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title: "42 U.S.C. § 8630"
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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 8630 - Renewable fuels

## Text

In providing assistance pursuant to this subchapter, a State, or any other person with which the State makes arrangements to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, may purchase renewable fuels, including biomass.

(Pub. L. 97–35, title XXVI, § 2612, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title I, § 121(b), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 616.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Report to CongressPub. L. 109–58, title I, § 121(c), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 616, provided that: “The Secretary [of Energy] shall report to Congress on the use of renewable fuels in providing assistance under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.).”