The funds will pay for new school buses to replace diesel-powered buses that are model year 1991 or older. The newer models will produce significantly lower diesel emissions. The NDEP expects delivery of the new buses between March and June 2010. The older buses will be removed from service and scrapped.
Two school districts, Clark county and Carson city, have not qualify for new buses because their bus fleets are made up of later-model buses that are already equipped with effective emission-control equipment. The other 15 school districts will each receive at least one bus, with Nye and Lyon counties receiving two buses.
