[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6545 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6545

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting 
 requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2012

Mr. Sensenbrenner introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting 
 requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE CLEAN AIR ACT.

    Section 211(o)(7)(D)(i) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7545(o)(7)(D)(i)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``, as determined by the Administrator 
        based on the estimate provided under paragraph (3)(A)'';
            (2) by striking ``the Administrator may also reduce'' and 
        inserting ``the Administrator shall also reduce''; and
            (3) by inserting ``For purposes of this subparagraph, the 
        projected volume of cellulosic biofuel production for a 
        calendar year shall not be more than 5 percent or 1 million 
        gallons (whichever is greater) more than the total volume of 
        cellulosic biofuel that was commercially available for the most 
        recent calendar year for which such total volume is known.'' 
        after ``by the same or a lesser volume.''.
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