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This bill would make it clear that farmers and other agricultural producers can use certain federal storage facility loans to build or upgrade propane storage tanks when the propane is mainly used for farming. In simple terms, it expands the loan program so rural agricultural operations can get help financing propane storage needed for farm work.
- It changes a 2008 farm law to specifically include propane storage as an allowed use of storage facility loan funds.
- The propane must be used mainly for agricultural production, not for general non-farm purposes.
- The bill is meant to help improve rural farm infrastructure by making it easier to pay for needed storage facilities.
Official Summaries
Growing Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act or the GRAIN DRY Act
This bill specifies that funds provided under the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program may be used to construct or upgrade storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for agricultural production.
This Department of Agriculture loan program provides low-interest financing for agricultural producers to build or upgrade commodity storage facilities. Some agricultural producers use propane to power agricultural operations (e.g., grain dryers, irrigation engines, and barn heating).
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1302 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1302
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to clarify
propane storage as an eligible use for funds provided under the storage
facility loan program, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Finstad (for himself and Mr. Costa) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to clarify
propane storage as an eligible use for funds provided under the storage
facility loan program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Growing Rural Agricultural
Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act'' or the ``GRAIN DRY
Act''.
SEC. 2. STORAGE FACILITY LOANS.
Section 1614(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
(7 U.S.C. 8789(a)) is amended--
(1) by striking ``funds for producers'' and inserting the
following: ``funds for--
``(1) producers''; and
(2) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking the
period at the end and inserting the following: ``; or
``(2) agricultural producers to construct or upgrade
storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for
agricultural production (as such term is defined in section
4279.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on
the date of the enactment of this paragraph)).''.
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