Subject Top Page: Motor Vehicle Registration Fee Program -- Criteria and Guidelines

This page last reviewed December 6, 2007.

ARB’s 1998 Criteria and Guidelines, approved by the Board June 25, 1998, serves as a framework for the use of Motor Vehicle Registration Fees. State law specifies that these funds be used to reduce mobile source emissions and to carry out related California Clean Air Act activities. The Criteria and Guidelines may be downloaded or printed in the following sections:

Introduction (MSWord 97 -- 24KB) or (PDF -- 10KB)

II.

Air Resources Board’s 1995 Criteria and Guidelines (MSWord 97 -- 40KB) or (PDF -- 27KB)

Includes:

1.
Development and Implementation of Clean Air Plans

2.
Cost-Effectiveness

3.
Leveraging Funds

4.
Demonstration and Introduction of New Technology

III.

Addendum to 1995 Criteria and Guidelines (MSWord 97 -- 28KB) or (PDF -- 13KB)

Setting Project Funding Priorities

Reporting on Project Effectiveness

SIP Credits

IV.

Design of Successfully Demonstrated Projects (MSWord 97 - 65K) or (PDF - 46K)

Projects Include: Transit bus replacement purchases, school bus purchases, heavy-duty truck purchases and repowering, off-road agricultural equipment purchase and repowering, off-road construction equipment purchase and repowering, voluntary early retirement of light-duty vehicles, long-distance commuter bus projects, long-distance commute vanpool program, transit use subsidies, employee trip reduction programs, commuter-oriented bicycle facilities.
Appendix A: Examples of Successful Projects. Specific examples of the above projects are included. (MSWord 97 -- 122KB) or (PDF -- 63KB)
Appendix B: 1998 Statutes Applicable to the Motor Vehicle Registration Fee Program (MSWord 97 -- 62KB) or (PDF -- 38KB)

For more information, please contact Ravi Ramalingam at (916) 322-2085 or via email at rramalin@arb.ca.gov.

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