Sec. 504. Grants for composting and anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy projects
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Subtitle G of the Solid Waste Disposal Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6971 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Administrator shall establish a grant program to award grants to States and Tribes eligible to receive the grants under subsection (b)(1) to construct large-scale composting or anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy projects. In order to be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State or Tribe shall— have in effect a plan to limit the quantity of food waste that may be disposed of in landfills in the State or Tribe; and provide to the Administrator— a written commitment that the State has read and agrees to comply with the Food Recovery Hierarchy of the Environmental Protection Agency, particularly as applied to apparently wholesome food (as defined in section 22(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 ( 42 U.S.C. 1791(b) )) that may be provided to or received by the State; and a written end-product recycling plan that provides for the beneficial 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 a manner that meets all applicable Federal, State, Tribal, and local laws that protect human health and the environment.
A grant under subsection
(a)may not be used for an anaerobic digester that uses solely manure as undigested biomass. The Administrator shall give preference to grants under subsection
(a)for anaerobic digesters that use primarily nonedible food, crop waste, or nonedible food and crop waste as undigested biomass. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each fiscal year. . The table of contents for the Solid Waste Disposal Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 7010 the following: Sec. 7011. Grants for composting and anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy projects. .
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