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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Healthy School Bus Act of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study air quality inside school buses and develop strategies for improving such air quality.</p> <p>Authorizes appropriations for activities to improve air quality inside school buses, including expansion of the Clean School Bus USA program. </p> <p>Expresses the sense of Congress that schools should assign school buses that pollute less to the longest routes and adopt and implement policies to decrease school bus idling.</p>]]></text>
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