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Farm-to-Fuel Investment Act of 2007

Introduced: May 15, 2007 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
May 15, 2007
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Farm-to-Fuel Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to designate as bioenergy cropsheds areas that are physically located within a 50-mile radius, or some other economically-practicable distance, from an existing or planned biorefinery.

States that each designated bioenergy cropshed shall include local conservation objectives, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil quality, and air quality.

Directs the Secretary, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to offer to enter into contracts with producers on a farm in a bioenergy cropshed to provide bioenergy crop transition assistance to encourage the producers to produce bioenergy crops.

What's happening now May 15, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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