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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.
Box Elder County cancels contract with landfill near shores of Great Salt Lake
Meanwhile, some state lawmakers are expressing regret about a 2016 decision that would allow the landfill to take out-of-state waste.
(photo courtesy Fox13) This Aug. 14, 2019, file photo shows an overview of the landfill on the tip of the Promontory Point cape jutting into the Great Salt Lake. Box Elder County has now cancelled its contingency contract with the landfill, which has no other contracts in place to receive waste.
  | March 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Quickly and without discussion, the Box Elder County Commission voted Wednesday to rescind a contract that would have sent the countyâs trash to Promontory Point in case of an emergency.
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Tetra Tech EC is owned by Tetra Tech, the same company that designed Utah’s Promontory Point landfill. One of the Tetra Tech Vice Presidents, Jon Angin also was, for a time, the CEO for Allos Environmental, the parent company of Promontory Point Resources. When Allos Environmental, the Utah-based parent company of Promontory Point Resources, filed its new Class V application with Utah regulators in the fall of 2020 they included an old proof of ownership document from 2017 showing Angin as the signatory of another company, PPR Manager, that manages Allos Environmental Group.
After more than 10 years on the EPAâs watchlist, Cache Valley is meeting federal PM2.5 air pollution standards.
While the âattainmentâ designation wonât be official until a few more steps, including public comment periods, Cache Valley is the first nonattainment area in Utah to clear that bar.
âIt doesnât mean that all our problems are solved and that we donât have work still to do,â said Jeff Gilbert, transportation planner for the Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization. âBut itâs kind of a good sign, I think, something to celebrate, that weâve met the standard.â
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After Cache Valleyâs nonattainment designation is lifted, it is expected to enter a âmaintenanceâ regulatory phase. The EPA will still be watching PM2.5 levels in Cache and Franklin counties, Gilbert said, but bad air days wonât mean that local officials have to go all the way back to the drawing board.