---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13253"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13253"
heading: "Replacement fuel demand estimates and supply information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13253"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Availability and Use of Replacement Fuels, Alternative Fuels, and Alternative Fueled Private Vehicles"
---

# §13253. Replacement fuel demand estimates and supply information

- (a) **Estimates—** Not later than October 1, 1993, and annually thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2), in consultation with the [Administrator](/usc/42/13211.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Transportation, and other appropriate [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) and Federal officials, shall estimate for the following calendar year—
  - (1) the number of each type of [alternative fueled vehicle](/usc/42/13211.md?p=3-A) likely to be in use in the United States;
  - (2) the probable geographic distribution of such vehicles;
  - (3) the amount and distribution of each type of [replacement fuel](/usc/42/13211.md?p=14); and
  - (4) the greenhouse gas emissions likely to result from [replacement fuel](/usc/42/13211.md?p=14) use.
- (b) **Information—** Beginning on October 1, 1994, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall annually require—
  - (1) [fuel suppliers](/usc/42/13211.md?p=10) to report to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) on the amount of each type of [replacement fuel](/usc/42/13211.md?p=14) that such supplier—
    - (A) has supplied in the previous calendar year; and
    - (B) plans to supply for the following calendar year;
  - (2) suppliers of [alternative fueled vehicles](/usc/42/13211.md?p=3-A) to report to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) on the number of each type of [alternative fueled vehicle](/usc/42/13211.md?p=3-A) that such supplier—
    - (A) has made available in the previous calendar year; and
    - (B) plans to make available for the following calendar year; and
  - (3) such [fuel suppliers](/usc/42/13211.md?p=10) to provide the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) information necessary to determine the greenhouse gas emissions from the [replacement fuels](/usc/42/13211.md?p=14) used, taking into account the entire fuel cycle.
- (c) **Protection of information—** Information provided to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) under [subsection (b)](#b) shall be subject to applicable provisions of law protecting the confidentiality of trade secrets and business and financial information, including [section 1905 of title 18](/usc/18/1905.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title V, § 503, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2889.)