[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2298 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2298

 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the corn ethanol mandate for 
                            renewable fuel.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 25, 2019

 Mr. Toomey (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Ms. Collins) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                    on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the corn ethanol mandate for 
                            renewable fuel.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Restore Environmental Sustainability 
To Our Renewable Energy Act'' or the ``RESTORE Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF CORN ETHANOL MANDATE FOR RENEWABLE FUEL.

    (a) Removal of Table.--Section 211(o)(2)(B)(i) of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(2)(B)(i)) is amended by striking subclause (I).
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 211(o)(2)(B) of the Clean Air 
Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(2)(B)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)--
                    (A) by redesignating subclauses (II) through (IV) 
                as subclauses (I) through (III), respectively;
                    (B) in subclause (I) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``of the volume of renewable fuel required 
                under subclause (I),''; and
                    (C) in subclauses (II) and (III) (as so 
                redesignated), by striking ``subclause (II)'' each 
                place it appears and inserting ``subclause (I)''; and
            (2) in clause (v), by striking ``clause (i)(IV)'' and 
        inserting ``clause (i)(III)''.
    (c) Administration.--Nothing in this section or the amendments made 
by this section affects the volumes of advanced biofuel, cellulosic 
biofuel, or biomass-based diesel that are required under section 211(o) 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)).
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