No model year 2005 or 2006 heavy duty diesel engine may be sold, leased, or registered within North Carolina unless it has been certified by the California Air Resources Board as meeting the requirements of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 1956.8.

Certification is granted annually by California to individual engine families and is good for one model year. An engine family is a grouping of vehicles or engine models that exhibit similar emission characteristics (e.g., common engine parameters, fuel system, and emission control systems). Within an engine family, there may be one or more evaporative families that are associated with distinct vehicle models.

2005 Heavy Duty Diesel Engines Certified by the Air Resources Board can be found at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onroad/cert/mdehdehdv/2005/2005.php.

2006 Heavy Duty Diesel Engines Certified by the Air Resources Board can be found at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onroad/cert/mdehdehdv/2006/2006.php.

A copy of Title 13 of the California Code of regulations, Section 1956.8, may be obtained free of charge via the internet from the Office of Administrative Law California Code of Regulations website at http://ccr.oal.ca.gov/, or a hard copy may be obtained at a cost of $5.00 from the Public Information Office, California Air Resources Board, P.O. Box 2815, Sacramento, CA, 95812.

The North Carolina rule (Title 15A of the North Carolina Administrative Code, Subchapter 2D, Section .1008) setting out these requirements is found at http://daq.state.nc.us/rules/rules/.

For more information... contact:

Brian Phillips
(919) 707-8426
E-mail: Brian.Phillips@ncdenr.gov

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