BECCS Advancement Commission Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Moore (UT)
Introduced
Summary
Would create a BECCS Advancement Commission to guide deployment and policy for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. It would advise on economic, energy, and environmental impacts and coordinate federal agencies on biomass supply chains and forest health.
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- Rural communities and counties: At least one and up to two county representatives from areas receiving Secure Rural Schools funds would sit on the commission. The panel would focus on forestry economic development and wildfire mitigation for those communities.
- Forest managers and federal land agencies: The commission would include senior officials or designees from the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, giving land managers a formal role in shaping BECCS sourcing and land-use recommendations.
- BECCS industry and energy sector: Four industry representatives plus state timber and energy association designees would help craft recommendations to streamline biomass offtake contracts, strengthen domestic supply chains, and assess energy reliability and AI infrastructure energy demands.
- Federal oversight and reporting: The commission would be empowered to hold hearings, request information from agencies, and deliver a comprehensive report within one year of its first meeting with policy and metric recommendations for Congress.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
USDA commission to guide BECCS policy
This bill would create a BECCS policy commission inside USDA. It would advise on how to deploy bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Within 1 year after its first meeting, it would send Congress a report with policy ideas and metrics. The report would look at jobs, energy costs and reliability, supply chains, data center energy needs, forest health, wildfire risk, clean energy output, and forestry economic growth. It could recommend laws and rules to use biomass from federal lands, with streamlined offtake contracts and better agency coordination. The commission would end 180 days after it submits that report.
How the BECCS commission would run
The commission would meet first within 30 days after all members are appointed and at least every 90 days after. Members could join by phone or video; a majority would be a quorum. It could hold hearings, get needed information from federal agencies, and accept donated services or property. The chair could hire an executive director and staff outside normal civil service rules, but pay would be capped at the Executive Schedule level V rate. Federal staff could be detailed to help without losing status. Members would not be paid a salary, but could get travel costs and per diem under federal rules.
Who serves on the BECCS commission
The bill would set who sits on the commission. It would include key federal officials, state foresters, state energy officials, the timber industry, four BECCS industry members, and one or two county reps from Secure Rural Schools counties. The Under Secretary for Rural Development would chair. The Secretary would appoint non‑federal members within 180 days after enactment and could remove them only for cause. If the chair’s position is vacant, the Secretary could name another listed federal member to serve as chair until filled. Vacancies would not stop the commission’s work and would be filled the same way.
USDA could define the BECCS industry
The Secretary of Agriculture, with Interior and Energy, could write rules to carry out this act. Those rules would define who is in the “BECCS industry.” The effects would depend on how the rules are written.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Moore (UT)
UT • R
Cosponsors
Costa
CA • D
Sponsored 9/26/2025
Flood
NE • R
Sponsored 1/6/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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