44286. (a) The responsibilities of the state board include management of program funds and program oversight. The state board is responsible for producing guidelines, protocols, and criteria for covered vehicle projects and developing methodologies for evaluating project cost-effectiveness in accordance with this chapter. The state board shall have primary responsibility for the reporting aspects of the program.
(b) The responsibilities of a district include local administration of project funds, monitoring funded projects, and reporting results to the state board, in accordance with this chapter. Any project funds awarded to a successful applicant shall be disbursed by the district.
(c) Relative to the allocation of funds in the south coast district, for purposes of this program, Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee funds shall only be used as matching funds upon approval, by minute action, of the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee.
(d) The state board may reserve up to 10 percent of the program funds available each year to directly fund any project that is a covered source and is described in Section 44281. A project that is multidistrict in nature shall be funded by the state board in coordination with the appropriate districts. The state board shall coordinate outreach efforts with a participating district to ensure that any parallel availability of a district grant and a grant from the state board is clear to an eligible applicant. Reserved funds not committed to a project funded directly by the state board by the end of the fiscal year shall be made available to the districts in the following year.
(e) The commission, in consultation with the state board, shall manage the Advanced Technology Account and the Infrastructure Demonstration Program in accordance with this chapter.
(f) The state board shall work closely with the commission and the districts for the duration of this program to maximize the ability of the program to achieve its goals.
(g) The state board and the districts shall take all appropriate and necessary actions to ensure that emissions reductions achieved through the program are credited by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to the appropriate emission reduction objectives in the state implementation plan.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 610, Sec. 11. (SB 513) Effective January 1, 2016.)