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January 27, 2020

Workshop to Discuss Proposed Adoption of a Schedule of Certification Fees for
On-Road Vehicles And Engines

Invitation to Participate

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to participate in a public workshop on February 21, 2020, to discuss proposed adoption of a schedule of certification fees for on-road vehicles and on-road engines. This workshop is directed towards the on-road vehicle and on-road engine industry, and emissions testing laboratories. These manufacturers receive the following Executive Orders (EOs.)

• A-series EOs, New Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, Medium- And Heavy-Duty Vehicles/Engines 
• B-series EOs, New Alternative Fuel Retrofits
• M-series EOs, New Highway Motorcycles
• N-series EOs, New On-Road Heavy-Duty Emissions Exempt Engines
• P-series EOs, New Federal "AB965" Passenger Cars And Light-Duty Trucks
• T-series EOs, Used Direct Import Emissions Testing Laboratories 

More Information

The workshop will be held at the time and place shown below. You may participate in person or through webinar and conference call.

DATE:            Friday, February 21, 2020
TIME:             9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
LOCATION:   California Air Resources Board
                      Annex 4 Auditorium
                      9530 Telstar Avenue
                      El Monte, California 91731

If you plan on participating by webinar and conference call, please register for the Certification Fee for On-Road Vehicle/Engine workshop through the link below. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Register

Registration is not required for those attending the workshop in person.

Background

Historically, on-road mobile source category fees have been capped.  Effective June 27, 2019, new legislation passed by the California legislature and signed by the Governor (SB 85) removed the fee cap in California Health and Safety Code Section 43019, allowing CARB to collect reasonable costs from certification, audit, and compliance activities for on-road mobile sources.  Further, effective January 1, 2019, new legislation passed by the California legislature and signed by the Governor (AB 2381) allows CARB to adopt a schedule of fees to recover CARB’s reasonable costs to enhance its certification, audit, and compliance activities for new motor vehicles to detect defeat devices or other software used to evade emissions testing, including, but not limited to, the increased utilization of in-use and real world conditions emissions testing.  This workshop is part of the regulatory development process to establish the fees and process.  Your participation is welcome.

Special Accommodation Request

Consistent with California Government Code Section 7296.2, special accommodation or language needs may be provided for any of the following:

• An interpreter to be available at the meeting;
• Documents made available in an alternate format or another language;
• A disability-related reasonable accommodation.

To request these special accommodations or language needs, please contact Bonnie Garlow at (626) 575-6918 as soon as possible, but no later than 7 business days before the workshop. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.

Contact

For questions regarding the workshop or the development of the Mobile Source Certification and Compliance fee process, please contact Kathleen Mead, Air Pollution Specialist, at (916) 324-9550.