At its January 28 meeting, the San Luis Obispo (SLO) County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) Board approved $610,058 to help local businesses clean up old tractors, construction equipment and heavy-duty trucks. The APCD is now seeking proposals for the fiscal year 2014/2015 (FY14/15) Emission Reduction Incentive Program, a program to reduce ozone forming and toxic diesel emissions from aging heavy-duty (HD) on and off-road equipment and stationary agricultural engines. Funding for this program comes from state allocated Carl Moyer Grant funds and locally generated DMV registration funds (AB 923) for the following eligible emission reduction project categories within SLO County:
- $370,058 for HD off-road equipment replacement, repower and retrofit projects; and, ·
- $240,000 for HD on-road truck replacement projects.
The APCD’s Request for Proposals (RFP) and grant application forms can be found online at www.slocleanair.org/programs/moyer.php or call (805) 781-5912 to request an application to be mailed to you. Grant funds will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to qualifying projects based on the dates in which APCD deems the submitted applications to be complete. An additional $200,000 of funding was approved for school bus replacements and retrofits and APCD will solicit applications from local public school districts later this year.
Over the past seventeen years, the APCD has expended $18.2 million dollars in SLO County emission reduction grant programs resulting in 2,571 tons of ozone precursor and toxic diesel emission reductions. The emission reduction projects funded with these revenues will infuse dollars into local communities and create work that enhances the local economy while assisting applicants in specific funding categories meet early emission reduction requirements and clean the air for all to enjoy.