1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to agriculture; modifying the advanced biofuel production incentive;
1.3 amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 41A.16, subdivision 7.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 41A.16, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
1.6 Subd. 7.Eligibility for participants after April 1, 2023.(a) A facility eligible for
1.7payment under this section must source at least 80 percent raw materials from Minnesota.
1.8If a facility is sited 50 miles or less from the state border, raw materials may be sourced
1.9from within a 100-mile radius. Raw materials must be from agricultural or forestry sources
1.10or from solid waste. The facility must be located in Minnesota, must begin production at a
1.11specific location after April 1, 2023, and before June 30, 2025, and must not begin operating
1.12above 23,750 MMbtu of quarterly advanced biofuel production before July 1, 2015. Eligible
1.13facilities include existing companies and facilities that are adding advanced biofuel
1.14production capacity, or retrofitting existing capacity, as well as new companies and facilities.
1.15Production of conventional corn ethanol and conventional biodiesel is not eligible. Eligible
1.16advanced biofuel facilities must produce at least 23,750 MMbtu of biofuel quarterly.
1.17 (b) No payments shall be made for advanced biofuel production that occurs after June
1.1830, 2035, for those eligible biofuel producers under paragraph (a).
1.19 (c) An eligible producer of advanced biofuel shall not transfer the producer's eligibility
1.20for payments under this section to an advanced biofuel facility at a different location.
1.21 (d) A producer that ceases production for any reason is ineligible to receive payments
1.22under this section until the producer resumes production.
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SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 1359NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: REST)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading02/13/2025
Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development 2.1 (e) Renewable chemical production for which payment has been received under section
2.241A.17, and biomass thermal production for which payment has been received under section
2.341A.18, are not eligible for payment under this section.
2.4 (f) Biobutanol is eligible under this section.
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