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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2223 

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to improve 

assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 24, 2021 

Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Ms. COLLINS, Mrs. SHAHEEN, and Mr. KELLY) 

introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 

A BILL 

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 

of 2002 to improve assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Wood Fa5 cilities Assistance Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. COMMUNITY WOOD FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM. 

7 Section 9013 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest8 ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8113) is amended— 


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1 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘EN2 ERGY AND WOOD INNOVATION’’ and inserting 

3 ‘‘FACILITIES GRANT’’; 

4 (2) in subsection (a)— 

5 (A) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii), in the matter 

6 preceding subclause (I), by striking ‘‘woody bio7 mass, including’’ and inserting ‘‘primarily forest 

8 biomass, including processing or manufac9 turing’’; and 

10 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘Energy 

11 and Wood Innovation’’ and inserting ‘‘Facilities 

12 Grant’’; 

13 (3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Energy and 

14 Wood Innovation’’ and inserting ‘‘Facilities Grant’’; 

15 (4) in subsection (c)— 

16 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘35’’ and 

17 inserting ‘‘50’’; 

18 (B) by striking paragraph (2); and 

19 (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 

20 paragraph (2); 

21 (5) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘exceed—’’ in 

22 the matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that fol23 lows through the period at the end of paragraph (2) 

24 and inserting ‘‘exceed $5,000,000.’’; 

25 (6) in subsection (e)— 


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1 (A) by striking paragraph (1); 

2 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) 

3 through (8) as paragraphs (1) through (7), re4 spectively; and 

5 (C) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), 

6 by inserting ‘‘or market competitiveness’’ after 

7 ‘‘cost effectiveness’’; 

8 (7) in subsection (f)— 

9 (A) by striking paragraph (2); 

10 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 

11 (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and 

12 (C) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated), 

13 by striking ‘‘use or retrofitting (or both) of ex14 isting sawmill’’ and inserting ‘‘construction, 

15 use, or retrofitting of forest products manufac16 turing’’; 

17 (8) in subsection (g)— 

18 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘5 

19 megawatts of thermal energy or combined ther20 mal and electric energy’’ and inserting ‘‘15 

21 megawatts of thermal energy’’; and 

22 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘25 per23 cent’’ and inserting ‘‘50 percent’’; and 

24 (9) in subsection (h), by striking ‘‘$25,000,000 

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1 serting ‘‘$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 

2 through 2026’’. 

3 SEC. 3. WOOD INNOVATIONS GRANT PROGRAM. 

4 Section 8643 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 

5 2018 (7 U.S.C. 7655d) is amended— 

6 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘INNO7 VATION’’ and inserting ‘‘INNOVATIONS’’; 

8 (2) in subsection (c)— 

9 (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 

10 ‘‘INCENTIVIZING USE OF EXISTING MILLING’’ 

11 and inserting ‘‘EXPANDING FOREST PRODUCTS

12 MANUFACTURING’’; and 

13 (B) by striking ‘‘use or retrofitting (or 

14 both) of existing sawmill’’ and inserting ‘‘con15 struction, use, or retrofitting for forest products 

16 manufacturing’’; and 

17 (3) in subsection (d), by inserting ‘‘50 percent 

18 of’’ before ‘‘the amount’’. 

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