Creating fuel blend requirements for new gas stations, providing grants for fuel blend compatibility improvements, and making an appropriation. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires new retail or wholesale fueling facilities that are built on vacant land to ensure that 1) all of the facility's equipment used to store or dispense gasoline is capable of storing or dispensing a gasoline-ethanol fuel blend that contains at least 25 percent ethanol by volume; and 2) all of the facility's equipment used to store or dispense petroleum-based diesel fuel is capable of storing or dispensing a biodiesel fuel blend that contains at least 20 percent biodiesel by volume. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to provide grants to such facilities for this purpose, in an amount of $1,000 for each new dispenser or the increased cost to retrofit dispensers to meet this requirement, whichever is less. Such a grant may not be made to a facility that has received federal funds for this purpose. DATCP may not provide more than $15,000 to any single facility. Under the bill, a facility that receives such a grant must provide, from each dispenser funded by the grant, a gasoline-ethanol fuel blend that contains at least 15 percent ethanol by volume or a biodiesel fuel blend that contains at least 20 percent biodiesel by volume.

The bill also requires DATCP to provide grants to existing retail or wholesale fueling facilities to allow the facility to be able to store or dispense a gasoline-ethanol fuel blend that contains at least 25 percent ethanol by volume or a biodiesel fuel blend that contains at least 20 percent biodiesel by volume. Such a grant may be made in an amount up to 50 percent of the cost to the facility for any equipment or infrastructure installed or replaced for this purpose. Such a grant may not be made to a facility that has received federal funds for this purpose. Under the bill, a facility that receives such a grant must provide, from each dispenser funded by the grant, a gasoline-ethanol fuel blend that contains at least 15 percent ethanol by volume or a biodiesel fuel blend that contains at least 20 percent biodiesel by volume.

Who's behind it

5 representatives are its authors⁠. All 5 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DATCP