113 HR 4430 IH: Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014 U.S. House of Representatives 2014-04-08 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4430 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 8, 2014 Mr. Womack (for himself, Mr. Welch, Ms. Pingree of Maine, and Mr. Gardner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to ensure that certain facilities continue to be treated as alcohol-related facilities, notwithstanding the distribution of spent grains resulting from the production of alcoholic beverages.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014.

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Applicability of exemption to alcohol-related facilities that distribute spent grains

Section 116 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (21 U.S.C. 2206) is amended— (1)by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); (2)by inserting after subsection (b) the following: (c)

Spent grains

Notwithstanding subsection (b), the exemption in subsection (a) shall not cease to apply to a facility on the basis of such facility distributing, for use as food for animals, spent grains resulting from the facility’s production of alcoholic beverages.; and (3)in subsection (d), as redesignated, by striking Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c).