I 
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 ad-
dresses 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 Administra-
tion 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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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) VEHI-
CLES USED FOR RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATION, RAC-
ING, ETC.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) ALTERNATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW VOL-
UME 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 rep-
licas 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 Sec-
retary, at a time and in a form and manner and 
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under such terms that the Secretary determines ap-
propriate. 
‘‘(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 de-
scribe the motor vehicle safety standards prescribed 
under this chapter or bumper standard prescribed 
under chapter 325 of this title from which the vehi-
cle is exempt. The Secretary may require that writ-
ten notice of an exemption be delivered by appro-
priate 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 VEHI-
CLE 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: 
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‘‘(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 cer-
tified vehicle. The vehicle shall meet the stand-
ards for on-board diagnostic systems commonly 
known as OBD II, except those for evaporative 
emissions.’’. 
SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION. 
The Secretary of Transportation and the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall im-
plement 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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