House File 2687 - Enrolled
House File 2687
AN ACT
RELATING TO RENEWABLE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING BY
PROVIDING FOR A FINANCING PROGRAM, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE
DATE PROVISIONS.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 159A.14, subsection 1, paragraph
2 a, subparagraph (1), Code 2024, is amended by striking the
3 subparagraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
4 (1) (a) Except as provided in this subparagraph, the
5 ethanol infrastructure shall have the capacity to store and
6 dispense E-85 gasoline.
7 (b) (i) If the ethanol infrastructure is not used to store
8 and dispense E-85 gasoline, it must have the capacity to store
9 and dispense ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15 or
10 higher.
11 (ii) This subparagraph division is repealed January 1,
12 2026.
13 (c) (i) If the ethanol infrastructure is not used to store
14 and dispense E-85 gasoline, it must have the capacity to store
15 and dispense ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-40 or
16 higher.
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17 (ii) This subparagraph division shall be implemented
18 beginning January 1, 2026.
19 (iii) This subparagraph division is repealed July 1, 2030.
20 (d) The ethanol infrastructure may store, blend, and
21 dispense ethanol or ethanol blended gasoline from a motor
22 fuel blender pump. The ethanol infrastructure must at least
23 include a motor fuel blender pump that dispenses different
24 classifications of ethanol blended gasoline, if it allows E-85
25 gasoline to be dispensed at all times that the blender pump is
26 operating.
27 Sec. 2. Section 455G.30, Code 2024, is amended by adding the
28 following new subsections:
29 NEW SUBSECTION. 4A. “Dispenser breakaway” means the part
30 of gasoline storage and dispensing infrastructure that acts to
31 immediately stop the flow of motor fuel from its storage system
32 to its dispenser in the event that its dispensing hose or
33 associated hanging infrastructure becomes detached, including
34 when a vehicle pulls away from the dispenser while its nozzle
35 is attached to the vehicle.
1 NEW SUBSECTION. 4B. “E-85 gasoline” means the same as
2 defined in section 214A.1.
3 NEW SUBSECTION. 8. “Shear valve” means the part of gasoline
4 storage and dispensing infrastructure that acts to immediately
5 stop the flow of motor fuel from its storage system to its
6 dispenser in the event of an emergency hazard, including but
7 not limited to a vehicle impacting the dispenser or a fire.
8 Sec. 3. Section 455G.31, subsection 2, Code 2024, is amended
9 to read as follows:
10 2. Subject to section 455G.32, a retail dealer may use
11 gasoline storage and dispensing infrastructure to store and
12 dispense ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-9 or higher
13 if the department under this subchapter, or the director of the
14 department of inspections, appeals, and licensing under chapter
15 101, determines that the gasoline infrastructure is compatible
16 with the classification of ethanol blended gasoline being used.
17 Sec. 4. Section 455G.32, Code 2024, is amended to read as
18 follows:
19 455G.32 E-85 gasoline Ethanol blended gasoline —— compatible
20 infrastructure —— compliance requirement.
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21 1. A retail dealer shall not install, replace, or convert
22 gasoline storage and dispensing infrastructure used to store
23 and dispense ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15 or
24 higher, unless the installed, replaced, or converted gasoline
25 infrastructure, that includes all parts prior to the point
26 where the dispenser breakaway ends, is capable of storing
27 and dispensing ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-85
28 gasoline.
29 2. a. Notwithstanding subsection 1, a retail dealer
30 may install, replace, or convert any part of the gasoline
31 infrastructure beginning at a point where the shear valve ends
32 and continuing until the point where the dispenser breakaway
33 ends that is incompatible with E-85 gasoline. However, that
34 part of the gasoline infrastructure must be compatible with the
35 following:
1 (1) (a) Ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15 or
2 higher.
3 (b) This subparagraph is repealed January 1, 2026.
4 (2) (a) Ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-40 or
5 higher.
6 (b) This subparagraph shall be implemented beginning
7 January 1, 2026.
8 b. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2030.
9 2. 3. The gasoline infrastructure must be all of the
10 following:
11 a. Listed as compatible for use with ethanol blended
12 gasoline classified for that part of the gasoline
13 infrastructure as E-85 provided in subsection 1 by an
14 independent testing laboratory or as approved by the
15 manufacturer.
16 b. Approved by the department or state fire marshal the
17 director of the department of inspections, appeals, and
18 licensing subject to conditions determined necessary by the
19 department or state fire marshal the director of the department
20 of inspections, appeals, and licensing. The department
21 or state fire marshal the director of the department of
22 inspections, appeals, and licensing may waive the requirement
23 in paragraph “a” upon satisfaction that a substitute
24 requirement serves the same purpose.
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25 Sec. 5. Section 455G.33, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
26 2024, is amended to read as follows:
27 b. Approved by the department, or director of the department
28 of inspections, appeals, and licensing under chapter 101,
29 subject to conditions determined necessary by the department
30 or director of the department of inspections, appeals, and
31 licensing. The department or director of the department of
32 inspections, appeals, and licensing may waive the requirement
33 in paragraph “a” upon satisfaction that a substitute
34 requirement serves the same purpose.
35 Sec. 6. APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL INCENTIVES. This
1 Act does not require the renewable fuel infrastructure board
2 established in section 159A.13 to reconsider or reapprove a
3 decision made prior to the effective date of this Act for
4 an award of financial incentives under the renewable fuel
5 infrastructure program for retail motor fuel sites established
6 in section 159A.14.
7 Sec. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate
8 importance, takes effect upon enactment.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY AMY SINCLAIR
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 2687, Ninetieth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2024 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 159A.14, 455G.30, 455G.31, 455G.32, 455G.33
Enrolled: 159A.14, 455G.30, 455G.31, 455G.32, 455G.33