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39762
. (a) (1) The Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account is
hereby created in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
(2) The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the Agricultural Biomass
Utilization Account for expenditure for the purposes identified in
subdivision (b).
(b) The account shall be administered by the department, in
consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the California
Integrated Waste Management Board, for the purpose of providing
grants to persons that utilize agricultural biomass as a means of
avoiding landfill use, preventing air pollution, and enhancing
environmental quality.
(c) Moneys in the account shall include moneys transferred from
the General Fund pursuant to subdivision (a) and any moneys solicited
by the secretary from other sources.
(d) The secretary shall actively solicit funds from other federal,
state, and private sources with the goal of initially supplementing
and eventually supplanting the appropriation from the General Fund
made pursuant to subdivision (a).
(e) The department may implement similar grant programs for other
commodity groups that are used for the purposes set forth in
paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (e) of Section
39763.
(f) The department shall not utilize more than 7 percent of the
funds described in subdivision (a) for the administration of the
account.