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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 119
108TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 108-57
RELIABLE FUELS ACT
JUNE 3, 2003.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. INHOFE, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[to accompany S. 791]
TOGETHER WITH
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (S. 791) to amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate
methyl tertiary butyl ether from the United States fuel supply, to
increase production and use of renewable fuel, and to increase the
Nation's energy independence, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT
In 1990, the Clean Air Act was amended to include the reformu-
lated gasoline, or RFG, program. The program was designed to ad-
dress persistent pollution from automobiles. While tailpipe stand-
ards for automobiles are effective for new vehicles, the RFG pro-
gram added additional controls and was able to address emissions
from vehicles of all ages within the current fleet. RFG program was
required in metropolitan areas that have the most serious air pol-
lution levels. Although not required to participate, some areas in
the Northeast, in Kentucky, Texas and Missouri have elected to
join, or opt-in, to the RFG program as a relatively cost-effective
measure to help combat their air pollution problems. Today, rough-
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