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From left to right: Curtis Donaldson, National Ethanol
Vehicle Coalition; Mike Dallas, DynCorp Technical
Services/CSC; Astronaut Dr. Ellen Baker; Bill Heffner,
GSA; William Gookin, NASA Transportation Program; and Joel
Walker, Center Operations Directorate.
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Houston, TX - A ribbon cutting ceremony officially
kicked off the opening of Houston’s first E85 fueling facility
on October 26, 2004 at 10 a.m. The new E85 tank and
dispenser is located on NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
campus.
Attendees at the event included: William E. Gookin,
Manager, Agency Transportation Programs, NASA
Headquarters; Russel Smith, Texas Renewable Energy
Industries Association; Mary Jo Rowan, Texas State Energy
Conservation Office; Jason Salinas, Houston Clean Cities
Coordinator; Don Thompson
of the Environmental Quality Small Business and
Environmental Assistance Division;
Raymond Barron, Ernesto
Martinez, Craig Staffan of the General Services
Association; Ron Robb and Chase Garner of Sundance Fuels; Curtis Donaldson, Vice Chairman of National Ethanol
Vehicle Coalition and CEO of Clean Fueling Technologies;
and Bill Heffner, U.S. General Services Administration
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“The NEVC is excited about NASA’s leadership,” commented
Donaldson. “We hope the Federal Government will follow
NASA’s lead in making E85 a more widely used fuel.”
Installation of the 1,000-gallon, on-site, fuel-dispensing
unit brings JSC into compliance with the Energy Policy Act
of 1992 (EPAct) and Presidential Executive Order 13149.
EPAct requires the acquisition of alternative fuel
vehicles (AFVs) for federal fleets and Executive Order
13149 requires that federal fleets reduce their petroleum
use 20 percent by 2005. JSC employees are now mandated to
use E85 in the 25 flexible fuel vehicles in the GSA fleet
assigned for employee use, if their official business
takes them within a 50-mile radius of JSC.
“We applaud NASA’s commitment,” added Donaldson.
JSC is the second federal fleet in Texas to use E85, the
first being a Department of Energy facility in Amarillo.
They are now the fifth NASA center to add ethanol fueling
capability. For a complete listing of public E85 fueling
locations, visit
www.E85Fuel.com.
For more photos of this event, click
here.
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