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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 to change how the Renewable Fuel Standard program handles obligations for small refineries that receive exemptions. It prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from reallocating renewable fuel blending obligations from small refineries with exemption extensions to other refineries, which currently increases the obligations on those other refineries. Instead, fuel produced by exempted small refineries would be counted toward the total fuel volumes when calculating renewable fuel obligations for other obligated parties. The bill aims to prevent small refineries' exemptions from increasing compliance costs for other fuel producers.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (R-UT)
8 cosponsors
- Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] (R-WY)
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA)
- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] (R-TX)
- Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] (D-PA)
- Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA)
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] (R-WY)
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID)
Actions (2)
- Sep 9, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
- Sep 9, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 9, 2025
Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cassidy, and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
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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