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                                      "Flynn, Amy E."                   
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                                                                Subject 
                                      Good news on Cellulosic Ethanol   
                                      Plants                            
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        





Colleagues,



I just had a conference call with Bill Harnett at EPA and Amy Flynn at
OMB.  Amy will be receiving from Bill by next Friday a proposed final
rule (that EPA hopes to issue by the end of March) that will include
cellulosic ethanol plants, with dry milling plants, in the "food"
category so they have the same emission thresholds as wet-milling
plants.  Biomass gasification will still be considered an "industrial
process" (and we did not request that they be considered in the "food"
category).



Thanks to Amy Miranda for providing the analysis describing the
cellulosic process for EPA's consideration and to David Moses for the
initial discussions that he had with Bill Harnett and his staff on this.



Carmen



Carmen Difiglio, Ph.D.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis
Office of Policy and International Affairs
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585
1-202-586-8436
1-202-586-0861 (fax)