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To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles,…

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To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 16, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Mar 9, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Jan 3, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Dec 17, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2586-2587)
Dec 16, 2005
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Ways and Means, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 16, 2005
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Clean Air Act to extend to 2025 certain requirements increasing the applicable volume of renewable fuel in gasoline.

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require 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 agency purchases such gasoline with at least 10% ethanol, rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for its vehicles that use gasoline.

Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2015 to the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program; and (2) direct the Secretary of Agriculture to give priority to production of both cellulosic ethanol, and hydrogen using ethanol technology.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make ethanol and biodiesel refining property eligible for 7-year depreciation.

Creates a new flexible fuel hybrid motor vehicle income tax credit.

Extends: (1) the alternative technology vehicle credit through calendar 2014; (2) the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit through calendar 2024; (3) the volumetric excise tax credit for alternative fuels and the alternative fuel mixture credit through FY2014; and (6) the biodiesel producer credit and the small ethanol producer credit through calendar 2024.

What's happening now March 9, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Mar 14, 2006
 R
Graves, Sam
Missouri · Feb 16, 2006
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4573: To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other purposes.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4573/
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"H.R. 4573: To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other purposes.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4573/.
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H.R. 4573, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4573/.
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[H.R. 4573: To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, to require Federal agencies to use ethanol and biodiesel in government vehicles, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4573/)
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