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aqip -- Grant Solicitation for the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Off-Road Mobile Agricultural Equipment Trade-Up Pilot Project in the San Joaquin Valley

Posted: 18 Dec 2015 16:16:33
The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) is pleased to
announce its Grant Solicitation for the Off-Road Mobile
Agricultural Equipment Trade-Up Pilot Project in the San Joaquin
Valley (Trade-Up Pilot Project). 

Funding of up to $500,000 for this project was approved by the
Board in June 2015 as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 16
Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation Investments and the
Air Quality Improvement Program.  The Trade-Up Pilot Project is
an opportunity for ARB to test the concept of a new, multi-step
type of equipment incentive intended for owners of high emitting
mobile agricultural equipment in the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin
that may not qualify for existing voluntary incentive funding,
and for which new equipment purchases are infeasible. 

This competitive solicitation is open to California-based public
entities.  The Grantee (applicant) may subcontract with public,
private or California-based non profit organizations.  Grantee
and Subcontractor relationships must be disclosed in the
application and the Grant Agreement.  

Applications are due to ARB by 5:00 p.m., January 25, 2016. 

ARB will hold an Applicant Teleconference to answer questions
regarding this Grant Solicitation on January 5, 2016.  The
Applicant Teleconference will provide an opportunity for
potential applicants to ask clarifying questions regarding
general application requirements.  The teleconference will be
held at the following date and time:

   Date:             January 5, 2016
   Time:             10:00 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)
   Call-in Number:   1-888-769-8913
   Passcode:         23453

Written questions may be emailed to Ms. Meri Miles at
Meri.Miles@arb.ca.gov up to 5:00 p.m. (Pacific), January 4, 2015.


The Grant Solicitation and all associated documents may be found
on ARB’s webpage at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/solicitations.htm 

For more information about the Air Quality Improvement Program,
please visit http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqip.   

For more information about the Fiscal Year 2014-15 Funding Plan
for the Air Quality Improvement Program and Low Carbon
Transportation Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Investments, please
go to 
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/fundplan/fundplan.htm  

If you have questions regarding this Grant Solicitation, please
contact Ms. Meri Miles at Meri.Miles@arb.ca.gov or (916)
322-6370. 

Background:  In 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law the
California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology,
Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 (Assembly Bill 118,
Statutes of 2007, Chapter 750).  AB 118 created the Air Quality
Improvement Program (AQIP), a voluntary incentive program
administered by ARB to fund clean vehicle and equipment projects,
air quality research, and workforce training.  The Trade-Up Pilot
Project is funded entirely through AQIP, which is targeted to
reduce criteria pollutants and air toxics, often with greenhouse
gas emission reduction co-benefits.   

Emissions from mobile agricultural equipment are among a number
of significant sources of air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley
Air Basin, and reducing these emissions is necessary to meet
federal health-based air quality standards.  ARB incentive
programs and regulations are already reducing emissions from a
wide variety of diesel engines in the San Joaquin Valley Air
Basin, however, a continuing transition to the cleanest
technologies is needed in order to meet air pollution standards
in 2023 and 2032.  Existing local, State, and federal
agricultural equipment incentives are currently helping growers
purchase new equipment in exchange for scrapping old equipment. 
A trade-up incentive for incrementally cleaner, used equipment
may hold potential as a new incentive pathway for growers with
high-emitting equipment that are not able to take advantage of
current programs.



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