Allows year-round E15 gasoline sales and changes renewable fuel rules for small refiners

§1What it does

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This bill would allow gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, to be sold year-round by extending to it an exception from summer limits on gasoline volatility that now covers gasoline with 10% ethanol.^2,3,4 It would cancel opt-outs from that exception that some states requested after January 1, 2022, let states request new opt-outs, and require the EPA to update its fuel-pump labeling and underground storage tank rules for E15.^3,4 For the Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires fuel sold in the United States to contain set amounts of renewable fuel such as ethanol, the version the House passed would end extensions of small-refinery exemptions starting in 2028 and instead cut by 75% the requirements for small refining companies, those that produced no more than 75,000 barrels of fuel a day in 2025, without shifting those amounts to other companies.⁴ It would also return compliance credits that certain small refineries used for 2016 through 2018, and let small refineries at imminent risk of closing because of compliance costs seek a one-year exemption, subject to a yearly cap and public release of their petitions.^3,4

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§3How Congress voted

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