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This bill, known as the LOCOMOTIVES Act (Lifting Overburdensome Commerce Obstructions and Motives Act), proposes to amend the Clean Air Act by preventing individual states from establishing their own emissions standards for existing locomotives and locomotive engines. Specifically, the bill expands federal preemption of emissions regulations for locomotives, creating a more uniform national standard by limiting state-level regulatory authority. The amendment clarifies and broadens the definition of locomotives subject to federal regulation, explicitly covering locomotives engaged in common carrier railroad transportation for compensation. By doing so, the bill aims to streamline regulatory oversight of locomotive emissions, ensuring that states cannot impose their own unique emissions requirements on locomotives, which could potentially create a patchwork of conflicting standards that might burden interstate commerce. This change would effectively centralize emissions regulation for locomotives at the federal level, potentially simplifying compliance for railroad companies operating across multiple states.

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