LANSING – A package of bills geared towards encouraging the growth of the alternatives fuel industry in Michigan won Senate approval Thursday.
The bills – SB 1126 , SB 1128 , SB 1129 , SB 1130 and SB 1132 – essentially require the state to help the alternative fuels industry through helping executives locate sites for alternative energy plants.
The package also allows the state to create a special license plate recognizing renewable fuels. Money raised through sales of the plates would go to a renewable fuels fund in the Department of Agriculture that would use the funds to promote the development and use of the fuels.
Under SB 1126 the Michigan Strategic Fund would have to identify, publish and market an inventory of prime sites for renewable fuel plants. SB 1128 requires the Department of Agriculture to compile and publish an alternative fuel production facilities list.
SB 1129 allows for the special license plate and SB 1130 establishes the special fund.
And SB 1132 requires the state’s alternative fuels commission to report on where alternative fuels sold in the state originated.
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