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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. 

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 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Low Volume Motor 

3 Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2011’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW VOLUME 

5 MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS. 

6 Section 30114 of title 49, United States Code, is 

7 amended— 

8 (1) by striking ‘‘The’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) VEHI9 CLES USED FOR RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATION, RAC10 ING, ETC.’’; and 

11 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(b) ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW VOL13 UME MANUFACTURERS.— 

14 ‘‘(1) EXEMPTION AUTHORITY.—The Secretary 

15 shall exempt motor vehicles manufactured by a low 

16 volume manufacturer from section 30112(a) of this 

17 title and treat such motor vehicles as assemblages of 

18 motor vehicle equipment for purposes of determining 

19 compliance with the motor vehicle safety standards 

20 applicable to such equipment. Vehicles that are rep21 licas of previously manufactured vehicles shall only 

22 be subject to safety standards for the model year 

23 that the body of such vehicle replicates. 

24 ‘‘(2) MANUFACTURER OBLIGATIONS.—A low 

25 volume manufacturer shall register with the Sec26 retary, at a time and in a form and manner and 


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1 under such terms that the Secretary determines ap2 propriate. 

3 ‘‘(3) PERMANENT LABEL REQUIREMENTS.— 

4 The Secretary shall require a permanent label to be 

5 fixed to a motor vehicle granted an exemption under 

6 paragraph (1). The label shall either identify or de7 scribe the motor vehicle safety standards prescribed 

8 under this chapter or bumper standard prescribed 

9 under chapter 325 of this title from which the vehi10 cle is exempt. The Secretary may require that writ11 ten notice of an exemption be delivered by appro12 priate means to the dealer and the first purchaser 

13 of the vehicle (other than a purchaser who purchases 

14 the vehicle for resale). 

15 ‘‘(4) DEFINITION.—As used in this subsection, 

16 the term ‘low volume manufacturer’ means that the 

17 manufacturer’s total motor vehicle production 

18 claimed under the exemption is not more than 1,000 

19 vehicles annually.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. LOW VOLUME MOTOR VEHICLE AND MOTOR VEHI21 CLE ENGINE COMPLIANCE. 

22 Paragraph (3) of section 206(a) of the Clean Air Act 

23 (42 U.S.C. 7525(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 

24 following: 


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1 ‘‘(C) In the case of a motor vehicle that is 

2 manufactured in a quantity not exceeding 1,000 

3 vehicles annually, the vehicle manufacturer shall 

4 register with the Agency and then be permitted 

5 to install a motor vehicle engine for which a 

6 certificate of conformity has already been 

7 issued. The engine shall be from a fully cer8 tified vehicle. The vehicle shall meet the stand9 ards for on-board diagnostic systems commonly 

10 known as OBD II, except those for evaporative 

11 emissions.’’. 

12 SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION. 

13 The Secretary of Transportation and the Adminis14 trator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall im15 plement the amendments made by sections 2 and 3 of this 

16 Act, respectively, within 12 months after the date of the 

17 enactment of this Act. 

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