Official Release of the MOVES2010 Motor Vehicle Emissions Model for Emissions Inventories in SIPs and Transportation Conformity

Zusammenfassung

EPA is approving and announcing the availability of the Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator model (MOVES2010) for official use outside of California. MOVES2010 is the state-of-the-art upgrade to EPA's modeling tools for estimating emissions from cars, trucks, motorcycles, and buses, based on analysis of millions of emission test results and considerable advances in the Agency's understanding of vehicle emissions. Today's notice approves the use of MOVES2010 in official State implementation air quality plan (SIP) submissions to EPA and for certain transportation conformity analyses outside of California. This notice starts a two-year grace period before the MOVES2010 emission model is required to be used in new regional emissions analyses for transportation conformity determinations outside of California. EPA is not approving MOVES2010 for project-level transportation conformity hot-spot analyses at this time; the Agency will approve the model for such analyses in the near future in a separate Federal Register notice when guidance is finalized. EPA strongly encourages areas to use the interagency consultation process to examine how MOVES2010 will affect future transportation plan and