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To promote renewable fuel and energy security of the United States, and for other purposes. 1/18/2007--Introduced. Biofuels Security Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to replace provisions prescribing the volume of renewable fuel that gasoline sold in the United States must contain with provisions that require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine the applicable volume for 2010 and beyond. Requires such volume to be at least 10 billion gallons in 2010, 30 billion gallons in 2020, and 60 billion gallons in 2030. Requires the Secretary of Energy to promulgate regulations to ensure that each major oil company that sells gasoline in the United States through wholly-owned or branded stations provides pumps that dispense E-85 fuel (a blend approximately 85% of the content of which is derived from ethanol produced in the United States) at not less than: (1) a specified percentage of all of its stations (increasing from 5% in 2008 [...] show full description
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- 03/20/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
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- 01/18/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 01/18/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
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show all actions- 03/20/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
- 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- 01/18/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 01/18/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- 01/18/2007 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
- 01/18/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
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