A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO direct the department of administration to STUDY THE desirability and feasibility of other state agencies using the department of transportation's FUELING STATIONS ACROSS THE STATE IN AN EFFORT TO DISPLACE OR REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PETROLEUM THAT STATE agencies are USING for state‑owned vehicle fleets AND to assist state agencies in ACHIEVing their twenty percent PETROLEUM REDUCtION or displacement GOAL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Administration shall study the desirability and feasibility of other State agencies using the Department of Transportation's approximately 122 fueling stations located across the State in an effort to reduce or displace the amount of petroleum that State agencies are using for fueling State‑owned vehicles and to assist all State agencies that have State‑owned vehicle fleets in achieving their twenty percent (20%) reduction or displacement goal of petroleum products consumed by January 1, 2010, that the State adopted under Section 19.5 of S.L. 2005‑276, and to increase the State's use of alternative fuels, synthetic lubricants, and efficient vehicles. This study shall consider the desirability and the feasibility of the Department of Transportation's fueling stations providing biodiesel, ethanol, synthetic oils or lubricants, or other alternative fuels for use by other State agencies. No later than May 1, 2008, the Department of Administration shall report the results of this study, including its findings, recommendations, and any legislative or administrative proposals, to the Fiscal Research Division and to the Chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on General Government.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.