Establishes clean truck tariff program to reduce heavy-duty diesel truck emissions from trucks operating in the ports of Bayonne, Elizabeth, Jersey City, and Newark.

Establishes a clean truck tariff program to be administered by the DEP to address the State health and environmental problems from heavy-duty diesel truck traffic in the ports of Bayonne, Elizabeth, Jersey City, and Newark. Requires the beneficial cargo owner of a container being transported by an owner or operator of a heavy-duty diesel truck registered to operate in the New Jersey portion of the port district to pay a clean truck tariff of not less than $100 nor more than $150 per trip to a port to receive or deliver a shipping container. Also provides that all moneys collected would be deposited in the �Clean Truck Tariff Fund,� established in the bill, and that the moneys would be used to subsidize or reimburse the costs of updating the model years of the trucks. Directs the DEP to apply for and solicit funding for these subsidies or reimbursements from whatever funding sources may be available, for deposit into the �Clean Truck Tariff Fund.� Any owner of a heavy-duty diesel truck registered to operate in the New Jersey portion of the port district with a model year of 2011 or older, or on or after January 2, 2020, with a model year more than eight years old, may apply to the DEP for a subsidy or reimbursement in the manner established by the DEP. Directs the DEP to enter into an agreement with the Port Authority to provide for the collection of the clean truck tariff and the forwarding of the moneys to the DEP. Allows the Port Authority to retain a portion of the collected moneys, not to exceed 2 percent, for administrative expenses connected with its responsibilities pursuant to the agreement. The bill also requires the agreement to establish the dollar amount of the clean truck tariff, how it would be imposed and collected, and any other provisions the DEP and the Port Authority determine to be necessary for the collection of the clean truck tariff.

Died upon adjournment. Identical to AB 4120.

09/12/2016 Introduced in the Senate. Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Energy.