Existing law directs the State Air Resources Board to coordinate efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards. Existing law creates the Air Quality Improvement Program, administered by the state board, to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, air quality improvement projects relating to fuel and vehicle technologies.
This bill would require the state board to establish the Zero-Emission Aftermarket Conversion Project (ZACP) by allocating no less than a total of $2,000,000 annually from the Clean Vehicle Rebate
Project or any other clean vehicle rebate program, as described, or other state or federal funding sources (ZCAP), upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or other statute or, at the discretion of the state board, using moneys available from another clean transportation program, to provide an applicant who is a California resident with a rebate for an eligible vehicle that has been converted into a zero-emission vehicle. The rebate issued pursuant to the ZACP would be limited to one per vehicle and a value of up to $4,000. The bill would also require the state board to establish guidelines for the ZACP, as specified, and
ZACP that, among other things, define qualifying conversion-types for used vehicles and establish minimum eligibility criteria for an applicant to be eligible for the rebate. The bill would require that if any of the
moneys allocated from the Air Quality Improvement Program for a fiscal year for this purpose are not expended by the end of the subsequent fiscal year, those moneys may be retained for the ZACP, repaid to the program they were transferred from, or made available for other zero-emission vehicle rebate programs. The bill would also require the state board’s guidelines to require that an eligible zero-emission vehicle have a range of at least 100 miles and have completed an inspection of safety systems and components by a licensee of the Bureau of Automotive Repair, as provided.