---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13434"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13434"
heading: "Biofuels user facility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13434"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Reduction of Oil Vulnerability"
  - "Part B — Oil and Gas Demand Reduction and Substitution"
---

# §13434. Biofuels user facility

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall establish a biofuels user facility to expedite industry adoption of biofuels technologies, including production of alcohol fuels from biomass.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2), through such universities and colleges as the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) determines are qualified, shall establish a program, in accordance with sections [13541](/usc/42/13541.md) and [13542](/usc/42/13542.md) of this title, with respect to the production and use of diesel fuels from vegetable oils or animal fats. The program shall investigate—
  - (1) the economic feasibility of production of oilseed crops for biofuels purposes; and
  - (2) the establishment of a mobile small-scale oilseed pressing and esterification unit and a stationary small-scale commercial oilseed pressing and esterification unit.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XX, § 2024, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3062.)