California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 15 - Additional off-Road Vehicles and Engines Pollution Control Requirements › Article 4 - Evaporative Emissions Requirements for Spark-Ignition Marine Watercraft with Gasoline-Fueled Engines › Section 2864 - New Evaporative Emissions Control System Component Compliance Testing

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
Compliance Test Procedures.
(1) The Executive Officer may order a
				  component manufacturer, whose evaporative component has been issued a Component
				  Executive Order of Certification, to make available for compliance testing
				  and/or inspection five evaporative components. Unless otherwise directed by the
				  Executive Officer, the SIMW evaporative emissions control system component
				  shall be delivered to: Chief, Monitoring and Laboratory Division, ARB, P.O. Box
				  2815, Sacramento, California 95812. Evaporative emissions control system
				  components must be selected at random from sources specified by the Executive
				  Officer according to a method approved by the Executive Officer (subsection
				  (a)(5)). The selection must exclude SIMW evaporative emissions control system
				  components that would result in an unreasonable disruption of the
				  manufacturer's distribution system.
ARB personnel shall have access to evaporative emissions
					 control system component assembly plants or distribution facilities for the
					 purposes of component selection and testing.
(2) All testing must be conducted in
				  accordance with the applicable MY evaporative emissions test procedures under
				  which the component was certified by the Executive Officer. Any evaporative
				  emissions control system parameters must be set to values or positions that are
				  within the range as specified in the certification application.
(3) Correction of damage or maladjustment
				  that may reasonably be found to have resulted from shipment of the evaporative
				  emissions control system component is permitted only after an initial test. The
				  component manufacturer may request that the component be repaired from shipping
				  damage and be retested. If the Executive Officer concurs, then the evaporative
				  emissions control system component may be retested, and the original test
				  results may be replaced by the post-repair test results.
(4) Evaporative emissions control system
				  components must be randomly chosen according to the following criteria:
(A) The evaporative emissions control system
				  component must be representative of the California sales.
(B) Each evaporative emissions control system
				  component will be selected from the end of the assembly line.
(C) All evaporative emissions control system
				  component models must be included in the sample pool.
(D) Five evaporative emissions control system
				  components will be selected for testing per the applicable test procedure as
				  indicated in sections
				  2854 and/or 2855, where
				  applicable.
(E) The component will
				  be deemed to have passed the compliance testing if all test results are equal
				  to or below the applicable standard.
(F) The component or subgroup will be deemed
				  to have failed the compliance testing if one or more of the test results are
				  above the applicable standard and the upper 95 percent confidence limit of the
				  five samples is greater than 110 percent of the applicable standards specified
				  in sections
				  2854 and/or 2855 per the following
				  table:
Test Category
"Pass" If "U" is less than or equal to
"Fail" If "U" is greater than
1st and Subsequent Years of
							 Evaporative Family
1.1* Applicable Standard
1.1* Applicable Standard
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(5) If any evaporative emissions control
				  system component selected for inspection fails an evaporative emissions test as
				  determined by subsection (a)(2), or fails to conform to the labeling
				  requirements of section
				  2859, the Executive Officer shall
				  notify the component manufacturer in accordance with subsection
				  (b).