Restoring Excellence in Fuel Independence and National Energy (REFINE) Act of 2005
Latest action · Sep 19, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 15, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Restoring Excellence in Fuel Independence and National Energy (REFINE) Act of 2005 - Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) prohibit states from prescribing or attempting to enforce any control or prohibition on motor vehicle fuels or fuel additives; (2) direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue regulations to require the sale of a single blend of gasoline with a uniform chemical composition throughout the United States (identical to the composition of the gasoline most widely sold in the United States before enactment of this Act in areas other than nonattainment areas); and (3) repeal provisions relating to oxygenated fuels for nonattainment areas.
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study to identify the most viable locations in the United States for the construction of 15 new gasoline refineries. Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into contracts for the construction of such refineries and their sale to private entities.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 19, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Sep 15, 2005Introduced in House
- Sep 15, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Building construction
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Disasters
- Emergency Management
- Energy
- Energy prices
- Energy supplies
- Energy transportation
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal preemption
- Fuel
- Gasoline
- Government Operations and Politics
- Law
- Local laws
- Location of industries
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Oxygenates
- Petroleum
- Petroleum refineries
- Petroleum reserves
- Risk
- Standards
- State laws
- Strategic materials
- Terrorism
- Transportation and Public Works
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 15, 2005Introduced in House
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