Title: A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to review and update a report on the energy and environmental benefits of the re-refining of used lubricating oil.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Energy to update its report on the energy and environmental benefits of re-refining used lubricating oil and submit to Congress a strategic plan to increase the beneficial reuse of lubricating oil.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1089 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1089

To require the Secretary of Energy to review and update a report on the 
     energy and environmental benefits of the re-refining of used 
                            lubricating oil.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2017

  Mr. Portman (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Energy to review and update a report on the 
     energy and environmental benefits of the re-refining of used 
                            lubricating oil.

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

SECTION 1. ENERGY SAVINGS FROM LUBRICATING OIL.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Energy, in cooperation with the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency and the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, shall--
            (1) review and update the report prepared pursuant to 
        section 1838 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-
        58; 119 Stat. 1142);
            (2) after consultation with relevant Federal, State, and 
        local agencies and affected industry and stakeholder groups, 
        update data that were used in preparing that report; and
            (3) prepare and submit to Congress a coordinated Federal 
        strategy to increase the beneficial reuse of used lubricating 
        oil that--
                    (A) is consistent with the national policy 
                established pursuant to section 2 of the Used Oil 
                Recycling Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 6901a); and
                    (B) addresses measures needed--
                            (i) to increase the responsible collection 
                        of used oil;
                            (ii) to disseminate public information 
                        concerning sustainable reuse options for used 
                        oil; and
                            (iii) to promote sustainable reuse of used 
                        oil by Federal agencies, recipients of Federal 
                        grant funds, entities contracting with the 
                        Federal Government, and the general public.
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