USDA Regional Roadmap to Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022. USDA Biofuels Strategic Production Report

摘要

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is developing a comprehensive regional strategy to help recharge the rural American economy. The strategy targets barriers to the development of a successful biofuels market that will achieve, or surpass, the current U.S. Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS2), as set out in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). The RFS2, implementation provisions of which are detailed in the Environmental Protection Agency's RFS2 Final Rule (March 26, 2010 Federal Register), becomes effective on July 1, 2010. The RFS2 will create new market opportunities for American agriculture to help fulfill its mandate: the American economy will be using 36 billion gallons (bg) of renewable transportation fuel per year in its transportation fuel supply by 2022. This report is the work of multiple agencies at USDA, including Rural Development, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Forest Service, and the Farm Services Agency, as well as the Office of the Chief Economist and its Office Energy Policy and New Uses, among others, to assess: existing eligible feedstock supply and land availability, current and potential infrastructure capacity, and current and potential regional consumer demand. The report relies on the work of other agencies as inputs, though the analytical approach was developed by USDA. This is an interim product subject to revision given more inputs, including the work of the Biofuels Interagency Working Group.