Alternative Fuel Law and Legal Definition
Alternative fuel is governed by federal and state laws, which vary by state. Alternative fuels are typically not based on petroleum and are desirable because they help provide energy security and environmental benefits.
The following is an example of one state's definition of alerternative fuel
"Alternative fuel" means:
- Electricity.
- Solar energy.
- Liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, hydrogen or a blend of hydrogen with liquefied petroleum or natural gas that complies with any of the following:
- Only for vehicles that use alcohol fuels before August 21, 1998, alcohol fuels that contain not less than eighty-five per cent alcohol by volume.
- A combination of at least seventy per cent alternative fuel and no more than thirty per cent petroleum based fuel that operates in an engine that meets the United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard pursuant to 40 Code of Federal Regulations section 88.104-94 or 88.105-94 and that is certified by the engine manufacturer to consume at least seventy per cent alternative fuel during normal vehicle operations.
(i) Is used in an engine that is certified to meet at a minimum the
United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard
pursuant to 40 Code of Federal Regulations section 88.104-94 or 88.105-94.
(ii) Is used in an engine that is certified by the engine modifier to
meet the addendum to memorandum 1-A of the United States environmental
protection agency as printed in the federal register, volume 62, number
207, October 27, 1997, pages 55635 through 55637.
(iii) Is used in an engine that is the subject of a waiver for that
specific engine application from the United States environmental protection
agency's memorandum 1-A addendum requirements and that waiver is documented
to the reasonable satisfaction of the director of the department of environmental
quality.
Legal Definition list
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures (Family Law)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Arbitration
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Contract
- Alternative Fuel
- Alternative Fuels Business
- Alternative Insurance Market
- Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Measures
- Alternative Medicine
Related Legal Terms
- Adjusted Average Fuel Economy
- Advanced Biofuel
- Alternative Contract
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Arbitration
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures (Family Law)
- Alternative Fuels Business
- Alternative Insurance Market
- Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution
