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Appendix B Letter from Senator Lugar
Pages 223-225

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... Appendix B Letter from Senator Richard G Lugar
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... Our Committee hearing was called to discuss the restraints which current EPA policies place on refiners who wish to use ethanol blends in reformulated gasoline and the effect of reduced ethanol use on the farm economy and on deficiency payments. Under the RFG program, the EPA judges fuel blends solely by their total mass of emissions of volatile organic compounds ( nVOC.
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... And since exhaust VOCQ are believed to have a greater propensity to form ozone the" evaporative VOCs, the greater reduction in exhaust VOCs achieved by certain ethanol RFG blends may counterbalance their greater mass of evaporative VOCs. Furthermore, because of the additional oxygen, these blends may contain leas carbon monoxide than non-etha~ol blends, further reducing their tendency to form ozone since carbon monoxide i" a recognized precursor of ozone.
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