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80th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
(iii) a facility that separates recyclable materials from a
municipal solid waste stream and that is registered or permitted under Chapter
363, Health and Safety Code, as a municipal solid waste management facility;
and
(B) does not include a facility that uses biomass to generate electric
energy.
(2) "Farmer" means the owner or operator of an agricultural facility that
produces qualified agricultural biomass.
(3) "Forest wood waste" includes residual tops and limbs of trees,
unused cull trees, pre-commercial thinnings, and wood or debris from
noncommercial tree species, slash, or brush.
(4) "Logger" means a harvester of forest wood waste, regardless of
whether the harvesting occurs as a part of the harvesting of merchantable timber.
(5) "Qualified agricultural biomass" means:
(A) agricultural residues that are of a type that historically have
been disposed of in a landfill, relocated from their point of origin and stored in a
manner not intended to enhance or restore the soil, burned in open fields in the
area from which they are derived, or burned in fields and orchards that continue
to be used for the production of agricultural goods, and includes:
(i) field or seed crop residues, including straw from rice or
wheat;
(ii) fruit or nut crop residues, including orchard or vineyard
prunings and removals;
(iii) forest wood waste or urban wood waste; and
(iv) agricultural livestock waste nutrients; and
(B) a crop grown and used specifically for its energy generation
value, including a crop consisting of a fast-growing tree species.
(6) "Storm-generated biomass debris" means biomass-based residues
that result from a natural weather event, including a hurricane, tornado, or flood,
that would otherwise be disposed of in a landfill or burned in the open. The term
includes:
(A) trees, brush, and other vegetative matter that have been
damaged or felled by severe weather but that would not otherwise qualify as
forest wood waste; and
(B) clean solid wood waste that has been damaged by severe
weather but that would not otherwise qualify as urban wood waste.
(7) "Urban wood waste" means:
(A) solid wood waste material, other than pressure-treated,
chemically treated, or painted wood waste, that is free of rubber, plastic, glass,
nails, or other inorganic material; and
(B) landscape or right-of-way trimmings.
Sec. 22.003. GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The department shall develop and
administer an agricultural biomass and landfill diversion incentive program to
make grants to farmers, loggers, and diverters who provide qualified agricultural6512
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