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(c) BUY AMERICAN ACT.—Beginning 3 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, any equipment used 
on lands included within a strategic solar reserve site must 
be American-made, as that term is used in the Buy Amer-
ican Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.). 
(d) SUNSET.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b)(7), the authorities contained in this section shall expire 
10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 7305. OTEC REGULATIONS. 
The Administrator of the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration shall, within two years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, issue regulations necessary 
to implement the Administrator’s authority to license off-
shore thermal energy conversion facilities under the Ocean 
Thermal Energy Conversion Research, Development, and 
Demonstration Act (42 U.S.C. 9001 et seq.). 
SEC. 7306. BIOMASS UTILIZATION PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) REPLACEMENT
OF
CURRENT
GRANT
PRO-
GRAM.—Section 210 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 15855) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 210. BIOMASS UTILIZATION PILOT PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
‘‘(1) The supply of woody biomass for energy 
production is directly linked to forest management 
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planning to a degree far greater than in the case of 
other types of energy development. 
‘‘(2) As a consequence of this linkage, the proc-
ess of developing and evaluating appropriate tech-
nologies and facilities for woody biomass energy and 
utilization must be integrated with long-term forest 
management planning processes, particularly in situ-
ations where Federal lands dominate the forested 
landscape. 
‘‘(b) BIOMASS DEFINITION FOR FEDERAL FOREST 
LANDS.—In this section, with respect to organic material 
removed from National Forest System lands or from pub-
lic lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior, the 
term ‘biomass’ covers only organic material from— 
‘‘(1) ecological forest restoration; 
‘‘(2) small-diameter byproducts of hazardous 
fuels treatments; 
‘‘(3) pre-commercial thinnings; 
‘‘(4) brush; 
‘‘(5) mill residues; and 
‘‘(6) slash. 
‘‘(c) PILOT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior shall establish a pilot 
program, to be known as the ‘Biomass Utilization Pilot 
Program’, involving 10 different forest types on Federal 
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lands, under which the Secretary concerned will provide 
technical assistance and grants to persons to support the 
following biomass-related activities: 
‘‘(1) The development of biomass utilization in-
frastructure to support hazardous fuel reduction and 
ecological forest restoration. 
‘‘(2) The research and implementation of inte-
grated facilities that seek to utilize woody biomass 
for its highest and best uses, with particular empha-
sis on projects that are linked to implementing com-
munity wildfire protection plans, ecological forest 
restoration, and economic development in rural com-
munities. 
‘‘(3) The testing of multiple technologies and 
approaches to biomass utilization for energy, with 
emphasis on improving energy efficiency, developing 
thermal applications and distributed heat, biofuels, 
and achieving cleaner emissions including through 
combustion with other fuels, as well as other value- 
added uses. 
‘‘(d) BIOMASS SUPPLY STUDY.—Prior to the develop-
ment of any biomass utilization pilot projects, the Sec-
retary concerned shall develop a study to determine the 
long-term, ecologically sustainable, biomass supply avail-
able in the pilot program area. The study shall incorporate 
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