[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1612 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1612

 To establish ethanol and biodiesel fuel requirements for the Federal 
                                 fleet.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2005

  Ms. Kaptur introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish ethanol and biodiesel fuel requirements for the Federal 
                                 fleet.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FEDERAL AGENCY ETHANOL-BLENDED GASOLINE AND BIODIESEL 
              PURCHASING REQUIREMENT.

    Title III of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 is amended by striking 
section 306 (42 U.S.C. 13215) and inserting the following:

``SEC. 306. FEDERAL AGENCY ETHANOL-BLENDED GASOLINE AND BIODIESEL 
              PURCHASING REQUIREMENT.

    ``(a) Ethanol-Blended Gasoline.--The head of each Federal agency 
shall ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline is 
reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the Federal 
agency purchases ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 10 
percent ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for use in 
vehicles used by the agency that use gasoline.
    ``(b) Biodiesel.--
            ``(1) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `biodiesel' 
        has the meaning given the term in section 312(f).
            ``(2) Requirement.--The head of each Federal agency shall 
        ensure that the Federal agency purchases, for use in fueling 
        fleet vehicles that use diesel fuel used by the Federal agency 
        at the location at which fleet vehicles of the Federal agency 
        are centrally fueled, in areas in which the biodiesel-blended 
        diesel fuel described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) is available 
        at a generally competitive price--
                    ``(A) as of the date that is 5 years after the date 
                of enactment of this paragraph, biodiesel-blended 
                diesel fuel that contains at least 2 percent biodiesel, 
                rather than nonbiodiesel-blended diesel fuel; and
                    ``(B) as of the date that is 10 years after the 
                date of enactment of this paragraph, biodiesel-blended 
                diesel fuel that contains at least 20 percent 
                biodiesel, rather than nonbiodiesel-blended diesel 
                fuel.
            ``(3) Requirement of federal law.--The provisions of this 
        subsection shall not be considered a requirement of Federal law 
        for the purposes of section 312.
    ``(c) Exemption.--This section does not apply to fuel used in 
vehicles excluded from the definition of `fleet' by subparagraphs (A) 
through (H) of section 301(9).''.
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