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 1 - Evaporative Emission Requirements for off-Road Equipment › Section 2765 - New Equipment Compliance Testing

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Compliance Test Procedures.
(1) The Executive
				  Officer may order a Holder to make available for compliance testing and/or
				  inspection five or more fuel lines, carbon canisters, or fuel tanks, or one or
				  more engines or equipment units with complete evaporative emission control
				  systems. Unless otherwise directed by the Executive Officer, the fuel lines,
				  carbon canisters, fuel tanks, engines, or equipment units shall be delivered to
				  4001 Iowa Street, Riverside, CA 92507. Fuel lines, carbon canisters, fuel
				  tanks, engines or equipment units must be selected at random from sources
				  specified by the Executive Officer according to a method approved by the
				  Executive Officer, that, insofar as practical, must exclude engines or
				  equipment that would result in an unreasonable disruption of the Holder's
				  distribution system. Such an order may include a requirement to demonstrate
				  that the measured rate or volume of purge from a representative sample of
				  production canisters and engines certified under section
				  2754
				  meets any design specification required by the Executive Officer in the
				  applicable Executive Order of Certification or included by the Holder in the
				  application for such an Order.
(2)
				  The Executive Officer may obtain five or more fuel lines, carbon canisters, or
				  fuel tanks, or one or more engines or equipment units with complete evaporative
				  emission control systems manufactured for sale or lease for use or operation in
				  California, sold or leased or offered for sale or lease for use or operation in
				  California, or delivered or imported into California for introduction into
				  commerce in California for compliance testing or inspection.
(3) The method for selection and testing of
				  the fuel lines, carbon canisters, fuel tanks, engines or equipment and the
				  evaluation of test data must be made in accordance with the procedures set
				  forth herein.
(4) California Air
				  Resources Board personnel shall have access to the fuel line, carbon canister,
				  fuel tank, engine, or equipment assembly plants, or distribution facilities for
				  the purposes of fuel line, carbon canister, fuel tank, engine, or equipment
				  selection and testing. Scheduling of access shall be arranged with the
				  representative designated in the application for certification.
(5) All testing must be conducted in
				  accordance with the applicable model year evaporative emission test procedures,
				  except that durability testing and preconditioning may be omitted or conducted
				  at a lower temperature at the Executive Officer's discretion. The hot soak test
				  shall be performed at the temperature at which the hot soak test was performed
				  during certification testing. Any evaporative emission control system
				  parameters must be set to values or positions that are within the range
				  available to the ultimate purchaser as determined by CARB. No break-in,
				  modifications, adjustments, special preparation or maintenance will be allowed
				  on fuel lines, carbon canisters, fuel tanks, engines or equipment units chosen
				  for compliance testing without the written consent of the Executive
				  Officer.
(6) Correction of damage
				  or maladjustment that may reasonably be found to have resulted from shipment of
				  the engine or equipment is permitted only after an initial test of the engine
				  or equipment, except where 100 percent of the Holder's production is given that
				  inspection or maintenance by the Holder's own personnel. The Holder may request
				  that the engine or equipment be repaired from shipping damage, and be retested.
				  If the Executive Officer concurs, the engine or equipment may be retested, and
				  the original test results may be replaced by the after-repair test
				  results.
(7) Engines or equipment
				  must be randomly chosen from the selected evaporative family or subgroup, as
				  designated by the Executive Officer.
(8) An evaporative family will be deemed to
				  have passed the compliance testing if the evaporative emissions from all tested
				  engines or equipment units are below the applicable diurnal or hot soak plus
				  diurnal emission standard in section
				  2754
				  or
				  2757,
				  or the EMEL, if applicable. If any engine or equipment unit has evaporative
				  emissions above the applicable diurnal or hot soak plus diurnal emission
				  standard in section
				  2754
				  or
				  2757,
				  or the EMEL, if applicable, the evaporative family will be deemed to have
				  failed compliance testing.
The fuel lines, carbon canisters, or fuel tanks certified
					 under an Executive Order will be deemed to have passed the compliance testing
					 if all tested samples meet the applicable design standard in section
					 2754,
					 2755,
					 or
					 2757.
					 The fuel lines, carbon canisters, or fuel tanks certified under an Executive
					 Order will be deemed to have failed compliance testing if any fuel line, carbon
					 canister, or fuel tank does not meet the applicable design standards in section
					 2754,
					 2755,
					 or
					 2757.
(9) An evaporative family may be
				  deemed to have failed compliance testing without testing if any engine or
				  equipment unit selected for testing visibly leaks fuel, except that subsection
				  (a)(6) shall still apply.
(10) If
				  any fuel line, carbon canister, fuel tank, engine, or equipment unit selected
				  for inspection fails a compliance test as determined by subsection (a)(8) or
				  (a)(9), or fails to conform to the labeling requirements of section
				  2759,
				  the Executive Officer shall notify the Holder in accordance with subsection
				  (b).