PRINTER'S NO. 2662
No. 2023 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY GORDNER, McCALL, ALLEN, M. BAKER, BASTIAN, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CIVERA, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, FEESE, FREEMAN, GODSHALL, HARHAI, HARHART, HERMAN, HERSHEY, HORSEY, KAISER, KELLER, LAUGHLIN, MAHER, S. MILLER, NAILOR, PALLONE, RAYMOND, READSHAW, ROSS, SATHER, SAYLOR, SCHULER, SCRIMENTI, STAIRS, STEELMAN, STERN, THOMAS, TIGUE, TRICH, WATSON, WILT AND WOJNAROSKI, OCTOBER 16, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 16, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the Alternative Fuels
3 Incentive Grant Fund.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 7202(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
8 adding a subsection to read:
9 § 7202. Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund.
10 * * *
11 (b) Expenditures.--
12 (1) Moneys from the fund shall be expended by the PEO as
13 grants to school districts, municipal authorities, political
14 subdivisions, nonprofit entities and corporations or
15 partnerships incorporated or registered in this Commonwealth
16 and to residents of this Commonwealth to meet [60%] 40% of
1 the expenses relative to retrofitting vehicles to operate on 2 alternative fuels as either a bi-fuel, dual-fuel or dedicated 3 vehicle, including the incremental cost of purchase of 4 dedicated vehicles and to meet [60%] 40% of the cost to 5 install the necessary fueling equipment. [Two years after the 6 effective date of this chapter and for every two-year period 7 thereafter, the grant funding amount offered by the PEO shall 8 be reduced 10% until it reaches 20% of the retrofit cost 9 where it will remain until economic or other conditions 10 warrant it be changed.] 11 (2) No more than 5% of the fund may be used to 12 administer the provisions of this chapter. 13 (3) No more than [10%] 15% of the fund may go to any one 14 school district, municipal authority, political subdivision, 15 nonprofit entity, corporation or partnership in any one year, 16 provided that the total amount of grants made to grant 17 recipients within a political subdivision in a year shall not 18 exceed [15%] 20% of the fund. 19 (b.1) Application periods.--Grant applications shall be 20 accepted during at least two periods annually and the periods 21 shall be not less than four months each. 22 * * * 23 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. I24L75DMS/20010H2023B2662 - 2 -