Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Light-Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Parity Act of 2018”.
Light-Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Parity Act of 2018
A BILL
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that the treatment of natural gas vehicles is equal to the treatment of electric vehicles.
Sec. 2 Regulatory parity for natural gas vehicles
Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall amend the regulations and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency—
to provide that the compliance and incentive values applied to electric vehicles are, at a minimum, equally applied to natural gas vehicles; and
in the case of calculating the average fuel economy or any other type of automotive emission for a natural gas dual-fueled vehicle when the vehicle is operating on natural gas, to ensure that no eligibility requirement is imposed on that vehicle.