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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2291 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2291

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
ensure that flexible fuel vehicles may use certain gram per mile carbon 
dioxide values for purposes of determining fleet average carbon dioxide 
 standards for certain vehicles.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 15, 2025

 Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Ricketts) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
 and Public Works

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 A BILL

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
ensure that flexible fuel vehicles may use certain gram per mile carbon 
dioxide values for purposes of determining fleet average carbon dioxide 
 standards for certain vehicles.

 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 ``Flex Fuel Fairness Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDING.

 Congress finds that the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and 
Energy use in Technologies

    (GREET) model developed by Argonne National 
Laboratory finds that E85 fuel made with average corn starch ethanol 
reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent per mile traveled as 
compared to gasoline with no ethanol.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

    (2) Flexible fuel vehicle.--The term ``flexible fuel 
 vehicle'' has the meaning given the term in 

section 86.1803-01 
 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the 
 date of enactment of this Act).

    (3) Manufacturer.--The term ``manufacturer'' has the 
 meaning given the term in 

section 216 of the Clean Air Act (42 
 U.S.C. 7550).

SEC. 4. FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLE COMPLIANCE VALUE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall revise 

section 86.1818-
12 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, to ensure that, for 
purposes of determining fleet average CO<INF>2</INF> standards under 
that section, manufacturers may use a gram per mile CO<INF>2</INF> 
value for flexible fuel vehicles that is 31 percent lower than the gram 
per mile CO<INF>2</INF> value for the same vehicle make and model that 
is not a flexible fuel vehicle.

    (b) Further Adjustment.--The Administrator may, by regulation, 
apply a larger percentage reduction in the gram per mile CO<INF>2</INF> 
value for flexible fuel vehicles than the percentage described in 
subsection

    (a) if the Administrator determines that the larger 
percentage reduction is appropriate based on a version of the 
Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies

    (GREET) model developed by Argonne National Laboratory after the date 
of enactment of this Act.
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