Carl Moyer/AB 617 Community Air Protection/FARMER Incentive Programs
(Carl Moyer/AB 617 Protección del Aire en la Comunidad/FARMER Programas de Incentivos)

 

 

 

 

Stephanie Lapeyre-Montrose, Supervising Air Quality Specialist (805) 303-3665
Heidy Yupe, Air Quality Specialist (805) 303-3655 (speaks Spanish and English)
Danny McQuillan, Air Quality Engineer (805) 303-3678

These programs improve air quality by providing grants for cleaner-than-required engines and equipment. Recipients receive funding to replace or repower old diesel equipment with lower- or zero-emission versions. Scrapping existing equivalent diesel equipment is required.

 

Grants are available for the projects listed below. Click on the equipment type to access the application:

 

• Repower marine vessels
• Replace diesel farm equipment including tractors, forklifts and loaders with lower-emission equipment or engines (Form for adding additional agricultural equipment to application)
• Repower diesel agricultural pump engine with new diesel motor (Form for adding additional pump engines to application)
• Electrification of diesel agricultural pump (Form for adding pump engines to application)
• Replace small agricultural tractors and UTVs with zero-emission UTVs (Form for adding UTVs to application)
• Replace backhoes, loaders, forklifts and other off-road equipment used in mining, construction and other industries (Form for adding additional equipment)
• Repower backhoes, loaders, forklifts and other off-road equipment used in mining, construction and other industries (Form for adding additional equipment)
• Replace fire trucks and other emergency vehicles (Form for adding additional vehicles)
• Replace heavy duty trucks based in disadvantaged areas or school buses  (Form for adding additional vehicles)
• Install, convert to or expand battery charging or alternative fueling stations
• Truck-stop electrification, shoreside power or other non-residential infrastructure projects to support zero-emission equipment

 

District staff will direct applications to the most appropriate funding source based on program criteria. Each program has different guidelines:

 

Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program:

• FAQ
• $64 million awarded to businesses operating in Ventura County since 1999
• 38 grants totaling $3.94 million recommended by district staff and approved by the Ventura County Air Pollution Control Board in 2024 - List 1; List 2
• Offered jointly by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the state’s local air districts
• Air district administration of grants
• Named after the late Carl Moyer in recognition of his work in the air quality field and his efforts in bringing about this incentive program
• More information
• Sample agreement

 

FARMER (Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions):

• FAQ
• 11 grants totaling $1.33 million recommended by district staff and approved by the Ventura County Air Pollution Control Board in 2024
• Launched in 2018
• Developed by CARB to implement Assembly Bills 109 and 134, which were signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2017
• Legislature’s goal was to “reduce agricultural sector emissions by providing grants, rebates and other financial incentives for agricultural harvesting equipment, heavy duty trucks, agricultural pump engines, tractors and other equipment used in agricultural operations”
• Part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities
• More information

 

AB 617 Community Air Protection (CAP):

• FAQ
• 7 grants totaling $1.91 million recommended by district staff and approved by the Ventura County Air Pollution Control Board in 2024
• Launched in 2018
• Developed by CARB to implement Assembly Bills 134 and 617
• Legislature directed money be used to reduce exposure to air pollution in communities most impacted by it
• Part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities
• More information

 

Full list of 2023 Ventura County Air Quality Incentives Programs Applications

 

 

 

 

 

 

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