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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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