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FOLLOWING IS THE DEFINITION OF RENEWABLE BIOMASS AS
WRITTEN IN HR 6, THE RENEWABLE ENERGY LEGISLATION ENACTED
INTO LAW IN DECEMBER, 2007
(I) RENEWABLE BIOMASS- The term `renewable biomass' means each of the
following:
(i) Planted crops and crop residue harvested from agricultural land cleared or
cultivated at any time prior to the enactment of this sentence that is either actively
managed or fallow, and nonforested.
(ii) Planted trees and tree residue from actively managed tree plantations on non
-federal land cleared at any time prior to enactment of this sentence, including land
belonging to an Indian tribe or an Indian individual, that is held in trust by the United
States or subject to a restriction against alienation imposed by the United States.
(iii) Animal waste material and animal byproducts.
(iv) Slash and pre-commercial thinnings that are from non-federal forestlands,
including forestlands belonging to an Indian tribe or an Indian individual, that are
held in trust by the United States or subject to a restriction against alienation
imposed by the United States, but not forests or forestlands that are ecological
communities with a global or State ranking of critically imperiled, imperiled, or rare
pursuant to a State Natural Heritage Program, old growth forest, or late successional
forest.
(v) Biomass obtained from the immediate vicinity of buildings and other areas
regularly occupied by people, or of public infrastructure, at risk from wildfire.
(vi) Algae.
(vii) Separated yard waste or food waste, including recycled cooking and trap grease.
(J) RENEWABLE FUEL- The term `renewable fuel' means fuel that is produced from
renewable biomass and that is used to replace or reduce the quantity of fossil fuel
present in a transportation fuel.
(K) SMALL REFINERY- The term `small refinery' means a refinery for which the
average aggregate daily crude oil throughput for a calendar year (as determined by
dividing the aggregate throughput for the calendar year by the number of days in the
calendar year) does not exceed 75,000 barrels.
(L) TRANSPORTATION FUEL- The term `transportation fuel' means fuel for use in
motor vehicles, motor vehicle engines, nonroad vehicles, or nonroad engines (except
for ocean-going vessels).'.