ating applications shall encourage participation by individ-
uals, companies and corporations, including publicly held 
corporations, with large land holdings devoted primarily 
to agricultural uses, particularly when their participation 
can make a significant contribution toward effectively and 
comprehensively addressing national, State, and local con-
servation priorities.’’. 
(c) FUNDING.—Subsection (a) of section 1241 of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(8) The Farmland Stewardship Process under 
section 1240Q, using, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2008 through 2012.’’. 
SEC. 102. EXPANSION OF FARMLAND PROTECTION TOOLS 
AND OPPORTUNITIES. 
Subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
1985 is amended by adding after section 1238J (16 
U.S.C. 3838j) the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1238K. RURAL LAND STEWARDSHIP IMPLEMENTA-
TION GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary shall establish a proc-
ess to make rural land stewardship implementation grants 
of up to $500,000 per county available from the funds 
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appropriated to the Secretary to carry out the Farmland 
Protection Program. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE AND USE.—The Secretary shall direct 
that these funds are to be spent in assisting the existing 
easement process, but that, notwithstanding any language 
to the contrary, special consideration shall be provided to 
establishing one or more rural land stewardship implemen-
tation programs in participating States by allowing these 
funds to be used for rural community planning and for 
developing and implementing comprehensive strategies for 
rural land preservation and the ongoing continued viability 
of agriculture, not just for the purchase of easements from 
individual owners, in order to define a process that will 
allow future appropriations from the Farmland Protection 
Program to be leveraged many times over to multiply their 
intended impact. 
‘‘(c) STRATEGIES; MODEL.—Rural community plan-
ning and the development of comprehensive rural land 
stewardship strategies shall be accomplished through a 
science based, stakeholder generated rural planning 
framework that takes market forces into consideration and 
may use as a model the procedures that have been devel-
oped and successfully implemented in the State of Florida 
under chapter 163.3177(11)(d), Florida Statutes. 
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‘‘(d) RELATION TO OTHER CONSERVATION AUTHORI-
TIES.—Eligible producers shall be required to specifically 
elect to pursue a rural lands stewardship implementation 
grant in lieu of using the same amount of funding for the 
purchase of easements from individual owners. Eligible 
producers must state that they understand that the use 
of farmland protection program funds for a rural lands 
stewardship implementation grant— 
‘‘(1) shall not preclude any eligible producer 
within a Rural Lands Stewardship Area from apply-
ing for and receiving funds for the purchase of ease-
ments under the Farmland Protection Program, but 
‘‘(2) will reduce the amount of funding avail-
able to the State for the purchase of easements 
through the Farmland Protection Program by an 
amount equal to the grant.’’. 
TITLE II—RENEWABLE ENERGY 
SEC. 201. CONSISTENT DEFINITIONS OF ‘‘BIOMASS’’, ‘‘RE-
NEWABLE 
BIOMASS’’, 
‘‘CELLULOSIC 
BIO-
MASS’’, ‘‘CELLULOSIC BIOMASS ETHANOL’’, 
‘‘CELLULOSIC 
FEEDSTOCK’’, 
AND 
‘‘LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCK’’ THROUGH-
OUT THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005.— 
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(1) Subsection (a) of section 932 of the Energy 
Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–58) is amended 
by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting: 
‘‘(1) BIOMASS.—The term ‘biomass’ means— 
‘‘(A) any organic material that is available 
on a renewable or recurring basis; 
‘‘(B) any organic material grown or col-
lected for the purpose of being converted to en-
ergy (including aquatic plants); 
‘‘(C) any organic byproduct of agriculture 
and forestry (including wastes from food pro-
duction and processing, used vegetable oil, mill 
residues, and storm-, insect- and diseased-dam-
aged crops and trees) that can be converted 
into energy; or 
‘‘(D) any waste material that can be con-
verted to energy and is derived from: 
‘‘(i) vegetative waste material (includ-
ing wood waste and wood residues); 
‘‘(ii) invasive plants; 
‘‘(iii) fibers; 
‘‘(iv) animal waste and byproducts 
(including fats, oils, greases, offal, meth-
ane gas, and manure); 
‘‘(v) non-recyclable paper; and 
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‘‘(vi) municipal solid waste (including 
sludges and oils derived from wastewater 
and the treatment of wastewater). 
‘‘(2) 
LIGNOCELLULOSIC
FEEDSTOCK.—The 
terms ‘lignocellulosic feedstock’ and ‘cellulosic feed-
stock’ mean any portion of a plant or plant byprod-
uct from conversion that is available on a renewable 
or recurring basis, and is not grown for food or feed, 
including the nonfood, non-feed portions of crops, 
trees, forest residues, and agricultural residues, as 
well as any part of a storm-, insect- or disease-dam-
aged food, feed or tree crop.’’. 
(2) Paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of section 
932 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 
109–58) is amended by adding the words ‘‘gasifi-
cation and’’ before the words ‘‘enzymatic-based proc-
essing systems’’. 
(b) BIOMASS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 
2000.—Section 303 of the Biomass Research and Devel-
opment Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–224; 7 U.S.C. 8101 
note) is amended by striking paragraph (4) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(4) BIOMASS.—The term ‘biomass’ means— 
‘‘(A) any organic material that is available 
on a renewable or recurring basis; 
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