part_subject: "CONTROL OF EMISSIONS FROM NEW AND IN-USE NONROAD COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "Certifying Engine Families"
section_number: "1039.230"
section_subject: "How do I select engine families?"
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 1039.230"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 1000 to 1059"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2017"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2017"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)For purposes of certification, divide your product line into families of engines that are expected to have similar emission characteristics throughout the useful life as described in this section. Your engine family is limited to a single model year.
(b)Group engines in the same engine family if they are the same in all the following aspects:
(1)The combustion cycle and fuel. However, you do not need to separate dual-fuel and flexible-fuel engines into separate engine families.
(2)The cooling system (water-cooled vs. air-cooled).
(10)Numerical level of the emission standards that apply to the engine.
(c)You may subdivide a group of engines that is identical under paragraph (b) of this section into different engine families if you show the expected emission characteristics are different during the useful life.
(d)In unusual circumstances, you may group engines that are not identical with respect to the things listed in paragraph (b) of this section in the same engine family if you show that their emission characteristics during the useful life will be similar.
(e)If you combine engines from different power categories into a single engine family under paragraph (d) of this section, you must certify the engine family to the more stringent set of standards from the two power categories in that model year.