EPA head says decision by mid-October on E15 use

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Washington-The US Environmental Protection Agency should decide by mid-October whether to allow higher ethanol-gasoline blends in conventional vehicles for model year 2007 and later, Administrator Lisa Jackson said September 23. “We're awaiting one last set of [test] results by September 30” from the Department of Energy, she told a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee. “We're prepared to reach a decision” by two weeks later, she added.