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Credit Pacific Service Union The federal government boasts that taking a school bus is the safest way for a child to get to and from school. As long, that is, as the riders hold their breath. The federal Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is now proposing to spend $60 million more on Clean School Bus USA, a program designed to reduce emissions from diesel-powered school buses. The $65 million program is included in President Bush's proposed 2005 budget.

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Card Credit Mobile Service While school officials in New Jersey laud the idea behind Clean School Bus USA, they are concerned that participating in the program might ultimately make it too costly for them to upgrade emissions from their school bus fleets.

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Credit Public Service Union They estimate it would cost - at minimum - $968,000 to install the emission-reducing particle filters recommended according to the Clean School Bus USA program on all 121 of their school buses. The figure does not include labor costs related to installing and cleaning the filters, or the cost of a necessary filter-cleaning machine.

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Card Credit Processing Service With only $65 million to go around nationally, it is unlikely Egg Harbor Township would get all the money it needs for the job, said Warren Fipp, the district's transportation director. That could leave the already financially strapped school district left to pick up a potentially big part of the tab, he said.

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Card Credit Service Wireless "Sure it's a great idea, and we certainly want to work with it," Fipp said. "But with funding tight, we really need to have it looked at a little further before becoming involved."

Credit Security Service Union EPA officials admit the $65 million would fund programs only at about 220 school districts nationwide in 2005.

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Credit Federal Service Union A 2002 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group, states that an average American school bus emits as much soot in one year as 124 cars. Diesel soot is small enough to evade the body's defenses and lodge deep in children's lungs, increasing the likelihood of asthma, chronic bronchitis and heart disease, the report contends.

Credit Monitoring Service A year earlier, a joint study by the National Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air reported that diesel fumes found inside the average school bus exceeded safe levels. The report called those levels carcinogenic, and claimed that a child riding inside a school bus inhales more diesel exhaust than a person riding in a car directly behind the school bus.

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Card Credit Fleet Service "Any emissions can put children, as well as anybody else, at risk for difficulty with their respiratory system," she said. "We know that some school nurses have said that, depending where they are in a school, they can actually smell the emissions."

Card Consolidation Credit According to Clean School Bus USA, the EPA encourages school districts to develop policies that eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling.

Credit Free Online Report New Jersey law already forbids buses - including school buses - from idling for more than three minutes.

Credit Federal First Service There are provisions in the law that allow school buses to idle for more than three minutes if it takes longer than that to load and unload passengers, said Elaine Makatura, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Consumer Credit Service DEP is currently reviewing those idling regulations, along with other regulations regarding diesel emissions, to develop stricter diesel emission control policies, she said.

Center Credit Family Service By Thomas Barlas
The Press of Atlantic City - 2/2/2004

Topic: Air Pollution

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