Senate File 2181 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  JOHNSON


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for the content of ethanol in ethanol blended
  2    gasoline.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6232XS 82
  5 da/nh/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 214A.2, subsection 3, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (2), Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (2)  For ethanol blended gasoline other than E=85 gasoline,
  1  4 the following shall apply:
  1  5    (a)  Except as provided in subparagraph subdivision (b) at
  1  6 least ten percent of the gasoline by volume must be ethanol.
  1  7    (b)  At least twenty percent of the gasoline by volume must
  1  8 be ethanol.
  1  9    (i)  This subparagraph subdivision (b) takes effect six
  1 10 months after the secretary of agriculture publishes a notice
  1 11 in the Iowa administrative bulletin certifying that the United
  1 12 States environmental protection agency has approved the use of
  1 13 ethanol blended gasoline containing at least twenty percent
  1 14 ethanol by volume in this state.
  1 15    (ii)  Subparagraph subdivision (a), subparagraph
  1 16 subdivision part (i), and this subparagraph subdivision part
  1 17 (ii) are repealed six months after the secretary of
  1 18 agriculture publishes its notice of certification as provided
  1 19 in subparagraph subdivision part (i).
  1 20    Sec. 2.  SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE == APPLICATION TO THE
  1 21 UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.  The secretary
  1 22 of agriculture shall make application to the United States
  1 23 environmental protection agency to obtain approval for the use
  1 24 of ethanol blended gasoline containing at least twenty percent
  1 25 ethanol by volume in this state.  The application shall, as
  1 26 necessary, seek a waiver of relevant standards promulgated by
  1 27 the agency under the federal Clean Air Act, including but not
  1 28 limited to 42 U.S.C. } 7545 and 40 C.F.R. pt. 80.  Within
  1 29 sixty days after obtaining such approval, the secretary of
  1 30 agriculture shall publish a notice in the Iowa administrative
  1 31 bulletin certifying the approval as provided in section
  1 32 214A.2, subsection 3, paragraph "b", subparagraph (2), as
  1 33 amended by this Act.  The department shall deliver a copy of
  1 34 the notice to the Iowa Code editor.
  1 35                           EXPLANATION
  2  1    This bill amends Code section 214A.2, which provides
  2  2 standards for motor fuel, by increasing the minimum ethanol
  2  3 content of ethanol blended gasoline from 10 to 20 percent.
  2  4 The increase is effective six months after the secretary of
  2  5 agriculture publishes a notice in the Iowa administrative
  2  6 bulletin certifying that the United States environmental
  2  7 protection agency has approved the use of the increased blend.
  2  8    The bill requires the secretary of agriculture to make
  2  9 application to the United States environmental protection
  2 10 agency to obtain approval for the use of the increased blend,
  2 11 and publish notice of the approval in the Iowa administrative
  2 12 bulletin.
  2 13 LSB 6232XS 82
  2 14 da/nh/14