biodiesel; government fleets
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As Passed the House |
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Currently public sector fleets are allowed to meet up to 50 percent of their alternative fuel mandates using bio-diesel. HB2123 would allow these entities to meet their entire requirements with bio-diesel.
Biodiesel is the name of a mono-alkyl ester-based oxygenated fuel. Biodiesel (B100) contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. (For example, B20 is a blend of 20 percent by volume biodiesel with 80 percent by volume petroleum diesel.) Biodiesel is registered as a fuel and fuel additive with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Chapter 148, Laws of 2000, inserted most of the language HB 2123 is deleting.
Alternative fuel vehicles are still required to comply with any one of the following:
1. US EPA standards for low emission vehicles pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations.
2. The vehicle engine is certified to comply with US EPA Addendum to Memorandum 1-A.
3. The vehicle engine is subject to a waiver to that addendum and the waiver is documented to the reasonable satisfaction of the Department of Commerce Energy Office.
"Clean burning fuel" is defined in ARS 1-215 (one of the two definitions):
(b) A
diesel fuel substitute that is produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources
if the qualifying volume of the nonpetroleum renewable resources meets the
standards for California diesel fuel as adopted by the California air resources
board pursuant to 13 California code of regulations sections 2281 and 2282 in
effect on January 1, 2000 and the diesel fuel substitute meets the registration
requirement for fuels and additives established by the environmental protection
agency pursuant to section 211 of the clean air act as defined in section 49‑401.01
and the use of the diesel fuel substitute complies with the requirements listed
in 10 Code of Federal Regulations part 490, as printed in the federal register,
volume 64, number 96, May 19, 1999.
The bill allows those entities to use diesel fuel substitutes that qualify as clean burning fuels for any or all of the vehicle fleet plan requirements. It also removes the 1/5 value of a vehicle limitation (unless the vehicle fuel substitute met the CARB diesel requirements, and, in that case it counted as a whole vehicle). (The May 1999 Federal Register, cited above, allowed fleets that are required to purchase alternative fueled vehicles under Titles III, IV and V of the federal Energy Policy Act of 1992 to meet those requirements, in part, through the use of biodiesel fuel use credits. It calculated B100 as a full credit and B20 as 1/5 credit.)