Full Title: Standard Compliance: Guidelines to Help State and Alternative Fuel Provider Fleets Meet Their Energy Policy Act Requirements
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Publisher(s): U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Date: April 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
Federal legislation looks to vehicle fleets that government agencies and other specified entities operate to serve as launching pads of new technologies in leading the nation’s transition to petroleum-fuel substitutes and advanced transportation technologies.
The Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 1992 called on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to expand research and development in the transportation sector and to create programs for accelerating the introduction of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) to replace conventional models fueled by gasoline. EPAct 1992 and subsequent amendments in the Energy Conservation and Recovery Act of 1998 (ECRA), EPAct 2005, and the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 established additional compliance options and petroleum-use-reduction measures. Taken together, these requirements are intended to create a core demand for alternative fuels and advanced vehicles, stimulating markets for these technologies while reducing petroleum use in regulated fleets.