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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary, Tom Vilsack, has announced the establishment of a 50,000-acre project area under the USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). The project's aim is to promote the production of dedicated feedstocks for bioenergy and to spur the development ...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at the National Press Club in downtown Washington that his agency would give a boost to biofuel producers through a Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Vilsack said the USDA will soon publish the BCAP's final rule, and that means eligible biomass ...

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy and the USDA were present at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol conference in Chicago last week and put the national government's biofuel efforts into perspective. Valri Lightner, of the Biomass Program at the DOE, and William Hagy ...