[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 17 (Thursday, January 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3140. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. King) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2953 
proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the 
modernization of the energy policy of the United States, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of part IV of subtitle A of title III, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 30__. POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY.

       To support the key role that forests in the United States 
     can play in addressing the energy needs of the United States, 
     the Secretary, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
     jointly--
       (1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 
     bioenergy--
       (A) is consistent across all Federal departments and 
     agencies; and
       (B) recognizes the full benefits of the use of forest 
     biomass for energy, conservation, and responsible forest 
     management; and
       (2) establish clear and simple policies for the use of 
     biomass as an energy solution, including policies that--
       (A) reflect the carbon-neutrality of forest bioenergy;
       (B) recognize biomass as a renewable energy source;
       (C) encourage private investment throughout the biomass 
     supply chain, including in--
       (i) working forests;
       (ii) harvesting operations;
       (iii) forest improvement operations;
       (iv) bioenergy;
       (v) wood products; and
       (vi) paper manufacturing;
       (D) encourage forest management to improve forest health; 
     and
       (E) recognize State initiatives to use biomass.
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