“To amend the Clean Air Act to modify the definition of renewable biomass for purposes of the renewable fuel standard, and for other purposes.”
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This section expands the definition of renewable biomass under the Clean Air Act renewable fuel standard to include materials generated from forest products and wood products manufacturing, such as wood residuals, paper residuals, sawdust, wood chips, bark, and paper recycling residuals. It also covers trees, shrubs, slash, and storm debris from non-Federal land managed under forest sustainability certification programs or classified as forest land; from National Forest System or public lands certified by the Secretaries of Agriculture or the Interior as by-products of land management activities not suitable as sawlogs; and from Indian lands. The definition further includes vegetation from defensible space around structures and from wildfire risk reduction activities in the wildland-urban interface, subject to specified certifications.