Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Grant & Incentive Programs

BAAQMD provides grant and incentive programs in the region surrounding the San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, the western half of Solano and the southern half of Sonoma counties. Grants and incentive programs administered by BAAQMD include:

Carl Moyer Program - Incentives for Lower Emission Heavy Duty Engines

Low Emission School Bus Program - Provides financial incentives to school districts to replace older school buses

Public Agency PM10 Retrofit Program - Provides funding on a first-come, first-served basis to install ARB approved particulate matter filters.

Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) - Grant program funded by a $4 surcharge on motor vehicles registered in the Bay Area. Goal is to implement the most cost-effective projects in the Bay Area that will decrease motor vehicle emissions, and therefore improve air quality.

Vehicle Buy Back - Will pay $500 for an operating and registered 1981 and older vehicle. Vehicle dismantlers contracted by the Air District will scrap the vehicles.

Vehicle Incentive Program - Grant that helps project sponsors acquire low emission, alternative fuel vehicles.

• The Carl Moyer Program: Incentives for Cleaner Heavy-Duty Engines
  Eligible projects include cleaner on-road, off-road, marine, locomotive and stationary agricultural pump engines, as well as forklifts, airport ground support equipment, and auxiliary power units.
• California's Efficient Vehicle Program
  Purchasers of light-duty NGVs are qualified for this program. Be sure to check for program eligibility (and funding availability) before purchasing or leasing a vehicle. Primary goal of the program is to reduce petroleum use in California vehicles. The program co-funds the most fuel-efficient vehicles and works to increase consumer market demand for these vehicles. The incentives are given on a first come, first served basis at the time of purchase or lease. Incentive amounts vary by county, but are generally $3,000 per NGV. California Energy Commission and Air Resources
• Board Lower Emission School Bus Program
• Clean Air Vehicle Decal
  Users of alternative fuel vehicles can drive with one occupant in the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes with a DMV Clean Air Decal. Gasoline powered vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles, do not qualify for the HOV lane sticker.
• Expanded Statewide ZEV Incentive Program - ZIP II
  Incentive program for the purchase or lease of new zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). This program will provide a total of $18 million in grants to reduce the incremental cost of new ZEVs. Individual grants totaling up to $9,000 may be provided in three installments over a 36-month period. These grants are available to qualified private and public consumers that lease or purchase a new ZEV between October 1, 2000, and December 31, 2002. Staff are currently working on the ZIP II revisions to the ZEV Incentive Program that will provide additional ZEV grants through June 2004 and includes a fleet program.
• ZEV parking decal
  This parking decal allows ZEVs to park in ZEV charging spots. Application: www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/reg/reg4048.htm

• Clean Fuel Tax Deduction For Hybrid Vehicles :
  A one-time tax deduction on your federal income tax return from the IRS. The maximum allowable deduction amount is $2,000.
• Clean Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Federal Tax Incentive
  Tax deductions available to business for installation of a clean-fuel vehicle property and clean-fuel vehicle refueling property from the IRS. These deductions are allowed only in the tax year you place the property in service.
• Electric Vehicle Federal Tax Incentive
  Electric vehicle tax credit for 10% - up to $4,000 from the IRS. Application: www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8834.pdf
• The Department Of Energy's State Energy Program (SEP)
  provides funding to states for the maintenance of State Energy Offices and undertaking state-specific energy conservation projects. Historically, SEP has provided funds on a competitive basis to designated Clean Cities coalitions for specific projects related to promoting alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) infrastructure development; acquiring AFV school buses; and acquiring commercially-available AFVs, particularly for niche market activities. This proposal can only be applied by a Clean Cities Coalition and submitted to the State Energy Office, the California Energy Commission. The solicitation period usually begins late winter and the proposals are due in early spring.
• The Clean Fuels Formula Grant Program
  created by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, assists non-attainment and maintenance areas in achieving or maintaining attainment status. The program supports emerging technologies and projects that create markets for new clean fuel technologies. Non-attainment and maintenance areas can apply for funds to acquire clean fuel vehicles, repower or retrofit engines for clean fuels operation, and construct or improve facilities to support these vehicles.
• Transportation Air Quality Center
  This EPA Web site features the Transportation-Related Grants Database.
• Federal Grant Information
  This site gives one general site for applicants to search for grants
• EPA's Region 9 Grants
  Serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and over 140 Tribal Nations
• Propane Education & Research Council
  lists a wide variety of incentives offered at the federal, state and local levels to encourage the expanded use of propane vehicles.

Funding has increased to $200,000,000 for financing electric, hybrid and fuel cell products for Federal, State, County and Municipal organizations to use to spread their costs of key "essential equipment" projects over 5 to 7 years.