From staff reports
The CNG Fuel LLC station in Shippenville, Clarion County, is the recipient of a $178,785 grant through the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant’s Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act program.
The grant was announced Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
“This grant will promote more use of CNG tractor trailers along Interstate 80, which will remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of air pollution,” said DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell.
The project, once completed, will displace an estimated 116,650 gallons of diesel fuel per year, as more tractor trailers equipped to run on CNG will utilize the facility and travel on the I-80 corridor, according to the DEP. The reduction in diesel use will result in reductions of more than 86,000 pounds of carbon dioxide and more than 322,000 pounds of nitrous oxide.
The funding is made possible through the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Program in support of FAST Act corridor designations in Pennsylvania. The program provides up to a 50 percent reimbursement grant to install public re-fueling infrastructure along the highway corridors in Pennsylvania designated as alternative fuel corridors by the FAST Act as “Signage Ready” or “Signage Pending” by the Federal Highway Administration. The designated corridors in Pennsylvania I-76, I-276, I-476, I-95 and I-80.