§16502 Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program

Summary

If funds are provided, the Environmental Protection Agency must create the Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program. The EPA must work with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee. The program will test new ways to make alternative transportation fuels. The EPA should give priority to projects that spread fuel production to more parts of the country and that use feedstocks that made 10 percent or less of U.S. ethanol or biodiesel in the previous fiscal year. The EPA must fund competitive, merit-reviewed demonstration projects that follow the cost-sharing rules in section 16352. The projects must include at least 4 different conversion technologies for making ethanol from cellulosic biomass and at least 5 technologies that coproduce valuable byproducts (for example, fertilizers or pesticides) from biodiesel production. Congress authorized $110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009 to carry out the program.