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newsrel -- Air Board Chairman issues statement on $1.7 Million in stimulus funds for air quality improvements

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 16:44:13
Children are particularly sensitive to emissions of diesel
particulate matter. 

Release 09-34
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 8, 2009
	  	  	
Leo Kay
(916)322-2990
(916)849-9843 cell
www.arb.ca.gov

Air Board Chairman issues statement on $1.7 Million in stimulus
funds for air quality improvements

SACRAMENTO, CA – Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols
issued a statement on today’s announcement by the Obama
Administration that it is providing each of the 50 states with
$1.7 million to retrofit diesel school buses as part of the
overall federal stimulus program.

"The state and its school children thank the Obama
Administration for sending this funding our way to clean up
older, dirty diesel school buses," said ARB Chairman Mary
Nichols. "We are fast tracking this process so that within just a
few short weeks this money will allow mechanics to install
particulate filters on buses at dozens of school districts
throughout the state, providing jobs and protecting children's
lungs at the same time."

The $1.7 million in stimulus funds will help retrofit
approximately 100 California school buses with verified retrofit
devices to reduce pollution by 0.3 tons of particulate matter per
year. ARB plans to get the funding in the hands of local school
districts within a month of receiving the funding. To date, ARB
has helped fund the cleanup of 3,000 under its clean school bus
program, with plans to retrofit an additional 3,000 in the coming
years. These funds would create as many as 20 jobs and, through
the life of the project, would cumulatively reduce diesel
particulate matter emissions by 1.5 tons.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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