PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 2897 or would sufficients diminish the economies of scale for the production of alternative fueled vehides or alternative fuels and thereafter the practicabilily and effectiveness of such program, the Secretary may only modify or suspend the program nationally. The procedures shul include provisions for notice and public hearings. The Secretary shall deny or grant the petition within 180 d^s after filing, (o) MANDATORY STATE FLEET PROGRAMS. —(1) Pursuant to a rule promulgated by the Secretai^, beginning in calendar year 1995 (when model year 1996 begins), the following percentages of new light duty motor vehicles acquired annually for State government fleets, including agencies thereof, but not municipal fleets, shall be alternative fueled vehicles: (A) 10 percent of the motor vehicles acquired in model year 1996; (B) 15 percent of the motor vehicles acquired in model year 1997; (C) 25 percent of the motor vehicles acquired in model year 1998; (D) 50 percent of the motor vehicles acquired in model year 1999; (E) 75 percent of the motor vehicles acquired in model year 2000 and thereafter. (2)(A) The Secretary shall within 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act promulgate a rule providing that a State may submit a plan within 12 months after such promulgation containing a light duty alternative fueled vehicle plan for State fleets to meet the annual percentages established under paragraph (1) for the acquisition of light duty motor vehicles. The plan shall provide for the volimtary conversion or acquisition or combination thereof, beyond any acquisition required by this title, of such motor vehicles by State, local, or private fleets, in numbers greater than or equal to the number of State alternative fueled vehicles required pursuant to paragraph (1). (B) The plan, if approved by the Secretary, would be in lieu of the State meeting such annual percenteges solely through purchases of new State-owned vehicles. All conversions or acquisitions or combinations thereof of any alternative fueled vehicles under the plan must be voluntary and must conform with the requirements of section 247 of the Clean Air Act and must comply with applicable safety requirements. The Secretary of Transportation shall within 3 years after enactment promulgate rules setting forth safely standards in accordance with the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 applicable to all conversions. SEC. 608. CREDITS. (a) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary shall allocate a credit to a fleet or covered person that is required to acquire an alternative fueled vehicle under this title, ir that fleet or person acquires an alternative fueled vehicle in excess of the number that fleet or person is required to acquire under this title or acquires an alternative fueled vehicle before the date that fleet or person is required to acquire an alternative fueled vehicle under such title. (b) ALLOCATION. —In allocating credite under subsection (a), the Secretary shall allocate one credit for each alternative fueled vehicle the fleet or covered person acquires that exceeds the number of alternative fueled vehiaes that jfleet or person is required to acquire under this title or that is acquired before the date that Regulations. 42 USC 13258. 59-194 O—93 6:QL3(Pt. 4)
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