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Introduced August 1, 2025 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress August 1, 2025
The bill aims to grow domestic markets for biobased products and support farmers, manufacturers, and federal procurement of sustainable alternatives—but does so at the cost of added taxpayer and compliance expenses, potential environmental and market distortions, and reduced transparency unless mitigated.
Farmers, agricultural workers, and rural communities gain expanded markets and potential higher farm income and rural jobs as federal promotion, procurement, and USDA coordination increase demand for biobased agricultural and forest commodities.
Domestic manufacturers and small biobased businesses gain a more reliable federal market because agencies are required to increase purchases of biobased products and because federal purchasing preferences create steady government demand.
Consumers and producers benefit from clearer federal definitions, voluntary labeling standards, and a formal definition pathway, which reduce confusion about what counts as 'biobased' and support consistent labeling and procurement eligibility.
Taxpayers and federal agencies could face higher costs from price premiums for biobased alternatives and near‑term implementation expenses (IT updates, reporting systems, contractor work), increasing government spending.
Small manufacturers, labelers, and agencies will incur new compliance and administrative burdens (product classification, labeling, training, data reporting), raising costs and diverting resources.
Scaling biobased production without safeguards could increase land use pressure, monoculture expansion, or competition with food production, creating environmental harms and ecosystem risks.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Tightens and expands USDA and federal procurement, definitions, labeling rules, reporting, and coordination to boost production and federal purchasing of biobased products.
Directs USDA and federal procurement officials to expand and strengthen the federal biobased products program: it adds and clarifies definitions for biobased and bio-attributed products, tightens federal purchasing rules and reporting, requires training and procurement-system updates, creates a USDA Biobased Task Force to coordinate research/promotion, and bans false or misleading labeling of products that claim covered biobased terms unless they meet statutory or adopted definitions. The bill focuses on boosting domestic manufacturing from agricultural commodities, increasing federal demand for biobased goods, and improving oversight and data collection to track procurement and labeling compliance.