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School Bus Sector Workgroup
Clean School Bus USA
The goal of Clean School Bus USA is to reduce both children’s
exposure to diesel exhaust and the amount of air pollution created
by diesel school buses. School buses are the safest way for
children to get to school. However, pollution from diesel vehicles
has health implications for everyone, especially children. By
working together, we can reduce pollution from public school
buses making sure that school buses are also a very clean way
for children to get to school. Clean School Bus USA brings together
partners from business, education, transportation, and public
health organizations to work toward these goals:
- Encouraging policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary
public school bus idling.
- Upgrading ("retrofitting") buses that will remain
in the fleet with better emission control technologies and/or
fueling them with cleaner fuels.
- Replacing the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less polluting
buses.
For more information about the grant program and other clean
school bus efforts in the Pacific Southwest, contact
Bill Jones.
For more information about the grant program and other clean
school bus efforts in the Pacific Northwest, contact
Wayne Elson.
Visit http://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus/ for
more information on the Clean School Bus USA program.
Projects
Building on the 2003 and 2004 Clean School Bus USA demonstration
program, Congress allocated $7.5 million for school bus retrofit
and replacement grants in 2005. The 37 grants selected in
2005 leverage an additional $13 million in matching funds
and in-kind services.
2005 West Coast projects include:
Grantee: Tucson Unified School District, AZ
EPA Funds: $493,003 Match: $7,008,800
Project: Tucson Unified School District will purchase 61
CNG buses in a partnership with EPA, the American Lung Association,
Clean Cities and the City of Tucson.
Grantee: Visalia Unified School District, CA
EPA Funds: $96,000 Match: $230,000
Project: Replace 2 diesel buses with CNG buses.
Grantee: Sweetwater Union High School, CA
EPA Funds: $77,580 Match: $216,589
Project: Replace two 1986 buses with two clean diesel buses.
Grantee: Windsor Unified School District, CA
EPA Funds: $182,977 Match: $317,027
Project: Windsor Unified School District will replace two
1980s diesel buses with two CNG buses and fuel 6 others on
B100.
Grantee: Napa Valley Unified School District, CA
EPA Funds: $30,000 Match: $805,000
Project: Napa Valley Unified School District, in partnership
with the electric utility and a non-profit consortium (Advanced
Energy), will bring the first hybrid electric school buses
to California.
Grantee: Basin School District, ID
EPA Funds: $250,000, Match: $15,000
Project: The district will install 87 diesel oxidation catalysts
and nine block heaters as a pilot. This is the first Clean
School Bus project in Idaho.
Grantee: Eugene School District, OR
EPA Funds: $150,000, Match: $29,262
Project: The Eugene School District will coordinate the retrofitting
of approximately 160 diesel school buses with five other neighboring
districts.
Grantee: Peninsula School District, WA
EPA Funds: $300,000, Match: $500,000
Project: Peninsula School District will replace eight 1981-1991
diesel school buses with new clean diesel buses.
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