Farm Bill Legislative Side-By-Side

The document provides a legislative side-by-side analysis of the Community Wood Grant Program, detailing how the House version of the Farm Bill proposes to rename the program, increase project funding caps, expand the capacity of energy systems, and increase the funding allocation for innovative wood product facilities compared to current law.

• The House Agriculture Committee proposes renaming the "Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program" to the "Community Wood Facilities Program".
• The House version suggests significantly increasing the maximum grant amount for a single project to $5,000,000, whereas current law caps grants at $1,000,000 for general authority and $1,500,000 for special circumstances.
• Proposed House amendments would increase the maximum nameplate capacity for community wood energy systems from 5 megawatts to 15 megawatts of thermal or combined thermal and electric energy.
• The House proposal seeks to double the maximum percentage of annual program funds that can be allocated to innovative wood product facilities, raising the limit from 25 percent to 50 percent.
• The House version proposes extending the program's authorized appropriation of $25,000,000 per year through fiscal year 2029, whereas current law authorized this funding through FY 2023.
• The House version modifies the definition of a community wood energy system to specify that it uses "primarily forest biomass, including processing or manufacturing residuals" rather than the broader "woody biomass, including residuals".
• The program has a history of funding carbon-sequestering technologies; in FY 2021, it provided $2.1 million to six projects, including a biochar plant.

APA

Environmental and Energy Study Institute (2024). Farm Bill Legislative Side-By-Side. https://www.eesi.org/files/Side-by-Side-Farm-Bill-2024-Community-Wood-Grant-Program.pdf

Chicago

Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Farm Bill Legislative Side-By-Side. 2024. https://www.eesi.org/files/Side-by-Side-Farm-Bill-2024-Community-Wood-Grant-Program.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{environmentalandenergystudyinstitute2024farm, author = {{Environmental and Energy Study Institute}}, title = {{Farm Bill Legislative Side-By-Side}}, institution = {Environmental and Energy Study Institute}, year = {2024}, month = jul, url = {https://www.eesi.org/files/Side-by-Side-Farm-Bill-2024-Community-Wood-Grant-Program.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }