A resolution expressing the sense of the House regarding the critical need to include the use of oxygenated fuels such as ethanol, produced from our abundant stocks of surplus grain, and methanol, which can be produced from our vast coal reserves, in air pollution control strategies required by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency for carbon monoxide and ozone nonattainment.

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Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Environmental Protection Agency strongly encourage nonattainment cities to include in their State Implementation Plans, as a cost effective and preferred pollution control strategy in meeting Clean Air Act standards, the required use of ethanol blended fuels and other oxygenated/gasoline blends in carbon monoxide nonattainment areas, and neat alcohol fuels in commercial transportation fleets in ozone nonattainment areas.

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  summary · EN · 7 August 1987

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