To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from extending the renewable fuel program past 2022 if the Administrator waives applicable volume requirements in prior years.

Bill: 114-hr-2864
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-06-23
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Alternative and renewable resources

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental regulatory procedures

Motor fuels
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the renewable fuel program by prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring that transportation fuel contain any applicable volume of renewable fuel, advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, or biomass-based diesel, for any year after 2022, if the EPA waives at least: (1) 20% of any of the applicable volume requirement set forth for renewable fuel, advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, or biomass-based diesel for two consecutive years; or (2) 50% of such volume requirement for a single year. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2864 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 23, 2015 Mr. Sensenbrenner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from extending the renewable fuel program past 2022 if the Administrator waives applicable volume requirements in prior years.

1. No extension of the renewable fuel program Notwithstanding section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7545(o) ), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not, for any calendar year after 2022, require that transportation fuel sold or introduced into commerce in the United States, on an annual average basis, contain any applicable volume of renewable fuel, advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, or biomass-based diesel, if the Administrator, for any of the tables in section 211(o)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act, waives— (1) at least 20 percent of the applicable volume requirement set forth in any such table for 2 consecutive years; or (2) at least 50 percent of such volume requirement for a single year.