414.412. Alternative use of fuel, waived or percentage reduced by director of natural resources, certified evidence required--other vehicles, ethanol use required, exceptions.

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414.412. Alternative use of fuel, waived or percentage reduced by director of natural resources, certified evidence required--other vehicles, ethanol use required, exceptions.

Alternative use of fuel, waived or percentage reduced by directorof natural resources, certified evidence required--other vehicles,ethanol use required, exceptions.

414.412. 1. The director may reduce any percentage specified orwaive the requirement of subsection 3 of section 414.410 for any stateagency upon receipt of certification supported by evidence acceptable tothe director that:

(1) The agency's vehicles will be operating primarily in an area inwhich neither the agency nor a supplier has or can reasonably be expectedto have a central refueling station for alternative fuels; or

(2) The agency is unable to acquire or operate vehicles within thecost limitations of section 414.400 or section 414.415; or

(3) The use of alternative fuels would not meet the energyconservation and exhaust emissions reduction criteria of subsection 2 ofsection 414.410.

2. State agencies shall submit information describing the acquisitionand use of vehicles capable of using alternative fuels to the department ina format prescribed by the department. The report shall include for eachvehicle model capable of using alternative fuel:

(1) The types of alternative fuels used;

(2) The number of miles traveled using alternative fuels and theratios to the total numbers of miles traveled;

(3) The number of vehicles owned which are capable of usingalternative fuels;

(4) Maintenance costs.

3. Each state-owned vehicle equipped to operate on gasoline, otherthan vehicles using alternative fuel, shall use a fuel ethanol blend asdefined in section 142.027, RSMo, when available at a competitive price, asits motor fuel, unless the United States Environmental Protection Agency,or the governor by executive order, promulgates rules which prohibit, limitor otherwise regulate the use of ethanol-blended fuels in ozonenonattainment areas, as defined by Section 107 of the federal Clean AirAct, as amended, or in an* area designated as a maintenance area for ozoneunder Section 175A of the federal Clean Air Act, as amended, state-ownedvehicles shall not be required to use a fuel ethanol blend.