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More than 40 sanitation trucks to be converted to natural gas.

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"Greener" garbage trucks are coming to the Town of Oyster Bay.

A $5 million federal grant will allow the town to convert 44 sanitation trucks to natural gas.

The grant will pay for construction of a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility at the town's Department of Public Works complex in Syosset.

“The Town has been very proactive in incorporating alternative fuel vehicles into its fleet,” said Supervisor John Venditto. “By constructing a fueling station on town property, it will allow the town to move forward with repowering 44 diesel-fueled sanitation collection vehicles, which are also used for snow removal operations, to CNG.”

Town officials estimate that the CNG fuel will reduce the town’s petroleum usage by an estimated 264,000 gallons per year, or 22,000 gallons a month.

The DPW complex in Syosset already has both gasoline and diesel fueling facilities and is the headquarters for its sanitation fleet of 60 diesel-fueled trucks. In addition to the 44 trucks that will be repowered under the grant, the town has received another grant to convert five additional sanitation trucks to CNG, which will bring to total of CNG-fueled sanitation trucks to 49, officials said.

The $5,023,529 grant was awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The town’s grant application was part of a consortium of Nassau-Suffolk County applications submitted to the U. S. Department of Energy by the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition.

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