I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 704 
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 
FEBRUARY 4, 2015 
Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself, Mr. COSTA, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 
VALADAO, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. COOPER, Mr. MEAD-
OWS, Mr. DENT, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, 
Mr. RICE of South Carolina, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. COLE, Mr. 
FLEISCHMANN, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. ROTHFUS, Mr. HILL, 
Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. WOODALL, Mr. HURT of Virginia, Mr. 
CHAFFETZ, Mr. ROONEY of Florida, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. 
FARENTHOLD, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. COLLINS 
of Georgia, Mr. HANNA, and Mr. FRANKS of Arizona) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
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. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘RFS Reform Act of 
2015’’. 
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. 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, 2015, 
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 ‘‘20.5’’ and inserting 
‘‘5.5’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘22.25’’ and inserting 
‘‘7.25’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘24.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘9.0’’; 
(D) by striking ‘‘26.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘11.0’’; 
(E) by striking ‘‘28.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘13.0’’; 
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(F) by striking ‘‘30.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘15.0’’; 
(G) by striking ‘‘33.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘18.0’’; and 
(H) by striking ‘‘36.0’’ and inserting 
‘‘21.0’’; 
(2) in subclause (II)— 
(A) in the matter preceding the table, by 
striking ‘‘2022’’ and inserting ‘‘2014’’; and 
(B) in the table, by striking the items re-
lating to calendars years 2015 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 
2014 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 2015 
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 
‘‘of the volume of advanced biofuel required under 
subclause (II)’’. 
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(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— 
(A) in subparagraph (D)(i), by inserting ‘‘, 
if such year is before 2015,’’ before ‘‘advanced 
biofuels’’; and 
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(B) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by inserting 
‘‘, if such year is before 2015,’’ 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 pro-
duction facility that is producing (and con-
tinues to produce) cellulosic biofuel during 
the period of January 1 through October 
31 of the calendar year in which the esti-
mate is made (in this clause referred to as 
the ‘current calendar year’)— 
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