S.Amdt. 2161

SA 2161. Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Lugar, and Mr. Dayton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 3058, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 276, after line 24, insert the following:

Sec. 1__. (a) In this section:

(1) The term “flexible fuel mixture” means any mixture of gasoline and ethanol up to 85 percent of which is ethanol, or any mixture of diesel and biodiesel of which 85 percent is biodiesel, as measured by volume.

(2) The term “light truck” has the meaning given that term in section 523.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).

(b) Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, using funds made available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Secretary of Transportation shall prepare and submit to Congress a report describing the feasibility and marginal production costs of making all new passenger automobiles and light trucks sold in the United States capable of using a flexible fuel mixture.