$4.4 Million Accessible for Ariz., Calif., Hawaii, Nev., and the Pacific Islands
SAN FRANCISCO - The E.P.A. today announced the availability of $4.4 million in grant backing to establish clean diesel plans aimed at reducing emissions from the existing fleet of diesel engines in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands.
Diesel-powered engines move approximately 90 percent of the nation's freight tonnage, and today nearly all Hwy. freight trucks, locomotives, and commercial marine vessels are powered by diesel engines.
E.P.A. is soliciting proposals nationwide for plans that significantly reduce diesel emissions and exposure, especially from fleets operating at goods movements facilities in areas designated as having poor air quality. Priority for backing will be given to plans that engage and benefit local communities and applicants that demonstrate their ability to promote and continue efforts to reduce emissions after the plan has ended.
Eligible applicants include regional, state, local, tribal, or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality. Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality. The applicants may apply until April 26, 2016.
E.P.A. anticipates releasing a separate Request for Proposals for Tribal applicants in March.
Since the 1st year of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) plan in 2008, E.P.A. has awarded nearly 700 grants across the U.S. Many of these plans fund cleaner diesel engines that operate in economically disadvantaged communities whose residents suffer from higher-than-average instances of asthma, heart and lung disease.
For more information and to access the Request for Proposals, visit
http://www.epa.gov/cleandiesel/clean-diesel-national-grants.
For more information on the West Coast Collaborative, visit:
http://www.westcoastcollaborative.org/
For more information on the National Clean Diesel campaign, visit
http://www.epa.gov/cleandiesel.
