Sec. 648. Bioenergy program
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Section 932 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16232 ) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary shall conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for bioenergy, including innovations in— biopower energy systems; biofuels; bioproducts; integrated biorefineries that may produce biopower, biofuels, and bioproducts; and crosscutting research and development in feedstocks. The goals of the biofuels and bioproducts programs shall be to develop, in partnership with industry and institutions of higher education— advanced biochemical and thermochemical conversion technologies capable of making fuels from lignocellulosic feedstocks that are price-competitive with fossil-based fuels and fully compatible with either internal combustion engines or fuel cell-powered vehicles; advanced conversion of biomass to biofuels and bioproducts as part of integrated biorefineries based on either biochemical processes, thermochemical processes, or hybrids of these processes; and other advanced processes that will enable the development of cost-effective bioproducts, including biofuels.
The Secretary shall establish a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for technologies and processes to enable biorefineries that exclusively use corn grain or corn starch as a feedstock to produce ethanol to be retrofitted to accept a range of biomass, including lignocellulosic feedstocks. None of the funds authorized for carrying out this section may be used to fund commercial biofuels production for defense purposes. In this section: The term biomass means— any organic material grown for the purpose of being converted to energy; any organic byproduct of agriculture (including wastes from food production and processing) that can be converted into energy; or any waste material that can be converted to energy, is segregated from other waste materials, and is derived from— any of the following forest-related resources: mill residues, precommercial thinnings, slash, brush, or otherwise nonmerchantable material; wood waste materials, including waste pallets, crates, dunnage, manufacturing and construction wood wastes (other than pressure-treated, chemically treated, or painted wood wastes), and landscape or right-of-way tree trimmings, but not including municipal solid waste, gas derived from the biodegradation of municipal solid waste, or paper that is commonly recycled; or solids derived from waste water treatment processes.
The term lignocellulosic feedstock means any portion of a plant or coproduct from conversion, including crops, trees, forest residues, grasses, and agricultural residues not specifically grown for food, including from barley grain, grapeseed, rice bran, rice hulls, rice straw, soybean matter, cornstover, and sugarcane bagasse. .
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