42 U.S.C. § 15854 — Sugar Cane Ethanol Program

(a) Definition of program. In this section, "program" means the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program created by subsection (b). (b) Establishment. This section creates the "Sugar Cane Ethanol Program" within the Environmental Protection Agency. (c) Project. (1) In general: Subject to available funding under subsection (d), the EPA Administrator must set up a project that is (A) carried out in multiple states — each one growing cane sugar eligible for loans under section 7272 of title 7 (or a similar law), and each one choosing whether it also has an incentive program requiring ethanol use — and (B) designed to study making ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts. (2) Requirements: the project must (A) be limited to sugar producers and ethanol production split equally among Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii, to show the process can work with cane sugar, sugarcane, and its byproducts; (B) include information on how the process could be scaled up once the sugar cane industry finds sites and builds ethanol facilities; and (C) last no more than 3 years. (d) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $36,000,000 for this section, to remain available until spent.