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‘‘(c) AMOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) PERCENTAGE OF PROJECT COST.—A guar-
antee by the Secretary shall not exceed an amount 
equal to 80 percent of the project cost of the facility 
that is the subject of the guarantee, as estimated at 
the time at which the guarantee is issued, and shall 
be no less than the minimum amount determined by 
the Secretary to be likely to attract nonguaranteed 
investment adequate to capitalize the project. 
‘‘(2) PERCENTAGE OF LOAN.—Subject to para-
graph (1), the Secretary may guarantee up to 100 
percent of any loan or other debt obligation of the 
borrower to fund an eligible project, and may not 
issue a rule or regulation establishing a lower per-
centage limit.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(k) WAGES.—No loan guarantee shall be made 
under this title unless the borrower has provided to the 
Secretary reasonable assurances that all laborers and me-
chanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the 
performance of construction work financed in whole or in 
part with the loan will be paid wages at rates not less 
than those prevailing on similar work in the locality as 
determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with 
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subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States 
Code (commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon Act).’’. 
SEC. 9202. EXCLUSION OF CATEGORIES. 
Section 1704 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 16514) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(c) EXCLUSION OF CATEGORIES.—No appropriation 
authorized pursuant to this section may exclude any cat-
egory of eligible project described in section 1703.’’. 
Subtitle D—Renewable Fuel Infra-
structure and International Co-
operation 
PART 1—RENEWABLE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE 
SEC. 9301. RENEWABLE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOP-
MENT. 
(a) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this subtitle— 
(1) the term ‘‘renewable fuel’’ means E85 
biofuel, or B20; 
(2) the term ‘‘biofuel’’ means fuel produced en-
tirely from biological material and determined by the 
Department of Energy and the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency to be commercially viable; 
(3) the term ‘‘B20’’ means a mixture of bio-
diesel and diesel fuel meeting the standard estab-
lished by the American Society for Testing and Ma-
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terials or under section 211(u) of the Clean Air Act 
for fuel containing 20 percent biodiesel; 
(4) the term ‘‘E85’’ means a fuel blend con-
taining 85 percent denatured ethanol and 15 percent 
gasoline by volume; 
(5) the term ‘‘flexible-fuel vehicle’’ means any 
motor vehicle warranted by the manufacturer of the 
vehicle as capable of operating on gasoline or diesel 
fuel and on— 
(A) E85; or 
(B) B20; and 
(6) the term ‘‘motor vehicle’’ means, as defined 
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency that are in ef-
fect on the date of enactment of this Act— 
(A) a light-duty truck; 
(B) a light-duty vehicle; or 
(C) medium-duty passenger vehicle, 
that is designed to be propelled by gasoline or diesel 
fuel. 
(b) INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.— 
The Secretary of Energy shall establish a program for 
making grants for providing assistance to retail and 
wholesale motor fuel dealers or other entities for the in-
stallation, replacement, or conversion of motor fuel storage 
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(1) it is in the highest national security inter-
ests of the United States to ensure secure access to 
reliable energy sources; 
(2) the United States relies heavily on the for-
eign supply of crude oil to meet the energy needs of 
the United States, currently importing 58 percent of 
the total oil requirements of the United States, of 
which 45 percent comes from member states of the 
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 
(OPEC); 
(3) revenues from the sale of oil by some of 
these countries directly or indirectly provide funding 
for terrorism and propaganda hostile to the values 
of the United States and the West; 
(4) in the past, these countries have manipu-
lated the dependence of the United States on the oil 
supplies of these countries to exert undue influence 
on United States policy, as during the embargo of 
OPEC during 1973 on the sale of oil to the United 
States, which became a major factor in the ensuing 
recession; 
(5) research by the Energy Information Admin-
istration of the Department of Energy has shown 
that the dependence of the United States on foreign 
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