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tions for ensuring their use by Federal agencies and 
other appropriate entities; 
(5) develop and propose a coordinated strategy 
for funding and allocating responsibilities among 
Federal agencies for climate and other global change 
data collection, management, and retention; 
(6) make recommendations for ensuring that 
particular attention is paid to the collection, man-
agement, and archiving of metadata; 
(7) make recommendations for ensuring a uni-
fied and coordinated Federal capital investment 
strategy with respect to climate and other global 
change data collection, management, and archiving; 
(8) evaluate the data record from each observ-
ing system and make recommendations to ensure 
that delivered data are free from time-dependent bi-
ases and random errors before they are transferred 
to long-term archives; and 
(9) evaluate optimal design of observation sys-
tem components to ensure a cost-effective, adequate 
set of observations detecting and tracking global 
change. 
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TITLE V—AGRICULTURE 
ENERGY 
SEC. 5001. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Title IX of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) is amended by insert-
ing before section 9001 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 9000. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
‘‘The table of contents of this title is as follows: 
‘‘TITLE IX—ENERGY 
‘‘Sec. 9000. Table of contents. 
‘‘Sec. 9001. Definitions. 
‘‘Sec. 9002. Federal procurement of biobased products. 
‘‘Sec. 9003. Biorefinery development grants; loan guarantees for biorefineries 
and biofuel production plants. 
‘‘Sec. 9004. Biodiesel fuel education program. 
‘‘Sec. 9005. Energy audit and renewable energy development program. 
‘‘Sec. 9006. Rural energy for America program. 
‘‘Sec. 9007. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. 
‘‘Sec. 9008. Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000. 
‘‘Sec. 9009. Cooperative research and extension projects. 
‘‘Sec. 9010. Continuation of bioenergy program. 
‘‘Sec. 9011. Research, extension, and educational programs on biobased energy 
technologies and products. 
‘‘Sec. 9012. Energy Council of the Department of Agriculture. 
‘‘Sec. 9013. Forest bioenergy research program.’’. 
SEC. 5002. FEDERAL PROCUREMENT OF BIOBASED PROD-
UCTS. 
Section 9002 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8102) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘, com-
posed of at least five percent of intermediate ingredi-
ents and feedstocks (such as biopolymers, methyl 
soyate, and soy polyols) as designated by the Sec-
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retary,’’ after ‘‘highest percentage of biobased prod-
ucts practicable’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (h)(2) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of the New 
Direction for Energy Independence, National 
Security, and Consumer Protection Act, the 
Secretary, in consultation with other Federal 
departments and agencies and with non-govern-
mental groups with an interest in biobased 
products, including small and large producers 
of biobased materials and products, industry, 
trade organizations, academia, consumer orga-
nizations, and environmental organizations, 
shall issue criteria for determining which prod-
ucts may qualify to receive the label under 
paragraph (1). The criteria shall encourage the 
purchase of products with the maximum 
biobased content, and should, to the maximum 
extent possible, be consistent with the guide-
lines issued under subsection (e). 
‘‘(B) INTERMEDIATE INGREDIENTS.—The 
criteria issued under subparagraph (A) shall 
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