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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 5861 (Introduced in House) — To address the impact of climate change on agriculture, and for other purposes. · Sec. 603

Sec. 603. AgSTAR program

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The Secretary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as the Secretary ) shall maintain a program, to be known as the AgSTAR program, that— supports anaerobic digestion in the agricultural sector to reduce methane emissions from livestock waste; conducts outreach, education, and training on anaerobic digestion of livestock waste; provides technical and regulatory assistance on anaerobic digestion of livestock waste to stakeholders, including farmers and ranchers, on issues including— permitting; codigestion of multiple organic wastes in one digester; and interconnection to physically link a digester to the electrical power grid; promotes centralized, multi-farm digesters that use livestock waste from more than 1 farm or ranch; collects and reports data on anaerobic digestion of livestock waste; and maintains a database of on-farm anaerobic digester projects in the United States.
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall take such steps as may be appropriate to provide for an orderly transition of the activities carried out under the AgSTAR program of the Environmental Protection Agency to the AgSTAR program under this section. The Secretary shall carry out the program through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, in coordination with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and other Federal agencies as necessary, and in partnership with the Regional Climate Hubs, cooperative extension services, and other agencies of the Department of Agriculture.
To carry out the AgSTAR program under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary not more than $5,000,000 for each fiscal year.
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