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hearing schedule
Hearing/Meeting: Biomass Use in Energy Production:
New Opportunities for Agriculture
  Full Committee Hearing
 
Date & Time Thursday, May 6 2004
10:00 AM
Location SD-106, Senate Dirksen Office Building
   
Description Biomass is the generic term for any living matter that can be converted into usable energy through biological or chemical processes.

It encompasses feedstocks such as agricultural crops and their residues, animal wastes, wood, wood residues and grasses, and municipal wastes.
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