Sec. 12006. Biofuel infrastructure and agriculture product market expansion
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $960,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to carry out this section. The Secretary shall use the amounts made available by subsection
(a)to provide grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities described in subsection (c)— to install, retrofit, or otherwise upgrade fuel dispensers or pumps and related equipment, storage tank system components, and other infrastructure required at a location to ensure the environmentally safe availability of fuel containing ethanol blends at levels greater than 10 percent (as determined by the Secretary) or fuel containing biodiesel blends at levels greater than 20 percent (as determined by the Secretary); and to build and retrofit distribution systems for ethanol blends, traditional and pipeline biodiesel terminal operations (including rail lines), and home heating oil distribution centers or equivalent entities— to blend biodiesel; and to carry ethanol and biodiesel. Entities eligible to receive a grant under this section are transportation fueling facilities and distribution facilities, including fueling stations, convenience stores, hypermarket retailer fueling stations, fleet facilities, as well as fuel terminal operations, midstream partners, and heating oil distribution facilities or equivalent entities. The Federal share of the total cost of carrying out a project for which a grant is provided under this section shall be not more than 75 percent. The Secretary may not limit the amount of funding an eligible entity may receive under this section.