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culture and consult with other departments and agencies 
of the Federal Government. 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall appoint 
the members of the Council from among the staff of 
the agencies and mission areas of the Department of 
Agriculture with responsibilities relating to energy 
programs or policies. 
‘‘(2) CHAIR.—The chief economist and the 
Under Secretary for Rural Development of the De-
partment of Agriculture shall serve as the Chairs of 
the Council. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES OF OFFICE OF ENERGY POLICY AND 
NEW USES.—The Office of Energy Policy and New Uses 
of the Department of Agriculture shall support the activi-
ties of the Council.’’. 
SEC. 5011. FOREST BIOENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAM. 
Title IX of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 9013. FOREST BIOENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture, 
working through the Forest Service, in cooperation with 
other Federal agencies, land grant colleges and univer-
sities, and private entities, shall conduct a competitive re-
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search and development program to encourage new forest- 
to-energy technologies. The Secretary may use grants, co-
operative agreements, and other methods to partner with 
cooperating entities on projects that the Secretary deter-
mines shall best promote new forest-to-energy tech-
nologies. 
‘‘(b) PRIORITY FOR PROJECT SELECTION.—The Sec-
retary shall give priority to projects that— 
‘‘(1) develop technology and techniques to use 
low value forest materials, such as byproducts of for-
est health treatments and hazardous fuel reduction, 
for the production of energy; 
‘‘(2) develop processes for the conversion of cel-
lulosic forest materials that integrate production of 
energy into existing manufacturing steams or in in-
tegrated forest biorefineries; 
‘‘(3) develop new transportation fuels that use 
forest materials as a feedstock for the production of 
such fuels; or 
‘‘(4) improve the of growth and yield of trees 
for the purpose of renewable energy and other forest 
product use. 
‘‘(c) FUNDING.—Of the funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
make available to carry out this section— 
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‘‘(1) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(2) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(3) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; 
‘‘(4) $9,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; and 
‘‘(5) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.’’. 
TITLE VI—CARBON-NEUTRAL 
GOVERNMENT 
SEC. 6001. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Carbon-Neutral Gov-
ernment Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 6002. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The harms associated with global warming 
are serious and well recognized. These include the 
global retreat of mountain glaciers, reduction in 
snow cover extent, the earlier spring melting of riv-
ers and lakes, the accelerated rate of rise of sea lev-
els during the 20th century relative to the past few 
thousand years, and increased intensity of hurri-
canes and typhoons. 
(2) The risks associated with a global mean 
surface temperature increase above 2 °C (3.6 °F) 
above preindustrial temperature are grave. Accord-
ing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change, such temperature increases would increase 
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the severity of ongoing alterations of terrestrial and 
marine environments, with potentially catastrophic 
results. Ongoing and projected effects include more 
prevalent droughts in dry regions, an increase in the 
spread of disease, a significant reduction in water 
storage in winter snowpack in mountainous regions 
with direct and important economic consequences, a 
precipitous rise in sea levels by the end of the cen-
tury, the potential devastation of coastal commu-
nities, severe and irreversible changes to natural eco-
systems such as the bleaching and destruction of 
much of the world’s coral, and the potential extinc-
tion of 30 percent of all living species. 
(3) That these climate change effects and risks 
of future effects are widely shared does not minimize 
the adverse affects individual persons have suffered, 
will suffer, and are at risk of suffering because of 
global warming. 
(4) That some of the adverse and potentially 
catastrophic effects of global warming are presently 
at risk of occurring and not a certainty does not ne-
gate the harm persons suffer from actions that in-
crease the likelihood, extent, and severity of such fu-
ture impacts. 
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