Title: To amend the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act to account for small refinery exemptions in past calendar years, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill revises requirements for exemptions given to small refineries of crude oil under the renewable fuel program, which requires transportation fuel to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuel.
Specifically, the bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine the overall reduction in the national quantity of renewable fuel as a result of exemptions granted to small refineries in 2006-2018. The EPA must increase the renewable fuel standard (RFS) by adding such reductions to future year RFS obligations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3411 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3411

To amend the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act to account 
  for small refinery exemptions in past calendar years, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2019

 Mr. King of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act to account 
  for small refinery exemptions in past calendar years, 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. ACCOUNTING FOR SMALL REFINERY EXEMPTIONS FROM RENEWABLE FUEL 
              REQUIREMENTS IN PAST CALENDAR YEARS.

    Section 211(o)(9) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(9)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Accounting for full volume of exemptions for 
                2006 through 2018.--
                            ``(i) Study of previous years.--Not later 
                        than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
                        this subparagraph, the Administrator shall--
                                    ``(I) complete a study to 
                                determine, for each of calendar years 
                                2006 through 2018, the overall 
                                reduction in the national quantity of 
                                renewable fuel that was sold or 
                                introduced in interstate commerce as a 
                                result of exemptions granted to small 
                                refineries under this paragraph; and
                                    ``(II) submit a report to the 
                                Congress containing the results of such 
                                study.
                            ``(ii) Reallocating shortfalls to future 
                        years.--The Administrator shall increase the 
                        applicable volume of renewable fuel required 
                        under paragraph (2) by adding the reductions 
                        found, pursuant to clause (i), to have occurred 
                        across calendar years 2006 through 2018, to the 
                        applicable volume required under paragraph (2) 
                        for future calendar years, beginning with 
                        calendar year 2019.''.
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