Ohio EPA Stimulus Projects
State Clean Diesel Grant Program

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the federal stimulus bill, provides for approximately $300 million nationwide in additional funding to implement the National Clean Diesel Campaign.

This funding is divided into four programs, three of which are competitive grants that many different kinds of entities may apply for directly to U.S. EPA. The other three programs are described at www.epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/. Ohio public school districts may apply to Ohio EPA for funds from the fourth program, described here.

The State Clean Diesel Program allocates 88 million in funding for all of the states.  Ohio EPA applied to U.S. EPA and received $1.73 million to add to the existing Ohio Clean Diesel School Bus Fund grant program. Public School Districts in Ohio may apply to Ohio EPA for grants from this Fund, in install pollution control equipment onto their buses. This program has application deadlines March 1 and September 1 each year, with approximately $900,000 available annually in funding from other state and federal sources, in addition to these new stimulus dollars.

Ohio EPA used the $1.73 million in stimulus funding to award 25 grants to school districts, to install pollution controls onto 560 school buses.  Click here to see the list of all 25 stimulus funded school bus retrofit projects. 

Click here to see a map of the location of the 25 stimulus funded school bus retrofit projects.

Click here for a feature article on the Mentor Schools retrofit project.

Click here to access the application and information on the Ohio Clean Diesel School Bus Fund.