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HOUSE BILL NO. 1520

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

on January 25, 2017)

(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Knight)

A BILL to seek an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline program for gasoline sold for farm use.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Environmental Quality be directed to seek from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency an exemption from the federal reformulated gasoline program for the on-farm sale and delivery of conventional, ethanol-free gasoline for use in farm motor vehicles used exclusively for farm use as defined in §46.2-698 of the Code of Virginia. No ethanol-free gasoline sold pursuant to such exemption shall be sold or delivered to a non-farm customer or used in any road vehicle.