£% United States Environmental Protection ^1 Agency Office of Transportation and Air Quality EPA-420-F-19-041 April 2019 FY 2019 STATE CLEAN DIESEL GRANT PROGRAM FACT SHEET Funding Amounts • EPA anticipates a total of approximately $25 million available for the FY 2019 DERA State Clean Diesel Grant Program • FY 2019 State Grants will be new grants rather than funding added on to previous state DERA grants • If all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the other four qualifying territories participate in the FY 2019 State DERA Program, then EPA estimates that: o Each State, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive a base allocation of $314,431. If the grantee matches the base allocation dollar for dollar, the bonus amount will be $157,216. o Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will each receive a base allocation of $78,608. If the territory matches the base allocation dollar for dollar, the bonus amount will be $39,304. State, PR, and DC Base State, PR, and DC Matching Bonus Territory Base Territory Matching Bonus Funding Amount $314,431 $157,216 $78,608 $39,304 Base + Bonus $471,647 $117,912 • If some states or territories do not participate, their base allocation will be distributed among participants in proportion to their populations o This will also increase the matching requirement and available bonus which is equal to half the base allocation • VW Environmental Mitigation Trust funds can be used as voluntary matching funds, but cannot cover the mandatory cost-share for eligible projects o See the following site for more details: www.epa.gov/cleandiesel/volkswaqen-vw- settlement-dera-option Project Eligibility • All projects funded with FY 2019 State Clean Diesel Program funds, mandatory cost- share funds, and voluntary matching funds (as applicable) must meet all eligible funding requirements in the FY 2019 State Program Guide1 o All projects must use verified technologies or certified engine configurations o States and territories cannot fund federally mandated projects; however, voluntary or elective emissions reductions measures shall not be considered "mandated", regardless of whether the reductions are included in the State Implementation Plan of a State 1 EPA will consider, on a case-by-case basis, waiver requests from programmatic terms and conditions. Waivers will only be considered for specific non-statutory or non-regulatory requirements. States or territories must obtain EPA approval for any waiver request before conducting any work on a project involving a waiver request. 1 ------- £% United States Environmental Protection ^1 Agency Office of Transportation and Air Quality EPA-420-F-19-041 April 2019 How to Participate • Submit a Notice of Intent to Participate (NOIP) to CleanDiesel@epa.gov by April 29, 2019 • EPA will use the NOIP submissions to determine total participation. EPA will then calculate and notify participants of their final allocations. • Participating states and territories must submit their draft Workplan and Budget Narrative to their EPA Regions for review by May 28, 2019. EPA Region staff will review this document and provide comments. • Participating states and territories must submit their applications on Grants.gov by June 18, 2019, making sure to include the Work Plan and Budget Narrative which EPA had previously approved. A template for the work plan and budget narrative will be posted here: www.epa.qov/cleandiesel/clean-diesel-state-allocations • EPA will finalize FY 2019 awards prior to the start of the project period on October 1, 2019. • States and territories must make a public notification listing project information on their state websites within 60 days of making a grant, rebate, or loan. Website postings must include the total number and dollar amount of rebates, grants, or loans provided, as well as a breakdown of the technologies funded. FY 2019 State Program Funding Schedule Description of Tasks Date Release of Notice of Intent to Participate (NOIP) form April 15, 2019 Deadline for states and territories to submit Notice of Intent to CleanDiesel(®epa.aov April 29, 2019 Date that states and territories will be notified of final allocation amounts May 2, 2019 Deadline for states and territories to submit Workplan and Budget Narrative to EPA Regions for review May 28, 2019 Deadline for states and territories to submit application on Grants.gov June 18, 2019 Project period for FY 2019 awards begins. Regional offices will finalize the FY 2019 Program awards prior to October 1, 2019. October 1, 2019 Deadline for projects to be completed September 30, 2021 2 ------- |