Resources for school districts

The school bus retrofit program is being managed through a partnership that includes the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and other local agencies across the state — Northwest Clean Air Agency, Olympic Region Clean Air Agency, Southwest Region Clean Air Agency, Yakima Regional Clean Air Authority, Benton Clean Air Authority and Spokane County Air Pollution Control Agency.

Application for Washington State School Bus Retrofit Program (PDF 0.1MB)

School districts interested in participating in the retrofit program are asked to fill out an application that summarizes their fleet mix and helps air agencies determine which buses to retrofit and which types of retrofit devices are most appropriate.  The program focuses first on retrofitting the oldest eligible buses that pollute the most.

Resource manual for Washington State School Bus Retrofit Program  (PDF 0.7MB)

To assist school districts and air agency staff.

Participating air agencies

The Department of Ecology and each of the seven local air quality agencies in the state are all managing projects and are keeping their own status reports.

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties) Program contact: Dave Kircher, Air Resources Manager 206.689.4050 www.dieselsolutions.org Northwest Clean Air Agency (Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties) Program contact: Jamie Randles, Director 360.428.1617, ext. 208 www.nwcleanair.org Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Mason, Pacific and Thurston counties) Program contact: Dan Nelson 360.586.1044 or 1.800.422.5623, Ext. 111 www.orcaa.org Southwest Clean Air Agency (Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Skamania and Wahkiakum counties) Program contact: Laurie Hulse-Moyer Air Quality Scientist 360.574.3058, ext. 32 www.swcleanair.org

Yakima Regional Clean Air Authority (Yakima County) Program contact: Charlie Stansel 509.574.1410 www.co.yakima.wa.us/cleanair Benton Clean Air Authority (Benton County) Program contact: Terry Flores 509.943.3396 www.bcaa.net Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority (Spokane County) Program contact: William Dameworth, Director 509.477.4727, ext. 121 www.scapca.org Washington State Department of Ecology (Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanagan, Pend Oreille, San Juan, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman counties) Program contact: Mike Boyer, Air Quality Program 360.407.6863 www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/ airhome.html