Caldwell County Schools announced Thursday the district has been awarded a grant of over $2.37 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
According to the EPA, it announced on September 29, 2022, that it would nearly double the funding awarded for clean school buses this year following high demand from school districts across the United States that applied for the 2022 Clean School Bus Rebates. EPA officials say this is the first round of funding from the EPA Clean School Bus Program, which President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 created with a $5 billion investment for low- and zero-emission school buses over the next five years.
EPA officials indicate the rebate application period closed in August with around 2,000 applications received requesting nearly $4 billion for over 12,000 buses from all 50 states, including Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and federally recognized Tribes. The 2022 rebate program selected 391 applicants, totaling over $913 million dollars to fund approximately 2,500 school bus replacements.
Caldwell County is one of ten schools in Kentucky awarded an EPA Clean School Bus Rebate. The other school districts awarded funding in the state are Christian, Trigg, Union, Carter, Fleming, Leslie, and Wolfe counties, and Bowling Green Independent and Barbourville Independent.
