Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2517 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2517

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to improve 
    assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2025

 Ms. Perez (for herself, Mr. Newhouse, and Ms. Pingree) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and 
in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to improve 
    assistance to community wood facilities, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Community Wood Facilities Assistance 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY WOOD FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 9013 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 
(7 U.S.C. 8113) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``energy and wood 
        innovation'' and inserting ``facilities grant'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A)(iii), in the matter 
                preceding subclause (I), by striking ``woody biomass, 
                including'' and inserting ``primarily forest biomass, 
                including processing or manufacturing''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``Energy and Wood 
                Innovation'' and inserting ``Facilities Grant'';
            (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``Energy and Wood 
        Innovation'' and inserting ``Facilities Grant'';
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``35'' and 
                inserting ``50'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2);
            (5) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``exceed--'' and all that follows through 
        ``$1,500,000.'' and inserting ``exceed $5,000,000.'';
            (6) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (1);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (8) as 
                paragraphs (1) through (7), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), by 
                inserting ``or market competitiveness'' after ``cost 
                effectiveness'';
            (7) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
                paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``use or retrofitting (or both) of existing 
                sawmill'' and inserting ``construction, use, or 
                retrofitting of forest products manufacturing'';
            (8) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``5 megawatts of 
                thermal energy or combined thermal and electric 
                energy'' and inserting ``15 megawatts of thermal 
                energy''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``25 percent'' 
                and inserting ``50 percent''; and
            (9) in subsection (h), by striking ``$25,000,000 for each 
        of fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$50,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030''.

SEC. 3. WOOD INNOVATIONS GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 8643 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 
7655d) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``innovation'' and 
        inserting ``innovations'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Incentivizing Use of Existing Milling'' and inserting 
                ``Expanding Forest Products Manufacturing''; and
                    (B) by striking ``use or retrofitting (or both) of 
                existing sawmill'' and inserting ``construction, use, 
                or retrofitting for forest products manufacturing''; 
                and
            (3) in subsection (d), by inserting ``50 percent of'' 
        before ``the amount''.
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