BOARD MEETING DATE: June 16, 2000 AGENDA NO. 16
AB 2766 Subvention Funds Report from Motor Vehicle Registration Fees for FY 1998-99
SYNOPSIS:
This report contains data on the AB 2766 Subvention Fund Program for FY 1998-99 as requested by the California Air Resources Board
COMMITTEE:
Mobile Source, May 26, 2000, Reviewed
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve the attached report for submittal to the California Air Resources Board.
Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Executive Officer
Background
In September 1990, AB 2766 was signed into law authorizing a $2 motor vehicle registration fee surcharge, with a subsequent increase to $4 in 1992. Section 44223 of the Health & Safety Code, enacted by AB 2766, specifies that this motor vehicle registration fee be used "solely to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles and for related planning, monitoring, enforcement, and technical studies necessary for the implementation of the California Clean Air Act of 1988." Local jurisdictions receive 40% of each vehicle registration fee dollar to implement projects that reduce mobile source emissions.
Health & Safety Code Section 44247 requires local agencies imposing vehicle registration fees for air pollution programs to report to CARB on their use of the fees, the results of programs funded by the fees, and to cooperate with the Board in the preparation of its annual report to the legislature. The attached report to CARB on the status of AB 2766 subventions to local governments in the South Coast Air Basin for Fiscal Year 1998-99 satisfies this requirement.
Summary of Staff Report
This report accounts for the projects, financial expenditures, emissions reduced, and cost-effectiveness of projects implemented through the AB 2766 Subvention Fund Program for FY 1998-99. It also provides an update on the efforts made by the AQMD Subvention Fund Technical Assistance Team in providing guidance to local governments on their subvened funding expenditures.
During this period, local governments in the South Coast Basin received approximately $16 million and spent around $17 million on select projects from the available $22 million beginning balance from the previous fiscal year. Of the $22.1 million ending balance, $16 million was earmarked for future projects.
Approximately half of the $16 million subvened to local governments was spent on projects classified under three categories - Transportation Demand Management, Alternative Fuels/Electric Vehicles, and Traffic Management.
The average cost-effectiveness for 229 projects quantified out of 455 projects reported amounted to $2 per pound of emissions reduced. The percentage of projects quantified has steadily increased over the last three reporting periods, from 8% in FY 96-97 to 33% in FY 97-98 to the present figure of 50% in FY 98-99.
Staff Report: AB 2766 Subvention Funds Report from Motor Vehicle Registration Fees for FY 1998-99
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