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Introduced on March 31, 2025 by Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
This bill updates federal grants that help build and improve community wood and forest product facilities. It expands what projects can get funding—now including building or upgrading places that make wood products, not just fixing up old sawmills—and clarifies a focus on using forest biomass along with related processing or manufacturing. It also makes similar updates to the Wood Innovations Grant Program so it can fund construction, use, or retrofitting for forest products manufacturing.
The bill allows larger wood energy systems and increases the federal share of project costs. It raises the size limit for eligible thermal energy systems from 5 megawatts to 15 megawatts, and increases the cost share from 25% to 50%. It also boosts overall funding to $50,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.