---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15854"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15854"
heading: "Sugar Cane Ethanol Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15854"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Renewable Energy"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §15854. Sugar Cane Ethanol Program

- (a) **Definition of program—** In this section, the term “program” means the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program established by [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Establishment—** There is established within the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) a program to be known as the “Sugar Cane Ethanol Program”.
- (c) **Project—**
  - (1) **In general—** Subject to the availability of appropriations under [subsection (d)](#d), in carrying out the program, the [Administrator](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) shall establish a [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) that is—
    - (A) carried out in multiple [States](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2)—
      - (i) in each of which is produced cane sugar that is eligible for loans under [section 7272 of title 7](/usc/7/7272.md), or a similar subsequent authority; and
      - (ii) at the option of each such [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2), that have an incentive program that requires the use of ethanol in the [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2); and
    - (B) designed to study the production of ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts.
  - (2) **Requirements—** A [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) described in [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall—
    - (A) be limited to sugar producers and the production of ethanol in the [States](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii, divided equally among the [States](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2), to demonstrate that the process may be applicable to cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts;
    - (B) include information on the ways in which the scale of production may be replicated once the sugar cane industry has located sites for, and constructed, ethanol production facilities; and
    - (C) not last more than 3 years.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $36,000,000, to remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 208, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 656.)