I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1190 
To promote the use of certain materials harvested from public lands in 
the production of renewable fuel, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2009 
Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN (for herself, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. ROSS, Mr. STUPAK, 
Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. DEFAZIO, and Mrs. LUMMIS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
A BILL 
To promote the use of certain materials harvested from pub-
lic lands in the production of renewable fuel, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Renewable Biomass 
Facilitation Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. RENEWABLE BIOMASS. 
Section 201 of the Energy Independence and Security 
Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140; 121 Stat. 1519) is 
amended in the amendment made to section 211(o)(1) of 
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the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545) by amending subpara-
graph (I) of such section 211(o)(1) to read as follows: 
‘‘(I) RENEWABLE BIOMASS.—The term ‘re-
newable biomass’ means— 
‘‘(A) materials, precommercial thinnings, 
or removed exotic species that— 
‘‘(i) are byproducts of preventive 
treatments (such as trees, wood, brush, 
thinnings, chips, and slash) that are re-
moved— 
‘‘(I) to reduce hazardous fuels; 
‘‘(II) to reduce or contain disease 
or insect infestation; or 
‘‘(III) 
to 
restore 
ecosystem 
health; 
‘‘(ii) would not otherwise be used for 
higher-value products; and 
‘‘(iii) are harvested from National 
Forest System land or public lands (as de-
fined in section 103 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976) in 
accordance with— 
‘‘(I) Federal and State law; 
‘‘(II) applicable land manage-
ment plans; and 
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‘‘(III) the requirements for old- 
growth maintenance, restoration, and 
management direction of paragraphs 
(2), (3), and (4) of subsection (e) of 
section 102 of the Healthy Forests 
Restoration Act of 2003 and the re-
quirements for large-tree retention of 
subsection (f) of that section; or 
‘‘(B) any organic matter that is available 
on a renewable or recurring basis from non- 
Federal land or land belonging to an Indian or 
Indian tribe that is held in trust by the United 
States or subject to a restriction against alien-
ation imposed by the United States, including— 
‘‘(i) renewable plant material, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(I) feed grains; 
‘‘(II) other agricultural commod-
ities; 
‘‘(III) other plants and trees; and 
‘‘(IV) algae; and 
‘‘(ii) waste material, including— 
‘‘(I) crop residue; 
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‘‘(II) other vegetative waste ma-
terial (including wood waste and wood 
residues); 
‘‘(III) animal waste and byprod-
ucts (including fats, oils, greases, and 
manure); 
‘‘(IV) construction waste; and 
‘‘(V) 
food 
waste 
and 
yard 
waste.’’. 
Æ 
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