Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) Partnership Program

The Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) program, established by the Texas legislature in 2001, is a comprehensive set of incentive programs aimed at improving air quality in Texas by reducing emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from both on-road and non-road high-emitting internal combustion engines. This program is instrumental in efforts to achieve ozone standards in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) ozone nonattainment area. For more information, visit the TERP webpage.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) administers TERP grants statewide. The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) partners with TCEQ in two major ways:

• TERP Outreach: NCTCOG promotes TERP to prospective applicants in the DFW area, including through weekly email newsletters, and regularly updates TERP program dates on the Air Quality Funding webpage. NCTCOG also provides free application assistance and other technical assistance through Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities. In 2008, NCTCOG teamed with local leaders from several different agencies to complete a major TERP outreach effort in anticipation of an ozone attainment deadline.

• Third-Party TERP Grants: NCTCOG has periodically entered into contracts with TCEQ to administer TERP funding on behalf of TCEQ.  The results of three funding initiatives from 2006-2010 are summarized below. More details on all NCTCOG-administered funding are available here.

For more information on NCTCOG TERP Partnership efforts, contact cleancities@nctcog.org.