Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4430 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4430

 To amend the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to ensure that certain 
   facilities continue to be treated as alcohol-related facilities, 
  notwithstanding the distribution of spent grains resulting from the 
                   production of alcoholic beverages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2014

   Mr. Womack (for himself, Mr. Welch, Ms. Pingree of Maine, and Mr. 
   Gardner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to ensure that certain 
   facilities continue to be treated as alcohol-related facilities, 
  notwithstanding the distribution of spent grains resulting from the 
                   production of alcoholic beverages.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting the Sustainable Use of 
Spent Grains Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF EXEMPTION TO ALCOHOL-RELATED FACILITIES THAT 
              DISTRIBUTE SPENT GRAINS.

    Section 116 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (21 U.S.C. 
2206) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Spent Grains.--Notwithstanding subsection (b), the exemption 
in subsection (a) shall not cease to apply to a facility on the basis 
of such facility distributing, for use as food for animals, spent 
grains resulting from the facility's production of alcoholic 
beverages.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), as redesignated, by striking 
        ``Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b)'' and inserting 
        ``Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c)''.
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