To promote the use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve environmental quality.

Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, loan guarantees, and grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to promote the use of anaerobic digesters to produce renewable energy.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include the establishment of anaerobic digesters in the list of structural practices recognized under the environmental quality incentives program for agriculture.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4696 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4696

To promote the use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and 
    rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve 
                         environmental quality.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2004

  Mr. McHugh introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To promote the use of anaerobic digesters by agricultural producers and 
    rural small businesses to produce renewable energy and improve 
                         environmental quality.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS TO PRODUCE RENEWABLE ENERGY.

    Section 9006(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8106(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) promote the use of anaerobic digesters to produce 
        renewable energy.''.

SEC. 2. USE OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

    Section 1240A(6)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3839aa-1) is amended by inserting ``(including an anaerobic digester)'' 
after ``site-specific animal waste management facility''.
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