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SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake City School District has received a second grant for the purchase of electric school buses, which means the school district will eventually be able to retire eight diesel-fueled buses.
The first buses are expected to arrive mid-March, said Ken Martinez, the school district s transportation fleet manager. It s such new technology for the school bus industry. We re gonna be the first to have one, even in Utah, Martinez said.
The school district has received two state grants from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality totaling more than $1.5 million funded by Utah s $35 million share of the Department of Justice s Volkswagen Clean Diesel Settlement.