The EPA is reconsidering the previous administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. The EPA has broken this reconsideration into two parts:
- SAFE-1, which includes interpretations that led to the withdrawal of the California waiver, and
- SAFE-2, which will address the fuel efficiency standards (and is expected to be proposed in July 2021).
The deadline for comment was July 6, 2021. The NTAA developed a Fact Sheet, Tribal Template Letter for Tribes to utilize when commenting. Click the link to view NTAA’s Comment Letter. In addition, a public hearing was held on June 2, 2021 and the NTAA placed oral comments.