Fees Information for the Motor Vehicle and Engine Compliance Program (MVECP)

EPA must receive the proper certification fee and fee filing form before starting to review a manufacturer’s certification application for a given test group or engine family.

Please follow the three steps below.

1. Determine appropriate fee.

Fee rates are adjusted each year and apply to the calendar year in which EPA receives the application.

Official documentation of these fees and related information is  provided in the guidance letters.

The current rates are provided below.

Table of Fees for Calendar Year 2025

Category	Industry Sector Codes (from fifth digit of engine family name)	Certificate Type	Fee for Calendar Year 2024
Light-Duty Vehicles, Light-Duty Trucks, Medium-Duty Passenger Vehicles, excluding ICIs	A, V, T, J	Federal Certificate*	$32,939
		California-only Certificate*	$17,649
Complete Heavy-Duty Highway Vehicles, excluding ICIs	D	Federal Certificate*	$32,939
		California-only Certificate*	$17,649
ICIs for the following industries: Light-Duty, Medium-Duty Passenger Vehicles, or Complete Heavy-Duty Vehicles		All Types	$206,416 or 1% of the aggregate retail sales value of the vehicles being certified
Heavy-Duty Highway Engines	H, E	Federal Certificate*	$68,468
		California-only Certificate*	$563**
Heavy-Duty Evaporative	F	Evaporative Family Certificate	$563**
Highway Motorcycles, including ICIs	C	All Types	$1,662**
Nonroad Compression-Ignition Engines, excluding Locomotives, Marine, and Recreational engines	L	All Types	$2,741
Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines	S, B	All Types	$563**
Marine Engines	W, N, M	All Types regulated by 40 CFR Parts 1045 and 94 or Annex VI*	$563**
All Nonroad Recreational, excluding Marine engines	Y, X	All Types	$563**
Locomotives	K, G	All Types	$563**
Equipment and Fuel System Components	P	All Types	$509

** Remains at 2025 amount as per 40 C.F.R. 1027.105(c)(2).

2.  Fill out online fee filing form.

• EPA MVECP Fee Filing Form (for electronic payments only)

3. Pay fees.

All payments must be made electronically. You have two options for paying applicable fees.

1. Pay your fee as part of the online fee filing form listed above.
   This method is preferred since it will streamline your fee submission and decrease delays.
2. Pay your fee through an Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment or a wire payment that is external to www.Pay.gov.
   Please note that using this method may increase processing time and result in further delays. Review the documents below for more information.

• Instructions for Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment (pdf) (268.91 KB, October 2022)
• Instructions for wire payment (pdf) (270.76 KB, October 2022)