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newsrel -- $161 million in Prop 1B funds to restart projects for cleaner trucks and buses

Posted: 26 May 2009 09:28:06
ARB receives the next installment of Proposition 1B money. 

Release 09-48
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:	Mary Fricke

May 26, 2009
(916) 322-2990
www.arb.ca.gov
                                                  
$161 million in Prop 1B funds to restart projects for cleaner
trucks and buses
Payment is for projects halted due to 2008 state budget crisis

SACRAMENTO -- The Air Resources Board will receive $161 million
in the next installment of the 2006 voter-approved Proposition 1B
funds for cleaning up emissions from school buses, trucks and
port equipment as a result of the State Treasurer’s sale of bonds
on Earth Day.  

The Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program will receive $90
million and the Lower-Emission School Bus Program will receive
approximately $71 million.   ARB administers both programs, part
of a larger $19.93 billion 2006 Highway Safety, Traffic
Reduction, Air Quality and Port Security Bond Act.   In December
2008, ARB suspended implementation of these programs because of
the state’s inability to raise bond funds.

“We are glad to see these critical clean-air programs
restarting,” said ARB Chairman Mary D. Nichols.  “Californians
will have healthier air to breathe in the four trade corridors,
and our children will be exposed to fewer toxic emissions from
older, dirty school buses.”

This bond money will be used to:

•	Cleanup port trucks in the South Coast, Bay Area and San
Diego;
•	Upgrade trucks in the Central Valley and Border Region;
•	Install shore-based electrical power for two ship berths at
the Port of Oakland;
•	Replace all pre-77 school buses operating in California with
new, cleaner, safer models; and,
•	Replace or retrofit older school buses in the South Coast and
San Joaquin Valley.

For a full list of funded projects, visit:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/bonds/gmbond/docs/2009_05_20_external_prop_1b_funds_distribution.pdf

The $1 billion Proposition 1B: Goods Movement Emission Reduction
Program is a partnership between the Air Resources Board and
local agencies (like air districts and seaports) to quickly
reduce air pollution emissions and health risk from freight
movement along California’s trade corridors.  Local agencies
apply to ARB for funding, and then those agencies offer financial
incentives to owners of equipment used in freight movement to
upgrade to cleaner technologies.  Projects funded under this
program must achieve early or extra emission reductions to
complement ARB rules.  

The $200 million Lower Emission School Bus program is a
partnership between ARB, the 35 local air districts and school
districts throughout the state, with the goal of reducing school
children's exposure to both cancer-causing and smog-forming
pollution.  The program provides grant funding for new, safer
school buses and air pollution retrofit equipment. 

For more information on Proposition 1B, visit:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/gmbond. 

For more information on the Lower Emission School Bus program,
visit: http://www.arb.ca.gov/bonds/schoolbus/schoolbus.htm 


The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency.  ARB’s mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy.  The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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