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[CITE: 15USC3391a]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                     CHAPTER 60--NATURAL GAS POLICY
 
             SUBCHAPTER IV--NATURAL GAS CURTAILMENT POLICIES
 
Sec. 3391a. ``Essential agricultural use'' defined

    For the purposes of section 3391 of this title, the term ``essential 
agricultural use'' shall--
        (1) include use of natural gas in sugar refining for production 
    of alcohol;
        (2) include use of natural gas for agricultural production on 
    set-aside acreage or acreage diverted from the production of a 
    commodity (as provided under the Agricultural Act of 1949 [7 U.S.C. 
    1421 et seq.]) to be devoted to the production of any commodity for 
    conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuel or 
    other fuels; and
        (3) for the 5-year period beginning on June 30, 1980, include 
    use of natural gas in the distillation of fuel-grade alcohol from 
    food grains or other biomass by facilities in existence on June 30, 
    1980, which do not have the installed capability to burn coal 
    lawfully.

(Pub. L. 96-294, title II, Sec. 273, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 711.)

                       References in Text

    The Agricultural Act of 1949, referred to in par. (2), is act Oct. 
31, 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051, as amended, which is classified 
principally to chapter 35A (Sec. 1421 et seq.) of Title 7, Agriculture. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 1421 of Title 7 and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels 
Act of 1980 which is title II of the Energy Security Act, and not as 
part of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 which comprises this chapter.
