42 U.S.C. § 7432 — Clean heavy-duty vehicles

(a) Appropriations: (1) For fiscal year 2022, Congress appropriated $600,000,000 to the EPA Administrator, available through September 30, 2031, to carry out this section. (2) It appropriated another $400,000,000, also available through September 30, 2031, specifically for awards to eligible recipients and contractors that will replace eligible vehicles serving one or more communities in areas designated "nonattainment" (meaning they don't meet air quality standards) for an air pollutant under section 7407. (3) The Administrator must set aside 3 percent of the funds from paragraph (1) for administrative costs. (b) Program: Starting no later than 180 days after August 16, 2022, the Administrator must run a program awarding grants and rebates, and contracts to eligible contractors for providing rebates, covering up to 100 percent of the costs of: (1) the extra ("incremental") cost of replacing a non-zero-emission eligible vehicle with a zero-emission vehicle, based on the Administrator's judgment of market value; (2) buying, installing, running, and maintaining the infrastructure needed to charge, fuel, or maintain zero-emission vehicles; (3) training the workforce to maintain, charge, fuel, and operate zero-emission vehicles; and (4) planning and technical work to support adopting and deploying zero-emission vehicles. (c) Applications: To seek an award, an eligible recipient or contractor must apply to the Administrator, in whatever timing, manner, and content the Administrator requires. (d) Definitions: (1) An "eligible contractor" is a business that can sell, lease, license, or service zero-emission vehicles (or the charging/fueling/maintenance equipment they need) to people or entities that own, lease, license, or service an eligible vehicle — or that can arrange financing for such a deal. (2) An "eligible recipient" is a state, a municipality, an Indian tribe, or a nonprofit school transportation association. (3) An "eligible vehicle" is a Class 6 or Class 7 heavy-duty vehicle, as those classes were defined in section 1037.801 of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on August 16, 2022. (4) "Greenhouse gas" means carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. (5) A "zero-emission vehicle" is a vehicle whose drivetrain never produces, under any operating mode or condition, any exhaust emissions of an air pollutant listed under section 7408(a) (or its precursors), or of any greenhouse gas.