1. 1. A retail dealer shall not install, replace, or convert gasoline storage and dispensing infrastructure used to store and dispense ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15 or higher, unless the installed, replaced, or converted gasoline infrastructure, that includes all parts prior to the point where the dispenser breakaway ends, is capable of storing and dispensing E-85 gasoline.

2. 2.

   1. a. Notwithstanding subsection 1, a retail dealer may install, replace, or convert any part of the gasoline infrastructure beginning at a point where the shear valve ends and continuing until the point where the dispenser breakaway ends that is incompatible with E-85 gasoline. However, that part of the gasoline infrastructure must be compatible with the following:

      1. (1)

         1. (a) Ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15 or higher.
         2. (b) This subparagraph is repealed January 1, 2026.

      2. (2)

         1. (a) Ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-40 or higher.
         2. (b) This subparagraph shall be implemented beginning January 1, 2026.
   2. b. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2030.

3. 3. The gasoline infrastructure must be all of the following:

   1. a. Listed as compatible for use with ethanol blended gasoline classified for that part of the gasoline infrastructure as provided in subsection 1 by an independent testing laboratory or as approved by the manufacturer.
   2. b. Approved by the department or the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing subject to conditions determined necessary by the department or the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. The department or the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing may waive the requirement in paragraph “a” upon satisfaction that a substitute requirement serves the same purpose.

Motor fuel infrastructure programs and requirements for ethanol blended gasoline dispensed at retail motor fuel sites, see chapter 159A, subchapter III, and chapter 214A, subchapter III

2022 Acts, ch 1067, §29, 31; 2024 Acts, ch 1183, §4, 7

Referred to in §455G.31