Title: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2017
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2017
This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize through FY2022 a diesel emissions reduction program. The program authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants, rebates, or loans for reducing diesel emissions from certain diesel vehicles or fleets by retrofitting or replacing their engines.
The bill modifies requirements governing how the EPA must prioritize projects when providing grants, rebates, and loans. Specifically, the EPA must recognize differences in how vehicles, engines, equipment, and fleets are used across the country as it prioritizes projects that include certified engine configurations, verified technologies, or emerging technologies that have a long expected useful life.
Under current law, the EPA must use a certain percentage of the funds made available for the program to support state administered programs for reducing diesel emissions. If a state does not quality for funds, then the funds for the unqualified state must be reallocated to qualified states. This bill requires the funds for the unqualified state to be reallocated to the national diesel emissions reduction program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1447 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1447

 To reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 27, 2017

Mr. Carper (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Whitehouse) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION PROGRAM.

    Section 797(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16137(a)) is amended by striking ``2016'' and inserting ``2022''.

SEC. 3. RECOGNIZING DIFFERENCES IN DIESEL VEHICLE, ENGINE, EQUIPMENT, 
              AND FLEET USE.

    (a) National Grant, Rebate, and Loan Programs.--Section 
792(c)(4)(D) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16132(c)(4)(D)) is amended by inserting ``, recognizing differences in 
typical vehicle, engine, equipment, and fleet use throughout the United 
States'' before the semicolon.
    (b) State Grant, Rebate, and Loan Programs.--Section 793(b)(1) of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16133(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) the recognition, for purposes of implementing 
                this section, of differences in typical vehicle, 
                engine, equipment, and fleet use throughout the United 
                States, including expected useful life; and''.

SEC. 4. REALLOCATION OF UNUSED STATE FUNDS.

    Section 793(c)(2)(C) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16133(c)(2)(C)) is amended beginning in the matter preceding clause (i) 
by striking ``to each remaining'' and all that follows through ``this 
paragraph'' in clause (ii) and inserting ``to carry out section 792''.
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