51 U.S.C. § 30310 — Exception to alternative fuel procurement requirement

This is one undivided provision with three conditions. Section 526(a) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17142(a)) normally limits buying alternative or nonconventional fuels. This section says that law does not stop the Administration from contracting to buy a generally available fuel — one that is not an alternative fuel, a synthetic fuel, or a fuel mostly made from a nonconventional petroleum source — as long as all three of these are true: (1) The contract does not specifically require the contractor to supply an alternative, synthetic, or nonconventional-petroleum fuel; (2) The purpose of the contract is not to obtain such a fuel; and (3) The contract does not give a refinery any incentive to upgrade or expand so it can use, or use more of, fuel from a nonconventional petroleum source.