ENVIRONMENT

Alternative-Vehicle Task Force Reports to Clinton: The Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force--set up last April by executive order to use federal purchases of alternative-fuel vehicles as leverage to increase their use by state, local and private fleets--delivered its first report to the President. It recommended federal support for a locally directed program to build refueling facilities, make large-scale purchases of alternative vehicles and provide other incentives. Los Angeles and San Francisco were among the cities recommended for the program beginning in 1994.