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Protect Consumers from Reallocation Costs Act of 2025
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the reallocation of applicable volumes for small refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Clean Air Act's Renewable Fuel Standard to prohibit the EPA from reallocating renewable fuel obligations away from small refineries that have received extensions of exemptions from the renewable fuel requirements. The bill specifies that when calculating renewable fuel obligations for a company, the EPA must include fuel produced by small refineries owned or operated by that company that have exemption extensions in the total volume of fuel produced. This change prevents the EPA from reassigning renewable fuel blending requirements that would otherwise apply to exempt small refineries to other fuel producers.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3] (R-UT)
18 cosponsors
- Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5] (R-OK)
- Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2] (R-TX)
- Rep. Ellzey, Jake [R-TX-6] (R-TX)
- Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1] (R-ID)
- Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-TX-26] (R-TX)
- Rep. Goldman, Craig A. [R-TX-12] (R-TX)
- Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY)
- Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1] (R-OK)
- Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13] (R-PA)
- Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1] (R-AL)
- Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1] (R-UT)
- Rep. Moran, Nathaniel [R-TX-1] (R-TX)
- Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1] (D-NJ)
- Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] (R-PA)
- Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11] (R-TX)
- Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (R-TX)
- Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24] (R-TX)
- Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25] (R-TX)
Actions (2)
- Sep 30, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Sep 30, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 30, 2025
Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the reallocation of applicable volumes for small refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Protect Consumers from Reallocation Costs Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REALLOCATION OF OBLIGATED VOLUMES.
Section 211(o)(9) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(9)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(E) Prohibition on reallocation.—
“(i) In general.—For the purpose of making the determinations in paragraph
(2)(B)(ii), for each calendar year, the Administrator may not reallocate to other persons any renewable fuel obligation applicable to a small refinery to which an extension of an exemption under subparagraph
(B) applies.
“(ii) Inclusion of volumes by a small refinery.—In determining the renewable fuel obligations for a person for a calendar year, the Administrator shall include the gasoline or diesel refined by a small refinery owned or operated by that person to which an extension of an exemption under subparagraph (B) applies in the total volume of gasoline or diesel fuel produced or imported in that calendar year.”. <all>
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