The Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel is urging the Biden administration to follow the approach the government uses for existing biofuel programs when it develops rules to quantify and verify greenhouse gas emissions from various feedstocks for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to determine the level of Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives available to SAF producers.
“The BizAv SAF Coalition encourages the Department to enable as much adaptability and flexibility in its framework as is practicable and encourages the USDA to embrace a performance-based approach in its analysis, focusing on outcomes rather than prescriptive and exclusionary lists of acceptable feedstocks,” the coalition said in its letter.
Without the right approach and flexibility with the greenhouse gas rules, the U.S. will not be able to meet the SAF Grand Challenge goals, the coalition said. “It is likely that we will only achieve those goals through the existing scale and capabilities of U.S. agriculture through access to sustainable crop-based feedstocks,” the coalition said.