HRES 254
100th Congress
House
Environmental Protection
Air pollution control
Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages
Alcohol as fuel
Common carriers
Energy policy
Gasohol
Gasoline
Motor Vehicles and Driving
Motor vehicle pollution control
Ozone
Petroleum and petroleum products
Trucks
A resolution expressing the sense of the House regarding the critical need to include the use of oxygenated fuels such as ethanol, produced from our abundant stocks of surplus grain, and methanol, which can be produced from our vast coal reserves, in air pollution control strategies required by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency for carbon monoxide and ozone nonattainment.
Introduced: August 7, 1987
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3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 6, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Aug 7, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Aug 7, 1987
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Environmental Protection Agency strongly encourage nonattainment cities to include in their State Implementation Plans, as a cost effective and preferred pollution control strategy in meeting Clean Air Act standards, the required use of ethanol blended fuels and other oxygenated/gasoline blends in carbon monoxide nonattainment areas, and neat alcohol fuels in commercial transportation fleets in ozone nonattainment areas.
What's happening now
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1