The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP): Some Implications for the Forest Industry

15 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2010

Date Written: March 30, 2010

Abstract

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) of the Department of Agriculture has proposed regulations to implement the new Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Authorized in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, BCAP is designed to ensure that a sufficiently large base of new nonfood, nonfeed biomass crops is established in anticipation of future demand for renewable energy consumption. BCAP “is intended to assist agricultural and forest land owners and operators with the establishment and production of eligible crops including wood biomass in selected project areas for conversion to bioenergy, and the collection, harvest, storage, and transportation of eligible material for use in a biomass conversion facility” (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2010, 6266). The program is proposed for a limited period of time. This paper examines some of BCAP’s implications for wood flows and for the various components of the forest industry, particularly wood growers and mill operators.

Keywords: biomass, biofuels, renewable resources, energy, bioenergy, wood, forests

JEL Classification: Q2, Q4, Q5

Suggested Citation

Sedjo, Roger A., The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP): Some Implications for the Forest Industry (March 30, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1581551 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1581551

Roger A. Sedjo (Contact Author)

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