Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 96 > Subchapter I - General Biomass Energy Development

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• alcohol: means alcohol (including methanol and ethanol) which is produced from biomass and which is suitable for use by itself or in combination with other substances as a fuel or as a substitute for petroleum or petrochemical feedstocks. See 42 USC 8802
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• biomass: means any organic matter which is available on a renewable basis, including agricultural crops and agricultural wastes and residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, animal wastes, municipal wastes, and aquatic plants. See 42 USC 8802
• biomass energy: means &mdash. See 42 USC 8802
• biomass energy project: means any facility (or portion of a facility) located in the United States which is primarily for&mdash. See 42 USC 8802
• biomass fuel: means any gaseous, liquid, or solid fuel produced by conversion of biomass. See 42 USC 8802
• Btu: means British thermal unit. See 42 USC 8802
• construction: means &mdash. See 42 USC 8802
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• cooperative: means any agricultural association, as that term is defined in section 1141j(a) of title 12. See 42 USC 8802
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Federal agency: means any Executive agency, as defined in section 105 of title 5. See 42 USC 8802
• financial assistance: means any of the following forms of financial assistance provided under this chapter, or any combination of such forms:

  (i) loans,

  (ii) loan guarantees,

  (iii) price guarantees, and

  (iv) purchase agreements. See 42 USC 8802

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• motor fuel: means gasoline, kerosene, and middle distillates (including diesel fuel). See 42 USC 8802
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office of Alcohol Fuels: means the Office of Alcohol Fuels established under section 8820 of this title. See 42 USC 8802
• person: means any individual, company, cooperative, partnership, corporation, association, consortium, unincorporated organization, trust, estate, or any entity organized for a common business purpose, any State or local government (including any special purpose district or similar governmental unit) or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any Indian tribe or tribal organization. See 42 USC 8802
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: means any of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. See 42 USC 8802
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.