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as peppy, he said. They have put immense engines in the last gas buses to meet emission requirements, and they are peppy,” he said.
“We have no choice,” Mr. Oliver said, referring to the fact that gasoline buses are no longer being made.
Dr. Gangel said after a trial period he had stopped having the bus drive into the Rappahannock Lakes subdivision to pick up students there. He said that he was concerned about the maintenance of the private road the bus was using and the fact that it added a little more than three minutes to one of the longest bus routes. “We are hoping to find an all-weather turn-around,” he said.
Another problem the School Board has to contend with are new federal regulations regarding underground fuel-storage tanks. There is an underground fuel-oil tank at the elementary school, and there are two buried fuel tanks at the bus garage.
Dr. Gangel told the board members “The law is in a state of flux. I thought we had 10 years to comply, now we have one year to respond.” He explained that the school system would have to have a “leak test” performed on the tanks, at a cost of $600 per tank. The schools will also have to purchase insurance to cover the costs of cleaning up any leakage from the tanks. “I can’t find anyone writing leak insurance,” he said.
“If we have to have a leak test every year, plus insurance, it might pay to replace them,” Hampton District representative Bryant Lee suggested.
Dr. Gangel said that insurance is higher for new above-ground tanks. He said that some school systems were considering getting rid of storage tanks and “gassing up at local
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