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§6374a Alternative Fuels Truck Commercial Application Program

Title 42 › CHAPTER 77 — ENERGY CONSERVATION › SUBCHAPTER III — IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY › Part H — Encouraging Use of Alternative Fuels › § 6374a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must set up a program, working with heavy‑duty engine manufacturers and other federal agencies, to study using alternative fuels in heavy‑duty trucks and, if useful, in other heavy‑duty applications. Congress may appropriate money for the program for fiscal years 1993 through 1995, and those funds remain available until spent. The Secretary can only commit funds that Congress provides in advance through appropriation laws.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6374a

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Establishment
The Secretary, in cooperation with manufacturers of heavy duty engines and with other Federal agencies, shall establish a commercial application program to study the use of alternative fuels in heavy duty trucks and, if appropriate, other heavy duty applications.
(b)Funding
(1)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1993 through 1995, to remain available until expended.
(2)The authority of the Secretary to obligate amounts to be expended under this section shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance by appropriation Acts.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–486, § 401(a), substituted “alternative fuels” for “alcohol and natural gas”. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 102–486, § 401(b), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated for the period encompassing the fiscal years ending
September 30, 1990,
September 30, 1991, and
September 30, 1992, a total of $2,000,000 for alcohol powered vehicles and dual energy vehicles, and a total of $2,000,000 for natural gas powered vehicles and natural gas dual energy vehicles, to carry out the purposes of this section.”

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6374a

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110