Fuel Reduction Grants

• Fuel reduction grants provide funding to reduce fuel use in large transport vehicles. Semi image by Andrew Breeden from Fotolia.com

  Large transport vehicles motor along highways carrying freight for businesses. Drivers leave engines idling to keep warm or stay cool during rest periods. This uses up to one billion gallons of diesel fuel; creates costs of $6,000 or more per year in fuel usage and engine wear-and-tear; and emits emission pollutants that damage air quality, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Through fuel reduction grants, transportation vehicles can become retrofitted with more fuel-efficient engines and equipment.

Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program

• The California Air Resources Board has developed the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to provide incentive grants for cleaner diesel engines and equipment. The funds would support incremental costs for engines, equipment and other sources in the effort to reduce engine idling by retrofitting more cost-efficient diesel engines.

  Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program

  California Air Resources Board

  1001 "I" Street

  P.O. Box 2815

  Sacramento, CA 95812

  866-634-3735

  arb.ca.gov

Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program

• The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy of Users, a reorganization of the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, administers funding through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program. This program invests in transportation-related projects to reduce air pollutants through fuel reduction and other factors. The SAFETEA-LU obligates state departments of transportation and transit agencies to prioritize funding from CMAQ grants toward diesel engine retrofits.

  Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program

  United States Department of Transportation

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE

  Washington, DC 20590

  202-366-4000

  fhwa.dot.gov

Dallas, Texas Adopt-a-School Bus Grant

• The Environmental Protection Agency, American Lung Association, state agencies, elected local officials of Dallas and corporate sponsors developed a cooperate partnership for a program called the Dallas, Texas Adopt-a-School Bus Grant. This nonprofit grant program aids local school districts in replacing aged diesel school buses with newer "clean fuel" bus fleets. With engine and filtering retrofit technologies, school buses will have reduced fuel costs, engine maintenance and air pollution through toxic emissions.

  Dallas, Texas Adopt-a-School Bus Grant

  State Energy Conservation Office

  111 East 17th Street #1114

  Austin, TX. 78707

  512-463-1931

  seco.cpa.state.tx.us