BOARD MEETING DATE: March 5, 2004
AGENDA NO. 7

Execute Contracts for FY 2002-03 Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program Using Carl Moyer and Clean Fuels Funds

SYNOPSIS:

On October 10, 2003, proposals were received in response to an RFP for the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program. A total of $19,552,575 is available for awards. This amount is comprised of $8,148,088 allocated to the AQMD under Proposition 40, and $11,404,487 in returned and rollover funds resulting from returns of all previous Carl Moyer awards. The $11,404,487 is comprised of $9,071,372 in Carl Moyer funds and $2,333,115 from the Clean Fuels Fund originally designated as local match to the Moyer Program. Staff recommends Carl Moyer awards in the amount of $18,927,986. Staff also recommends $201,774 for a project from funds allocated by CARB to the AQMD Carl Moyer Fund as an inter-district project fund. In addition, staff recommends an amendment to an existing contract.

COMMITTEE:

Technology, February 27, 2004, Recommended for Approval

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:

1. Recognize up to $8,148,088 from CARB allocated to the AQMD under Proposition 40 (Prop. 40), and place it in the Carl Moyer Fund.
    
2. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contracts from the FY 2002 -03 Carl Moyer Program Fund and the Clean Fuels Fund:

1. A contract with Enterprise Rent-A-Car to purchase 5 new CNG shuttle buses, in an amount not to exceed $45,317 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
2. A contract with UPS to purchase 3 new duel fuel/LNG line haul trucks, in an amount not to exceed $10,195 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
3. A contract with Athens Services to purchase 2 new CNG street sweepers with CNG auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $ 65,181 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
4. A contract with Nationwide Environmental Services to purchase 6 new CNG street sweepers with CNG Auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $227,321 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
5. A contract with S. C. Yamamoto, Inc. to purchase 2 new CNG street sweepers with CNG Auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $66,449 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
6. A contract with CleanStreet to repower10 street sweepers with LPG main and auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $337,500 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
7. A contract with Interstate Sweeping Services to repower 2 street sweepers with LPG main and auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $67,500 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
8. A contract with Venco Western Inc. to purchase 3 new CNG street sweepers with CNG auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $129,160 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
9. A contract with the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to purchase13 new CNG Dump Trucks and 2 new CNG Aerial Boom Trucks, in an amount not to exceed $36,800 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
10. A contract with the City of Inglewood to purchase 3 new CNG street sweepers with CNG auxiliary engines, a new CNG Paint Striping Truck and 2 new CNG line haul trucks, in an amount not to exceed $16,108 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
11. A contract with the City of Redlands to purchase 3 new CNG refuse trucks, in an amount not to exceed $23,762 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
12. A contract with the City of Placentia to purchase 2 new CNG street sweepers with CNG auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $39,377 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
13. A contract with the City of Los Angeles Environmental Affairs Dept. to purchase 21 new CNG street sweepers with CNG auxiliary engines, in an amount not to exceed $108,150 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
14. A contract with the City of Chino to purchase 1 new CNG street sweeper in an amount not to exceed $569 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
15. A contract with the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County to purchase 2 new LNG/diesel roll-off refuse vehicles, 10 new LNG/diesel refuse transfer vehicles, 5 new LNG/diesel mechanic service trucks and 6 new LNG/diesel stop and go water trucks, in an amount not to exceed $310,284 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
16. A contract with the City of Orange to purchase 1 new CNG street sweeper with a CNG auxiliary engine, in an amount not to exceed $6,153 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
17. A contract with L.A. County Beaches and Harbors to purchase 2 new CNG refuse trucks, in an amount not to exceed $52,082 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
18. A contract with the City of Cathedral City to purchase 1 new CNG dump truck and 1 new CNG water truck, in an amount not to exceed $7,908 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
19. A contract with Los Angeles County MTA to purchase 100 new CNG transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $200,000 from the Clean Fuels Fund and $600,000 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
20. A contract with the City of Monterey Park to purchase 3 new CNG transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $30,015 from the Clean Fuels Fund.
21. A contract with Foothill Transit to purchase 75 new CNG transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $727,500 from the Clean Fuels Fund.
22. A contract with Santa Monica – Big Blue Bus to purchase 52 new LNG transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $407,732 from the Clean Fuels Fund.
23. A contract with Santa Clarita Transit to purchase 12 new CNG transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $126,000 from the Clean Fuels Fund.
24. A contract with Long Beach Transit to purchase 27 new gasoline/electric hybrid transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $241,868 from the Clean Fuels Fund, and $6,775 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
25. A contract with Orange County Transportation Authority to purchase 10 new gasoline/electric hybrid transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $92,090 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
26. A contract with the City of Montebello DOT to purchase 5 new gasoline/electric hybrid transit buses, in an amount not to exceed $46,045 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
27. A contract with Railserve Inc., Green Kid Railpower Technologies to retrofit
    1 diesel-electric hybrid locomotive, in an amount not to exceed $425,000 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund
28. A contract with Railpower Technologies Corporation – Green Goat, to retrofit
    1 diesel-electric hybrid locomotive, in an amount not to exceed $750,000 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund
29. A contract with Hunter & Hunter Trucking, Inc., to retrofit 1 dual-fuel LNG locomotive, in an amount not to exceed $1,719,265 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
30. A contract with Pacific Harbor Line, Inc., to purchase 8 new diesel locomotives, in an amount not to exceed $ 3,200,000 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
31. A contract with Seaboard Marine, to repower 30 diesel marine engines in an amount not to exceed $1,786,980 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
32. A contract with Sause Brothers Inc., to repower 2 diesel marine engines in an amount not to exceed $171,300 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
33. A contract with Robert Lohrman and Ken Nielsen, to repower 2 diesel marine engines in an amount not to exceed $44,800 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
34. A contract with Tidewater Marine Western Inc., to repower 5 diesel marine engines in an amount not to exceed $404,232 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds
35. A contract with Two Harbor Enterprises, to repower 5 diesel marine engines in an amount not to exceed $101,539 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
36. A contract with Yusen Terminals Inc., to purchase 10 new LNG terminal tractors, in an amount not to exceed $ 291,280 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
37. A contract with Affillisch Contractors, to repower 20 diesel scrapers, 2 diesel waterpull cats, and 2 diesel wheel dozers, in an amount not to exceed $1,810,512 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
38. A contract with Mellon Grading, to repower 1 diesel water hauler, 1 diesel crawler tractor and 1 diesel crawler tractor loader, in an amount not to exceed $140,450 the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
39. A contract with Rentrac, to repower 7diesel scrapers with front and rear engines, in an amount not to exceed $1,088,612 the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
40. A contract with Road Builders Inc., to repower 1 diesel rough loader, 2 diesel scraper and 1 diesel grader in an amount not to exceed $198,969 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
41. A contract with Sukut Equipment, to repower 14 diesel wheel scrapers in an amount not to exceed $1,055,866 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
42. A contract with C. W. Poss to repower 12 wheeled scrapers in an amount not to exceed $905,028 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds.
43. A contract with Jagur Tractor, to repower 2 diesel dozers in an amount not to exceed $171,310 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
44. A contract with Chase Equipment, to repower 1 diesel hauler in an amount not to exceed $61,548 from the Carl Moyer Prop. 40 Fund.
45. A contract with Peed Equipment, to repower 2 wheeled scrapers in an amount not to exceed $323,655 from the Carl Moyer Program 2001-02 turn back funds, and $9,207 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.
46. A contract with Herigstad Equipment Rental, to repower 4 diesel front engine earth scrapers in an amount not to exceed $240,592 from the Carl Moyer Program returned funds.

3. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contract from the FY 2001-02 CARB Inter-district Program Fund placed in the AQMD Carl Moyer Fund:

1. A contract with Ocean Air Environmental to repower 1 Tug Boat, in an amount not to exceed $201,774.

4. Authorize the Chairman to modify the following award for the Carl Moyer Program Fund FY 2001-02 allocations:

1. A no cost modification of the contract with California Street Maintenance to purchase 15 new LPG street sweepers instead of 15 new LNG street sweepers in the amount of $315,975, originally approved by the Governing Board on September 21, 2001.

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Executive Officer

Background

This is the fifth year of the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program (CMP). The CMP provides funds on an incentive basis for the incremental cost of cleaner than required engines and equipment. Eligible projects include cleaner on-road, off-road, marine, locomotive and stationary agricultural pump engines, as well as forklifts, airport ground support equipment, and auxiliary power units. The program achieves near term reductions in emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), which are necessary for the AQMD to meet the State Implementation Plan. The CMP also reduces particulate matter (PM) a component of diesel exhaust, which is identified by CARB as a toxic air contaminant.

In the spring of 2002, California voters passed Proposition 40, the California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks and Coastal Protection Act. Proposition 40 allocated $50 million to CARB, for a period of two years, for distribution to the air districts for projects that "affect air quality in state and local parks and recreation areas", in accordance with the Carl Moyer guidelines. Of these funds, the governor allocated $25 million to CARB for FY 2002-03. Furthermore, Assembly Bill 425 directs that 20 percent of the Proposition 40 funds be allocated for the acquisition of "clean, safe, school buses for use in California’s public schools that serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. A total of $8,148,088 has been allocated to the AQMD for the CMP this year.

On October 10, 2003 proposals were received in response to RFP #P2004-04 for the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program. Over $36 million in proposals were received. Table 1 shows the total amount of funds available for awards, including funds allocated to AQMD under Proposition 40, and turn back funds resulting from returns of all previous Carl Moyer awards. Table 2 shows the detailed breakdown of the turn back funds.

Table 1
Carl Moyer Program
FY 2002 03, Available Funds
 

Table 2
List of Turn Back Funds for FY 2001-02 Awards

Proposal

Carl Moyer Program
At its August 2003 meeting, the Board approved release of RFP #P2004-04 to solicit projects for vehicles and equipment, including refuse haulers, on-road trucks, transit buses, marine vessels and port applications, and construction and other equipment under the Carl Moyer program. New engines and retrofits are allowed within the program. Diesel to diesel repowers have only been funded in the off-road sector provided no feasible alternative fuel engine is available. Alternative fueled projects are given preference over all other proposals. Proposal submissions have been reviewed and ranked in all categories. Due to past difficulty in ensuring that certain types of marine vessels stay within the AQMD’s boundaries, fishing and charter type vessels were given the least priority for funding.

RFP# P2004-04, which issued on August 1, 2003, to solicit proposals under the Carl Moyer Program, proposed allocation of minimum amount of funding for the following on- and off-road categories:
 

Since the issuance of the RFP additional funding has become available due to turn back funds from previous years.

All the proposals have been evaluated for cost effectiveness. Staff recommends awarding fifty percent of funds to projects located in disproportionately impacted areas, and the remaining balance to projects based on their cost effectiveness in each category. In the on-road category of heavy-duty trucks and transit buses all the submitted proposals totaling $4,027,841, which is less than the allocated amount in the RFP have been recommended for awards. In the off-road category no qualifying proposals were received for forklifts. The recommended awards in the marine, locomotive, and construction equipment categories are $2,508,851, $6,094,265, and $6,297,029 respectively. These awards exceed the minimum allocation amounts in each category as outlined in the RFP. Staff recommends the majority of the extra funding for approximately equal distribution between the locomotive and construction equipment categories. The reason marine vessels are not recommended for as much funding is that marine vessels have received substantive funding in the past and many vessels were fishing vessels for which it is difficult to enforce program requirements.

As in the past, at least 50% of funds must be spent in disproportionately impacted (DI) areas. In the evaluation process, staff first funded proposals in DI areas with 50% of the available funds; all remaining qualified DI proposals with all other qualified proposals were then included in the cost effectiveness evaluation and funded accordingly. Table 3 summarizes staff’s recommendation for awards that meet DI criteria totaling $14,179,361. Total NOx reductions from qualified DI projects are approximately 485 tons/year. Table 4 summarizes award recommendations for the remaining funds based on their cost effectiveness ranking totaling $4,748,625, which will result in approximately 179 tons/year of NOx reductions. The proposed awards total $18,927,986 as outlined below:
 

All of the projects awarded under the above available sources of funding are listed in Table 5. All funds must be expended on a strict timeline. In order to facilitate use of the funds more expeditiously, staff may return to the Board with new funding proposals in the event additional funds become available. Staff will be utilizing the proposals from the RFP 2004-04 solicitation as the basis of these awards.

CARB Interdistrict Program
The AQMD received $201,774 in inter-district funds from CARB on June 16, 2003 for immediate use. The Governing Board approved projects with Ocean Air Environmental for $182,000, and substituted a portion of a previously approved project with Walmart for $19,774. Unfortunately both of these projects have since declined funding due to financial issues with boat owners, and a change in business strategy by Walmart. Staff is recommending approval of another project with Ocean Air Environmental for the tug boat Amy Brusco for $201,774.

Contract Modification
A modification to the contract with California Street Maintenance is requested to correct a miscommunication. At the September 21, 2001 hearing, the Governing Board approved a modification of this contract to LNG street sweepers, the actual request was for LPG street sweepers. All other provisions of the award remain unchanged.

Funding Distribution

As in the past, AQMD exceeds the state requirement of distributing at least 50% of the allocated CMP funds in disproportionately impacted areas. With approval of this board letter, AQMD will have committed $14,179,361 million or 74% of total funding for FY 2002-03 in DI areas qualified under AB 1390, as listed in Table 3.

Disproportionate Impact (DI) Point Ranking

The requirements of AB 1390 are 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 DI requirements:

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.

Table 3
Proposed Disproportionate Impact Awards

Applicant	AB 1390 Score	Project Cost Effectiveness ($/ton)	Number of Vehicles/ Engines	Project NOx Reductions (tons/year)	Total Proposed Award
Enterprise Rent-A-Car	34.85	$13,600	5	0.39	$45,317
UPS	51.2	$13,600	3	0.09	$10,195
Athens Services	50.57	$13,600	2	0.42	$65,181
Nationwide Environmental Services	41.08	$13,600	6	1.40	$227,321
S.C. Yamamoto, Inc.	39.14	$13,600	2	0.57	$66,449
CleanStreet	31.02	$9,536	10	4.15	$337,500
City of L. A., DWP	81.75	$13,484	15	0.32	$36,800
City of Inglewood	50.26	$10,707	11	0.76	$16,108
City of L.A., Env.	41.75	$10,042	21	1.73	$108,150
City of Redlands	45.93	$13,600	3	0.25	$23,762
City of Placentia	41.77	$13,600	2	0.34	$39,377
City of Chino	41.51	$13,600	1	0.01	$569
County San. Dist. - L.A.	38.22	$13,600	23	2.68	$310,284
City of Orange	30.99	$13,600	1	0.05	$6,153
L.A. County Beaches and Harbors	29.51	$13,571	2	0.39	$52,082
L.A. County MTA	51.11	$4,205	100	19.11	$800,000
City of Monterey Park	39.4	$6,148	3	0.49	$30,015
Foothill Transit	38.66	$3,569	75	20.48	$727,500
Santa Monica	28.72	$2,954	52	13.87	$407,732
Santa Clarita Transit	5.25	$4,009	12	3.16	$126,000
Long Beach Transit	59.14	$2,711	27	9.21	$248,643
OCTA	40.06	$2,711	10	3.41	$92,090
City of Montebello, DOT	38.06	$3,703	5	1.25	$46,045
Seaboard Marine	57	$3,300	30	48.03	$1,786,980
Sause Brothers Inc.	57	$2,755	2	4.88	$171,300
Robert Lohrman & Ken Nielsen	12.25	$4,368	2	0.77	$44,800
Two Harbor Enterprises	21.25	$3,631	5	1.97	$101,539
Tidewater Marine Western, Inc.	44.25	$1,632	5	25.11	$404,232
Yusen Terminals Inc.	80.89	$3,183	10	10.73	$291,280
Affillisch Contractors	65.27	$3,658	14	51.38	$1,810,512
Mellon Grading	56.18	$4,363	7	5.47	$140,450
Rentec	38.25	$2,647	7	66.00	$1,088,612
Road Builders Inc.	16.39	$2,201	3	14.98	$198,969
Sukut Equipment	35.13	$1,663	14	101.89	$1,055,866
Chase Equipment	34.31	$2,116	1	4.67	$61,548
Pacific Harbor Line, Inc	43.5	$3,331	8	64.56	$3,200,000
AB 1390 Totals			499	484.97	$14,179,361

Table 4
Carl Moyer, Cost-Effectiveness
 

Applicant	AB 1390 Score	Project Cost Effectiveness ($/ton)	Number of Vehicles/ Engines	Project NOx Reductions (tons/year)	Total Proposed Award
Interstate Sweeping Services	0	$8,123	2	0.97	$67,500
Venco Western Inc.	0	$13,600	3	0.80	$129,160
City of Cathedral City	0	$13,600	2	0.05	$7,908
Railserve Inc.	0	$5,560	1	10.89	$425,000
Railpower Technologies	0	$5,762	1	28.42	$750,000
Hunter and Hunter Trucking, Inc.	0	$6,731	1	17.17	$1,719,265
C. W. Poss	0	$1,669	12	87.34	$905,028
Jagur Tractor	0	$1,906	2	14.42	$171,310
Peed	0	$2,418	2	11.05	$332,862
Herigstad Equipment Rentals	0	$2,429	4	7.96	$240,592
Total			30	179.07	$4,748,625

Table 5
Awards by Fund
 

Applicant	Total Proposed Award	Fund
City of Monterey Park	$30,015	CFF
Foothill Transit	$727,500	CFF
L.A. County MTA	$200,000	CFF/fy02-03
Long Beach Transit	$241,868	CFF/CMPR
Santa Clarita Transit	$126,000	CFF
Santa Monica - Big Blue Bus	$407,732	CFF
Clean Fuel Funds	$1,733,115

 

Applicant	Total Proposed Award	Fund
Long Beach Transit	$6,775	CFF/CMPR
City of Montebello, DOT	$46,045	CMPR
Herigstad Equipment Rentals	$240,592	CMPR
Hunter and Hunter Trucking, Inc. Clean Air Partners Transportation Systems LNG Train Project	$1,719,265	CMPR
Jagur Tractor	$171,310	CMPR
Mellon Grading	$140,450	CMPR
Peed	$9,207	CMPR
Rentec	$1,088,612	CMPR
Road Builders Inc.	$198,969	CMPR
Sause Brothers Inc.	$171,300	CMPR
Seaboard Marine	$1,786,980	CMPR
Sukut Equipment	$1,055,866	CMPR
CMP Returned Funds	$6,635,371

 

Applicant	Total Proposed Award	Fund
Peed	$323,655	FY 01-02/cmpr
OCTA	$92,090	FY 01-02
Tidewater Marine Western, Inc.	$404,232	FY 01-02
C. W. Poss	$905,028	FY 01-02
City of Orange	$6,153	FY 01-02
City of Placentia	$39,377	FY 01-02
Enterprise Rent-A-Car	$45,317	FY 01-02
LAMTA	$600,000	FY 01-02/CFF
FY 01-02 Turnback	$2,415,852

Table 5
Awards by Fund
Con’t
 

Applicant	Total Proposed Award	Fund
Chase Equipment	$61,548	Prop. 40
Affillisch Contractors	$1,810,512	Prop. 40
Athens Services	$65,181	Prop. 40
City of Cathedral City	$7,908	Prop. 40
City of Chino	$569	Prop. 40
City of Inglewood	$16,108	Prop. 40
City of L. A., DWP	$36,800	Prop. 40
City of L.A., Env. Affairs	$108,150	Prop. 40
City of Redlands	$23,762	Prop. 40
CleanStreet	$337,500	Prop. 40
County San. Dist., of L.A. County	$310,284	Prop. 40
Interstate Sweeping Services	$67,500	Prop. 40
L.A. County Beaches and Harbors	$52,082	Prop. 40
Nationwide Environmental Services	$227,321	Prop. 40
Pacific Harbor Line, Inc	$3,200,000	Prop. 40
Railpower Technologies Corporation - Green Goat	$750,000	Prop. 40
Railserve Inc. - Green Kid	$425,000	Prop. 40
Robert Lohrman & Ken Nielsen	$44,800	Prop. 40
S.C. Yamamoto, Inc.	$66,449	Prop. 40
Two Harbor Enterprises	$101,539	Prop. 40
UPS	$10,195	Prop. 40
Venco Western Inc.	$129,160	Prop. 40
Yusen Terminals Inc.	$291,280	Prop. 40
Prop. 40 Funds	$8,143,648

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 projects are approximately 689 tons per year. The vehicles and equipment proposed will operate many years, providing long-term emissions reductions.

The replacement of diesel-fueled refuse haulers with CNG-fueled refuse haulers, the re-powering of older marine diesel engines with low-emission new diesel engines, and the repowering of older locomotive diesel engines with new low-emission diesel, LNG and diesel/electric hybrids can reduce significant amounts of NOx emissions at an extremely competitive price.

Resource Impacts

Total cost for the proposed projects is $18,927,986 of which funding in the amount of $1,733,115 is from the Clean Fuels Program Fund. The remaining $17,194,871 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. In addition, $201,774 will be used to award a project under the CARB inter-district program. Funds for this project have already been received and have been placed in the Carl Moyer Program Fund. 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 2002 - 03 Carl Moyer Program is included in the March 2002 update of the Technology Advancement Plan as 2001CFM-1 "Clean Fuels Program Match for Vehicle and Infrastructure Incentive Programs."

The AQMD is expected to receive $8,148,088 of the available Carl Moyer funds for FY 2003 from CARB. The Carl Moyer Program requires that the local air district provide matching funds for engine, vehicle and equipment incentives on a 1:2 basis. The AQMD local match requirement of $ 4.05 million is met by 1.215 million from program administration support, and other $3.5 million in qualifying infrastructure projects funded from Clean Fuel Funds as listed in Attachment 1.

Monies received from CARB will be placed in the Prop. 40 - Carl Moyer Program Fund. 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 and marine engines.

Attachment

1. Qualified Match Fund Projects

ATTACHMENT 1
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Proposed Match Fund Projects
Carl Moyer FY 2002-03

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