. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/USA/266 
3 May 2007 
 (07-1842) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (273) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   All-Terrain Vehicles 
Emissions (HS:  8703.10 ;  ICS:  13.020, 13.040, 19.020, 43.160) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Exhaust Emission 
Test Procedures for All-Terrain Vehicles (4 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   In a rule published 8 Nove mber 2002, EPA promulgated new 
emission standards for recreational vehicles be ginning in model year 2006.  This included 
a newly regulated class of non-road vehicles/engines commonly referred to as all-terrain vehicles.  In that rulemaking, a temporary provision was included allowing manufacturers 
to certify all-terrain vehicles over a steady- state, engine-based, duty cycle for exhaust 
emissions prior to the 2009 model year in lieu of  the transient, chassis-based, Federal Test 
Procedure which was effective for 2006 and later model years.  In this rulemaking we are 
proposing to extend the availability of this te mporary provision, in some cases, up to an 
additional six model years, after which the chassis-based Federal Test Procedure would 
become the only available test cycle.  Mo re specifically, manufacturers would have to 
certify exhaust emission engine families representi ng not less than 50 percent of their U.S. 
- directed production on the Federal Test Pro cedure in model year 2014 and 100 percent in 
2015.  Manufacturers with only one "all-terrain  vehicle exhaust emission engine" engine 
family would not be required to use the Federal Test Procedure until the 2015 model year. 
For those manufacturers who have not yet done  so, this will allow additional time to 
certify to the previously promulgated Federa l Test Procedure-based emission standards 
using either contract facilities or by obtaining in-house capability. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of the environment 
8. Relevant documents:   72 Federal Register (FR) 20806 26 April 2007; Title 40 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Part  1051.  Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. G/TBT/N/USA/266 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   29 May 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
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