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<dc:title>119 S1826 IS: Growing Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-05-21</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 1826</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250521">May 21, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S376">Ms. Ernst</sponsor> (for herself and <cosponsor name-id="S311">Ms. Klobuchar</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSAF00">Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to clarify propane storage as an eligible use for funds provided under the storage facility loan program, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" id="HB1773C109D774FA5ACDE5E2067388B3E"><section id="id7508dc85cbdf48abb376527f71d72d0a" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Growing Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>GRAIN DRY Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="HA73A20191CA4418A94BE72968DFB1501"><enum>2.</enum><header>Storage facility loans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1614(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/8789">7 U.S.C. 8789(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="H8D46A4BAE53D475996490312B5ED3879"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>funds for producers</quote> and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0374EDB845C445FC88AB255BD30364F8"><text>funds for—</text><paragraph id="H046596658CDD431BAD893D6CBAB69727"><enum>(1)</enum><text>producers</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="H467637114BEA4991B391C1C6C19BFFC2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HCF3D4F6EF0CC426EB143F4C95563E92D"><text>; or</text><paragraph id="HCC696EA9EFE846D591A7C5D23F58ACED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>agricultural producers to construct or upgrade storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for agricultural production (as such term is defined in section 4279.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this paragraph)).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section></legis-body></bill> 

