Growing Responsible Energy and Environment Nationally through Federal Energy Decisions Act

Growing Responsible Energy and Environment Nationally through Federal Energy Decisions Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to repeal a certain lease charge reduction incentive program for encouraging federal agencies to use alternative fueled vehicles.

Requires the head of each federal agency to ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline or biodiesel-blended diesel fuel is reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the agency purchases for use in appropriate vehicles: (1) ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 10% ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline; and (2) biodiesel-blended diesel fuel containing at least 2% biodiesel within five years, and 20% biodiesel within 10 years.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 792 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 792

   To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the head of each 
   Federal agency to ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended 
gasoline is reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the 
 Federal agency purchases ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 
10 percent ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for use in 
             vehicles used by the agency that use gasoline.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2007

    Mr. Weller of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the head of each 
   Federal agency to ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended 
gasoline is reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the 
 Federal agency purchases ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 
10 percent ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for use in 
             vehicles used by the agency that use gasoline.

    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 ``Growing Responsible Energy and 
Environment Nationally through Federal Energy Decisions Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL AGENCY ETHANOL-BLENDED GASOLINE AND BIODIESEL 
              PURCHASING REQUIREMENT.

    Title III of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 is amended by striking 
section 306 (42 U.S.C. 13215) and inserting the following:

``SEC. 306. FEDERAL AGENCY ETHANOL-BLENDED GASOLINE AND BIODIESEL 
              PURCHASING REQUIREMENT.

    ``(a) Ethanol-Blended Gasoline.--The head of each Federal agency 
shall ensure that, in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline is 
reasonably available at a generally competitive price, the Federal 
agency purchases ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 10 
percent ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for use in 
vehicles used by the agency that use gasoline.
    ``(b) Biodiesel.--
            ``(1) Definition of biodiesel.--In this subsection, the 
        term `biodiesel' has the meaning given the term in section 
        312(f).
            ``(2) Requirement.--The head of each Federal agency shall 
        ensure that the Federal agency purchases, for use in fueling 
        fleet vehicles that use diesel fuel used by the Federal agency 
        at the location at which fleet vehicles of the Federal agency 
        are centrally fueled, in areas in which the biodiesel-blended 
        diesel fuel described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) is available 
        at a generally competitive price--
                    ``(A) as of the date that is 5 years after the date 
                of enactment of this paragraph, biodiesel-blended 
                diesel fuel that contains at least 2 percent biodiesel, 
                rather than nonbiodiesel-blended diesel fuel; and
                    ``(B) as of the date that is 10 years after the 
                date of enactment of this paragraph, biodiesel-blended 
                diesel fuel that contains at least 20 percent 
                biodiesel, rather than nonbiodiesel-blended diesel 
                fuel.
            ``(3) Requirement of federal law.--The provisions of this 
        subsection shall not be considered a requirement of Federal law 
        for the purposes of section 312.
    ``(c) Exemption.--This section does not apply to fuel used in 
vehicles excluded from the definition of `fleet' by subparagraphs (A) 
through (H) of section 301(9).''.
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