United States Motor Fuel Independence Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] United States Motor Fuel Independence Act of 1979 - Amends the Clean Air Act to exempt industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols used in any fuel from the fuel registration and limitation on distribution requirements of such Act. Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide information to the public concerning alcohol fuels, including information on loans for production of such fuels and construction of alcohol fuel plants and technical and nontechnical information. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to make grants to educational, governmental, and nongovernmental institutions for research into the production and marketing of: (1) specified coal derivatives for the manufacture of agricultural chemicals, methanol, methyl fuel, and alcohol-blended motor fuel; and (2) alcohol and other industrial hydrocarbons made from agricultural commodities and forest products. Requires that special emphasis be placed on research into new and undeveloped crops suitable for conversion to alcohol fuels, human and animal consumption of digestible byproducts of alcohol production, and reduction of nitrous oxide emis…