[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3274 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3274

    To direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to 
  establish a program allowing small volume vehicle manufacturers to 
   produce not more than 1,000 vehicles annually within a regulatory 
system that addresses the unique safety and financial issues associated 
  with limited production, and to direct the Environmental Protection 
     Agency to allow low volume vehicle manufacturers to rely upon 
 certificates of conformity issued to engines from certified vehicles.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 27, 2011

Mr. Campbell (for himself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Manzullo, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
   Hunter, and Mr. Barrow) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to 
  establish a program allowing small volume vehicle manufacturers to 
   produce not more than 1,000 vehicles annually within a regulatory 
system that addresses the unique safety and financial issues associated 
  with limited production, and to direct the Environmental Protection 
     Agency to allow low volume vehicle manufacturers to rely upon 
 certificates of conformity issued to engines from certified vehicles.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Low Volume Motor Vehicle 
Manufacturers Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW VOLUME MOTOR VEHICLE 
              MANUFACTURERS.

    Section 30114 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The'' and inserting ``(a) Vehicles Used 
        for Research, Demonstration, Racing, Etc.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Alternative Requirements for Low Volume Manufacturers.--
            ``(1) Exemption authority.--The Secretary shall exempt 
        motor vehicles manufactured by a low volume manufacturer from 
        section 30112(a) of this title and treat such motor vehicles as 
        assemblages of motor vehicle equipment for purposes of 
        determining compliance with the motor vehicle safety standards 
        applicable to such equipment. Vehicles that are replicas of 
        previously manufactured vehicles shall only be subject to 
        safety standards for the model year that the body of such 
        vehicle replicates.
            ``(2) Manufacturer obligations.--A low volume manufacturer 
        shall register with the Secretary, at a time and in a form and 
        manner and under such terms that the Secretary determines 
        appropriate.
            ``(3) Permanent label requirements.--The Secretary shall 
        require a permanent label to be fixed to a motor vehicle 
        granted an exemption under paragraph (1). The label shall 
        either identify or describe the motor vehicle safety standards 
        prescribed under this chapter or bumper standard prescribed 
        under chapter 325 of this title from which the vehicle is 
        exempt. The Secretary may require that written notice of an 
        exemption be delivered by appropriate means to the dealer and 
        the first purchaser of the vehicle (other than a purchaser who 
        purchases the vehicle for resale).
            ``(4) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
        `low volume manufacturer' means that the manufacturer's total 
        motor vehicle production claimed under the exemption is not 
        more than 1,000 vehicles annually.''.

SEC. 3. LOW VOLUME MOTOR VEHICLE AND MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINE COMPLIANCE.

    Paragraph (3) of section 206(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7525(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) In the case of a motor vehicle that is 
                manufactured in a quantity not exceeding 1,000 vehicles 
                annually, the vehicle manufacturer shall register with 
                the Agency and then be permitted to install a motor 
                vehicle engine for which a certificate of conformity 
                has already been issued. The engine shall be from a 
                fully certified vehicle. The vehicle shall meet the 
                standards for on-board diagnostic systems commonly 
                known as OBD II, except those for evaporative 
                emissions.''.

SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION.

    The Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall implement the amendments made by 
sections 2 and 3 of this Act, respectively, within 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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