3.0.0 1609 2023-01-13T04:50:20Z 2023-01-13T04:50:20Z Senate S S 2005-07-29 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-07-30T00:16:44Z 2005-07-29 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2005-07-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA N Energy Administrative procedure Agricultural conservation Agricultural machinery Agricultural research Agriculture and Food Alcohol as fuel Alternative energy sources Biomass energy Cellulose Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Department of Transportation Diesel motor Energy crops Energy research Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency Farm manure Feeds Food supply Forest products Fuel consumption Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Grain Landfills Law Motor vehicle pollution control Municipal solid waste Oils and fats Oilseeds Public Lands and Natural Resources Refuse as fuel Research and development Science, Technology, Communications Sewage treatment Soil erosion Transportation and Public Works Trees Wood Energy 00 2005-07-29 Introduced in Senate 2005-10-24T16:32:25Z 20/20 Biofuels Challenge Act of 2005 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations ensuring that motor vehicle fuel sold or dispensed to consumers in the contiguous United States, on an annual average basis, contains specified volumes of renewable fuel for calendar years 2006-2020.

Amends federal transportation law to require that personal and commercial land and water transportation and shipping vehicles and vessels, as well as large farm equipment manufactured after model year 2010, and capable of operating on either gasoline or diesel fuel, also be capable of operating on a flexible fuel mixture.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations requiring a vehicle or vessel manufacturer to include certain consumer information concerning a vehicle's capability of operating on a flexible fuel mixture (alternative biofuels).

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) support development of cellulosic feedstock by directing that erosion-preventing, renewable fuel-producing crops be grown on certain arable land in a specified conservation reserve program established under the Food Security Act of 1985; and (2) implement an integrated 10-year research program to improve crop productivity and cost for cellulosic-based ethanol and biodiesel feedstock.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement an eight-year research and development plan to improve significantly processes for converting: (1) cellulosic feedstock into ethanol production; and (2) biodiesel feedstock into biodiesel fuel.

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