FY2009/FY2010 Clean Diesel Grants Home Page

On this page you will find summaries of the grants that were awarded through EPA's National Clean Diesel Campaign FY2009/FY2010 grant funds. EPA is awarding grants to assist its eligible partners in building diesel emission reduction programs across the country that improve air quality and protect public health. For fiscal years 2009 and 2010, the amount of funding available nationally was $120 million. Within EPA Region 5, $11.2 million dollars was available.

EPA Region 5, through the Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative, is awarding grants to assist its eligible partners in reducing diesel emissions across the region. As we award grants through this funding opportunity, we will list summaries of them on this page. Check back often for updates!

(please note: Emission reduction estimates are generated by the grantee, using EPA's Diesel Emission Quantifier)

Grants Awarded By State:

Illinois:

Metropolitan Mayors Caucus ($500,000): The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus (MMC) is a nonprofit organization that provides pollution reduction and educational services to organizations that own and/or operate diesel fleets. MMC manages the Clean Air Counts Campaign, a public/private initiative to voluntarily improve air quality in the Chicago metropolitan area. MMC was awarded a grant to purchase and replace 52 schools buses from the Cook Illinois Corporation. The new buses will meet EPA's 2007 engine standards, while the old buses will be scrapped. This project will reduce children's exposure to diesel emissions while achieving operational savings, increased fuel efficiency, and pollution reduction.
- Federal funding: $500,000
- Cost-share: $3,670,700 (supplied by Cook Illinois Corporation)
- Projected emissions reductions (annual)
  - NOx: 9.5 tons
  - PM: 0.71 tons
  - CO2: 83.65 tons

Indiana

South Shore Clean Cities, Inc ($630, 500): South Shore Clean Cities, Inc., a Crown Point, Indiana-based nonprofit organization with a focus on clean energy and emissions reduction, was awarded funds to assist in the repowering of two cruise vessels that operate out of Navy Pier in Chicago, IL. The vessels are the Mystic Blue, owned and operated by Mystic Blue Cruises, Inc, and the Spirit of Chicago, owned and operated by Spirit Cruises, LLC. These vessels operate exclusively in close proximity to the Chicago shoreline. This project will remove old, unregulated diesel engines and replace them with EPA Tier II certified marine engines. This action will reduce emissions and fuel use from operation of these vessels, and will reduce Chicagoans' exposure to diesel exhaust.
- Federal funding: $630,500
- Leveraged funding: $427,000 (provided by vessel owners)
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: 11.9 tons
  - PM: 0.61 tons
- For more information, please visit South Shore Clean Cities on the web at http://www.southshorecleancities.org/
American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest ($1,499,293): The American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest has been awarded funds to address a wide variety of on-road vehicles and equipment across Indiana. Through this grant, school buses and long haul trucks will receive idle reduction equipment, emission reduction devices, and/or trailer aerodynamics. 317 vehicles from 30 fleets are to be addressed through this grant. $387,492.09 in voluntary cost share will be leveraged by subgrantees to pay for the installation of technologies on these vehicles. These actions will reduce school children's exposure to diesel exhaust, while reducing fuel use and emissions from school buses and long-haul trucks across Indiana.
- Federal funding: $1,499,293
- Voluntary cost-share: $387,492.09
- Projected emission reductions (lifetime):
  - NOx: 1,355.92 tons
  - PM: 37.33 tons
  - CO2: 58,633.87 tons

Michigan

Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association ($966,555): The Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association (MITA) is a non-profit organization whose principal purpose is to engage the heavy construction road transportation and infrastructure industry. MITA will work with its partners (including Michigan CAT, JDE Equipment, AIS Construction Equipment, and Wolverine Tractor) to repower 29 pieces of heavy construction equipment in Southeast Michigan. The older engines will be scrapped or remanufactured to an EPA-certified tier. Over half of the vehicles in the project fleet are over 20 years old, so repowering their engines will provide significant environmental benefits while extending the lives of the vehicles for years to come.
- Federal funding: $966,555
- Cost-share: $295,385
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: (coming soon)
  - PM: (coming soon)
Clean Energy Coalition ($600,000): Clean Energy Coalition (CEC) is a nonprofit organization that represents and provides pollution reduction and educational services to organizations that own and operate diesel fleets across the State of Michigan. CEC will use federal and cost-share funds to install EPA-certified emissions upgrade groups (EUGs) on 21 nonroad diesel engines that operate in road construction, site development, and aggregate industries. This project will reduce emissions from these engines while reducing their fuel use and operating costs.
- Federal funding: $600,000
- Cost-share: $133,708
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: 18.6 tons
  - PM: 1.54 tons
  - CO: 12.84 tons
Okemos Public Schools ($877,076): Okemos Public Schools is a K-12 school system located in the South-central portion of Michigan's lower peninsula near Lansing. Okemos has partnered with six other school districts (all located in nonattainment areas throughout Michigan) to install fuel operated heaters on 247 school buses. The heaters allow the bus to keep necessary engine fluids and the passenger compartment warm without having to run the main bus engine. This means that the retrofitted buses will not have to run for up to 45 minutes before use in order to provide comfort to passengers on cold winter school days. This means that these buses will reduce their fuel use and emissions while reducing children's exposure to diesel emissions.
- Federal funding: 877,076
- Projected fuel savings: 20,847 gallons/year
- Projected CO2 reductions: 2.62 tons/year

Minnesota

Minnesota Environmental Initiative ($977,242):Minnesota Environmental Initiative, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, received grant funds to further their Project Green Fleet goals. Through these funds, over 200 vehicles or pieces of equipment will be addressed through various clean diesel technologies. MEI's work plan includes installation of:
- More than half of the fleets to be upgraded through this grant are located in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: 10.94 tons
  - PM: 3.95 tons
  - Hydrocarbons: 10.28 tons
  - CO: 36.16 tons
- For more infomation, visit Project Green Fleet on the web at http://www.projectgreenfleet.org/

Ohio

Clean Fuels Ohio ($750,000): Clean Fuels Ohio is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of cleaner, domestic fuels and efficient vehicles to the transportation industry, government, and the general public. Clean Fuels Ohio administers the Ohio Green Fleets program, whose goal is to improve the environmental performance of business and government vehicle fleets across Ohio. Through this grant, Clean Fuels Ohio will affect 97 on-road and off-road vehicles and equipment. Work includes installation of idle reduction equipment on long-haul trucks and school buses, replacement of a piece of construction equipment, and repowering engines in delivery trucks and mining equipment. This project will reduce emissions across Ohio while reducing fuel use.
- Federal funding: $750,000
- Cost-share: $345,485
- Projected emissions reductions (lifetime):
  - NOx: 490.29 tons
  - PM: 15.6 tons
- Projected fuel savings (lifetime): 1,669,028 gallons
Midwest Ohio Regional Planning Commission ($1,229,969): The Midwest Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) serves as the Metropolitan Planning Commission for Franklin, Delaware, and portions of Fairfield and Licking counties. Through this grant, MORPC will affect 264 diesel engines (school buses, ambulances, fire trucks, road maintenance trucks, handicap school buses, long-haul trucks, and non-road tractors and graders) by installing exhaust retrofit equipment, idle reduction technology, and through engine repowers. These vehicles operate mainly in the densely populated areas of Southwest, Central, and Northeast Ohio.
- Federal funding: $1,229,969
- Cost-share: $198,850
- Projected emission reductions (lifetime):
  - NOx: 140.34 tons
  - PM: 7.32 tons
  - CO2: 5,012.9 tons

Wisconsin

Association of General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee ($500,000): The Association of General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee (AGC) promotes, educates, and interacts with over 500 contractors and subcontractors across Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin. Their grant will install diesel oxidation catalysts on 5 pieces of construction equipment. They will also repower 14 construction vehicles while disabling the old engines. Finally, 3 construction vehicles will receive certified engine upgrades. These actions will reduce fuel and emissions from construction vehicles that are heavily used in projects in Milwaukee and other nonattainment areas in the State.
- Federal funding:
- Cost-share:
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: 18 tons
  - PM: 1.8 tons
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ($1,182,826): The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) is the state air agency responsible for clean air planning and maintenance in Wisconsin. WDNR's grant will affect 91 pieces from equipment from 8 school bus and 8 municipal fleets that operate in Wisconsin. School buses will receive diesel particulate filters, direct fired heaters, or will be replaced with newer, cleaner buses. The fire trucks will receive diesel particulate filters, while the rest of the vehicles and equipment will be repowered, upgraded, or replaced with newer, cleaner vehicles. The project will result in reduced exposure to diesel emissions as well as fuel savings.
- Federal funding: $1,182,826
- Cost-share: $1,816,835
- Projected emission reductions (annual)
  - Combined NOx, PM, HC, and CO: 10.06 tons
Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute ($750,000): The Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute, located in Superior, WI, received $750,000 in grant funds to augment the repowering of the propulsion engines in the Edwin H. Gott, a 1,000-foot Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel. The Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute is partnering with Key Lakes Inc., a major Great lakes vessel operator based in Duluth, MN. The repower work will take place at Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, WI while the Gott is in dry dock for the winter. This grant will support employment in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Federal Funding: $750,000
- Leveraged Funding: $14 million (provided by the vessel operator)
- Projected emission reductions (annual):
  - NOx: 239 tons
  - CO: 53 tons
  - PM: 7 tons