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FY2011 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 FY2011 grant funds. EPA awards 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 year 2011, the amount of funding available nationally was $32 million. Within EPA Region 5, $5.6 million dollars was available.

EPA Region 5, through the Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative, awarded 9 grants to assist its eligible partners in reducing diesel emissions across the region. Their summaries are listed below.

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

Grants Awarded By State

Illinois

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) ($822,308):The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, as the Chair of the Illinois Clean Diesel Workgroup, received funding to address a wide range of diesel vehicles and equipment across Illinois. IEPA will install diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) on 30 long haul trucks, 45 school buses, and 19 municipal vehicles. Closed crankcase ventilation (CCV) systems will also be installed 25 of the school buses that receive DOCs. Diesel fired heaters (DFHs) will be installed on 10 long haul trucks and 25 school buses. Ten long haul trucks will receive battery air conditioning systems (BACs). In addition to exhaust control and idle reduction technologies, IEPA's grant will also provide partial funding to repower engines on two tug boats that serve the Illinois River system, and to repower three pieces of off-road construction and mining equipment. This project will reduce Illinois citizens' exposure to diesel emissions and will also reduce unnecessary idling, which conserves fuel. Along with mandatory matching funds for certain activities as well as voluntary cost-share contributions from fleets undertaking work, the total project funding for this grant is $1,308,000.

Heart of Illinois Regional Port District ($400,000): The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District is an independent political subdivision of the State of Illinois that functions as a specialized regional economic development unit, oriented toward attracting incremental investment and spurring job creation in the regional transportation and logistics sector. The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District was awarded funds to repower 12 propulsion and auxiliary diesel engines on five vessels that operate on the Illinois River waterway from St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago. The engines that are being replaced are older, unregulated diesel engines. The engines that will replace them will conform to EPA's Tier 2 (for propulsion engines) or Tier 3 (for auxiliary engines) emission standards, which mean that they will emit fewer pollutants, and produce more energy using less fuel. This will reduce fuel and maintenance costs on these vessels while reducing their emissions. Mandatory matching funds are provided by the vessel owners at a percentage greater than EPA requires for this type of action. In addition to significant emissions reductions, this project will result in a projected 107,920 gallons of fuel saved each year.

Indiana

Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) ($640,000): The Indiana Department of Transportation is a State of Indiana government agency regulating and maintaining transportation and related infrastructure throughout the state. INDOT will replace 40 Class 5 and Class 7 utility, dump-truck, snow plow, and other municipal vehicles from their fleet with propane-powered versions of these vehicles. All of the vehicles to be replaced operate out of areas of Indiana that do not meet EPA's national ambient air quality standards for one or more pollutants (Gary/Chicago, Indianapolis, Evansville, and Cincinnati-Hamilton metropolitan areas). These areas contain higher percentages of the State's population, and so this project would provide an air quality benefit to those areas. By replacing diesel vehicles with propane-powered vehicles, INDOT will help grow its fleet of alternatively-fueled vehicles. This project also assists INDOT's larger goal of creating and maintaining an alternative-fuels infrastructure in the state. It should be noted that INDOT provided a higher percentage of mandatory matching funds than EPA requires for this type of action.

Michigan

Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities (GLACC) ($725,000): Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities is a nonprofit organization that represents and provides pollution reduction educational services to persons and organizations that own and/or operate diesel fleets while promoting clean transportation and air quality. The project will affect vehicles that operate primarily in the Lansing-East Lansingmetropolitan area, but will provide benefit to all of Michigan as some of these vehicles travel across the state and the nation. GLACC will install DOC/CCV technologies on 14 school buses, DOCs on 14 public university buses and five school buses. Additionally, 24 older school buses will be replaced with new buses that meet EPA's 2010 emission standards for heavy duty on-road diesel engines.

Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association (MITA) ($524,962): The Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association is a nonprofit organization representing owners and operators of non-road diesel fleets and equipment used in the heavy construction industry. This project will repower seven non-road heavy construction diesel engines in six pieces of equipment that are located in Southeast Detroit. This equipment includes a crane, tractor dozers, and off-road dump trucks. The repowered vehicles will continue to operate in Southeast Detroit. Because the new engines will meet more stringent emissions standards, they will operate more cleanly while reducing maintenance and fuel consumption. This project will help reduce diesel emissions in the Southeast Detroit area.

Minnesota

Minnesota Environmental Initiative (MEI) ($485,419): The Minnesota Environmental Initiative is a nonprofit organization that provides pollution reduction and educational services to organizations that own or operate diesel fleets and has one of its principle purposes the promotion of air quality. MEI will retrofit 128 school buses, 10 city/county vehicles, three long haul trucks, and three construction vehicles with DOC's. In addition, this project will repower old engines in four pieces of construction equipment and one marine vessel with newer engines certified to cleaner EPA emission standards. While these vehicles and equipment may operate throughout Minnesota, the majority of vehicles to be retrofitted/upgraded will operate primarily in the Minneapolis/St. Paul carbon monoxide maintenance area.

Ohio

Clean Fuels Ohio ($716,073): Clean Fuels Ohio is a nonprofit organization that provides pollution reduction and educational services to persons and organizations that own or operate diesel fleets. This project will affect 201 diesel vehicles or pieces of equipment through a wide range of actions, including installation of DOCs, DPFs, BAC's, fuel operated heaters, and repowers of old engines on municipal vehicles, long haul trucks, school buses, marine vessels, and airport support equipment. Mandatory matching funds are provided by affected fleets for actions that require such match. The vehicles to be addressed in this project operate primarily in and around Ohio, including many vehicles which operate in areas of Ohio that do not meet EPA's national ambient air quality standards for one or more pollutants.

Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) ($400,000): The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission is recognized by the Ohio Department of Transportation as the metropolitan planning organization for the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan planning area. This project will affect 23 city or county municipal vehicles as well as a marine vessel. Three municipal snow plows and 20 municipal service trucks will be retrofitted with some combination of DPFs, and DOC/CCV technologies. In addition, one tug boat that operates on the Ohio River will have its old, unregulated diesel engines repowered with newer, cleaner engines that meet EPA's Tier 2 emission standards for marine engines. Along with mandatory matching funds for certain activities and voluntary cost-share provided by affected fleets, this project's total budget is $436,000.

Wisconsin

Leonardo Academy ($900,000): Leonardo is a nonprofit organization that provides pollution reduction and educational services to persons and organizations that own or operate diesel fleets. This project will affect vehicles across the agriculture, construction, long-haul trucks, marine, and school bus sectors that operate primarily in and around Milwaukee. Diesel emission reduction strategies that will be applied in this project include engine repowers from unregulated to Tier 2 or Tier 3 EPA emission standards, and idle reduction technologies including battery air conditioning systems and fuel-operated heaters. Matching funds and voluntary cost-share come from affected fleets. This project will affect 50 vehicles across the aforementioned sectors.

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