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Typical commute along I-880 in SF East Bay Area in 2020
4 final). “The biggest R&D project engine manu- facturers have had to face was meeting those Tier 4 emissions standards,” explains Stickney, “because reducing the particulate matter (PM) actually in- creases NOx.”
ENTER CARL MOYER
To help with the toughest EPA laws in the land, California created a special tax-funded incentive program for early compliance. The Carl Moy- er Fund provides monies for emissions reduction projects that comply ahead of the mandated dead- line. Many of Peterson’s customers have taken ad- vantage of the program.
One day in 2002, Ernie Fierro (VP of product support) called Mace Gjerman (Peterson’s training manager) into his office. “Clear your desk, Mace. I just got a call from Dan Merrigan who wants us to look into this Carl Moyer Program. And I want you to lead it.” Gjerman spent the next couple years attending meetings with CARB and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to learn about the regulations and funding pro- cess and write grant applications for customers.
SO WHO IS CARL MOYER?
Carl Moyer was a philanthropist from Berkeley who left his entire estate to the State of California. In 1998, the State set up the Carl Moyer Fund as a grant program to help clean up California’s air quality in each of its nine air districts. The State provides those funds for early compliance with CARB’s emissions mandates. Parties have to apply for a grant and, if awarded, they are required to keep the funded ma- chine in the air district that issued the funds for three to ten years, depending on the project.
Left to right: Independent Construction’s Dan Merrigan/eqpt superintendent, and Brian McCosker/owner with Duane Doyle Sr/ Peterson owner, and Jerry Lopus/Peterson president in 2004
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