PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Treats certain uses of natural gas as "essential agricultural use" under section 3391. It includes gas used in sugar refining to make alcohol, gas used on set-aside or acreage diverted under the Agricultural Act of 1949 when the land is grown for crops to be turned into alcohol or hydrocarbons for motor or other fuels, and, for the 5-year period beginning on June 30, 1980, gas used to distill fuel-grade alcohol from food grains or other biomass at plants that existed on June 30, 1980 and that could not legally burn coal.

Title 15, §3391a

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purposes of section 3391 of this title, the term “essential agricultural use” shall—

(1)include use of natural gas in sugar refining for production of alcohol;

(2)include use of natural gas for agricultural production on set-aside acreage or acreage diverted from the production of a commodity (as provided under the Agricultural Act of 1949 [7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.]) to be devoted to the production of any commodity for conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuel or other fuels; and

(3)for the 5-year period beginning on June 30, 1980, include use of natural gas in the distillation of fuel-grade alcohol from food grains or other biomass by facilities in existence on June 30, 1980, which do not have the installed capability to burn coal lawfully.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Agricultural Act of 1949, referred to in par. (2), is act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051, which is classified principally to chapter 35A (§ 1421 et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1421 of Title 7 and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act of 1980 which is title II of the Energy Security Act, and not as part of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 which comprises this chapter.

§3391a “essential Agricultural Use” Defined