---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7432"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7432"
heading: "Clean heavy-duty vehicles"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7432"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs and Activities"
  - "Part A — Air Quality and Emission Limitations"
---

# §7432. Clean heavy-duty vehicles

- (a) **Appropriations—**
  - (1) **In general—** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $600,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to carry out this section.
  - (2) **Nonattainment areas—** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $400,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to make awards under this section to [eligible recipients](#d-2) and to [eligible contractors](#d-1) that propose to replace [eligible vehicles](#d-3) to serve 1 or more communities located in an air quality area designated pursuant to [section 7407 of this title](/usc/42/7407.md) as nonattainment for any [air pollutant](/usc/42/7602.md?p=g).
  - (3) **Reservation—** Of the [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) appropriated by [paragraph (1)](#a-1), the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall reserve 3 percent for administrative costs necessary to carry out this section.
- (b) **Program—** Beginning not later than 180 days after August 16, 2022, the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall implement a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to make awards of grants and rebates to [eligible recipients](#d-2), and to make awards of contracts to [eligible contractors](#d-1) for providing rebates, for up to 100 percent of costs for—
  - (1) the incremental costs of replacing an [eligible vehicle](#d-3) that is not a [zero-emission vehicle](#d-5) with a [zero-emission vehicle](#d-5), as determined by the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) based on the market value of the vehicles;
  - (2) purchasing, installing, operating, and maintaining infrastructure needed to charge, fuel, or maintain [zero-emission vehicles](#d-5);
  - (3) workforce development and [training](/usc/42/285e–2.md?p=b-2) to support the maintenance, charging, fueling, and operation of [zero-emission vehicles](#d-5); and
  - (4) planning and technical activities to support the adoption and deployment of [zero-emission vehicles](#d-5).
- (c) **Applications—** To seek an award under this section, an [eligible recipient](#d-2) or [eligible contractor](#d-1) shall submit to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall prescribe.
- (d) **Definitions—** For purposes of this section:
  - (1) **Eligible contractor—** The term “eligible contractor” means a contractor that has the capacity—
    - (A) to sell, lease, license, or contract for service [zero-emission vehicles](#d-5), or charging or other equipment needed to charge, fuel, or maintain [zero-emission vehicles](#d-5), to individuals or entities that own, lease, license, or contract for service an [eligible vehicle](#d-3); or
    - (B) to arrange financing for such a sale, lease, license, or contract for service.
  - (2) **Eligible recipient—** The term “eligible recipient” means—
    - (A) a [State](/usc/42/7602.md?p=d);
    - (B) a [municipality](/usc/42/7602.md?p=f);
    - (C) an [Indian tribe](/usc/42/7602.md?p=r); or
    - (D) a nonprofit [school](/usc/42/6372.md?p=1) transportation association.
  - (3) **Eligible vehicle—** 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](/cfr/40/1037.801.md) (as in effect on August 16, 2022).
  - (4) **Greenhouse gas—** The term “greenhouse gas” means the [air pollutants](/usc/42/7602.md?p=g) carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride.
  - (5) **Zero-emission vehicle—** The term “zero-emission vehicle” means a vehicle that has a drivetrain that produces, under any possible operational mode or condition, zero exhaust emissions of—
    - (A) any [air pollutant](/usc/42/7602.md?p=g) that is listed pursuant to [section 7408(a) of this title](/usc/42/7408.md?p=a) (or any precursor to such an [air pollutant](/usc/42/7602.md?p=g)); and
    - (B) any [greenhouse gas](#d-4).

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 132, as added Pub. L. 117–169, title VI, § 60101, Aug. 16, 2022, 136 Stat. 2063.)