The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to offer rebates to replace existing school buses with clean and zero-emission models to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier buses. 

The Twin Cedars School District is one of 13 Iowa schools that have been awarded rebates through the Clean School Bus Award. The 2022 rebate program will fund approximately 2,500 school bus replacements. Twin Cedars is listed for a rebate of $1,580,000.

EPA announced in September 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 rebates. This is the first round of funding from the EPA Clean School Bus Program, which President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law created with a $5 billion investment for low and zero-emission school buses over the next five years.