Clean Bus Planning Awards

• State and local governmental entities providing bus service, including public school districts and charter schools.
• Private school bus fleets with an active contractual agreement to serve a public school district.
• Nonprofit school transportation associations.
• Tribes, Tribal organizations, or Tribally controlled schools responsible for the purchase of school buses or providing school bus service for a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-funded school.
• Direct or designated recipients of FTA grants, including state and local governmental authorities, and Tribes.

Participants are expected to:

• Attend and participate in a kickoff call and monthly meetings with NREL and its partners, along with any other relevant stakeholders.
• Provide baseline fleet assessment data that includes (but is not limited to) fleet size and makeup, route data and schedules, fuel types, costs, and any additional information needed to complete the analysis as requested.
• Collaborate with NREL and its partners to identify any data gaps and agree on assumptions.
• Lead efforts to identify and engage with all relevant stakeholders.
• Review and provide feedback on draft plan to inform the final plan. Collaborate with NREL and its partners to identify any sensitive information to be redacted from plan document to be shared publicly.
• Recruit relevant decision makers and stakeholders to participate in a post-plan presentation meeting to review plan results with NREL and its partners.
• Participate in deployment assistance activities (as applicable).

For any questions about the CBPA program, contact CBPA@nrel.gov.

The CBPA program can help in pursuing federal funding for bus electrification:

• Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean School Bus Program: https://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus
• Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA’s) Low or No Emission (Low-No) Grant Program: https://www.transit.dot.gov/lowno