BECCS Advancement Commission Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Establishes a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Advancement Commission in the Department of Agriculture to study and recommend federal policy changes, metrics, and coordination steps for deploying BECCS systems and using biomass from federally managed lands.
Who Benefits and How
BECCS developers, timber and forestry stakeholders, and communities interested in forest-health, wildfire-mitigation, and energy-development benefits could gain a formal federal venue for policy recommendations that may ease future deployment barriers.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA, Interior, and Energy officials, along with commission members, would need to staff the commission, hold meetings, provide information, prepare recommendations and metrics, and support the final report and any implementing regulations.
Key Provisions
- Creates a BECCS Advancement Commission in USDA with federal officials and nonfederal representatives from forestry, State energy offices, counties, and the BECCS industry.
- Requires the Commission to meet regularly and develop policy recommendations and metrics related to BECCS deployment, community impacts, forest health, wildfire mitigation, energy reliability, supply chains, and AI and data-center energy demand.
- Requires a report to congressional committees within one year of the Commission's first meeting and permits interim reports, hearings, staffing, interagency information sharing, and temporary personnel support.
- Allows the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Interior and Energy, to issue implementing regulations and sunsets the Commission 180 days after its main report.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Establishes a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Advancement Commission in the Department of Agriculture to study and recommend federal policy changes, metrics, and coordination steps for deploying BECCS systems and using biomass from federally managed lands.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Agriculture, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Establishes a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Advancement Commission in the Department of Agriculture to study and recommend federal policy changes, metrics, and coordination steps for deploying BECCS systems and using biomass from federally managed lands.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- BECCS developers, forestry stakeholders, and policymakers seeking coordinated recommendations to facilitate BECCS deployment
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- USDA, Interior, and Energy officials and commission members responsible for appointments, meetings, analysis, reporting, and follow-on regulations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and …
Mr. Moore of Utah (for himself and Mr. Costa) introduced …
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
BECCS developers and related energy producers that could benefit from recommendations lowering future deployment barriers
USDA, Interior, and Energy officials responsible for appointments, meetings, information sharing, staffing, and the final report
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
- "energy_secretary"
- → Secretary of Energy
- "interior_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "under_secretary_rural_development"
- → Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The term is to have the meaning given in a rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary under the Act.
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