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The National Com Growers Association has launched a campaign to actively seek public and industry support for a major increase in the production and use of regular and unleaded gasoline blended with ethanol derived from com.
The association, which consists of more than 14,000 members in 16 affiliated member state associations, has set a target of increasing the amount of com used in ethanol production to 1 billion bushels annually by 1990.
That target, which would produce 2.5 billion gallons of ethanol, is about equal to the amount of surplus com that has been produced annually in recent years. It also represents more' than a five-fold increase in the amount of com used in ethanol production in 1984.
The increased use and production of ethanol in gasoline offers a number of economic and environmental benefits that range from expanding the domestic com market and creating jobs, to providing for a cleaner and healthier environment.
The association’s announcement comes in the wake of a mandate issued March 4 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The mandate requires that the lead content in regular gasolien must be reduced by 90 percent, effective Jan. 1, for public health reasons.
The lead reduction will be done in two phases. In the first phase, lead mustbe reduced from an existing level of 1.10 grams per gallon to .50 gram per gallon, effective July 1. The second
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