Laws, Regulations, Guidance and Dockets

The automotive sector is affected by a number of major federal statutes and regulations designed to protect the environment. In addition, individual businesses within the sector can be subject to numerous laws and regulations from state and local governments. Select from the options below for related information.

Please remember, the nature and scope of activities can vary across facilities in a sector, and the information provided here will not necessarily apply to all facilities within the sector. Furthermore, the information provided does not include all applicable environmental requirements. This page is provided simply to help aggregate the information provided on EPA.gov.

• Compliance Assistance: Automotive Service and Repair / Automotive Assembly / Auto Salvaging - Laws, regulations, policy, and compliance assistance for the automotive sector.

• Mobile Sources Air Toxics: Regulations - EPA is finalizing new standards that would establish stringent new controls on gasoline, passenger vehicles, and gas cans to further reduce emissions of benzene and other mobile source air toxics.

• On-Road Vehicles and Engines - Information about highway vehicles (cars and light trucks, heavy trucks, buses, engines, and motorcycles).

• Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act: Cars, Trucks, Buses, and ‘Nonroad’ Equipment

• Profiles - The Sector Notebook series is a unique set of profiles containing information for specific industries and governments, integrating processes, applicable regulations and other relevant environmental information:
  • Ground Transportation Industry
  • Motor Vehicle Assembly Industry

• Rule and Implementation Information for the Automobile & Light Duty Truck Surface Coating NESHAP - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) rules, background information, fact sheets, guidance materials, and Federal Register notices.

Can't find what you are looking for? You might want to browse the regulatory information provided by our program offices:

• Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)
• Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS)
• Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
• Office of Water (OW)

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