Dallas-Fort Worth Clean School Bus Program

The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) houses the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Clean School Bus Program. Currently, the counties of Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, and Tarrant have been declared by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be in nonattainment for the air pollutant ozone and constitute the DFW nonattainment area. The DFW Clean School Bus Program is a fuel neutral program that acts as a clearinghouse for product, technology, fuel, and funding source information. Also, the program seeks to gather community resources to assist school districts in the DFW nonattainment area with improving air quality and children’s health. The program utilizes federal, state, and private sponsorship funds to equip school bus fleets in the DFW nonattainment area with cleaner, low emission technologies sooner than would otherwise occur through normal turnover. In addition, through the associated DFW Adopt-A-School Bus Foundation, NCTCOG aims to gather private sponsorships, donations, and any other monetary assistance from private and other non-profit groups interested in children’s health and helping to make school buses in the DFW region cleaner.

The DFW Clean School Bus Program’s major activities include:

Administering the DFW Adopt-A-School Bus Foundation
Attending community outreach events and educating the general public about the program and clean air topics;
Hosting workshops that provide a forum for school districts, vendors of clean technologies and fuels, and other interested parties to discuss clean school bus technology topics;
Providing a monthly electronic newsletter on clean school bus topics.
Providing information to school districts about products, technologies, fuels, and funding sources;
Securing private sponsorships to help support the program and to equip school bus fleets with low emission technologies;
Supporting Federal and State funding initiatives for clean school bus projects; and
Surveying school district fleets and collecting information about their school buses;