As part of that study, one key issue is whether the agencies coordinated by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will endorse EPA’s May 2009 finding that the 2010 cellulosic biofuel volume mandate for 100 million gallons should remain unchanged.
Industry officials agree that the mandate, set by Congress in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act EISA), cannot be met after last year’s economic crisis delayed construction of commercial-scale projects, and upgrading of pilot-scale and demonstration plants to that status.
