South Coast Air Quality Management District

BOARD MEETING DATE: June 7, 2002 AGENDA NO. 3

 Proposal

At its December 2001 meeting, the Governing Board approved the release of RFP #P2002-22 to solicit projects for vehicles and equipment, including refuse haulers, over-the-road trucks, transit buses, marine and port applications, construction and other vehicles and equipment. New engines and retrofits are allowed within the program. Diesel to diesel repowers will only be funded in the off-road sector, provided no feasible alternative fuel engine is available. Proposal submissions have been reviewed and ranked in all categories. Proposals meeting the cost effectiveness requirements and in areas recommended by AB 1390 (Firebaugh) were awarded first, totaling 60% of the recommend awards for this round. The remaining proposals were awarded based on their cost effectiveness only. Table 3 summarizes staff’s recommendation for awards under the AB 1390 category for a total of $5,247,935, which will result in approximately 192.3 tons/year of NOx reductions. Table 4 summarizes award recommendations for the remaining funds based on their cost effectiveness ranking totaling $3,544,863, which will result in approximately 121.6 tons/year of NOx reductions. The awards total $8,792,798 and fully expend the total returned funds and rollover funds from previous years. RFP# P2002-22R will be released soliciting proposals for the remaining $6.6 million available under the FY 2001-02 Carl Moyer Program. If additional funds are returned, projects funded herein will utilize the earliest year Carl Moyer Program funds available until such funds are exhausted and then will rely on the most recent subsequent year’s funding which is available.

Funding Distribution

Pursuant to AB 1390, at least 50% of the program funds for this year must be spent in disproportionately impacted areas by air pollution, including areas of low income. CARB’s allocation to the AQMD for this year was $7.055 million, therefore to meet the requirements of AB 1390, approximately $3.5 million, must be allocated in designated AB 1390 areas. AQMD has decided to further its support for AB 1390 by allocating at least 50% of all funding available in the Moyer program this year which includes roll-over funding from previous years and turnback funds. As a result AQMD is intending to commit approximately $7.7 million in areas satisfying the requirements of AB 1390.

AB1390 (Firebaugh), Point Ranking

The requirements of AB 1390 will be implemented according to the following criteria.
 

1)

All projects must qualify for the Carl Moyer program by meeting the cost effectiveness limits established in the RFP.

2)

All projects were evaluated according to the following criteria to qualify for funding under AB 1390: a)      Poverty Level: All projects in areas where at least 10% of the population falls below the          Federal poverty level based on the year 2000 census data, are eligible to be included in this          category, and b)      PM Exposure: All projects in areas with the highest 15% of PM concentration will be eligible          to be ranked in this category. The highest 15% of PM concentration is 46 micrograms per          cubic meter and above, on an annual average, or c)      Air Toxics Exposure: All projects in areas with a cancer risk of 1,000 in a million and above          (based on Mates II estimates) will be eligible to be ranked in this category.

Special circumstances existed in some areas, such as the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Since there are no residents within the ports, poverty ranking could not be established. In this case, the poverty ranking from the adjacent on-shore areas were extended to the port since these populated areas are directly impacted by port activities.

Outreach

In accordance with the AQMD’s consulting and contracting policies, a public notice advertising the RFP and inviting bids was published in the following publications:
 

1.	Angeles Mesa Wave, The	11.	Inland Valley Daily Bulletin	21.	Palm Springs Desert Sun
2.	Antelope Valley Press	12.	Korea Central Daily	22.	Philippine News
3.	Black Voice News	13.	La Opinion	23.	Precinct Reporter
4.	Central News Wave	14	La Prensa Hispana	24.	Rafu Shimpo
5.	Chinese Daily News	15.	La Voz	25.	Press Enterprise
6.	Eastern Group Publications	16.	Los Angeles Daily News	26.	San Bernardino Sun
7.	El Chicano	17.	Los Angeles Sentinel	27.	Santa Clarita Signal
8	El Informador	18.	Los Angeles Times	28.	The Wave
9.	Excelsior, The	19.	M/W/DVBE Source	29.	State of California Contracts
10.	Inland Empire Hispanic News	20.	Orange County Register		Register

Additionally, potential bidders were notified utilizing the Los Angeles County MTA and Cal Trans Directories of Certified Minority, Women, Disadvantaged and Disabled Veterans Business Enterprises; the Inland Area Opportunity Pages Ethnic/Women Business & Professional Directory; AQMD’s own electronic listing of certified minority vendors; and AQMD Purchasing’s mailing list. Notice of the RFP was mailed to the Black and Latino Legislative Caucuses and various minority chambers of commerce and business associations; and placed on the Internet at AQMD’s Web site [http://www.aqmd.gov, "Business and Job Opportunities" icon] and AQMD’s bidder’s 24-hour telephone message line (909) 396-2724.

Benefits to AQMD

AQMD’s Clean Fuels Program has been active in funding the development and demonstration of low emission, alternative fuel technologies within its Technology Advancement Office. The AQMD has also supported a number of activities directed to commercialization of low-emission alternative fuel technologies. The successful implementation of the Carl Moyer Program is a direct result of these Technology Advancement activities. The proposed projects will have significant emission benefits for many years. Total NOx reductions from the proposed project are approximately 313.9 tons per year. The vehicles and equipment proposed will operate many years, providing long-term emissions reductions.

Resource Impacts

Total cost for the proposed projects is $ 8,792,798. All funding for these projects is from the Carl Moyer Program Fund, established as a special revenue fund resulting from the statewide Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program administered by ARB. The objective of the Carl Moyer Program is to accelerate the introduction of low-emission heavy-duty engines. Funds are distributed by the ARB through local air districts. Funds from this program are restricted to be used as incentives to private companies or public agencies operating heavy-duty engines in California to cover an incremental portion of the cost of cleaner on-road, off-road, marine engines, and APUs.

The AQMD cost share for the FY 2001-02 Carl Moyer Program is included in the March 2002 update of the Technology Advancement Plan as 2001CFM-1 "Clean Fuels Program Match for Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program."

The Carl Moyer Guidelines allow Moyer Program qualified projects funded by local monies to be uses as the required local match contribution. This year the required local match funding for FY 2001-02 is $3.5 million, and is provided from qualified local match projects funded in 2001. Attachment 1 lists the qualified match projects approved by the governing board last year. These funds meet the local match criteria for the Moyer Program.

Attachment

1. Local Match Requirement
2. RFP#P2002-22R

TABLE 3
PROJECT AWARDS BASED ON
AB 1390 SCORES
 

TABLE 4
AWARDS BASED ON
COST EFFECTIVENESS
 

ATTACHMENT 1

LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT
FUNDED PROJECTS
As of October 24, 2001
 

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