Local school district awarded newer diesel school buses
The South Coast Air Quality Management District awarded nearly $43 million to help school districts purchase clean-burning compressed natural gas and propane buses to replace the dirtiest diesel school buses in their fleets.
The AQMD also awarded more than $3 million to help school districts retrofit 176 newer diesel school buses with particulate traps to reduce diesel emissions.
The award will enable 13 school districts across the Southland to replace 304 model year 1987 and older buses with new, cleaner burning compressed natural gas or CNG or propane buses.
Local school districts Chaffey Joint Union High School and Chino Valley recieved about $1.3 million to replace dirthy diesel school buses.
Funding for bus replacements is provided through Proposition 1B approved by voters in November 2006 and the state's Carl Moyer Program.
AQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
And this funding will be for the remaining school districts that still provide bus services in their districts.