Sec. 30101. Clean heavy-duty vehicles
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000,000, to remain available until expended (except that no funds shall be disbursed after September 30, 2031), to carry out section 132 of the Clean Air Act, as added by subsection (b). Of the funds appropriated by paragraph (1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall reserve 3 percent for administrative costs necessary to carry out section 132 of the Clean Air Act, as added by subsection (b).
Part A of title I of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Beginning not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall implement a program to make awards of grants and rebates to eligible recipients, and to make awards of contracts to eligible contractors for providing rebates, for up to 100 percent of costs for— replacing eligible vehicles with zero-emission vehicles; infrastructure needed to charge, fuel, or maintain zero-emission vehicles; workforce development and training to support the maintenance, charging, fueling, and operation of zero-emission vehicles; and planning and technical activities to support the adoption and deployment of zero-emission vehicles.
To seek an award under this section, an eligible recipient or eligible contractor shall submit to the Administrator an application in such form and manner as the Administrator shall prescribe. Of any amount appropriated to carry out this section, no less than 40 percent shall be used for awards to eligible recipients proposing to replace eligible vehicles to serve one or more communities located in an air quality area designated pursuant to section 107 as nonattainment for any air pollutant.
For purposes of this section: The term eligible contractor means a contractor that is a for-profit or nonprofit entity that has the capacity— to sell zero-emission vehicles, or charging or other equipment needed to charge, fuel, or maintain zero-emission vehicles, to individuals or entities that own an eligible vehicle; or to arrange financing for such a sale. The term eligible recipient means— a State or local governmental entity; an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 302); a nonprofit school transportation association; or an eligible contractor.
The term eligible vehicle means a Class 6 or Class 7 heavy-duty vehicle as defined in section 1037.801 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this section). The term zero-emission vehicle means a vehicle that has a drivetrain that produces, under any possible operational mode or condition, zero exhaust emission of— any air pollutant that is listed pursuant to section 108(a) (or any precursor to such an air pollutant); and any greenhouse gas. .
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