Heads up to those of you with diesel powered fleets — EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program’s latest grant application process will close out on June 14. This funding opportunity is only available to specified applicants, but if your organization operates any of the qualified items and falls into one of the eligible entity categories, get yourself over to the EPA website for more information and an application.
Qualified Diesel Fleet Types
- Medium or heavy trucks
- Non-load engines or vehicles used in construction, cargo handling, agriculture, mining, or energy production, including stationary generators and pumps
- Buses
- Marine engines
- Locomotives
Eligible Entities
- Regional, state, local or tribal agencies/consortia or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality
- Nonprofit organizations or institutions that
- represent or provide pollution reduction or educational services to people or organizations that own or operate diesel fleets; or
- have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality
The EPA site allows that “School districts, municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), cities and counties are all eligible entities under this assistance agreement program to the extent that they fall within the definition above.”
Other limiting conditions include how the grant funds may be used, and here again, I quote from the EPA website (complete with their links):
Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use:
- Retrofit technologies that are verified or certified by either EPA or CARB
- Idle-reduction technologies that are EPA verified
- Aerodynamic technologies and low rolling resistance tires that are EPA verified
- Early replacement and repower with certified engine configurations (incremental costs only)
That’s all for today. If this funding program doesn’t work for you, stay in touch. More grants are probably in the pipeline and I’ll let you know as I find out about ’em.
Jack Young
NorCal Valuation
