{"data":{"id":"us/15-u.s.c.-3391a","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"15 U.S.C. § 3391a","heading":"“Essential agricultural use” defined","body":"For the purposes of section 3391 of this title, the term “essential agricultural use” shall—(1) include use of natural gas in sugar refining for production of alcohol; (2) include use of natural gas for agricultural production on set-aside acreage or acreage diverted from the production of a commodity (as provided under the Agricultural Act of 1949 [7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.]) to be devoted to the production of any commodity for conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuel or other fuels; and (3) for the 5-year period beginning on June 30, 1980, include use of natural gas in the distillation of fuel-grade alcohol from food grains or other biomass by facilities in existence on June 30, 1980, which do not have the installed capability to burn coal lawfully.","path":["Title 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE","CHAPTER 60—NATURAL GAS POLICY"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc15@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:39Z","sha256":"5081077f3803979915d21e3baa275b1e35191e80718a162a73e96bb046d7f410","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/15-u.s.c.-3391","next":"us/15-u.s.c.-3392"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}