(Grams per brake horsepower-hour)

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Notes:

Tables 4-32a and 4-32b are identical for heavy-duty diesel engines.

Description:

KEY: CO = carbon monoxide; HC = hydrocarbon; NOx  = nitrogen oxides; NMHC = nonmethane hydrocarbons; NMOG = nonmethane organic gas; HCHO = formaldeyhyde.

^a Smoke opacity is expressed in percentage for acceleration, lugging, and peak modes (acceleration/lugging/peak).  Lugging is when a vehicle is carrying a load.

^b Gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) is the maximum design loaded weight.

^c Several testing procedures have been used during the course of exhaust emissions control.  A steady-state 9-mode test procedure (13-mode for diesel) was used for 1970-83 standards.  For 1984, either the steady-state tests or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transient test procedure could be used.  For diesels, the EPA transient test was required from 1985 to the present.  For gasoline-powered vehicles, either the EPA or the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association (MVMA) transient test procedure could be used during 1985-86, and the MVMA procedure was required thereafter. 

^d Emissions standards apply to the useful life of the vehicle.  Useful life was 5 years/50,000 miles through 1983 and became 8 years/110,000 miles beginning in model year 1985. 1984 was a transitional year in which vehicles could meet the older standard (and test procedure) or the newer one.  Useful life requirement for gasoline-powered trucks meeting NOx standards for 1998 and after is 10 years/110,000 miles.  Starting in 2004, the useful life will be 10 years/110,000 miles.  The useful life requirements for heavy-duty diesel truck standards are more complex and vary by vehicle weight, pollutant, test procedure, and year.  Consult the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations for further information. 

^e No standard set.

^f Although emissions standards for HC and CO were in effect for these years, they were not measured in grams per brake horsepower-hour and are, therefore, incompatible with the engine certification section of this table. 

^g Vehicles can meet a NMHC + NOx standard of 2.5 g/bhp-h, given they meet a NMHC standard of no more than 0.5 g/bhp-h.

^h Starting in 2005, complete gasoline heavy-duty vehicles of 14,000 lbs GVWR or below will have to be chassis certified.  

ⁱ The manufacturer has the option of satisfying this standard by measurement of nonmethane hydrocarbons or total hydrocarbons.

^j The manufacturer has the option of satisfying this standard by measurement of nonmethane organic gas or total hydrocarbons.

^k This test procedure currently exists to test complete vehicles that have been optionally chassis certified.  However, chassis certification is not required until 2005.

^l Required for complete gasoline heavy-duty vehicles only.

Source:

40 CFR 86, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Internet site at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrhtml_00/Title_40/40cfr86_00.html as of Oct. 9, 2001. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, personal communication, October 2001.