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APPROVED OFFSITE MITIGATION PROJECTS
Acceptable offsite mitigation projects would include any qualifying Carl Moyer Program project that gets the tonnage reductions desired. The Moyer guidelines and details about qualifying projects and how to determine emissions tonnage reduced, project cost, and cost-effectiveness may be found at:
Carl Moyer Program Guidelines http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/moyer/moyer.htm .
Moyer projects would achieve quantitative emissions reductions for a minimum 7 year project (7 to 20 years). The project proponent would only need to contribute funds toward helping the second party to fund their desired project, up to the point that they have achieved the desired emission reductions (then the second party would need to fund the balance of the project, if required).
Examples of High Profile Moyer projects:
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Charles Ott, Yuba City
Unified School District, (530) 822-5275, New
CNG School Bus |
|
John Lane, Marysville Joint
Unified School District, (530) 749-6199,
New CNG School Bus |
| Any school bus project
that offers lower-emission engine technology including replacement of
the old engine with a new or remanufactured lower-emission ARB certified
engine. |
| Sutter County would like to own a New Compressed Natural Gas Street Sweeper! Contact James Walton, Public Works, 530-822-7450. James would be very happy if you would help him get a sweeper. See Moyer Guidelines, Chapter 2, On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Example #3, Street Sweeper calculation methodology. |
Standard Moyer projects typically achieve more tonnage for the dollar:
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Repower Heavy-Duty Diesel
Vehicles: Find projects where you can repower
(replace) older diesel engines in heavy-duty trucks with newer, lower-emitting
re-manufactured engines meeting State Air Resources Board Certification. |
|
Repower agricultural
irrigation pumps with brand new Tier II diesel engines or replace with
electric motors. |
| See the Moyer guidelines for additional project choices. |
On all Moyer projects you will need to determine how many tons the proposed project will remove from the air to see if your offsite mitigation proposal is getting the tonnage reductions desired to achieve the recommended minimum 35% project mitigation (focus only on NOx).
Other Approved Project Types
Use the
following tools :"Automated Methods to Find the
Cost-Effectiveness of Funding Air Quality Projects" or "Methods to Find the
Cost-Effectiveness of Funding Air Quality Projects" or "Determining the
Cost-Effectiveness of Employer TDM Programs" at
ARB's web site.
The following projects may not get the immediate “quantifiable” tonnage but we
can substitute immediate tonnage for highly desirable community projects that
support long term community goals, especially if the project achieves a desired
value to the community by providing the framework to launch other projects
(synergistic value) that otherwise would not have come about anytime soon or at
least gets us to our community planned target date much sooner.
Community design/infrastructure projects such as pedestrian and transit infrastructure projects (Class I Bicycle Paths, Park-and-Ride lots, bus shelters and signage, mixed-use community design studies to achieve Smart Growth concepts, transportation management associations, or bus subsidies programs like the Summer Youth Bus Pass Program by YSTA) may be considered highly desired community projects:
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Donate funds to the new
Yuba-Sutter Transportation Management
Association who is charged with reducing pollution from motor
vehicles (responsible for 70% of the pollution in the Sacramento Valley) by
funding a wide variety of the projects. Let them do all the leg work finding
the projects for you – just provide the funding and you are through. They have
recently funded vanpool projects successfully and are trying to establish
rideshare programs with local businesses. Contact Bill Fairbairn, Executive
Director, (530) 669-1446. |
|
New lower-emission diesel
transit buses (not a Moyer qualifying project), are good candidates for
funding opportunities; contact Keith Martin at Yuba-Sutter Transit,
530-634-6880. Let Keith work with you on determining a desirable project. |
|
You may also want to talk
with Keith Martin at Yuba-Sutter Transit, 530-634-6880, about other
community projects he needs. Keith is in dire need of funds to assist him in
constructing a park and ride lot in a strategic location to improve his
overall transit infrastructure. Transit infrastructure projects such as bus
shelters, turnouts, and kiosks are also eligible. |
|
Talk with Denis Cook,
City of Yuba City, Community Development Director,
(530) 822-4700 to see if he needs funding for the Bicycle Master Plan or
other air pollution reducing community projects. |
| Other Contacts: Peter Calarco,
Principal Planner, County of Yuba Planning Division, 530-749-5462; City of
Marysville, Community Development, 530-749-3904; Lisa Purvis Wilson, Senior
Planner, County of Sutter, Community Services Department, (530) 822-7400. |
| Other projects may include the installation of bicycle racks at various businesses in the community, the installation of bicycle lockers for employees at businesses in town, the Installation of electric vehicle charging units on commercial buildings for public use (visitors) and business use (electric vehicle fleet) and funding assistance to lease electric vehicles for their fleets. I hear the Electric Toyota RAV4 gets up to 120 miles per charge. |
If the proponent will be donating substantial funds we recommend allocating those funds to a variety of projects so that the offsite mitigation project may achieve both immediate and long term emissions reductions for the community.
You may use the sample procedure provided below to determine tonnage reductions to be achieved by the proponent and the associated dollars necessary to buy down that tonnage. Then volunteer to spend those funds on a project(s) that is an approved air quality-related project and be rewarded with the mitigation credit.
You are welcome to use the following sample procedure for a voluntary offsite mitigation project to submit an offsite mitigation proposal for consideration: http://www.fraqmd.org/Interim_Offsite_Mitigation_Procedure.htm .
FOCUS ONLY ON NOx REDUCTIONS – THE OTHER POLLUTANTS GET REDUCED AT THE SAME TIME BUT NOx IS USUALLY THE HIGHEST POLLUTANT TONNAGE FOR A PROJECT - ALL OF THE CALCULATION METHODOLOGIES ONLY USE NOx ANYWAY.
