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PA State Incentives

Read the latest PA Department of Environmental Protection press release about Act 178.  This legislation amends the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) Program and makes great strides in promoting alternative fuels and vehicles across the state. 

Act 178 of 2004 also expands the AFIG program to help school districts, transit authorities, local government agencies and nonprofit organizations buy down the added cost to use biodiesel fuel.

Federal Incentives
 

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U.S. public school districts, including federally recognized tribal organizations that operate schools, can submit proposals to support biodiesel demonstration projects through the EPA’s $7.5 million Clean School Bus USA Grant Program. Groups of school districts, such as School District Councils and BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services) are also eligible.

EPA reports that it will consider projects that use biodiesel with or without other technology. The Agency funds a variety of different technologies and fuels in projects located in urban, rural, large and small school districts.

• Applications must have been received at EPA by July 22, 2005. An optional informal notice of "Intent to Apply" was due by June 24, 2005. EPA will make funding decisions by September 30, 2005.
• Application forms and additional background information are available at EPA Grant Application Information.
• Approximately 20-30 awards will be made with an anticipated value of $200,000 - $300,000.
• Click here for helpful tips and suggestions in preparing your grant application.
• For additional ideas, click here to see how the state of Michigan is supporting biodiesel use through a Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services grant program.
• For a listing of this year's EPA Clean School Bus USA Biodiesel grant award winners, click here.

The National Biodiesel Board is interested in YOUR ideas on how biodiesel can be used in the EPA Clean School Bus USA Grant Program. Click here to give us a brief description of your proposed project.
 

ALSO....

Federal legislation included in the American JOBS Creation Act of 2004 has introduced a biodiesel tax credit.  The credit is for one cent per percentage of biodiesel in each gallon for "agri-biodiesel" (made from virgin oils) and half of one cent per percentage of biodiesel from recycled feedstock in each gallon purchased.

For example, a tax-paying fleet using a B20 blend (20% biodiesel, 80% petrodiesel) from soy-based biodiesel would receive a credit of $.20 per gallon purchased.  In most cases, however, this credit will be taken by the fuel blender, and the savings passed on in the form of a smaller margin for the consumer.

The forms for blender credit are now available online at www.biodiesel.org.

More federal biodiesel legislative information is available through the Department of Energy's National Clean Cities website.

More information is coming soon!