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When the State of California, long a leader in reducing air-pollution, announced the Carl Moyer Program to reduce NOx emissions, towboat owner

Aaron Lind and his family decided to get on board. The program is supported by a one-time appropriation of $50 mil- lion dollars for the 2000/2001 fiscal year. A significant portion of this amount was allotted for Carl Moyer Pro- gram incentive grants, as a means to reduce emissions from heavy-duty engines.

These grants cover the incremental cost of cleaner on-road, off-road.

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A new Cummins engine onboard Jerico Spirit. marine, locomotive and stationary agri- cultural pump engines, as well as fork- lifts and airport ground support equip- ment. Beginning in summer 1999, grants became available through partici- pating air pollution control and air qual- ity management districts grants. "The incentive program focuses on reducing emissions of smog-forming oxides of nitrogen (NOx), but will also reduce particulate emissions. In recognition of his work in the air quality field and his efforts in bringing about this program, the incentive program is named after the late Dr. Carl Moyer." said a State of

California press release.

Aaron Lind, who operates Jerico

Products with his father and older broth- er, decided that their boat, the Jerico

Spirit, was a perfect candidate for the program. His father, Mike Lind, had purchased the boat in Tennessee 20 years ago and barged it around to the company's property at Petaluma, 17 miles up the river of the same name from San Pablo Bay on the north side of

San Francisco Bay. He then cut the boat, originally built in 1948, in half length- wise and added 10 ft. (3 m) of beam to bring it to 76 x 32 ft. (23.1 x 9.7 m)

At the same time, he repowered the boat with a pair of 600 hp two-cycle opposed piston Fairbanks Morse engines. Even as new engines, the two- cycle technology of the era didn't give much thought to emissions. The 20- year-old engines had been rebuilt earlier and still ran well enough but they cer- tainly weren't efficient.

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