USDA announces REAP funding, 5 biomass projects benefit

Biomass Magazine
By Erin Voegele
August 14, 2012

On August 14 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 106 projects have been awarded funding under the USDA Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program. The REAP program, which was authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, provides grants and loan guarantees for agricultural producers and rural small businesses to reduce energy consumption and costs, use renewable energy technologies in their operations, and conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy projects.

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