CARL MOYER PROGRAM
The
Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program was
created by the California State Legislature in 1998. The program's aim is to encourage
the use of alternative fuel vehicles. Each year the California Air Resources
Board (CARB) disburses money to the South Coast Air Quality Management
District (SCAQMD), which is in charge of administering Carl Moyer funds in the
Southern California area.
Funds can be used to help purchase new
vehicles or new engines and for repowers for certain vehicles.
New vehicles and equipment are required to achieve a surplus reduction of
NOx and particulate emissions compared to current emission standards. Alternative fuel engines
are usually given funding preference. Vehicles and equipment funded must have
a minimum project life of at least 3 years, and 80 percent of their use must be
within the South Coast Air Basin.
California Assembly Bill
(AB) 1390 (Firebaugh) was approved and signed into
law. (Chapter 763 of the Statutes of 2001). AB1390 requires that at least half of Carl Moyer funds be allocated in
communities that bear the heaviest burden of poor air quality. This often
includes low-income and/or minority communities, as they often suffer from disproportionately
high pollution levels.
The City of Los Angeles has been awarded several grants from the Carl
Moyer Program since 1998. Click here to find out more.
MSRC GRANT PROGRAM
In 1990, California AB 2766
(Sher) was
signed into law (Chapter 1705 of the Statutes of 1990) (Health
& Safety Code Sections: 44220 - 44247) authorizing the imposition of a motor vehicle registration fee to fund the implementation of programs to
reduce air pollution from motor vehicles in non-attainment regions of
California (areas with air pollution levels that exceed allowable levels),
including the South Coast Air Basin.
AB 2766 outlined how funds were to
be distributed by air districts such as the SCAQMD. Thirty cents of every
dollar is to be used by the SCAQMD for programs to reduce air pollution from
motor vehicles and to carry out planning, monitoring, enforcement and
technical studies; forty cents of every dollar is to be distributed by the
SCAQMD to cities and counties located in the South Coast District to be used
to reduce motor vehicle air pollution; and, thirty cents of every dollar is to
be deposited by the SCAQMD in a discretionary account to be used to implement
or monitor programs to reduce motor vehicle air pollution.
This
discretionary account is handled by the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction
Review Committee (MSRC). AB 2766 called for the creation of the MSRC, which
develops a Work Program for evaluating programs, evaluates these programs, and
makes a final recommendation to the SCAQMD Governing Board
as to which programs and/or projects would be funded. The legislation also
created the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to assist and advise the Mobile
Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee. The City of Los Angeles
is represented on the TAC by the Environmental Affairs Department.
Since
its founding, the MSRC has allocated over $107 million towards the
implementation of projects that reduce emissions from mobile sources.
Below are several grants the City of Los Angeles has received from the MSRC
Program since 1998.
City Of L.A. Recent Grant AWARD
Projects
Fiscal Year
05-06: (Grants awarded $4.7 million)
Moyer
Grants:
-
Grant
to General Services Dept. for 25 CNG street sweepers and the Bureau of
Sanitation for 50 LNG refuse collection vehicles.
-
Grant
to Bureau of Sanitation for 41 diesel emission controls systems to clean
up existing vehicles.
-
Grant
to Los Angeles World Airports for 6 CNG articulated buses.
MSRC Grants:
-
Grant
to General Services Dept. for 25 CNG street sweepers.
-
Grant
to the Bureau of Sanitation for 50 LNG refuse collection vehicles.
-
Grant
to Bureau of Sanitation for 41 diesel emission controls systems to clean
up existing vehicle exhaust.
Fiscal Year
04-05: (Grants awarded $1/2 million)
MSRC Grants:
Fiscal Year
03-04: (Grants awarded $1.25 million)
Department of Energy (DOE) Grants:
Carl Moyer Grants:
MSRC Grants:
Fiscal Year 02-03:
(Grants awarded over $3 million)
Department of Energy (DOE) Grants:
Carl Moyer Grants:
MSRC Grants:
AQMD
Grant:
Fiscal Year 01-02:
(Grants awarded $5 million)
Carl Moyer Grants:
-
Grant to the Bureau of Sanitation
to obtain 125 dual-fuel LNG refuse collection
vehicles
-
Grant to the Department of Transportation
to obtain 41
propane-powered DASH shuttle buses
-
Grant to Los Angeles World Airports
to obtain 12 LNG
shuttle buses and one CNG street sweeper
MSRC Grants:
-
Grant to
the Bureau of Sanitation to obtain 50 dual-fuel LNG refuse collection vehicles
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Grant to the
Bureau of Sanitation to build a West Valley CNG and LNG fueling facility
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Grant to the
Bureau of Sanitation for the
training of city personnel for alternative fuel dispensing
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Grant to
the Bureau of Sanitation to purchase 75 dual-fuel LNG
refuse collection vehicles
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Grant to the
General Services Department to purchase 82 particulate traps to be installed on refuse collection vehicles
Fiscal Year 00-01
(Grants awarded over $2.9 million)
Carl Moyer Grants:
MSRC Grants:
-
"Heavy Duty" vehicle
grant to the Bureau of Street Services for 3
CNG street sweepers
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Grant to the
EAD for the purchase of 115 bicycles for patrols for the Los Angeles
Police Department, the Department of Transportation, the Department of
Recreation & Parks, and the Harbor Department
Fiscal Year 99-00
(Grants awarded about $1/4 million)
Carl Moyer Grants:
For more information on EAD's Air Quality Division,
click on the AQD homepage
here, or to return to the Environmental Affairs Department's homepage,
click EAD homepage.
