I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4573 
To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States 
by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies 
to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 16, 2005 
Mr. WELLER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Agriculture, Ways and Means, and Government Reform, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in 
the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, 
to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel 
in government vehicles, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. RENEWABLE FUEL CONTENT OF GASOLINE. 
(a) CALENDAR YEARS FROM 2012 TO 2025.—Clause 
(i) of section 211(o)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7545(o)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘2006 through
2012’’ in each place it appears and inserting ‘‘2006 
through 2025’’ and by adding the following new table at 
the end thereof: 
‘‘Applicable volume of renewable 
Calendar 
fuel (in billions of gallons): 
year: 
8.9 ...................................................................................................... 2013
10.3 .................................................................................................... 2014
11.7 .................................................................................................... 2015
12.1 .................................................................................................... 2016
13.5 .................................................................................................... 2017
14.9 .................................................................................................... 2018
16.3 .................................................................................................... 2019
17.7 .................................................................................................... 2020
19.4 .................................................................................................... 2021
20.8 .................................................................................................... 2022
22.2 .................................................................................................... 2023
23.6 .................................................................................................... 2024
25 ....................................................................................................... 2025’’. 
(b) 
CALENDAR
YEARS
AFTER
2025.—Section 
211(o)(2)(B) of such Act is amended by striking clauses 
(ii) through (iv) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(ii) CALENDAR YEARS AFTER 2025.— 
For the purposes of subparagraph (A), for 
calendar years after 2025 the applicable 
volume shall be equal to the product ob-
tained by multiplying subclause (I) by sub-
clause (II) of this clause. 
‘‘(I) The number of gallons of 
gasoline that the Administrator esti-
mates will be sold or introduced into 
commerce in the calendar year con-
cerned.
‘‘(II) 
The 
ratio 
that 
25,000,000,000 gallons bears to the 
number of gallons of gasoline sold or 
introduced into commerce in calendar 
year 2025’’. 
(c) CREDIT FOR 85 PERCENT ETHANOL BLEND.— 
Section 211(o)(4) of such Act is amended by inserting ‘‘or 
85 percent ethanol blend’’ in the heading before the period 
and by adding the following at the end thereof ‘‘For the 
purposes of paragraph (2), 1 gallon of a fuel blend con-
taining 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline shall 
be considered to be the equivalent of 1.5 gallons of renew-
able fuel.’’. 
(d) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Paragraph (3) 
and (6) of section 211(o) of such Act are each amended 
by striking ‘‘2011’’ and ‘‘2012’’ in each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘2024’’ and ‘‘2025’’ respectively. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL AGENCY ETHANOL-BLENDED GASOLINE 
AND 
BIODIESEL 
PURCHASING 
REQUIRE-
MENT. 
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 GASO-
LINE AND BIODIESEL PURCHASING REQUIRE-
MENT. 
‘‘(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 gen-
erally competitive price, the Federal agency purchases eth-
anol-blended gasoline containing at least 10 percent eth-
anol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for use in 
vehicles used by the agency that use gasoline. 
‘‘(b) BIODIESEL.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITION OF BIODIESEL.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘biodiesel’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 312(f). 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT.—The head of each Fed-
eral 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 loca-
tion 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, bio-
diesel-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, bio-
diesel-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).’’. 
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-
CULTURE BIOENERGY PROGRAM. 
(a) REAUTHORIZATION.—Subsection (c) of section 
9010 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8108) is amended by striking paragraph 
(2) and inserting the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) $140,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 
through 2015.’’. 
(b) FUNDING PRIORITIES.—Such section is further 
amended—