The Air Resources Board (ARB) is developing the Fiscal Year (FY)
2016-17 Funding Plan for the Low Carbon Transportation
Investments and the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). The
annual funding plan is each year's blueprint for expending funds
appropriated to ARB for advanced technology clean transportation
incentive programs. Project categories consistent with the
Governor's FY 2016-17 budget proposal and the Cap-and Trade
Auction Proceeds Investment Plan, including new project
categories, will be considered for funding.
The public work groups listed below will be used to discuss
topics such as funding allocations, project and technology types,
emission reduction targets, and overall goals for the category.
If you would like to participate in one or more of the work
groups below, please e mail Michael Baker at
Michael.Baker@arb.ca.gov and indicate which work group(s) you are
interested in. If you are already a member in one of the
established work groups, you will continue to be included in that
work group and need not respond to this request. Respondents
will be added to the requested work group(s) e-mail distribution
list(s) for meeting notifications and other information.
Light Duty Work Groups:
1. Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP)
2. Increased Incentives for Public Fleets Pilot Project
3. Car Sharing and Mobility Options Pilot Project
4. Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program Plus-up Pilot Project
5. Financing Assistance Pilot Project
6. Agricultural Worker Vanpools in the San Joaquin Valley Pilot
Project
Heavy Duty Work Groups:
7. Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentives
Project (HVIP)
8. Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Pilot Commercial Deployment
9. On-Road Truck Demonstrations
10. Freight Locomotive Demonstrations
11. Off-Road Freight Equipment Demonstrations
12. Off-Road Near-Zero Agricultural and Construction Equipment
Demonstrations
13. Off-Road Passenger Transportation Demonstrations
14. Low Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) Truck Incentives
15. Zero-Emission Freight Equipment Pilot Commercial Deployment
16. Off-Road Mobile Agricultural Equipment Trade-Up Pilot in the
San Joaquin Valley
17. School Buses in Rural School Districts Pilot
Fuels Work Group:
18. Low-Carbon Fuels Incentive Program Work Group
Below is a list of upcoming meetings. Notifications containing
all of the meeting information will be sent through the
appropriate work group distribution lists. For a complete
calendar of events, please visit:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/meetings/meetings.htm . For
more information about AQIP, please visit:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/aqip.htm
Light-Duty Related Meetings:
Three-Year Forecasting/Projections
Friday, February 5, 2016; 9:30 a.m. – Noon (Pacific Time)
Light-Duty Pilot Project
Friday, February 5, 2016; 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Technology and Market Assessment
Friday, February 12, 2016; 10:00 a.m. – Noon (Pacific Time)
Market Sustainability Metrics
Friday, February 19, 2016; 10:00 a.m. – Noon (Pacific Time)
Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) Program Structure
Friday, February 23, 2016; 10:00 a.m. – Noon (Pacific Time)
Heavy-Duty Related Meetings:
Heavy-Duty and Off-Road Projects
Thursday, February 11, 2016; 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (Pacific
Time)
Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentives Project
(HVIP)
Thursday, February 18, 2016; 10:00 a.m. – Noon (Pacific Time)
Low Carbon Fuels Incentive
Thursday, February 11, 2016; 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Pacific
Time)
Background: Cap-and-Trade auction proceeds provide funding for
ARB's advanced technology, clean transportation incentive
programs, expanding the types of projects ARB has funded through
AQIP. These investments accelerate the transition to low carbon
freight and passenger transportation, supporting the Governor's
climate change strategy pillar of a 50 percent reduction in
petroleum use in vehicles by 2030 and the Administration's goal
to deploy 1.5 million zero emission vehicles in California by
2025.
The FY 2014-15 State budget appropriated $200 million to ARB for
Low Carbon Transportation projects to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions with a target that at least half the investments
benefit disadvantaged communities. The FY 2015-16 State budget
appropriated another $95 million. ARB expects to receive another
appropriation for Low Carbon Transportation investments from the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in the FY 2016-17 State Budget.
ARB staff intends to develop a joint Funding Plan for the Low
Carbon Transportation and AQIP for the FY 2016-17 funding cycle
as it has done in the past two budget cycles.
AQIP is a voluntary, mobile source incentive program that focuses
on reducing criteria pollutant and diesel particulate emissions
with concurrent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. AQIP has
an annual budget of about $25 million. ARB focuses AQIP
investments on technology advancing projects that support
California's long-term air quality and climate change goals in
addition to providing immediate emission benefits. In recent
years, the majority of AQIP funds have gone towards the Truck
Loan Assistance Program which helps small business truckers to
secure financing for newer trucks or diesel exhaust retrofits in
advance of compliance deadlines for ARB's in-use truck and bus
regulation.
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