To repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.

Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal provisions prohibiting any federal agency from entering into a contract for procurement of an alternative or synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use, other than for research or testing, unless the contract specifies that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and combustion of the fuel must be less than or equal to such emissions from the equivalent conventional fuel.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1063 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1063

To repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition 
                         of alternative fuels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2009

Mr. Hensarling (for himself, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mrs. 
   Blackburn, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Cantor, and Mr. Pence) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition 
                         of alternative fuels.

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

SECTION 1. REPEAL.

    Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 
U.S.C. 17142) is repealed.
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