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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 Action Agenda Item No. -C. SUBJECT: Siting Recommendations — CNG Joint Staff Work Group DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) li�o Conservation, Purchasing, Public Works ATTACHMENT(S): 1) .Joint Staff Work Group Report 2) CNG Technology Information INFORMATION CONTACT: David Stancil, 245 -2590 Pam Jones, 245 -2650 Donna Dean, 245 -2150 Wilbert McAdoo, 245 -2625 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 336 - 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To receive a report from a work group of County, Orange County Schools (OCS) and NCDOT staff regarding siting of the County's planned Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) alternative fuel system for vehicles. BACKGROUND: In April of this year, the Board asked staff to submit a grant application to the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition (under the auspices of the Triangle J Council of Governments) for funding assistance in the construction of a CNG station in conjunction with the Orange County Schools. In July, the County was notified that it had been awarded a grant in the maximum amount of $25,000 for this project. The concept of introducing CNG alternative fuels technology into the County vehicle fleet has been discussed for several years, dating back to the Alternative Fuel and Low Emission Vehicle report of April 2000, In 2001, the County submitted a grant proposal to the NC Mobile Source Emissions Reduction Grant program (run by the NC Division of Air Quality) for CNG and electric vehicles and infrastructure, but the State budget crisis precluded grants from being awarded. During the last several years, County staff has worked to purchase low - emission vehicles and several alternative -fuel capable vehicles (ethanol or E85, though none currently run on this fuel).