42 U.S.C. § 13252 — Replacement fuel supply and demand program

(a) Establishment of program: The Secretary must set up a program to promote developing and using domestic replacement fuels in light-duty vehicles. This program must push, as much as practical, for replacement fuels to take the place of petroleum motor fuels. It must, as much as practical, make sure the replacement fuels that get made available are the ones that will do the most to cut oil imports, help the economy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (b) Development plan and production goals: Before October 1, 1993, the Secretary — working with the EPA Administrator, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and other relevant agency heads — must review the available information and: (1) estimate how much domestic and foreign production capacity for replacement fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles this program needs; (2) figure out whether it's technically and economically possible to replace, on an energy-equivalent basis, at least 10 percent of projected U.S. motor fuel use by the year 2000 and at least 30 percent by 2010, with at least half of that replacement coming from domestic fuels; (3) determine the best ways to encourage producing, distributing, and using replacement fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles to meet the program's goals; (4) identify ways to help build reliable U.S. replacement-fuel and alternative-vehicle industries, and identify the technical, economic, and institutional obstacles to doing so; and (5) determine what increasing replacement-fuel use would mean for greenhouse gas emissions, including estimating the biggest possible emissions cut from using more replacement fuels. The Secretary must publish the results of this work in the Federal Register and let the public comment on them.