Sec. 503. Expansion of rural utilities service water and waste disposal program to provide loans and grants for rural communities to adapt waste disposal facilities to incorporate anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations
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Section 306 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1926 ) is amended by inserting after subsection
(b)the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2016, in addition to any other amounts available for water or waste disposal loans and grants under paragraphs
(1)and
(2)of subsection (a), $50,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for each fiscal year shall be available for those loans and grants, of which the Secretary shall use— $25,000,000 for loans, in accordance with paragraph (2), for the adaptation of waste disposal facilities to incorporate anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations; and $25,000,000 for grants, in accordance with paragraph (2), for the adaptation of waste disposal facilities to incorporate anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations. In this paragraph, the term hunger-serving organization means a food bank, food pantry, or soup kitchen (as those terms are defined in section 201A of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 ( 7 U.S.C. 7501 )). A loan or grant is made in accordance with this paragraph if, before making the loan or grant, the Secretary has obtained from the recipient of the loan or grant— a written agreement entered into between the recipient and a hunger-serving organization providing that the recipient and the hunger-serving organization will work together to ensure that apparently wholesome food (as defined in section 22(b) of the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1791(b) )) provided to the recipient is redistributed to the hunger-serving organization for provision to people in need of food; and a written end-product recycling plan that— provides for the use of the material resulting from any anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operation with respect to which the loan or grant is made, in accordance with guidelines that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish; and ensures that the use of the material described in subclause
(I)does not create an environmental hazard. A loan or grant under paragraph
(1)may not be used for an anaerobic digester that uses solely manure as undigested biomass. The Secretary shall give preference to loans and grants under paragraph
(1)for anaerobic digesters that use primarily nonedible food, crop waste, or nonedible food and crop waste as undigested biomass. Funds made available under paragraph
(1)shall remain available until expended. .
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Expansion of rural utilities service water and waste disposal program to provide loans and grants for rural communities to adapt waste disposal facilities to incorporate anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy operations
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