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California Funds Go to Reducing Diesel Emissions in Busy Corridors

The California Air Resources Board has allocated $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to go towards reducing diesel emissions from trucks, locomotives and harborcraft in the Los Angeles/Inland Empire, Central Valley, Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions

by Staff
June 25, 2010
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The California Air Resources Board has allocated $200 million in Proposition 1B funds to go towards reducing diesel emissions from trucks, locomotives and harborcraft in the Los Angeles/Inland Empire, Central Valley, Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions.
These are the state's four busiest trade corridors.

Previous Proposition 1B funds in 2008 provided $246 million to local agencies putting more than 5,000 cleaner trucks on the state's roads.

"This money will help put cleaner trucks on our roads, cleaner locomotives in our railyards and cleaner harborcraft in our ports," said Mary D. Nichols, ARB chairman. "Thanks to these funds California communities located in busy freight transport areas will see the public health payoff much sooner and our children will be exposed to fewer toxic emissions from older, dirty diesel equipment."

Of the $200 million, $112 million will go toward diesel truck upgrades. This includes truck grants for independent truck owners and others to use to comply early with the statewide truck rule adopted in 2008. The Los Angeles/Inland Empire region will receive $110 million, while the Central Valley will be awarded $55.5 million; the Bay Area and San Diego/Border regions get $31 million.

The $1 billion Proposition 1B: Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program is funded through the sale of voter-approved bonds in the financial market and is a partnership between the ARB and local agencies such as districts and seaports, to quickly reduce air pollution emissions and health risk from freight movement along California's trade corridors.

For more information, visit www.arb.ca.gov/gmbond.

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