§13212 Minimum Federal Fleet Requirement

Summary

The Federal Government must buy a set number of light duty alternative fueled vehicles: 5,000 in fiscal year 1993, 7,500 in fiscal year 1994, and 10,000 in fiscal year 1995. Then, of the total vehicles each Federal fleet buys, at least 25% must be alternative fueled in fiscal year 1996, 33% in 1997, 50% in 1998, and 75% in 1999 and after. The Secretary must decide how to split the required purchases among agencies. The Secretary can let a particular fleet buy less than its required share if, overall, all Federal fleets together still meet the required percentage. A "Federal fleet" means 20 or more light duty vehicles in a large metro area (1980 population over 250,000) that are centrally fueled and are run or controlled by Federal departments or agencies; it does not include rental cars, test vehicles, law enforcement or emergency vehicles, some military vehicles exempted for national security, or nonroad vehicles like farm and construction machines. The General Services Administration and any agency that buys vehicles for other agencies must spread the extra cost of alternative fueled vehicles across the whole set of vehicles they provide. The rules in section 6374 also apply to these purchases. GSA must try to make sure alternative fueled vehicles stay alternative fueled when they are sold. Federal agencies (not including offices of the legislative branch) must not buy light duty or medium duty passenger vehicles that are not low greenhouse gas emitting, unless the agency head gives a written, vehicle-by-vehicle certificate saying either no low-GHG vehicle meets the need or the agency has taken other cost-effective steps that will reduce greenhouse gases as much as the vehicle would. The EPA must publish a yearly list of low greenhouse gas vehicles and use the strictest applicable standards when making that list. Money is authorized for carrying out these rules for fiscal years 1993 through 1998, to remain available until spent.