[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR490.302]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                    CHAPTER II--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 490--ALTERNATIVE FUEL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart D--Alternative Fuel Provider Vehicle Acquisition Mandate
 
Sec. 490.302  Vehicle acquisition mandate schedule.

    (a) Except as provided in section 490.304 of this part, of the light 
duty motor vehicles newly acquired by a covered person described in 
section 490.303 of this part, the following percentages shall be 
alternative fueled vehicles for the following model years:
    (1) 30 percent for model year 1997.
    (2) 50 percent for model year 1998.
    (3) 70 percent for model year 1999.
    (4) 90 percent for model year 2000 and thereafter.
    (b) Except as provided in section 490.304 of this part, this 
acquisition schedule applies to all light duty motor vehicles that a 
covered person newly acquires for use within the United States.
    (c) If, when the mandated acquisition percentage of alternative fuel 
vehicles is applied to the number of new light duty motor vehicles to be 
acquired by a covered person subject to this subpart, a number results 
that requires the acquisition of a partial vehicle, an adjustment will 
be made to the required acquisition number by rounding

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down to the next whole number if the fraction is less than one half and 
by rounding up the number of vehicles to the next whole number if the 
fraction is equal to or greater than one half.
    (d) Only acquisitions satisfying the mandate, as defined by section 
490.305, count toward compliance with the acquisition schedule in 
paragraph (a) of this section.
    (e) A covered person that is first subject to the acquisition 
requirements of this part after model year 1997 shall acquire 
alternative fueled vehicles in the next model year at the percentage 
applicable to that model year, according to the schedule in paragraph 
(a) of this section, unless the covered person is granted an exemption 
or reduction of the acquisition percentage pursuant to the procedures 
and criteria in section 490.308.