Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 119.djvu/1104

 119 STAT. 1086

PUBLIC LAW 109–58—AUG. 8, 2005

(i) FULL FAITH AND CREDIT.—The full faith and credit of the United States is pledged to the payment of all guarantees made under this section. Any such guarantee made by the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence of the eligibility of the loan for the guarantee with respect to principal and interest. The validity of the guarantee shall be incontestable in the hands of a holder of the guaranteed loan. (j) REPORTS.—Until each guaranteed loan under this section has been repaid in full, the Secretary shall annually submit to Congress a report on the activities of the Secretary under this section. (k) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section. (l) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority of the Secretary to issue a loan guarantee under subsection (b) terminates on the date that is 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 1511. RENEWABLE FUEL.

The Clean Air Act is amended by inserting after section 211 (42 U.S.C. 7411) the following: 42 USC 7546.

‘‘SEC. 212. RENEWABLE FUEL.

‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: ‘‘(1) MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE.—The term ‘municipal solid waste’ has the meaning given the term ‘solid waste’ in section 1004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903). ‘‘(2) RFG STATE.—The term ‘RFG State’ means a State in which is located one or more covered areas (as defined in section 211(k)(10)(D)). ‘‘(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Energy. ‘‘(b) CELLULOSIC BIOMASS ETHANOL AND MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Funds may be provided for the cost (as defined in the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.)) of loan guarantees issued under title XIV of the Energy Policy Act to carry out commercial demonstration projects for celluosic biomass and sucrose-derived ethanol. ‘‘(2) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall issue loan guarantees under this section to carry out not more than 4 projects to commercially demonstrate the feasibility and viability of producing cellulosic biomass ethanol or sucrosederived ethanol, including at least 1 project that uses cereal straw as a feedstock and 1 project that uses municipal solid waste as a feedstock. ‘‘(B) DESIGN CAPACITY.—Each project shall have a design capacity to produce at least 30,000,000 gallons of cellulosic biomass ethanol each year. ‘‘(3) APPLICANT ASSURANCES.—An applicant for a loan guarantee under this section shall provide assurances, satisfactory to the Secretary, that— ‘‘(A) the project design has been validated through the operation of a continuous process facility with a cumulative output of at least 50,000 gallons of ethanol; ‘‘(B) the project has been subject to a full technical review;

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