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Calendar No. 178
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-100
DIESEL EMISSIONS REDUCTION ACT OF 2023
SEPTEMBER 29 (Legislative day of SEPTEMBER 22), 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CARPER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 2195]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2195) to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005
to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
Established pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Diesel
Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) is a voluntary program that
incentivizes vehicle, engine and equipment owners to retrofit exist-
ing heavy-duty diesel vehicles, engines and equipment with new
technology, or replace vehicles, engines and equipment through the
disbursal of federal and state grants and rebates. The DERA pro-
gram generally targets older, dirtier, diesel engines that lack mod-
ern emissions control systems to be upgraded with new tech-
nologies, such as vehicle and/or engine replacements with new die-
sel, alternative fuel, and zero emissions engines or idle reduction
technologies. Funding opportunities for diesel emissions reduction
projects are provided through an annual appropriation by Congress
to the DERA program. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) administers the DERA program within the Office of Trans-
portation and Air Quality. EPA awarded the first DERA grants in
2008 and continues to award DERA grants and rebates each fiscal
year.
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