House subcommittee hearing focuses on BCAP

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Luke Geiver
May 21, 2012

Before the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee concluded a series of hearings on programs potentially affected by a new Farm Bill, the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry listened to testimony on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program and other biomass-related programs set to expire.

Ryan Stroschein, director of the Agriculture Energy Coalition based out of Washington D.C., told the committee about the need to continue BCAP as part of the Energy Title because it’s the only program of its kind. “Without this program, the agricultural community is reluctant to embrace these crops and forest residues due to the risk involved,” he said. Stroschein told the committee that if national investments and policy commitments to biomass programs continue, economic and job growth will too.

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