Federal Funding

The goal of the Collaborative is to leverage significant federal funds to reduce emissions from the most polluting diesel sources in the most affected communities. Although the Collaborative did not yet exist when EPA estimated its Fiscal Year 2005 (FY05)* budget, the Agency dedicated over $1.5 million in discretionary funds to the Collaborative. In FY06, the Collaborative received $3 million in the official EPA budget though a $5 million appropriation to the Clean Diesel Initiative.

The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 EPA proposed budget has allocated $50 million for the Clean Diesel Initiative (also known as the National Clean Diesel Campaign, or NCDC), in which the West Coast Collaborative plays a significant role. EPA's budget executive summary features a photograph of Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announcing a grant to the Sacramento Air Quality Management District at the FY05 West Coast Collaborative grant announcements in California in August 2005.

This program increase is one of the largest in EPA’s budget and is the first priority summarized in the budget. There is an approximately $300 million decrease in EPA's discretionary budget. The FY07 proposed budget now goes to Congress for the appropriations process.

President Bush Proposes $35 million for the National Clean Diesel Collaborative in USEPA's Fiscal Year 2008 Budget.

For more information about the President’s Proposed FY07 Budget, please see the following links:

• EPA Budget Summary from OMB
• Full Proposed EPA Budget
• President’s Full FY07 Budget Summary

You can also find press releases and related information on the budget from:

• EPA
• STAPPA/ALAPCO PDF
• Diesel Technology Forum
• Emission Control Technology Association
• Burns/Stevens Letter
• ENS Coverage of Budget
• Selected Excerpts from: SPECIAL REPORT:  The President's Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2007, California Implications – February 7, 2006:
• View this online
• Printable Acrobat version

Press

• Merced Sun-Star
  November 16, 2006
  Lawmakers hope to fund clean air fight with $100M a year
  WASHINGTON -- California lawmakers hope to secure $100 million a year in federal funds to help clean up San Joaquin Valley air pollution. It's ambitious. It's also just the start. In a Capitol Hill strategy session Wednesday, lawmakers agreed they will seek $100 million a year annually through the year 2020. That adds up to some $1.3 billion or more for attacking the region's ozone and particulate matter mess. Equal levels of state funding also will be sought.

* FY05 began October 1, 2004 and ended September 30, 2005.