---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16253"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16253"
heading: "Small business bioproduct marketing and certification grants"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16253"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part D — Agricultural Biomass Research and Development Programs"
---

# §16253. Small business bioproduct marketing and certification grants

- (a) **In general—** Using amounts made available under [subsection (g)](#g), the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the “[Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4)”) shall make available on a competitive basis grants to [eligible entities](/usc/42/296.md?p=1) described in [subsection (b)](#b) for the biobased product marketing and certification purposes described in [subsection (c)](#c).
- (b) **Eligible entities—**
  - (1) **In general—** An entity eligible for a grant under this section is any [manufacturer](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=3) of biobased products that—
    - (A) proposes to use the grant for the biobased product marketing and certification purposes described in [subsection (c)](#c); and
    - (B) has not previously received a grant under this section.
  - (2) **Preference—** In making grants under this section, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall provide a preference to an [eligible entity](/usc/42/256a.md?p=l-1) that has fewer than 50 [employees](/usc/42/1320a–7h.md?p=e-7).
- (c) **Biobased product marketing and certification grant purposes—** A grant made under this section shall be used—
  - (1) to provide working capital for marketing of biobased products; and
  - (2) to provide for the certification of biobased products to—
    - (A) qualify for the label described in [section 8102(b) of title 7](/usc/7/8102.md?p=b); or
    - (B) meet other biobased [standards](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) determined appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4).
- (d) **Matching funds—**
  - (1) **In general—** Grant [recipients](/usc/42/2996a.md?p=6) shall provide matching non-Federal [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) equal to the amount of the grant received.
  - (2) **Expenditure—** Matching [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) shall be expended in advance of grant funding, so that for every dollar of grant that is advanced, an equal amount of matching [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) shall have been funded prior to submitting the request for reimbursement.
- (e) **Amount—** A grant made under this section shall not exceed $100,000.
- (f) **Administration—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish such administrative requirements for grants under this section, including requirements for applications for the grants, as the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) considers appropriate.
- (g) **Authorizations of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to make grants under this section—
  - (1) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
  - (2) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2015.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 944, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 881; Pub. L. 113–79, title IX, § 9002(b), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 928.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Subsec. (c)(2)(A). Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “section 8102(b)” for “section 8102(h)(1)”.