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Air Quality Management District recommending acceptance of funding from the Proposition 1B Lower Emission School Bus Program in the amount of $2,100,000; adopt a resolution authorizing the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) or the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to administer the Program as outlined in the Program Guidelines; and authorize the Air Pollution Control Officer (APCO) to sign and submit the Grant Award & Authorization Form and all other necessary documents to implement and carry out the purposes of the Program.
FUNDING: Proposition 1B Lower-Emission School Bus Funding
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BUDGET SUMMARY:
Total Estimated Cost $0
Funding
Budgeted $0
New Funding $
Savings $
Other $
Total Funding Available $0
Change To Net County Cost $0
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost:
No change to net county cost.
Background:
On November 6, 2006, California voters approved Proposition 1B, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, enacted into law as Senate Bill (SB) 88 which provides $200 million for replacing and retrofitting older and higher emitting public school buses. The state legislature appropriated $193 million of these funds to CARB in the 2007 Budget Act for the replacement of all pre-1977 model year public school buses and for allocation of the remaining funds to local and regional air pollution control districts on the basis of the number of 1977 to 1986 model year public school buses operating within each jurisdiction for the replacement of the oldest high polluting buses with new buses and for the retrofit of older buses with CARB verified technologies.
The grant program will be administered by CARB and implemented by the air pollution control districts in accordance with the Program Guidelines, as approved by CARB on March 27, 2008 and issued on April 15, 2008. The Program Guidelines allo...
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