side-by-side-farm-bill-2024-wood-innovations-grants-program-2b6d6fcf4a18f216.pdf

The document provides a legislative side-by-side analysis of the Wood Innovations Grants Program, highlighting proposed House changes to expand grant purposes to include new facility construction and hauling of hazardous fuels, while introducing new priority criteria for carbon reduction strategies and community resilience analysis. It also notes a proposed change to the matching fund requirement from 100 percent to 50 percent of the grant amount.

• The Wood Innovations Grants Program, established in 2015, supports wood product and energy markets to aid forest land management, with specific focus areas including mass timber, renewable wood energy, and sustainable forest management to build resilience against climate impacts such as wildfires.
• In fiscal year 2021, the program awarded $8.9 million across 44 projects, with 21 of those projects focusing on mass timber, including cross-laminated timber.
• Recent funding for the program includes $30 million appropriations for FY 2023 and FY 2024, $100 million authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act, and $60 million allocated over five years via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the Community Wood Grant and Wood Innovations Grants programs.
• The House Agriculture Committee's proposed version of the Farm Bill seeks to expand the program's scope to include the construction of new facilities and the hauling of material removed to reduce hazardous fuels. It also proposes shifting the non-Federal matching fund requirement from an amount equal to the grant to 50 percent of the grant amount.
• The House proposal introduces new priority criteria for grant selection, including projects that enhance carbon reduction strategies in building design and interior wood products, and those that provide analysis on benefits to community resilience and economy, such as wildfire risk reduction and increased fiber flow.

APA

Environmental and Energy Study Institute (n.d.). side-by-side-farm-bill-2024-wood-innovations-grants-program-2b6d6fcf4a18f216.pdf. https://www.eesi.org/files/Side-by-Side-Farm-Bill-2024-Wood-Innovations-Grants-Program.pdf

Chicago

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