Stop RIN Fraud Act of 2012

Stop RIN Fraud Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), by January 1, 2013, to establish and maintain a system under which: (1) the Administrator certifies, or authorizes accredited third parties to certify, upon generation, credits as valid and authentic for use by and transfer among persons required to comply with the renewable fuel program; and (2) each such certification is publicly disclosed. Requires the Administrator to treat any credit so certified as valid for compliance with such program.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6444 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6444

    To amend the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to establish a system for the 
certification of the validity of credits to be used for compliance with 
          the renewable fuel program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2012

 Mr. Olson (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, and 
Mr. Matheson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to establish a system for the 
certification of the validity of credits to be used for compliance with 
          the renewable fuel program, 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 ``Stop RIN Fraud Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE CLEAN AIR ACT.

    Section 211(o)(5) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(5)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) System for certification of credits as 
                valid.--Not later than January 1, 2013, the 
                Administrator shall establish and maintain a system 
                under which--
                            ``(i) the Administrator certifies, or 
                        authorizes accredited third parties to certify, 
                        upon generation, credits as valid and authentic 
                        for use by, and transfer among, persons 
                        required to comply with paragraph (2) for the 
                        purpose of such compliance; and
                            ``(ii) each such certification is 
                        publically disclosed upon certification.
                The Administrator shall treat any credit certified 
                under clause (i) as valid for compliance with paragraph 
                (2), and shall not determine any credit so certified to 
                be invalid for such compliance.''.
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