Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act of 2023

Subjects: Agriculture and Food


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2386 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2386

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to improve 
    assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2023

  Ms. Perez (for herself, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Newhouse, and Ms. Kuster) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to improve 
    assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Wood Facilities Assistance 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY WOOD FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 9013 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 
(7 U.S.C. 8113) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``energy and wood 
        innovation'' and inserting ``facilities grant'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii), in the matter 
                preceding subclause (I), by striking ``woody biomass, 
                including'' and inserting ``primarily forest biomass, 
                including processing or manufacturing''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``Energy and Wood 
                Innovation'' and inserting ``Facilities Grant'';
            (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``Energy and Wood 
        Innovation'' and inserting ``Facilities Grant'';
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``35'' and 
                inserting ``50'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2);
            (5) in subsection (d), by striking ``exceed--'' in the 
        matter preceding paragraph (1) and all that follows through the 
        period at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting ``exceed 
        $5,000,000.'';
            (6) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (1);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (8) as 
                paragraphs (1) through (7), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), by 
                inserting ``or market competitiveness'' after ``cost 
                effectiveness'';
            (7) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
                paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``use or retrofitting (or both) of existing 
                sawmill'' and inserting ``construction, use, or 
                retrofitting of forest products manufacturing'';
            (8) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``5 megawatts of 
                thermal energy or combined thermal and electric 
                energy'' and inserting ``15 megawatts of thermal 
                energy''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``25 percent'' 
                and inserting ``50 percent''; and
            (9) in subsection (h), by striking ``$25,000,000 for each 
        of fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$50,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028''.

SEC. 3. WOOD INNOVATIONS GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 8643 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 
7655d) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``innovation'' and 
        inserting ``innovations'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Incentivizing Use of Existing Milling'' and inserting 
                ``Expanding Forest Products Manufacturing''; and
                    (B) by striking ``use or retrofitting (or both) of 
                existing sawmill'' and inserting ``construction, use, 
                or retrofitting for forest products manufacturing''; 
                and
            (3) in subsection (d), by inserting ``50 percent of'' 
        before ``the amount''.
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