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News from the
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE
122 C Street, NW, Suite 630 Washington,
D.C., 20001
202-628-1400 www.eesi.org
Carol
Werner, Executive Director
For Immediate Release
For More Information Contact:
March 23,
2007
Jetta L. Wong (202) 662-1885
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US Forest Service Awards 26 Biomass Utilization Grants
On March 20, 2007 Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns announced awards of $6.2 million in grants to small businesses and community groups for research and innovation in the utilization of woody biomass including renewable energy. Applications received by the Forest Service totaled 93 and more than $20 million in funding support. Awards will help groups turn low valued trees (small-diameter) and forest residues into energy and marketable products while reducing the risks of forest fires.
The US Forest Service awarded 26 grants between $125,000 and $250,000 to organizations spread from PA to NC and WA. Recipients provided 20 percent of the total project cost, and non-federal funding for all 26 projects was near $12 million. The grant program will be administered by the Forest Service's State and Private Forestry, Technology Marketing Unit at the agency's Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI.
2007 Woody Biomass Utilization Grantees
Baker Timber Products
Rapid City, SD $250,000 |
Mescalero Forest Products
Mescalero, NM $250,000 |
Barela Timber Management Co. Inc.
Las Vegas, NM $225,000 |
Mountain Valley Lumber
Saguache, CO $179,260 |
Bearlodge Forest Products Inc.
Hulett, WY $250,000 |
Mountain Parks Electric, Inc
Granby, CO $242,500 |
Dept. ForestryN.C. State University
Raleigh, NC $247,802 |
Mt. Adams Resource Stewards
Glenwood, WA $178,746 |
Elk Regional Health System
St. Marys, PA $250,000 |
Mt. Taylor Millwork, Inc
Milan, NM $250,000 |
Forest Fuels Solutions
Salmon, ID $250,000 |
North Slope Sustainable Wood LLC
Missoula, MT $248,950 |
High Country Green Waste LLC
Lakeside, AZ $249,400 |
Olguin's Sawmill, Inc.
El Prado, NM $250,000 |
Intrinergy LLC
Wiggins, MS $250,000 |
Parma Post & Pole, Inc.
Parma, ID $245,180 |
John Jump Trucking
Kalispell, MT $249,000 |
Piute County Economic Development
Junction, UT $250,000 |
JTS Animal Bedding
Redmond, OR $250,000 |
Southwest Forest Products
Phoenix, AR $250,000 |
Kane Area School District
Kane, PA $250,000 |
Ranch Creek Limited
Granby, CO $144,000 |
Kuykendall and Sons
Tres Piedras, NM $250,000 |
St. Maries Joint School District
St. Maries, ID $250,000 |
Malheur Lumber Company
John Day, OR $250,000 |
Sustainable NorthwestHealthy Forests, Healthy Communities
Portland, OR $249,560 |
USDA Release
US Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization Web Page
PDF of EESI Release
If you have questions, please email or call Jetta Wong at jwong@eesi.org or (202) 662-1885.
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The
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a
non-profit organization that works at the nexus of policy and
innovation to promote environmentally sustainable societies.
EESI was founded in 1984 by a bipartisan group of
Congressional Members dedicated to finding environmental and
energy solutions. EESI provides credible, timely
information and innovative policy ideas through coalition
building, media outreach, publications, briefings, workshops
and task forces on the issues of energy efficiency and
renewable energy, transportation, smart growth, agriculture
and global climate change. Carol Werner leads the EESI
team as executive director.
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