---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8811"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8811"
heading: "Biomass energy development plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8811"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels"
  - "Subchapter I — General Biomass Energy Development"
---

# §8811. Biomass energy development plans

- (a) **Plan respecting maximized production and use by December 31, 1982; preparation, transmission, etc.** Not later than 180 days after June 30, 1980, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Energy shall jointly prepare, and transmit to the President and the Congress, a plan for maximizing in accordance with this subchapter [biomass energy](/usc/42/8802.md?p=4) production and use. Such plan shall be designed to achieve a total level of [alcohol](/usc/42/8802.md?p=1) production and use within the United States of at least 60,000 barrels per day of [alcohol](/usc/42/8802.md?p=1) by December 31, 1982.
- (b) **Comprehensive plan respecting maximized production and use from January 1, 1983, to December 31, 1990, preparation, transmission, etc.**
  - (1) Not later than January 1, 1982, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Energy shall jointly prepare, and transmit to the President and the Congress, a comprehensive plan for maximizing in accordance with this subchapter [biomass energy](/usc/42/8802.md?p=4) production and use, for the period beginning January 1, 1983, and ending December 31, 1990. Such plan shall be designed to achieve a level of [alcohol](/usc/42/8802.md?p=1) production within the United States equal to at least 10 percent of the level of gasoline consumption within the United States as estimated by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Energy for the calendar year 1990.
  - (2) The plan prepared under this subsection shall evaluate the feasibility of reaching the goals set forth in such subsection.
- (c) **Required guidelines—** The plans prepared under subsections [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) shall each include guidelines for use in awarding [financial assistance](/usc/42/8802.md?p=11-A) under this subchapter which are designed to increase, during the period covered by the plan, the amount of [motor fuel](/usc/42/8802.md?p=13) displaced by [biomass energy](/usc/42/8802.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title II, § 211, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 686.)