BOARD MEETING DATE: October 3, 2008
AGENDA NO. 4

PROPOSAL:

Execute Contracts for FY 2007-08 “Year Ten” Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program and Surplus Off-Road Opt-In for NOx Provision of State In-Use Off-Road Vehicle Regulation

SYNOPSIS:

On May 2, 2008, proposals were received in response to the Program Announcement #PA2008-06 that was issued for the “Year Ten” Carl Moyer Air Quality Standards Attainment Program. This action is to execute Carl Moyer Program contracts in an amount not to exceed $22,354,507. This action is also to execute contracts under the Surplus Off-Road Opt-In for NOx (SOON) provision of the state in-use off-road vehicle regulation in an amount not to exceed $3,093,723.

COMMITTEE:

Technology, September 19, 2008, Recommended for Approval

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:

  1. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contracts under the Carl Moyer Program, Fund AB 923 Account:
    1. County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works for the retrofit of 20 on-road vehicles in an amount not to exceed $119,897;
    2. City of Long Beach Water Department for the retrofit of 8 on-road vehicles and the retrofit of 11 off-road equipment in an amount not to exceed $98,842;
    3. Los Angeles County Consolidated Fire Protection District for the repower of 9 diesel fire trucks in an amount not to exceed $310,607;
    4. Robert Yank DBA Sage Ranch for the repower of 1 agricultural pump in an amount not to exceed $66,056;
    5. Peed Equipment for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $10,064;
    6. Haulin’ Hull’s Truckin’ for the retrofit of 2 trucks in an amount not to exceed $47,566;
    7. JC Trucking for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $24,807;
    8. Abel Dominguez for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $20,600;
    9. Superior Ready Mix for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $27,000;
    10. Dispatch Transportation for the retrofit of 11 trucks in an amount not to exceed $147,643;
    11. Arizona Pipeline Company for the retrofit of 11 trucks in an amount not to exceed $231,176;
    12. WBR Transportation for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $23,400;
    13. Juan Aguilar for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $23,400;
    14. Alfredo Alvarado for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $23,680;
    15. Felipe Frausto for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $20,600;
    16. H&L Charter for the retrofit of 1 truck in an amount not to exceed $13,441;
    17. AMNAV Maritime Services for the repower of 1 main engine of a marine vessel in an amount not to exceed $105,661;
    18. Connolly Pacific for the repower of 4 main engines and 5 auxiliary engines of marine vessels in an amount not to exceed $161,903;
    19. JCE Equipment for the repower of 1 scraper in an amount not to exceed $91,959;
    20. D&K Elliott Equipment for the repower of 1 water truck in an amount not to exceed $94,080;
    21. Reed Thomas Company for the repower and retrofit of 2 dozers, 2 single engine scrapers and 2 dual engine scrapers in an amount not to exceed $1,261,887;
    22. Roche Excavating for the retrofit of 2 off-road equipment in an amount not to exceed $44,348;
    23. City of Rialto for the retrofit of 2 off-road equipment in an amount not to exceed $13,678;
    24. Universal City Studios for the retrofit of 16 off-road equipment in an amount not to exceed $237,284; and
    25. D&S Equipment for the repower of 2 scrapers in an amount not to exceed $239,976.
  1. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contracts under the Carl Moyer Program, Fund SB 1107 Account:
    1. Vanguard Car Rental for the purchase of 12 CNG airport shuttles in an amount not to exceed $357,188;
    2. Nationwide Environmental Services for the purchase of 20 CNG street sweepers in an amount not to exceed $600,000;
    3. City of Culver City for the purchase of 12 CNG transit buses in an amount not to exceed $360,000;
    4. Sunline Transit Agency for the purchase of 21 CNG transit buses in an amount not to exceed $455,840;
    5. UPS for the purchase of 27 CNG yard hustlers in an amount not to exceed $876,150;
    6. Green Fleet Systems for the purchase of 30 CNG trucks in an amount not to exceed $900,000;
    7. Amtrack for the repower of 1 passenger locomotive in an amount not to exceed $834,912;
    8. Southern California Regional Rail Authority for the repower of 7 locomotives with 7 main engines and 7 head end power (HEP) units in an amount not to exceed $8,802,719;
    9. Southern California Regional Rail Authority for the repower of head end power (HEP) units of 11 locomotives in an amount not to exceed $1,833,625;
    10. Southern California Regional Rail Authority for the installation of 11 idle limiting devices on locomotives in an amount not to exceed $229,515;
    11. Pacific Harbor Line for the purchase of 1 multiengine ultra-low emitting switcher locomotive in an amount not to exceed $1,451,226;
    12. Miller Blades for the repower of 1 grader in an amount not to exceed $142,224;
    13. Prowater, Inc. for the repower of 2 waterpulls in an amount not to exceed $215,462;
    14. J. K. Excavation & Grading for the repower and retrofit of 3 scrapers in an amount not to exceed $467,791;
    15. Christopher Lack Construction for the repower of 3 dual engine scrapers, 2 single engine scrapers and 1 loader in an amount not to exceed $741,469; and
    16. Underground Equipment Services for the repower of 3 dual engine scrapers in an amount not to exceed $607,723.
  1. Authorize the Chairman to execute a contract with UCLA for the purchase of 4 CNG campus shuttles in an amount not to exceed $19,108 from the Carl Moyer Program Fund comprised of $13,969 from the AB923 Account, and $5,139 from the SB1107 Account.
  1. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contracts under the SOON Provision of the state in-use off-road vehicle regulation using the Carl Moyer Program Fund SB1107 Account:
    1. Post Company Grading for the repower of 2 dual engine diesel scrapers, 1 dozer and 1 off-road truck in an amount not to exceed $618,818;
    2. Jagur Tractors for the repower of 8 dual engine scrapers in an amount not to exceed $1,848,600 ;
    3. RSM Rentals for the repower of 1 dozer in an amount not to exceed $101,776; and
    4. Living Water Towers for the repower of 1 dozer, and 3 single engine scrapers in an amount not to exceed $524,528.
  1. Authorize the Chairman to execute the following contracts as back-up projects should additional funds become available from turn-back projects.
    1. Amtrak for the purchase of 1 low-emitting switcher locomotive in an amount not to exceed $1,090,770;
    2. GATEX for the purchase of 1 low-emitting switcher locomotive in an amount not to exceed $558,367;
    3. Horizon Milling for the purchase of 1 low-emitting switcher locomotive in an amount not to exceed $988,081;
    4. City of LA for the purchase of 6 new on-road heavy-duty vehicles in an amount not to exceed $199,380; and
    5. City of LA, Bureau of Sanitation for the purchase 96 new on-road heavy-duty vehicles in an amount not to exceed $1,740,364.
       

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Executive Officer

Background

The Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program (CMP) provides funding on an incentive basis for the incremental cost of purchasing cleaner than required engines and equipment. This is the tenth year of the CMP and is the fourth year of the program with a long-term source of funding generated under SB 1107 and AB 923. On February 1, 2008, the Board approved the release of Program Announcement #PA2008-06 to solicit proposals for “Year Ten” of the Carl Moyer Program. On May 2, 2008, a total of 242 proposals were received requesting approximately $58.8 million in funding.

For the FY 2007-08 Carl Moyer Program, CARB has allocated $34,871,164 under SB 1107 to the AQMD, comprised of $33,127,606 in project funds and $1,743,558 in administrative funds. In addition, $5,381,352 is required from the AQMD as its local match. At its July 11, and September 5, 2008 meetings, the Board approved some of the SB 1107 funds for on-road private fleet projects under the Carl Moyer Program and construction equipment projects under the SOON Provision.

Table 1 shows the details of the available funds from returned projects, and Table 2 shows the total amount of funds currently available under SB 1107 and AB 923, in addition to unused and returned funds and interest dollars generated in the Carl Moyer Program Fund that can be used to fund projects.
 

Proposal

This action is to approve the recommended projects, as outlined in Table 3, under the Carl Moyer Program in an amount not to exceed $22,354,507 from the Carl Moyer Program Fund comprised of $18,880,983 from the SB1107 Account and $3,473,524 from the AB923 Account.

Funding eligibility of projects subject to CARB rules and compliance plans have been discussed with and approved by CARB staff. Total NOx and PM reductions from the recommended projects are approximately 284 tons/year and 7.5 tons/year, respectively.

Since the SOON provision program announcement was undersubscribed, staff has evaluated the off-road equipment applications that were submitted under the Carl Moyer program announcement that closed the same date as the SOON provision and recommends funding the qualified applications under the SOON Provision. This action is therefore to approve the recommended off-road repower projects, as outlined in Table 4, under the SOON provision in an amount not to exceed $3,093,722 from the Carl Moyer Program Fund, SB 1107 Account. The total NOx reductions from the recommended projects is approximately 31.4 tons/year.

All the applications have been evaluated according to CARB’s Carl Moyer Program guidelines released on April 22, 2008. The maximum allowable cost effectiveness limit in the evaluation of the SOON provision applications has been raised to $14,000 per ton NOx, which is below the allowable limit of the program.

Table 5 summarizes staff’s recommendation for the Carl Moyer Program and the SOON provision awards in disproportionately impacted areas under the requirements of AB 1390. The total amount of projects funded in disproportionately impacted areas is $19,756,423. The total amount of projects funded solely based on cost-effectiveness is $5,691,807. In summary, 78% of the projects are in disproportionately impacted areas.

In order to facilitate use of funds more expeditiously, staff recommends Board approval to use the backup list of unfunded projects, as set forth in Table 6, should additional funds become available from turn-back projects and interest funds. Projects will be selected based on their cost effectiveness and full eligibility.

The $4,330,084 in Carl Moyer interest funds and the unused balance of $1,907,828 in AB923 match funds will be used to fund projects under the SOON provision program announcement #PA2008-09, which will close on November 7, 2008. Should additional funds be required, non-match AB 923 funds will be provided.
 

Funding Distribution

Funding for projects has been recommended based on the priorities of the “Carl Moyer Program Guidelines under SB 1107 & AB 923” adopted by the Board on July 8, 2005. The priorities of the guideline are:

  • Goods Movement (no less than 40%)
  • Environmental Justice (no less than 50%)
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Low Emission Engine/Vehicle Preference
  • Early Commercialization of Advanced Technologies/Fuels
  • Fleet Rules
  • School Buses

Due to the types of applications received, approximately 13% of the recommended awards satisfy the Goods Movement objective. However, with the Board’s allocation of funds for the Fleet Modernization Program and the implementation of the Proposition 1B Goods Movement Program, this objective should be satisfied.

Approximately 78% of the award dollars are recommended for projects under the Environmental Justice category in disproportionately impacted (DI) areas. In the evaluation process, staff recommended cost-effective proposals in the DI areas first with 50% of the available funding based on their ranking as described below. The remaining qualified DI proposals with all other qualified proposals were then recommended for funding based on cost effectiveness only.
 

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.
  1. All projects were evaluated according to the following criteria to qualify for funding under DI requirements:
  1. 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
  1. 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 level is 46 micrograms per cubic meter and above, on an annual average, or
  2. 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.

The maximum score is comprised of 40 percent for poverty level, and 30 percent each for PM and toxic exposures. Special circumstances exist 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 AQMD’s Procurement Policy and Procedure, a public notice advertising the RFP/RFQ and inviting bids was published in the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the San Bernardino Sun, and Riverside County Press Enterprise newspapers to leverage the most cost-effective method of outreach to the entire South Coast Basin.

Additionally, potential bidders may have been notified utilizing AQMD’s own electronic listing of certified minority vendors. Notice of the RFP/RFQ was mailed to the Black and Latino Legislative Caucuses and various minority chambers of commerce and business associations, the State of California Contracts Register website, and placed on the Internet at AQMD’s Web site (http://www.aqmd.gov). Information was also available on AQMD’s bidder’s 24-hour telephone message line (909) 396-2724.
 

Benefits to AQMD

The successful implementation of the Carl Moyer Program and the SOON provision will provide direct emissions reductions for both NOx and PM as required by the programs. Since the vehicles and equipment funded under this program will operate for many years, the emissions reductions will provide long-term benefits.
 

Resource Impacts

Funding for the Carl Moyer Program shall not exceed $22,354,507, and for the SOON Provision shall not exceed $3,093,723 from the Carl Moyer Program Fund, comprised of:

$21,974,706            SB 1107 Account

$3,473,524              AB 923 Account

There will be sufficient funds in the Carl Moyer Program Fund for these activities.
 

Attachments (DOC, 122k)

  • Table 1 – Carl Moyer Projects Returned Funds
  • Table 2 – Carl Moyer Program Available Funds
  • Table 3 – Recommended Carl Moyer Program Awards by Fund Account
  • Table 4 – Recommended SOON Provision Awards Funded with SB1107 Funds
  • Table 5 – Funding Distribution of Recommended Carl Moyer Program and SOON Provision Awards
  • Table 6 – Backup list of Carl Moyer Projects from Program Announcement #PA2008-06


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