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The bill lowers costs and regulatory burdens for farmers and small agricultural businesses by exempting certain nonroad agricultural engines from federal emissions limits, but at the likely expense of worse local air quality, greater public-health risks, higher public costs, and fragmented air-quality governance.
Farmers and small agricultural businesses would pay less in regulatory compliance, avoiding retrofit or equipment-replacement costs because nonroad agricultural engines and vehicles would be exempted from federal EPA emissions requirements.
Rural communities, farm workers, and nearby residents would likely face increased exposure to air pollution and higher respiratory and other health risks because nonroad agricultural engines would no longer be subject to federal emissions limits.
States and local governments would face a fragmented regulatory landscape — removing the federal standard shifts responsibility away from EPA, undermining nationwide consistency and complicating interstate air quality management and state implementation plans.
Taxpayers and local governments could incur higher public costs for healthcare and environmental remediation if increased emissions lead to more pollution-related illness or contamination.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Exempts nonroad engines and nonroad vehicles used for agricultural purposes from federal emissions standards under 42 U.S.C. § 7547 (Section 213), removing EPA's Section 213 authority over them.
Exempts nonroad engines and nonroad vehicles used for agricultural purposes from the federal emissions standards in Section 213 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7547). The change creates an explicit categorical exemption that removes EPA authority to regulate those agricultural nonroad engines and vehicles under that statutory provision. The law is short and narrowly focused: it adds a single statutory subsection carving farm-used nonroad equipment out of the existing emissions-standards framework. It does not create new programs, appropriate funds, change tax law, or specify an effective date in the text provided.
Official title: To amend the Clean Air Act to exempt nonroad engines and vehicles that are used for agricultural purposes from the emission standards of that Act, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 5, 2026 by Victoria Spartz · Last progress March 5, 2026