Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§15854 Sugar Cane Ethanol Program

Title 42 › CHAPTER 149 — NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS › SUBCHAPTER II — RENEWABLE ENERGY › Part A — General Provisions › § 15854

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Sugar Cane Ethanol Program at the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA must run a project, if funding is available, to study making ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane leftovers. The project must happen in several States that produce cane sugar eligible for certain farm loans, and each State can choose to have a program that encourages ethanol use. The project is limited to sugar producers in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii, split equally among those States, must show how production can be scaled up, and cannot run more than 3 years. program — the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program. Up to $36,000,000 is authorized to carry out the program and stays available until spent.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §15854

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Definition of program

In this section, the term “program” means the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program established by subsection (b).

(b)Establishment

There is established within the Environmental Protection Agency a program to be known as the “Sugar Cane Ethanol Program”.

(c)Project

(1)In general

Subject to the availability of appropriations under subsection (d), in carrying out the program, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish a project that is—

(A)carried out in multiple States—

(i)in each of which is produced cane sugar that is eligible for loans under section 7272 of title 7, or a similar subsequent authority; and

(ii)at the option of each such State, that have an incentive program that requires the use of ethanol in the State; and

(B)designed to study the production of ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts.

(2)Requirements

A project described in paragraph (1) shall—

(A)be limited to sugar producers and the production of ethanol in the States of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii, divided equally among the States, to demonstrate that the process may be applicable to cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts;

(B)include information on the ways in which the scale of production may be replicated once the sugar cane industry has located sites for, and constructed, ethanol production facilities; and

(C)not last more than 3 years.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $36,000,000, to remain available until expended.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 15854

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110