Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle

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Key Features of the California LEV II
Requirements (continued)

• Optional
• ZEV - categories that capture zero emission
  vehicles such as fuel cells, battery electric.
• Amended to include
• PZEV Partial Zero Emission Vehicle
• ATPZEV Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emission
  Vehicles (hybrid)

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Key Feature of the GHG Requirements

• Pavley Law
• CARB adopted in 2004
• First law in the nation to address GHG,
  especially CO2
• Date standards take effect
• Phase-in from 2009 through 2016
• Pollutants
• CO2
• Methane (CH4)
• Nitrous Oxide (N20)
• Requirements
• Tailpipe emission CO2, CH4, N2O resulting
  directly from vehicle operation
• CO2 emissions from operating air conditioner
  systems
• Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) from air conditioner
  systems leakage
• Upstream emission associated with fuel production

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California Emission Reductions

• New vehicles in 2012 will have 22 lower GHG
  emissions compared to 2000
• When standard fully implemented, new vehicles
  will have 30 lower GHG emissions
• California GHG Emissions
• passenger vehicles climate change emissions will
  be reduced by 87,000 CO2 equivalent tons per day
  in 2020.
• And by 2030, climate change emissions will be
  reduced by 155,000 tons per day
• Secondary benefit
• Reduce other pollutants in new vehicles
• 12-21 lower VOC emissions than the federal
• standard

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Conclusions

• California Rule Requirements
• LEV II
• GHG
• Choices
• ZEV
• Opt in/out
• partial
• Implementation
• Waiver Status

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Comments

• Implementation
• Compliance verification
• Phase-in schedule
• Costs
• ZEV choice
• Data collection
• projections

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Comments (continued)

• Mail comments to
• Ms. Sandy Bowman
• Division of Air Resource Management
• Department of Environmental Protection
• 2600 Blair Stone Road
• Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400
• cc Ms. Lynn Scearce, Rules Coordinator (same
  address)
• Or e-mail to sandy.bowman_at_dep.state.fl.us
• lynn.scearce_at_dep.state.fl.us
• All comments are public records and will be
  posted on the Departments website.
• FLDEP Climate Change website
• http//www.dep.state.fl.us/air/climate.htm

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E-mail Distribution List

• To receive updates on this project by e-mail,
  provide name, affiliation, and e-mail address to
  Ms. Lynn Scearce at
• lynn.scearce_at_dep.state.fl.us