Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 310 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Title 310 CMR 60.00 - Air Pollution Control For Mobile Sources › Section 60.06 - CO[2] Emission Limits for State Fleet Passenger Vehicles

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Purpose, Scope and
			 Authority
. The purpose of 310 CMR 60.06 is to assist the
			 Commonwealth in achieving the greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals adopted
			 pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21N, § (3)(b) by reducing carbon dioxide
			 (CO2) emissions from certain vehicles owned or leased by
			 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Offices through the imposition of
			 declining annual aggregate emission limits. 310 CMR 60.06 is promulgated
			 pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21N, § 3(d) and is also promulgated pursuant to
			 M.G.L. c. 21A, §§ 2, 8 and 16, and M.G.L. c. 111, §§ 2C and
			 142A through 142M, to prevent and abate conditions of air pollution from the
			 CO2 emissions from the mobile sources specified in 310
			 CMR 60.06. The CO2 emissions limits set forth in 310 CMR
			 60.06(6) are applicable for the years 2021 through 2025 and thereafter
			 beginning January 1, 2021.
(2)
Definitions
. The terms used in 310 CMR 60.06 are
			 defined in 310 CMR 60.06 and in
			 310 CMR 60.00. Where a term
			 is defined in 310 CMR 60.06 and in other sections of
			 310 CMR 60.00, the definition
			 in 310 CMR 60.06 shall apply.
Department
means the Massachusetts
				Department of Environmental Protection.
Emergency Vehicle
means any publicly
				owned or leased vehicle operated by a sworn officer in performance of their
				duties, any authorized emergency vehicle used for fighting fires, any publicly
				owned or leased authorized emergency vehicle used by an emergency medical
				technician or paramedic, or used for towing or servicing other vehicles, or
				repairing damaged lighting or electrical equipment, or any ambulance used by a
				private entity under contract with a public agency.
Executive Office
means the Executive
				Office of Administration and Finance (A&F), the Executive Office of
				Education (EOE), the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
				(EEA), the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the Executive
				Office of Housing and Economic Development (EOHED), the Executive Office of
				Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD), the Executive Office of Public Safety
				and Security (EOPSS), and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
				(MassDOT), including the agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, committees,
				councils, departments, divisions, groups, guards, homes, laboratories,
				libraries, offices, police, programs, systems, trusts, universities and other
				entities within each Executive Office, and entities whose governing members or
				board include(s) the Secretary of an Executive Office pursuant to appointment
				by the Governor, or to the requirements of a Massachusetts General or Session
				Law.
Passenger Vehicle
means any motor
				vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 10,000 pounds designed
				primarily for transportation of persons and having a design capacity of 12
				persons or less and that has an Environmental Protection Agency fuel economy
				sticker pursuant to 40 CFR Part 600 Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Exhaust
				Emissions of Motor Vehicles. Passenger vehicle does not include transit
				vehicles or vehicles primarily designed to transport property or with special
				features enabling off-road operation and use, including but not limited to,
				pickup trucks, cargo vans, emergency vehicles, test vehicles, non-road
				vehicles.
Test Vehicle
means an experimental or
				prototype motor vehicle which appears to have very low emission characteristics
				or a used motor vehicle within which an experimental motor vehicle pollution
				control device is installed, and which has also received a test vehicle or
				fleet permit from the California Air Resources Board pursuant to Manufacturers
				Advisory Correspondence No. 83-01.
Transit Vehicle
means any vehicle used
				to transport paying customers.
(3)
Applicability
.
			 310 CMR 60.06 is applicable to Executive Offices, except that an Executive
			 Office is not subject to annual CO2 emission limits
			 unless it owns or leases 30 or more passenger vehicles, as determined by the
			 Department in its sole discretion.
(4)
General
			 Requirements
.
(a) For calendar
			 year 2018 and for every calendar year thereafter, each Executive Office shall
			 meet its passenger vehicle CO2 emission limit specified
			 in 310 CMR 60.06(6).
(b) By
			 November 1, 2017, each Executive Office shall provide the Department with the
			 information specified in 310 CMR 60.06(8) for the time period from January 1,
			 2016 through December 31, 2016 for each of its vehicles that is not a passenger
			 vehicle.
(c) By March 1, 2018, each
			 Executive Office shall provide the Department with the information specified in
			 310 CMR 60.06(8) for the time period from January 1, 2017 through December 31,
			 2017 for each of its vehicles that is not a passenger vehicle.
(d) By March 1, 2019 and by March
			 1st of each year thereafter, each Executive Office
			 shall submit a report to the Department for the previous calendar year on its
			 passenger vehicles as specified in 310 CMR 60.06(7).
(e) The Department may specify the format and
			 process by which any submission required pursuant to 310 CMR 60.06 shall occur,
			 including electronic submission requirements.