---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3807"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3807"
heading: "Use of methane-fueled vehicles by Federal agencies and departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3807"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Methane Transportation Research, Development, and Demonstration"
---

# §3807. Use of methane-fueled vehicles by Federal agencies and departments


The [Secretary](/usc/15/3802.md?p=b) shall consult with the Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service, the [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) of the General Services [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/15/3802.md?p=b) of Defense, and the heads of other Federal agencies where appropriate to—

- (a) determine the practicability of using [methane](/usc/15/3802.md?p=a) [vehicles](/usc/15/3802.md?p=e) in the performance of certain or all of the functions of their agencies based in counties and standard metropolitan statistical areas in which demonstrations under [section 3806 of this title](/usc/15/3806.md) are being conducted; and
- (b) arrange for appropriate use of [methane](/usc/15/3802.md?p=a)-fueled [vehicles](/usc/15/3802.md?p=e) at the earliest practicable date.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–512, § 8, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2832.)