---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16255"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16255"
heading: "Preprocessing and harvesting demonstration grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16255"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part D — Agricultural Biomass Research and Development Programs"
---

# §16255. Preprocessing and harvesting demonstration grants

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the “[Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4)”) shall make grants available on a competitive basis to enterprises owned by agricultural producers, for the purposes of demonstrating cost-effective, cellulosic biomass innovations in—
  - (1) preprocessing of feedstocks, including cleaning, separating and sorting, mixing or blending, and chemical or biochemical [treatments](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11), to add value and lower the cost of feedstock processing at a biorefinery; or
  - (2) 1-pass or other efficient, multiple crop harvesting techniques.
- (b) **Limitations on grants—**
  - (1) **Number of grants—** Not more than 5 demonstration [projects](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) per fiscal year shall be funded under this section.
  - (2) **Non-Federal cost share—** The non-Federal cost share of a [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) under this section shall be not less than 20 percent, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4).
- (c) **Condition of grant—** To be eligible for a grant for a [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) under this section, a recipient of a grant or a participating entity shall agree to use the material harvested under the [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12)—
  - (1) to produce ethanol; or
  - (2) for another energy purpose, such as the generation of heat or electricity.
- (d) **Authorization for appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 946, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 883.)