Model Year 2027 and Later Heavy-Duty New Engine and Vehicle Standards and Requirements, and Diesel Vehicle Inspection Tests and Procedures

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AIR QUALITY, ENERGY, AND SUSTAINABILITY
DIVISION OF AIR QUALITY

Model Year 2027 or Later Heavy-Duty New Engine and Vehicle Standards and Requirements; Diesel Vehicle Inspection Tests and Procedures
Proposed Amendments: N.J.A.C. 7:27-14.1, 14.5, 15.1, 15.3, and 15.7 and 7:27A-3.10
Proposed New Rules: N.J.A.C. 7:27-28A
Proposed Repeals: N.J.A.C. 7:27-14 Appendix and 7:27-28
Authorized By: Shawn M. LaTourette, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection.
Authority: N.J.S.A. 13:1B-3(e), 13:1D-9, 26:2C-1 et seq., particularly 26:2C-8.1, 26:2C-8.15 et seq., and 39:8-2 and 61.
Calendar Reference: See Summary below for explanation of exception to calendar requirement.
DEP Docket Number: 07-22-10.
Proposal Number: PRN 2022-150.

A public hearing concerning this notice of rule proposal and the proposed State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 9:30 A.M. The hearing will be conducted virtually through the Department of Environmental Protection’s (Department) video conferencing software, Microsoft Teams. A link to the virtual public hearing and telephone call-in option will be provided on the Department’s rules proposal website at https://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/notices.html.

Submit comments by close of business on January 6, 2023, electronically at www.nj.gov/dep/rules/comments. Each comment should be identified by the applicable N.J.A.C. citation, with the commenter’s name and affiliation following the comment.

The Department encourages electronic submittal of comments. In the alternative, comments may be submitted on paper to:

Alice A. Previte, Esq.
Attention: DEP Docket No. 07-22-10
Office of Legal Affairs
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
401 East State Street, 7th Floor
Mail Code 401-04L
PO Box 402
Trenton, NJ 08625-0402

If you are interested in providing oral testimony or submitting written comments at the virtual public hearing, please email the Department at monica.miranda@njdepwptest.net no later than 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, with your contact information (name, organization, telephone number, and email address). You must provide a valid email address so
the Department can send you an email confirming receipt of your interest to testify orally at the hearing and provide you with a separate option for a telephone call-in line if you do not have
access to a computer or mobile device that can connect to Microsoft Teams. Further, this hearing will be recorded. It is requested (but not required) that anyone providing oral testimony at the public hearing provide a copy of any prepared remarks to the Department via email. The proposed repeals, new rules, and amendments will become operative 60 days after they are adopted by the Commissioner of the Department (see N.J.S.A. 26:2C-8). This notice of proposal may be viewed or downloaded from the Department’s website at www.nj.gov/dep/rules.

DEP Proposal

DEP Notice