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SPECIAL NOTICE
Funding Available for New CNG School Bus Replacement
and
Retrofitting Particluate Traps on Existing School Buses
Application Deadline -- no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, August 29, 2008.
See Program Announcement
(PA#2009-01)
School Bus Funding Workshop
August 6, 2008 -- 10 a.m.
AQMD Headquarters -- Room GB
21865 Copley Drive
Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Mobile
source emissions are major contributors to the potential
cancer risk from air pollution. Long-term epidemiological
studies of school age children conducted by University of
Southern California and University of California, Los
Angeles indicate that nitrogen oxides, and particulate
matter have much greater impacts on limiting lung growth
in children than believed in the past. These include
exhaust emissions from high emitting diesel-fueled school
buses that contain smog forming pollutants and air toxics
harmful to school children. As a result, AQMD adopted
Rule 1195
– Clean On-Road School Buses. This Rule requires public
schools and private operators with more than 15 or more
school buses to purchase or lease cleaner school buses
that better protect school age children.
AQMD has also adopted a Lower Emission School Bus
Incentive Program. There are thousands of older school buses
on the road that have remained in service primarily because
school districts lack funds to replace them. Using state,
federal and its own matching funds, AQMD has provided
substantial incentives to public school districts to
purchase new very clean CNG buses and low-emitting diesel
buses. In turn, these districts have to retire equivalent
number of the oldest, highest-polluting buses in their
fleets: first, pre-1977 buses and then pre-1987 buses.
AQMD has provided further incentives to both school
districts and private operators to install particulate trap
filters that eliminate 85 percent or more of particulates in
diesel exhaust. School buses, eligible for particulate
traps, are 1994 and newer diesel buses that must use low
sulfur diesel fuel, with 15 ppm or lower sulfur content.
Table 1: School Bus Awards (Total Expenditures as of December, 2007)
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Fiscal Year(s) |
New CNG Buses |
New Diesel Buses |
Level 3
PM Traps
(Diesel Buses'94 and Newer) |
Total Award (MM$) |
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00 - 01 |
102 |
66 |
|
17.9 |
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01- 02 |
39 |
20 |
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6.8 |
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00 - 02 |
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|
1,035 |
7.4 |
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02 – 03 |
38 |
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237 |
6.6 |
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03 - 04 |
22 |
|
|
2.9 |
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04-05 |
70 |
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829 |
14.3 |
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05-06 |
15 |
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|
2.9 |
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06-07 |
141 |
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228 |
26.3 |
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07-08 |
108 |
|
375 |
19.7 |
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Total |
535 |
86 |
2,777 |
104.8 |
Funding Criteria
Click on
Funding Criteria to see the environmental justice considerations that must be
met by the school bus program.
AQMD School Bus Awards and Program Announcements
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Date |
Agenda |
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Issue Program Announcement for Replacement
and Retrofit of School Buses
July 11, 2008
Agenda # 16 |
Issue Program
Announcement (PA# 2008-01) for $47.4 million to replace Pre 1987 School
Buses, and $20 million for retrofitting buses with particulate traps
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Approve Grants to Replace Pre-1987 School
buses with new CNG Buses
December 7, 2007
Agenda #5 |
Board
approved $16.3 million to purchase 108 CNG buses and infrastructure
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Approve Grants to Retrofit School Buses
with Particulate Traps
November 2, 2007
Agenda #6 |
Board
approved $712,000 to retrofit 57 Particulate Traps
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Issue Program Announcement for New School
Buses for Public School Districts
June 1, 2007
Agenda #13 |
Issue program announcement (PA
2007-13) for $19 million to replace pre-1987 school buses with new
alternative fuel buses for public school districts.
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Execute Contracts for Demonstrating Cummins
Westport CNG Engine in
School Buses
June 1, 2007
Agenda #8 |
Award separate
contracts to
Thomas Built and
Blue Bird corporations to integrate and demonstrate the Cummins Westport CNG
engine in their school bus chassis.
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Approve Grant Award to Colton Joint Unified
School District for Purchase of New CNG Buses
February 2, 2007
Agenda #10 |
Approve
Grant Award to Colton Joint Unified School District for Purchase of New
CNG School Buses
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Execute Contracts for Natural Gas Fueling
Station Infrastructure at School Districts and Joint Power Authorities
February 2, 2007
Agenda #7 |
Execute
Contracts for Natural Gas Fueling Station Infrastructure at School
Districts and Joint Power Authorities
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Approve Grants to Purchase New CNG School
Buses and Retrofit School Buses with Particulate Traps
October 6, 2006
Agenda #7 |
This action is to replace 133 pre-1987 school buses with new CNG buses, and to retrofit 452 diesel school buses with particulate
traps.
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Approve Awards to Replace 15 of the Oldest
Pre-1977 School Buses
June 2, 2006
Agenda #6 |
Grant awards of up
to $2.1 million to replace 15 of
the oldest pre-1977 school buses operating in the South Coast Air Basin.
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Issue Program Announcement for New CNG
School Buses and Retrofit Diesel School Buses.
May 5, 2006
Agenda #8 |
Issue Program
Announcement (PA 2006-09)
for New CNG School Buses and
Retrofit Diesel School Buses.
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Approve Grants for CNG Buses, Particulate
Traps, Diesel Oxidation Catalysts
November 5, 2004
Agenda #11 |
Approve
Grants to Purchase New CNG School Buses, and Retrofit School Buses with
Particulate Traps and Diesel Oxidation Catalysts
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PA for CNG Buses and Diesel Oxidation
Catalysts
September 3, 2004
Agenda # 6 |
Lower Emission School Bus Funding for New CNG
Buses (about $9.4 million) and for diesel oxidation catalysts (about
$250,000)
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PA for Bus
Retrofit - PM Traps
September 3, 2004
Agenda #29 |
Lower Emission School Bus Retrofit Funding
for PM Traps ($4 million)
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Approve Chairman's
School Bus Initiative
February 6, 2004,
Agenda # 24 |
At AQMD's
January 9, 2004 Board meeting, Chairman Burke proposed initiatives to
transfer $1.5 million to the Brain Tumor and Air Pollution Foundation, and
to provide $12 million for the AQMD’s Lower-Emission School Bus Program.
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CNG
Buses - Award
December 5, 2003
Agenda #4 |
Approve grants to Public School
Districts to Purchase 22 New School Buses and Infrastructure Based on
Applications Received Under PA2004-01 Issued Sept. 5, 2003.
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New CNG-
PA
September 05, 2003,
Agenda #8 appendix
Deadline: Oct 22, 2003
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Approve Issuance of Program Announcement & Application
for Lower-Emission School Bus Replacement, and School
Backup Generator Retrofit; Approve Use of Unspent Funds
Awarded to Schools in June 2001 and March 2002 to
Upgrade Garages for their Alternative Fuel Fleet
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Chairman's
School
Bus Initiative
February 7, 2003
Agenda #24 |
Approve Workplan to Implement Initiatives Proposed by
Chairman William A. Burke and Establish the Asthma and
Brain Cancer Research Fund
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CNG, PM traps - award
December 6, 2002
Agenda # 8
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Approve Grants to Purchase up to 65 New CNG School Buses
and Infrastructure, and Retrofit up to 447 Diesel Buses
with PM Traps
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CNG-PM
Trap PA
July 12, 2002
Agenda #4
See Appendix
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Execute Contracts with Ski Resorts to Replace Existing
Snow Making Equipment and with School Districts to
Install PM Traps on Backup Generators; and Approve
Issuance of Program Announcement for Lower-Emission
School Bus Replacement and Retrofit Program Funding
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PM Trap -
award
June 7, 2002
Agenda #4
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Approve Grants to Public School Districts and Private
School Bus Operators to Retrofit 1,058 Diesel School
Buses with Particulate Traps Under Lower-Emission School
Bus Retrofit Program
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CNG, Diesel Bus - award
March 1, 2002
Agenda #8
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Approve Grants to Public School Districts to Purchase
Lower-Emitting Diesel and Alternative Fuel School Buses
and Infrastructure under Lower-Emission School Bus
Replacement Program for FY 2001-02
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PM-Trap
– PA
March 1, 2002
Agenda #7
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Approve Issuance of Program Announcement & Application
for FY 2001-02 Lower-Emission School Bus Retrofit
Program Funding
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CNG,
Diesel Bus - PA
December 21, 2001
Agenda #9
See Appendix
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Approve Issuance of Program Announcement & Application
for FY 2001-02 Lower-Emission School Bus Replacement
Program Funding
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CNG, Diesel Bus - Award
June 15, 2001
Agenda #8
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Approve Grants to Public School Districts and Joint
Power Authorities to Purchase Lower-Emitting Diesel and
Alternative Fuel School Buses and Infrastructure under
the Lower-Emission School Bus Replacement and Retrofit
Program for FY 2000-01
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CNG, Diesel – PA
February 16, 2001
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Issue Program
Announcement and Application for FY 2000-01
Lower-Emission School Bus Replacement and Retrofit
Program Funding
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For additional information about this program, see
Staff Contacts.
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