Texas § HS.386.102 - PROGRAM

§ HS.386.102. PROGRAM

PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall establish and administer a diesel emissions reduction incentive program. Under the program, the commission shall provide grants for eligible projects to offset the incremental cost of projects that reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen from high-emitting diesel sources in nonattainment areas and affected counties of the state. The commission shall determine the eligibility of projects. (b) Projects that may be considered for a grant under the program include: (1) purchase or lease of on-road or non-road diesels; (2) emissions-reducing retrofit projects for on-road or non-road diesels; (3) emissions-reducing repower projects for on-road or non-road diesels; (4) purchase and use of emissions-reducing add-on equipment for on-road or non-road diesels; (5) development and demonstration of practical, low-emissions retrofit technologies, repower options, and advanced technologies for on-road or non-road diesels with lower emissions of oxides of nitrogen; (6) use of qualifying fuel; (7) implementation of infrastructure projects; and (8) replacement of on-road or non-road diesels with newer on-road or non-road diesels. (c) A project listed in Subsection (b) is not eligible if it is required by any state or federal law, rule or regulation, memorandum of agreement, or other legally binding document. This subsection does not apply to: (1) an otherwise qualified project, regardless of the fact that the state implementation plan assumes that the change in equipment, vehicles, or operations will occur, if on the date the grant is awarded the change is not required by any state or federal law, rule or regulation, memorandum of agreement, or other legally binding document; or (2) the purchase of an on-road diesel or equipment required only by local law or regulation or by corporate or controlling board policy of a public or private entity. (e) To improve the success of the program the commission: (1) shall establish cost-effective limits for grants awarded under the program to an owner or operator of a locomotive or marine vessel that are lower than the cost-effectiveness limits applied to other emissions reductions grants; (2) shall determine the maximum amount of reductions available from the locomotive and marine sectors and develop strategies to facilitate the maximum amount of reductions in these sectors; and (3) shall include in the report required by Section 386.057 (b) that is due not later than December 1, 2006, an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the grants in these sectors. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 967, Sec. 1(b), eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1331, Sec. 4, eff. June 20, 2003. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1125 (H.B. 2481 ), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2005.