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March 20, 2000 9:35 AM, EST

A voluntary private-government partnership program will be announced March 22 by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at improving air quality.

The program’s funding levels and goals as well as the availability of grants to help companies and municipalities in retrofitting diesel engines with emission control equipment were being developed last week.

The EPA announced March 15 that this program would pool money from a number of agencies — the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy as well as EPA — to benefit mass transit, construction and the trucking industries, among others.

Bob Perciasepe, assistant administrator with the Office of Air and Radiation, is expected to provide additional details of the program. He will speak to industry and government representatives during the scheduled announcement in Washington, D.C.

For the full story, see the Mar. 20 print edition of Transport Topics. .