CARB
Banner Year for Sacramento Area Diesel Reduction Program
SECAT (Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation Grant Program) had a banner year in 2010, closing out the application process early due to “overwhelming response” and ending its first decade with over $75 million already allocated to help replace on-road heavy-duty diesel vehicles in the Sacramento area with lower emission vehicles.
Created by California Assembly Bill 2511 to help the Sacramento region meet its air quality attainment commitments under the State Implementation Plan (SIP), SECAT is a partnership between Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) that provides grant funds to replace on-road heavy-duty diesel vehicles that have 2002 or older engines. Participants in the program are refunded for either replacing the entire vehicle, or in some cases, the engine alone. The outcome, in either case, results in cleaner emission vehicles on Sacramento area streets and highways.
Equipment Appraisal and CARB Diesel Risk Reduction Plan
An equipment appraiser has multiple and on-going opportunities to appraise diesel equipment and machinery. It’s a rare appraisal, in fact, that does not include some variety of diesel-powered equipment, and the current CARB (California Air Resources Board) Diesel Risk Reduction Plan includes just about all of them.
Because I regularly write diesel equipment appraisal reports, I’ve learned quite a bit about CARB regs and have considered their on-going influence on diesel appraisals. I put my research to work in an overview article on Diesel RRP, which has been published in the current edition of the MTS Journal of the International Machinery & Technical Specialties Committee of the American Society of Appraisers. This journal is by subscription only, so I’ve made the article available as a pdf on the NorCalValuation website just for you.
