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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 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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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 Congressional Research Service

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 October 6, 1987

Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

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