The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has received more than $1.8m in federal funds to cut diesel emissions from school buses, trash trucks and concrete mixers, switch engine locomotives in Springfield, St. Louis and Kansas City through vehicle replacements and addition of diesel oxidation catalysts and anti-idling technologies.
The Passenger Vessel Association has got almost $1.5m to cut maritime engine emissions on the Showboat Branson Belle in Branson by replacing three engines, installing pollution control technologies and making improvements on vehicle-to-shore connections to assist in idle reduction.
The National School Transportation Association will receive $362,642 in federal funds for replacing five school buses in Richmond and Perry County that meet EPA emission standards for 2010 and for the installation of 45 fuel-operated heaters to school buses to reduce idle time.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association of Grain Valley has got $1m grant to implement a $2.3m project designed to install approximately 300 emission-cutting auxiliary power units (APUs) in long-haul diesel trucks operating in EPA Regions 6 and 7.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has received $233,218 along with $45,394 in state matching funds for school bus upgrades and the installations of three APUs on long-haul trucks in Wichita, Kansas and five in-town trucks and for the construction of repower and upgrade project in the Kansas City area.
The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi has received $190,000 in federal funding along with match funding in mandatory cost shares to replace four school buses for the community at the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama, Iowa.
