Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§13434 Biofuels User Facility

Title 42 › CHAPTER 134 — ENERGY POLICY › SUBCHAPTER VIII — REDUCTION OF OIL VULNERABILITY › Part B — Oil and Gas Demand Reduction and Substitution › § 13434

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must set up a biofuels user facility to help industry start using biofuels technologies, including making alcohol fuels from biomass. Using qualified colleges and universities and under sections 13541 and 13542, the Secretary must run a program on making and using diesel from vegetable oils or animal fats that studies the economics of growing oilseed crops and developing small mobile and stationary oilseed pressing and esterification units.

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Title 42, §13434

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(a)The Secretary shall establish a biofuels user facility to expedite industry adoption of biofuels technologies, including production of alcohol fuels from biomass.

(b)The Secretary, through such universities and colleges as the Secretary determines are qualified, shall establish a program, in accordance with section 13541 and 13542 of this title, with respect to the production and use of diesel fuels from vegetable oils or animal fats. The program shall investigate—

(1)the economic feasibility of production of oilseed crops for biofuels purposes; and

(2)the establishment of a mobile small-scale oilseed pressing and esterification unit and a stationary small-scale commercial oilseed pressing and esterification unit.

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42 U.S.C. § 13434

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102