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For release: Wednesday, February 11, 1998

BLM Launches Natural Gas-Powered Shuttle Bus

The Bureau of Land Management's Washington, D.C., office has started using a shuttle bus that runs on environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas rather than gasoline. The shuttle ferries BLM employees over 14 blocks between the Interior Department's Main Building and a BLM office at 1620 L St., N.W., where most of the agency's employees work. The BLM is the Interior Department's first agency to use a natural gas-powered shuttle bus in the Washington, D.C., area.

"The new shuttle bus will contribute to cleaner air in our nation's capital," said BLM Director Pat Shea. "Moreover, the shuttle's use of natural gas, rather than gasoline, shows how modern technology will enable the United States to reduce greenhouse emissions that cause global warming."

The shuttle bus, which seats 18 passengers and is accessible to the disabled, became operational in December 1997, when the United States and representatives of more than 150 other nations negotiated a global warming treaty in Kyoto, Japan. The treaty is aimed at limiting emissions of gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect in the Earth's atmosphere.

Priority One Services, Inc., of Alexandria, Va., is providing the shuttle bus service to the BLM.

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