The Bay Area Goods Movement Program

The Bay Area Goods Movement Program (Program) is a partnership between the Air Resources Board (ARB) and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) to quickly reduce air pollution emissions and health risks caused by freight movement along the Bay Area’s priority trade corridors and other trade corridors in California where the trucks travel delivering goods. The Air District will provide financial incentives to owners of equipment used in freight movement to upgrade to cleaner technologies. The ARB will be allocating $140 million in bond funding over the next four years ($35 million per year) to projects in the Bay Area to reduce air pollutant emissions from goods movements.  Diesel pollution from current goods movement operations greatly impacts the health of community residents near ports, rail yards, distribution centers, and roads with high truck traffic. Pollutants targeted by this Program include diesel particulate matter, a toxic air contaminant, and nitrogen oxides, which contribute to the formation of particulate matter and are also ozone precursors.  This Program will also provide co-benefits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and black carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.  This Program also promotes truck efficiency upgrades to improve fuel efficiency, especially for long-haul trucks.

Applications

The Air District is no longer accepting applications to retrofit, repower and replace port/drayage trucks, non-port trucks, harbor craft and locomotives that operate in the Bay Area and move goods. 

The deadline to submit applications was August 15, 2008.

Call for First Year Project Applications is Now Closed

Below are links to the program Fact Sheets and Applications for Year 1.

Grant Workshops

The Air District conducted workshops at the following locations, dates and times.  Air District staff provided information regarding the Goods Movement Program at these workshops.

When and Where:

Eligible Projects

Emissions from diesel engines in trucks, locomotives, ships, harbor craft, and cargo-handling equipment contribute to local, regional, and global air pollution and are potentially eligible for funding under this Program. This Program will supplement regulatory actions and other incentives to reduce diesel emissions.  The Program can only fund emission reductions “not otherwise required by law or regulation.” The Program can co-fund eligible equipment subject to existing or future regulations, but only if equipment upgrades satisfy early compliance (completed at a specific date prior to the compliance date) or are surplus (results of upgrades must produce emission reductions beyond regulatory requirements). 

The following links provide requirements associated with each of the project types including:

• Equipment Specifications
• Major Milestones for Equipment Project Completion
• Recordkeeping Requirements
• Annual Reporting Requirements
• Ongoing Evaluations and Audits, and
• Application Information

Equipment Scrapping

Through the Bay Area Air District Goods Movement Grant Program, owners of trucks, marine vessels and locomotives are required to scrap their old equipment if they receive grants for new equipment. Grantees must scrap old equipment through an Air District-approved dismantler.  Eligible dismantlers must be licensed with the DMV and have a valid Cal/EPA Hazardous Materials Generator Permit.

The Air District will hold a workshop at the time and location listed below for Bay Area dismantlers to learn how to become approved vendors and participate in the scrapping of hundreds of pieces of equipment retired through the Goods Movement Program.  Once the Air District has selected and entered into agreements with specific scrappers they will be listed on this website.  The Goods Movement Guidelines contain specific scrapping requirements which scrappers should review in advance of the workshop.

• Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program
• Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program Proposed Guidelines
• Definition of "Goods Movement" for Truck Projects
• Map of Goods Movement Corridor
• List of Vendors for Truck Retrofit Devices
• List of Currently Verified Retrofit Devices
• Department of Motor Vehicle Form to Request Vehicle Registration History

• Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Early Grant Proposal

• W-9 form

• Links to various ARB regulations that may apply to Goods Movement Projects can be found in the following table

ARB Regulations That May Apply to Goods Movement Projects

Truck Efficiency Upgrades

To further reduce emissions of greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency visit EPA's website SmartWay Transport.  SmartWay Transport is an innovative collaboration between EPA and the freight sector designed to improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, and improve energy security.  Technologies that improve fuel efficiency for trucks may include devices that reduce aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance. Aerodynamic drag may be reduced using devices such as cab roof fairings, cab side gap fairings, cab side skirts, and on the trailer side, trailer side skirts, gap fairings, and trailer tail. Rolling resistance may be reduced using single wide tires or low-rolling resistance tires and automatic tire inflation systems on both the tractor and the trailer. These upgrades offer the potential to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants with a two to three year payback period through lower fuel costs. The benefits are variable based on the type of truck operations.

Truck owners may be interested in including efficiency upgrades that fit their operating profile when purchasing a new truck or retrofitting a PM filter with bond funding under this Program. While this Program does not provide funding for the efficiency upgrades, other incentive programs may help offset the purchase cost or help finance the purchase of the upgrades. SmartWay Upgrade Kits can be purchased at various SmartWay partner centers, dealerships, and service centers.

ARB is developing a regulation for truck efficiency upgrades to cut greenhouse gases, for consideration by the Board in 2008.

Contact Information

To have your contact information added to the mailing list, please contact grants@baaqmd.gov and indicate in your e-mail that you are interested in information regarding the Goods Movement Program. For additional information please contact the staff members below.

Contacts

Joseph Steinberger                    Principal Environmental Planner                  (415) 749-5018

Tina McRee                                      Administrative Analyst                         (415) 749-4701