TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION

SUBTITLE B - OTHER REGULATIONS RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION

CHAPTER VI - FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

PART 624 - CLEAN FUELS FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM

624.3 - Eligible activities.

  (a) Eligible activities include the purchase or lease of clean fuel buses and facilities, repowering or retrofitting buses to operate on clean fuels, and the improvement of existing facilities to accommodate clean fuel buses.

  (b) The term clean fuel vehicle means a vehicle that (1) Is powered by (i) Compressed natural gas; (ii) Liquefied natural gas; (iii) Biodiesel fuels; (iv) Batteries; (v) Alcohol-based fuels; (vi) Hybrid electric; (vii) Fuel cells; (viii) Clean diesel, to the extent allowed under this section; or (ix) Other low or zero emissions technology; and (2) The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has certified sufficiently reduces harmful emissions.

  (c) Eligible projects are the following: (1) Purchasing or leasing clean fuel buses, including buses that employ a lightweight composite primary structure, and vans for use in revenue service. The purchase or lease of non-revenue vehicles is not an eligible project.

  (2) Constructing or leasing clean fuel bus facilities or electrical recharging facilities and related equipment. Facilities and related equipment for clean diesel buses are not eligible.

  (3) Improving existing mass transportation facilities to accommodate clean fuel buses.

  (4) Repowering pre-1993 engines with clean fuel technology that meets the current urban bus emission standards. Repowering means the removal of an engine from a bus followed by the installation of another engine and applies to engines that are replaced with new, previously unused, engines as well as those exchanged from an inventory of rebuilt engines.

  (5) Retrofitting or rebuilding pre-1993 engines if before half life (e.g., prior to six years of bus life) to rebuild; retrofit means use of the latest after-market technology such as upgrade kits, or after-treatment devices that treat the exhaust after it has left the engine, such as catalytic converters and particulate filters.

  (6) At the discretion of FTA, projects relating to clean fuel, biodiesel, hybrid electric, or zero emissions technology vehicles that achieve emissions reductions equivalent or superior to existing clean fuel or hybrid electric technologies.