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PAG LIN 1 1 SENATE FILE 2256 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROJECT REQUIRING THAT THE STATE 1 5 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PURCHASE SOYDIESEL FUEL 1 6 FOR USE IN SOME OF ITS VEHICLES, AND PROVIDING FOR 1 7 CONTINGENT EFFECTIVENESS. 1 8 1 9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 10 1 11 Section 1. Section 159A.2, subsection 8, Code 1999, is 1 12 amended to read as follows: 1 13 8. "Soydiesel fuel" means a fuel which is a mixture of 1 14 diesel fuel and processed soybean oil, if at least twenty 1 15 percent of the mixed fuel by volume is processed soybean oil 1 16 which meets American society for testing and materials 1 17 standards. 1 18 Sec. 2. BIODIESEL FUEL PILOT PROJECT REPORT. Beginning 1 19 September 1, 2000, the state department of transportation 1 20 shall conduct a biodiesel fuel pilot project at two of the 1 21 department's field garages in the state which have underground 1 22 diesel fuel storage tanks. The pilot project shall be 1 23 conducted for as long as the department has sufficient funding 1 24 for the project. During the course of the pilot project, all 1 25 of the department's vehicles that use diesel fuel and are 1 26 based at the designated field garages shall use biodiesel 1 27 fuel. A department motor vehicle operating on biodiesel fuel 1 28 shall be affixed with a brightly visible sticker which 1 29 notifies the traveling public that the motor vehicle uses 1 30 biodiesel fuel. For purposes of this section, "biodiesel 1 31 fuel" means soydiesel fuel as defined in section 159A.2. 1 32 The department shall file with the general assembly a 1 33 preliminary report by February 1, 2001, and a final report by 1 34 January 1, 2002, on the department's findings and 1 35 recommendations relating to the pilot project. 2 1 Sec. 3. CONTINGENT EFFECTIVENESS. The section of this Act 2 2 directing the state department of transportation to conduct a 2 3 pilot project is effective contingent upon an appropriation by 2 4 the Seventy-eighth General Assembly, Second Session, to the 2 5 department for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, which 2 6 can only be used for the purchase of biodiesel fuel for 2 7 purposes of the pilot project. 2 8 2 9 2 10 2 11 MARY E. KRAMER 2 12 President of the Senate 2 13 2 14 2 15 2 16 BRENT SIEGRIST 2 17 Speaker of the House 2 18 2 19 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and 2 20 is known as Senate File 2256, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 21 2 22 2 23 2 24 MICHAEL E. MARSHALL 2 25 Secretary of the Senate 2 26 Approved , 2000 2 27 2 28 2 29 2 30 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 31 Governor
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