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El Dorado County Air Quality Management District (AQMD) recommending the Board of Supervisors, acting as the Board of Directors of the AQMD, approve AQMD's acceptance of up to $971,890 of Targeted Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and authorize AQMD's Air Pollution Control Officer (APCO) to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.
FUNDING: Federal Targeted Airshed Grant funding.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides financial assistance to local air districts under the TAG Program. The overall goal of the TAG Program is to fund emission reduction activities to reduce air pollution in nonattainment areas with the highest levels of ozone and PM 2.5 in the United States. The EPA identified the Sacramento region as one of the nonattainment areas eligible for this funding. The Sacramento Federal PM 2.5 Nonattainment Area (SFNA) is comprised of all of Sacramento and Yolo counties, and parts of Solano, El Dorado and Placer counties.
On June 16, 2022, the EPA awarded $7,070,148 of TAG funds to the Sacramento AQMD as the recipient of the five-year grant for the SFNA. The El Dorado AQMD is not eligible to directly receive the TAG funding from the EPA and requires an approved agency receive the monies from the EPA and administer the disbursement of the funds as a pass-through. The Sacramento AQMD will serve as the TAG recipient and El Dorado AQMD will be a subrecipient of the grant. The maximum grant funding for the projects in El Dorado County is $954,296 and the maximum administrative (labor & advertising) funding is $17,594.
In the portion of El Dorado County that lies within the SFNA two PM 2.5 reducing components will be implemented. Those components and the anticipated accomplishments are:
• Residential Biomass Chipping: Funding will be provided to the EDC Fire Safe Council for chipping appr...
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