Engines Covered by an EPA Certificate

(1) In this section, "an engine of a specific model year that is covered by an EPA certificate and that is sold concurrently in Canada and the United States" includes an engine that is sold in Canada and that has:

1. the same features set out in the CFR to classify engines into engine families, as an engine in an engine family covered by an EPA certificate and sold in the United States in the same model year; and
2. no features that could cause it to have a higher level of emissions than the engine family sold in the United States.

(2) An engine of a specific model year that is covered by an EPA certificate and that is sold concurrently in Canada and in the United States shall conform to, instead of the standards set out in sections 9 to 11, the emission standards referred to in the EPA certificate.

(3) For the purposes of subsection 153(3) of the Act, the provisions of the CFR that are applicable to an engine referred to in subsection (2) pursuant to the EPA certificate correspond to the emission standards referred to in subsection (2).

(4) For the purposes of subsection 153(3) of the Act, the EPA is the prescribed agency.