Title: Restoring Our Commitment to Renewable Fuels Act of 2018
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Restoring Our Commitment to Renewable Fuels Act of 2018
This bill revises the Renewable Fuel Program. If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives exemptions to small refineries from their renewable fuel obligations during a year, then the EPA must reallocate each gallon of renewable fuel covered by such exemptions to refineries, blenders, distributors, and importers subject to a renewable fuel obligations for that year.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6731 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6731

    To provide for reallocation of the renewable fuel obligation of 
exempted small refineries under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (42 
   U.S.C. 7545(o)) to other refineries, blenders, distributors, and 
                   importers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2018

    Mr. Young of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Peterson) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for reallocation of the renewable fuel obligation of 
exempted small refineries under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (42 
   U.S.C. 7545(o)) to other refineries, blenders, distributors, and 
                   importers, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Restoring Our Commitment to 
Renewable Fuels Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REALLOCATION OF RENEWABLE FUEL OBLIGATION OF EXEMPTED SMALL 
              REFINERIES TO OTHER REFINERIES, BLENDERS, DISTRIBUTORS, 
              AND IMPORTERS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law:
            (1) For any calendar year for which an exemption from a 
        renewable fuel obligation is authorized under paragraph (9) of 
        section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)), the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
        reallocate (in a manner determined appropriate by the 
        Administrator) each gallon of renewable fuel covered by such 
        exemption to refineries, blenders, distributors, and importers 
        subject to a renewable fuel obligation for that calendar year 
        pursuant to such section 211(o).
            (2) Any information submitted to the Administrator of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency by any person, including a 
        small refinery, with respect to a petition under section 
        211(o)(9)(B) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(9)(B))--
                    (A) shall not be deemed to be a trade secret or 
                confidential information; and
                    (B) shall be subject to public disclosure, 
                notwithstanding section 552(b) of title 5, United 
                States Code, or any other Federal law or regulation.
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