§ 16255. Preprocessing and harvesting demonstration grants

• (a) The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”) shall make grants available on a competitive basis to enterprises owned by agricultural producers, for the purposes of demonstrating cost-effective, cellulosic biomass innovations in—
  • (1) preprocessing of feedstocks, including cleaning, separating and sorting, mixing or blending, and chemical or biochemical treatments, to add value and lower the cost of feedstock processing at a biorefinery; or
  • (2) 1-pass or other efficient, multiple crop harvesting techniques.
• (b)
  • (1) Not more than 5 demonstration projects per fiscal year shall be funded under this section.
  • (2) The non-Federal cost share of a project under this section shall be not less than 20 percent, as determined by the Secretary.
• (c) To be eligible for a grant for a project under this section, a recipient of a grant or a participating entity shall agree to use the material harvested under the project—
  • (1) to produce ethanol; or
  • (2) for another energy purpose, such as the generation of heat or electricity.
• (d) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.