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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 307.21, Code 2001, is amended by adding 1 2 the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 5A. When purchasing special diesel fuel, 1 4 purchase biodiesel fuel for use in the department's motor 1 5 vehicles that operate on diesel fuel, pursuant to the schedule 1 6 in this subsection. Beginning July 1, 2001, a minimum of 1 7 twenty-five percent of the purchases of diesel fuel made 1 8 annually shall be purchases of biodiesel fuel. This 1 9 percentage shall increase by twenty-five percent annually 1 10 until one hundred percent of the department's annual purchases 1 11 of diesel fuel are purchases of biodiesel fuel. A department 1 12 motor vehicle operating on biodiesel fuel shall be affixed 1 13 with a brightly visible sticker which notifies the traveling 1 14 public that the motor vehicle uses biodiesel fuel. For 1 15 purposes of this section, "biodiesel fuel" means soydiesel 1 16 fuel as defined in section 159A.2. 1 17 Sec. 2. 2000 Iowa Acts, chapter 1018, sections 2 and 3, 1 18 are repealed. 1 19 EXPLANATION 1 20 This bill directs the state department of transportation's 1 21 administrator of administrative services to purchase biodiesel 1 22 fuel for department motor vehicles that operate on diesel 1 23 fuel. Beginning July 1, 2001, at least 25 percent of the 1 24 department's annual diesel fuel purchases are to be biodiesel 1 25 fuel, and this percentage is to increase by 25 percent 1 26 annually until 100 percent of such purchases are biodiesel 1 27 fuel. 1 28 The bill requires department motor vehicles operating on 1 29 biodiesel fuel to be affixed with a sticker notifying the 1 30 traveling public that the vehicle uses biodiesel fuel. The 1 31 bill defines "biodiesel fuel", for purposes of the bill, as 1 32 "soydiesel fuel" as defined in Code section 159A.2. 1 33 The bill also strikes provisions enacted in 2000 that 1 34 direct the state department of transportation to conduct an 1 35 ongoing biodiesel fuel pilot project beginning September 1, 2 1 2000. The project was to be conducted at two of the 2 2 department's field garages for as long as the department had 2 3 sufficient funding for the project. The project was 2 4 contingent upon an appropriation to the department for fiscal 2 5 year 2000-2001 for the purchase of biodiesel fuel for the 2 6 project. 2 7 LSB 1388SS 79 2 8 nh/cls/14
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