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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

House votes to defund BCAP, fate lies with Senate

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Anna Austin June 17, 2011

The Biomass Crop Assistance Program is in jeopardy as the House voted to defund it, now its fate will be decided by the Senate.

On June 16, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the agricultural appropriations spending bill, H.R. 2122, which contains a component that eliminates 2012 funding for BCAP. This follows the bill’s passage in the Ag Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Appropriations Committee during the second week of June.

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