Federal · Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
15 U.S.C. § 3391a: “Essential agricultural use” defined
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include use of natural gas in sugar refining for production of alcohol; include use of natural gas for agricultural production on set-aside acreage or acreage diverted from the production of a commodity (as provided under the Agricultural Act of 1949 [ 7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.]) to be devoted to the production of any commodity for conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuel or other fuels; and for the 5-year period beginning on June 30, 1980 , include use of natural gas in the distillation of fuel-grade alcohol from food grains or other biomass by facilities in existence on June 30, 1980 , which do not have the installed capability to burn coal lawfully.
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