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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–14 Edition) 

§ 34.3 

(b) Under section 232 of the Act, the 

Secretary of Transportation issues reg-
ulations to ensure compliance with 40 
CFR part 87. This authority has been 
delegated to the Administrator of the 
FAA (49 CFR 1.47). 

(c) 

U.S. airplanes. This part applies to 

civil airplanes that are powered by air-
craft gas turbine engines of the classes 
specified herein and that have U.S. 
standard airworthiness certificates. 

(d) 

Foreign airplanes. Pursuant to the 

definition of ‘‘aircraft’’ in 40 CFR 87.1, 
this regulation applies to civil air-
planes that are powered by aircraft gas 
turbine engines of the classes specified 
herein and that have foreign airworthi-
ness certificates that are equivalent to 
U.S. standard airworthiness certifi-
cates. This regulation applies only to 
those foreign civil airplanes that, if 
registered in the United States, would 
be required by applicable regulations 
to have a U.S. standard airworthiness 
certificate in order to conduct the op-
erations intended for the airplane. Pur-
suant to 40 CFR 87.3(c), this regulation 
does not apply where it would be incon-
sistent with an obligation assumed by 
the United States to a foreign country 
in a treaty, convention, or agreement. 

(e) Reference in this regulation to 40 

CFR part 87 refers to title 40 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations, chapter 
I—Environmental Protection Agency, 
part 87, Control of Air Pollution from 
Aircraft and Aircraft Engines (40 CFR 
part 87). 

(f) This part contains regulations to 

ensure compliance with certain stand-
ards contained in 40 CFR part 87. If 
EPA takes any action, including the 
issuance of an exemption or issuance of 
a revised or alternate procedure, test 
method, or other regulation, the effect 
of which is to relax or delay the effec-
tive date of any provision of 40 CFR 
part 87 that is made applicable to an 
aircraft under this FAR, the Adminis-
trator of FAA will grant a general ad-
ministrative waiver of its more strin-
gent requirements until this FAR is 
amended to reflect the more relaxed re-
quirements prescribed by EPA. 

(g) Unless otherwise stated, all ter-

minology and abbreviations in this 
FAR that are defined in 40 CFR part 87 
have the meaning specified in that 
part, and all terms in 40 CFR part 87 

that are not defined in that part but 
that are used in this FAR have the 
meaning given them in the Clean Air 
Act, as amended by Public Law 91–604. 

(h) All interpretations of 40 CFR part 

87 that are rendered by the EPA also 
apply to this FAR. 

(i) If the EPA, under 40 CFR 87.3(a), 

approves or accepts any testing and 
sampling procedures or methods, ana-
lytical techniques, or related equip-
ment not identical to those specified in 
that part, this FAR requires an appli-
cant to show that such alternate, 
equivalent, or otherwise nonidentical 
procedures have been complied with, 
and that such alternate equipment was 
used to show compliance, unless the 
applicant elects to comply with those 
procedures, methods, techniques, and 
equipment specified in 40 CFR part 87. 

(j) If the EPA, under 40 CFR 87.5, pre-

scribes special test procedures for any 
aircraft or aircraft engine that is not 
susceptible to satisfactory testing by 
the procedures in 40 CFR part 87, the 
applicant must show the Administrator 
that those special test procedures have 
been complied with. 

(k) Wherever 40 CFR part 87 requires 

agreement, acceptance, or approval by 
the Administrator of the EPA, this 
FAR requires a showing that such 
agreement or approval has been ob-
tained. 

(l) Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 7573, no 

state or political subdivision thereof 
may adopt or attempt to enforce any 
standard respecting emissions of any 
air pollutant from any aircraft or en-
gine thereof unless that standard is 
identical to a standard made applicable 
to the aircraft by the terms of this 
FAR. 

(m) If EPA, by regulation or exemp-

tion, relaxes a provision of 40 CFR part 
87 that is implemented in this FAR, no 
state or political subdivision thereof 
may adopt or attempt to enforce the 
terms of this FAR that are superseded 
by the relaxed requirement. 

(n) If any provision of this FAR is 

rendered inapplicable to a foreign air-
craft as provided in 40 CFR 87.3(c) 
(international agreements), and 
§ 34.3(d) of this FAR, that provision 
may not be adopted or enforced against 
that foreign aircraft by a state or po-
litical subdivision thereof. 

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