I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1462 
To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate certain requirements under the 
renewable fuel program, to prohibit the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency from approving the introduction into commerce 
of gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2013 
Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. COSTA, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 
CAMPBELL, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. 
GRAVES of Georgia, Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HURT, 
Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. LONG, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. MORAN, Mr. PITTS, Mr. 
AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, 
Mr. VALADAO, and Mr. YOHO) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate certain require-
ments under the renewable fuel program, to prohibit 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy from approving the introduction into commerce of 
gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent 
ethanol, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘RFS Reform Act of 
2013’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—RENEWABLE FUEL STANDARD AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 101. Amendments to the Clean Air Act. 
Sec. 102. Cellulosic biofuel requirement based on actual production. 
Sec. 103. Reduction in applicable volume of renewable fuel corresponding to 
certain reductions in applicable volume of biomass-based diesel. 
Sec. 104. Applicability and regulations. 
TITLE II—GASOLINE CONTAINING GREATER THAN 10-VOLUME- 
PERCENT ETHANOL 
Sec. 201. Prohibition of gasoline blends with greater than 10-volume-percent 
ethanol. 
Sec. 202. Prohibition of waivers. 
Sec. 203. Misfueling rule. 
TITLE I—RENEWABLE FUEL 
STANDARD AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 101. AMENDMENTS TO THE CLEAN AIR ACT. 
(a) REVISED DEFINITION OF RENEWABLE FUEL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 211(o)(1)(J) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1)(J)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(J) RENEWABLE
FUEL.—The term ‘re-
newable fuel’ means fuel that— 
‘‘(i) is produced from renewable bio-
mass; 
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‘‘(ii) is used to replace or reduce the 
quantity of fossil fuel present in a trans-
portation fuel; and 
‘‘(iii) beginning on January 1, 2014, 
is advanced biofuel.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
211(o)(1)(B)(i) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7545(o)(1)(B)(i)) is amended by striking ‘‘renewable 
fuel’’ and inserting ‘‘fuel described in clauses (i) and 
(ii) of subparagraph (J)’’. 
(b) APPLICABLE VOLUMES.—Section 211(o)(2)(B)(i) 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(2)(B)(i)) is 
amended— 
(1) in the table in subclause (I)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘18.15’’ and inserting 
‘‘3.75’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘20.5’’ and inserting 
‘‘5.5’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘22.25’’ and inserting 
‘‘7.25’’; 
(D) by striking ‘‘24.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘9.0’’; 
(E) by striking ‘‘26.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘11.0’’; 
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(F) by striking ‘‘28.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘13.0’’; 
(G) by striking ‘‘30.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘15.0’’; 
(H) by striking ‘‘33.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘18.0’’; and 
(I) by striking ‘‘36.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘21.0’’; 
(2) in subclause (II)— 
(A) in the matter preceding the table, by 
striking ‘‘2022’’ and inserting ‘‘2013’’; and 
(B) in the table, by striking the items re-
lating to calendars years 2014 through 2022; 
(3) in subclause (III), by striking ‘‘of the vol-
ume of advanced biofuel required under subclause 
(II)’’ and inserting ‘‘of the volume of advanced 
biofuel required for calendar years 2010 through 
2013 under subclause (II), as in effect on the day 
before the date of enactment of the Renewable Fuel 
Standard Amendments Act, and of the volume of re-
newable fuel required for calendar years 2014 
through 2022 under the subclause (I)’’; and 
(4) in subclause (IV), by inserting ‘‘, as in ef-
fect on the day before the date of enactment of the 
Renewable Fuel Standard Amendments Act’’ after 
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‘‘of the volume of advanced biofuel required under 
subclause (II)’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) 
OTHER
CALENDAR
YEARS.—Section 
211(o)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7545(o)(2)(B)) is amended— 
(A) in clause (ii)(III), by striking ‘‘ad-
vanced biofuels in each category (cellulosic 
biofuel and biomass-based diesel)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘cellulosic biofuel and biomass-based die-
sel’’; 
(B) by striking clause (iii); and 
(C) by redesignating clauses (iv) and (v) as 
clauses (iii) and (iv), respectively. 
(2) 
APPLICABLE
PERCENT
REDUCTION 
LEVEL.—Section 211(o)(4) of the Clean Air Act (42 
U.S.C. 7545(o)(4)) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘20, 
50, or 60 percent reduction levels’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘applicable percent reduction level’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (F), by inserting ‘‘(if 
applicable)’’ after ‘‘(2)(A)(i)’’. 
(3) WAIVERS.—Section 211(o)(7) of the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(7)) is amended— 
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(A) in subparagraph (D)(i), by inserting ‘‘, 
if such year is before 2014,’’ before ‘‘advanced 
biofuels’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by inserting 
‘‘, if such year is before 2014,’’ before ‘‘ad-
vanced biofuels’’. 
SEC. 102. CELLULOSIC BIOFUEL REQUIREMENT BASED ON 
ACTUAL PRODUCTION. 
(a) PROVISION OF ESTIMATE OF VOLUMES OF CEL-
LULOSIC BIOFUEL.—Section 211(o)(3)(A) of the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(3)(A)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(i)’’ before ‘‘Not later than’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(ii)(I) In determining any estimate under 
clause (i), with respect to the following calendar 
year, of the projected volume of cellulosic 
biofuel production (as described in paragraph 
(7)(D)(i)), the Administrator of the Energy In-
formation Administration shall— 
‘‘(aa) for each cellulosic biofuel 
production facility that is producing 
(and continues to produce) cellulosic 
biofuel during the period of January 1 
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through October 31 of the calendar 
year in which the estimate is made (in 
this clause referred to as the ‘current 
calendar year’)— 
‘‘(AA) determine the average 
monthly 
volume 
of 
cellulosic 
biofuel produced by such facility, 
based on the actual volume pro-
duced by such facility during 
such period; and 
‘‘(BB) based on such aver-
age monthly volume of produc-
tion, determine the estimated 
annualized volume of cellulosic 
biofuel production for such facil-
ity for the current calendar year; 
and 
‘‘(bb) for each cellulosic biofuel 
production facility that begins initial 
production 
of 
(and 
continues 
to 
produce) cellulosic biofuel after Janu-
ary 1 of the current calendar year— 
‘‘(AA) determine the average 
monthly 
volume 
of 
cellulosic 
biofuel produced by such facility, 
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based on the actual volume pro-
duced by such facility during the 
period beginning on the date of 
initial production of cellulosic 
biofuel by the facility and ending 
on October 31 of the current cal-
endar year; and 
‘‘(BB) based on such aver-
age monthly volume of produc-
tion, determine the estimated 
annualized volume of cellulosic 
biofuel production for such facil-
ity for the current calendar year. 
‘‘(II) An estimate under clause (i) 
with respect to the following calendar year 
of the projected volume of cellulosic biofuel 
production (as described in paragraph 
(7)(D)(i)), shall be equal to the total of the 
estimated annual volumes of cellulosic 
biofuel production for all cellulosic biofuel 
production facilities described in subclause 
(I) for the current calendar year.’’. 
(b) REDUCTION IN APPLICABLE VOLUME.—Section 
211(o)(7)(D)(i) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
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7545(o)(7)(D)(i)), as amended by section 101(c)(3)(A), is 
further amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘based on the’’ and inserting 
‘‘using the exact’’; 
(2) striking ‘‘may also reduce’’ and inserting 
‘‘shall also reduce’’; and 
(3) striking ‘‘by the same or a lesser volume’’ 
and inserting ‘‘by the same volume’’. 
SEC. 103. REDUCTION IN APPLICABLE VOLUME OF RENEW-
ABLE FUEL CORRESPONDING TO CERTAIN 
REDUCTIONS IN APPLICABLE VOLUME OF 
BIOMASS-BASED DIESEL. 
Section 211(o)(7)(E)(ii) of the Clean Air Act (42 
U.S.C. 7545(o)(7)(E)(ii)) is amended by striking ‘‘may 
also reduce’’ and inserting ‘‘shall reduce’’. 
SEC. 104. APPLICABILITY AND REGULATIONS. 
The amendments made by this title to section 211(o) 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)) shall apply only 
with respect to calendar years 2014 and after, except that 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy shall promulgate regulations to carry out such amend-
ments not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and take any steps necessary to ensure such 
amendments may be carried out for calendar years 2014 
and after. 
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TITLE 
II—GASOLINE 
CON-
TAINING GREATER THAN 10- 
VOLUME-PERCENT ETHANOL 
SEC. 201. PROHIBITION OF GASOLINE BLENDS WITH 
GREATER THAN 10-VOLUME-PERCENT ETH-
ANOL. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may 
not, including by granting a waiver under section 
211(f)(4) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(f)(4)), au-
thorize or otherwise allow the introduction into commerce 
of gasoline containing greater than 10-volume-percent eth-
anol. 
SEC. 202. PROHIBITION OF WAIVERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any waiver granted under section 
211(f)(4) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(f)(4)) be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act that allows the in-
troduction into commerce of gasoline containing greater 
than 10-volume-percent ethanol for use in motor vehicles 
shall have no force or effect. 
(b) CERTAIN WAIVERS.—The waivers described in 
subsection (a) include the following: 
(1) The waiver entitled, ‘‘Partial Grant and 
Partial Denial of Clean Air Act Waiver Application 
Submitted by Growth Energy To Increase the Allow-
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able Ethanol Content of Gasoline to 15 Percent; De-
cision of the Administrator’’, 75 Fed. Reg. 68094 
(November 4, 2010). 
(2) The waiver entitled, ‘‘Partial Grant of 
Clean Air Act Waiver Application Submitted by 
Growth Energy To Increase the Allowable Ethanol 
Content of Gasoline to 15 Percent; Decision of the 
Administrator’’, 76 Fed. Reg. 4662 (January 26, 
2011). 
SEC. 203. MISFUELING RULE. 
The portions of the rule entitled, ‘‘Regulation to Miti-
gate the Misfueling of Vehicles and Engines with Gasoline 
Containing Greater Than Ten Volume Percent Ethanol 
and Modifications to the Reformulated and Conventional 
Gasoline Programs’’, 76 Fed. Reg. 44406 (July 25, 2011) 
to mitigate misfueling shall have no force and effect 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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