State Clean Diesel Program

Missouri Clean Diesel Program

traffic image The Missouri Department of Natural Resources received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund a Clean Diesel Program in Missouri. The department awarded subgrants to the metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield to fund a Request for Proposals, or RFP, cost share project.

This cost share project is designed to assist diesel vehicle and diesel equipment owner or operators located in these metropolitan areas and can be used to purchase diesel emission control equipment, idle reduction equipment and SmartWay℠ technology.

Eligible Participants
Public and private owners and operators of diesel vehicles and equipment stationed in the City of St. Louis and the following counties will be eligible to apply: St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin, Clay, Platte, Jackson, Greene, Webster, Polk, Dallas and Christian.

Applicable Projects
Applicants may apply for funding to cover up to 40 percent of the project costs that relate to reducing diesel emissions through approved emission control technology, idle reduction technology and Smartway℠ technology.

Funding and Reimbursement Details
Applications that are chosen for the award will be reimbursed a minimum of $5,000 to a maximum amount of $45,000. After an applicant is chosen for an award the applicant must fund the entire project. After completion of the project has been verified, the applicant will receive a reimbursement for up to 40 percent of the incurred cost, not to exceed the requested amount. Eligible applications will be given equal opportunity for selection through a lottery drawing.

Application Results
The RFPs were posted on the administering agencies’ Web sites and all applications submitted were placed into a lottery for each area. The lottery was held on Jan. 12, 2009. The private fleet applicants that were selected are listed below. All of these projects are expected to reduce the consumption of diesel fuel and reduce the harmful diesel emissions that contribute to air quality problems in metropolitan areas of the state.

The Missouri Clean Diesel Program will also be selecting public fleets for retrofitting in the near future. St. Louis Regional Clean Cities, the Mid-America Regional Council, and the Community Partnership of the Ozarks are currently seeking out and prioritizing potential projects for this funding. Target fleets will include school buses, trash trucks, public transit buses, and state or city-owned diesel equipment or vehicles. The projects are scheduled to be selected by March 1, 2009. These projects will help to reduce diesel emissions in and around sensitive groups such as children and in areas of high population, thus reducing the health risks associated with exposure to
diesel emissions.

St. Louis - St. Louis Regional Clean Cities

The applicant selected for an award in St. Louis was Dynamic Transit Co. for the amount of $45,000. They will be retrofitting over-the-road trucks stationed in the St. Louis area with Auxiliary Power Units or APUs. APUs are installed on trucks so that air conditioning, heat, and electrical outlets may be used in the cabin area of a truck without idling the main engine which dramatically reduces emissions and fuel consumption.

Kansas City - Mid-America Regional Council

In Kansas City three applications were selected for funding: Transway Inc., Jack Cooper Transport Company Inc., and Ehling Trucking Company. Transway Inc. received $6,100 to install one APU on an over-the-road truck. They will also be installing Smartway℠ side skirt fairings and low rolling resistance tires on an over-the-road refrigerated trailer which will make the truck more aerodynamic thus reducing resistance and requiring less fuel to travel the same distance. Reducing fuel consumption will also allow for reductions in diesel emissions. Jack Cooper Transport Company Inc. received $17,360 to install Automatic Shutdown/Startup devices on their over-the-road trucks. The devices will automatically shutdown the main engine of the trucks if they idle for a certain amount of time, and they can also automatically start up the engine if certain conditions are met in the truck. These devices dramatically reduce the number of hours that diesel engines spend idling, which reduces diesel fuel consumption along with the associated diesel emissions. Ehling Trucking Company received $21,540 to install APUs on over-the-road trucks.

Springfield - Community Partnership of the Ozarks Inc.

In Springfield two applications were selected for funding. L&M Transport Inc. will receive $10,260 to install APUs on over-the-road trucks stationed in the Springfield area. Double “S” Transport Inc. was the other applicant selected for funding in Springfield. They will receive $34,740 to install APUs on over-the-road trucks.