DIAMOND BAR, Calif. - As the South Coast Air Basin moves into "smog season," local businesses and city and county fleet operators will be getting a $12.4 million boost to support their smog-fighting efforts. The funding from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) will help to place into service up to 380 clean, advanced technology vehicles, ranging from trash trucks and street sweepers to transit buses. Also included in the funding program is cleaner heavy off-road construction equipment. Old, uncontrolled construction equipment is a significant source of air pollution in Southern California. Clean vehicle technologies funded through these awards include compressed and liquefied natural gas vehicles, as well as gasoline-electric hybrid buses and propane-powered vehicles.
Thanks to this funding, new or expanded alternative fueling infrastructure facilities across the Basin, from Santa Clarita south to Mission Viejo and east to Beaumont will serve hundreds of alternative-fuel vehicles operating in the region. Fleets also are being funded to provide mechanic training to support the new technologies. Park and ride facilities also will be improved and video conferencing equipment will be enhanced to discourage travel to meetings. (See below for information on specific awards).
"The continuing commitment of our businesses and governments to cleaning the air is remarkable," said MSRC Chair Bea LaPisto-Kirtley, who also serves as Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Bradbury. "The MSRC remains committed to partnering with these leaders and supporting their efforts to reduce air pollution in our communities."
The MSRC allocates funding from a $4 surcharge on vehicle license fees, specifically to be used to support local projects designed to reduce air pollution from mobile sources such as cars, trucks and buses. Thirty cents of every surcharge dollar goes into the MSRC fund. Additional funds will be awarded later this summer. Cities and counties receive 40 cents from every dollar to apply to mobile source emission reduction efforts. More than 30 local governments are receiving matching funds from the MSRC through these latest awards.
The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) was formed in 1990 when Assembly Bill AB 2766 was signed into law authorizing the $4 motor vehicle registration fee in the four- county South Coast Air Basin. Approximately $12 million is allocated annually.
Membership of the MSRC is made up of representatives from the transportation agencies of Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange County, as well as the Southern California Association of Governments, a designated regional rideshare agency, California Air Resources Board and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
FY 2003-04 AB 2766 Discretionary Fund Work Program Funding
Award of contracts under the On-Road Heavy-Duty Alternative Fuel Vehicle Program 1. City of Ontario - capped at $35,082 for up to two heavy- duty, alternative fuel refuse vehicles. 2. City of Riverside - capped at $58,096 for up to three heavy-duty, alternative fuel refuse vehicles, three heavy-duty, alternative fuel dump trucks, and two heavy-duty, alternative fuel water service trucks. 3. CR&R - capped at $618,636 for up to 30 heavy-duty, alternative fuel refuse trucks, 10 heavy-duty, alternative fuel refuse trucks, and mechanic training. 4. Athens Services - capped at $311,421 for up to 14 heavy- duty, alternative fuel refuse trucks. refueling infrastructure, facility modifications and mechanic training.
Award of contracts under the Off-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Pollution Reduction Program 1. Sukut Construction, Inc. - capped at $466,807 for up to four scrapers and three dozers. 2. Road Builders, Inc. - capped at $851,309 for up to 10 scrapers and one loader. 3. Larry Jacinto Construction - capped at $454,510 for up to six scrapers. 4. Herigstad Equipment Rental - capped at $1,429,616 for up to two scrapers, up to nine heavy-duty, Tier II diesel fuel scrapers, and for partial funding of up to ten heavy-duty, Tier II diesel fuel scrapers. 5. Road Builders, Inc. - capped at $120,296 for up to two heavy- duty, Tier II diesel fuel scrapers.
Award of contracts under the Alternative Fuel/Advanced Technology Transit Bus Program 1. Foothill Transit - capped at $715,000 for up to 75 compressed natural gas transit buses and refueling infrastructure. 2. Orange County Transportation Authority - capped at $405,000 for up to 10 gasoline hybrid-electric transit buses and mechanic training. 3. Long Beach Transit - capped at $335,453 for up to 27 gasoline hybrid- electric transit buses. 4. Norwalk Transit - capped at $118,052 for up to four gasoline hybrid- electric transit buses. 5. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority - capped at $854,050 for up to 50 compressed natural gas transit buses.
Award of contracts under the Local Government Match Program 1. City of Montclair - capped at $50,000 for up to one heavy-duty and three medium- duty CNG vehicles 2. City of Beaumont - capped at $220,400 for up to one heavy-duty and three medium-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 3. City of Whittier - capped at $260,400 for up to three heavy-duty and three medium-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 4. City of Baldwin Park - capped at $63,350 for up to two medium- duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 5. City of San Bernardino - capped at $80,000 for up to eight medium-duty CNG vehicles. 6. County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works - capped at $420,000 for park & ride rehabilitation, and for up to four heavy-duty LPG vehicles and seven LPG street sweepers. 7. City of Colton - capped at $40,000 for up to four medium-duty CNG vehicles. 8. City of Burbank - capped at $270,000 for up to three medium-duty and 12 heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 9. City of Inglewood - capped at $312,500 for up to five heavy-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 10. City of San Fernando capped at $277,642 for CNG infrastructure, and for up to two medium-duty and three heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 11. City of Cathedral City capped at $50,000 for up to one medium-duty and two heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 12. County of Orange - capped at $440,000 for CNG infrastructure, and for up to one heavy-duty and seven medium-duty CNG vehicles. 13. City of Palm Desert - capped at $20,000 for one heavy-duty CNG vehicle. 14. City of La Verne - capped at $234,600 for up to three medium-duty and one heavy-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 15. City of Orange - capped at $20,000 for one heavy-duty CNG vehicle. 16. City of Tustin - capped at $40,000 for up to two heavy-duty LPG vehicles. 17. City of Lawndale - capped at $20,000 for one heavy-duty CNG vehicle. 18. County of Los Angeles, Beaches & Harbors - capped at $460,000 for up to three medium-duty and four heavy-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 19. City of Los Angeles - capped at $509,032 to expand video- conferencing equipment, and for up to two heavy- duty LNG and 22 heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 20. City of Santa Clarita - capped at $20,000 for one heavy-duty CNG vehicle. 21. San Bernardino County, Department of Public Works - capped at $120,000 for up to six heavy-duty LNG vehicles. 22. City of Desert Hot Springs - capped at $40,000 for up to two medium-duty CNG vehicles and infrastructure. 23. City of Bellflower - capped at $60,000 for up to six medium-duty CNG vehicles. 24. County of Los Angeles - capped at $26,956 to expand video-conferencing equipment. 25. City of Hemet - capped at $60,000 for up to three heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 26. City of Riverside - capped at $190,000 for up to five medium-duty and seven heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 27. City of Moreno Valley - capped at $40,000 for up to two medium-duty and one heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 28. City of Hawthorne - capped at $40,000 for up to two heavy-duty CNG vehicles. 29. City of Lakewood - capped at $10,000 for one medium-duty CNG vehicle.
Award of contracts under the Publicly Accessible Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Program 1. NorthStar - capped at $250,000 for construction of a new LNG fueling station in Santa Clarita at Burrtec Waste Industries. 2. Downs Commercial Fueling - capped at $250,000 for construction of a new LNG/L-CNG station in Temecula. 3. Clean Energy - capped at $500,000 for construction of a new CNG station in the mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles at City of Los Angeles Western Water District, and in Mission Viejo at Atlas Properties. 4. R.F. Dickson Company - capped at $250,000 for the upgrade and expansion of an existing CNG station located at Bellflower Unified School District.