Georgia adopted exemptions to its sales and use taxes for biomass used to generate electricity.
South Carolina adopted production incentives for biomass power plants paying $0.01 per kilowatt hour. The incentive was available for ten years, from 2008 through June 30, 2018.
DOE maintains a catalog of state and federal biofuels incentives on its website.
Established a comprehensive growth policy for the state, part of which was a requirement to designate urban growth boundaries, planned growth areas, and rural areas based on projections of growth over a 20-year period.
Protects rural agricultural and forestlands outside the boundary. The Columbia Region Association of Governments proposed an urban growth boundary for the Portland region in 1977, which has been periodically amended.
Requires counties in the state with less than 200,000 acres of forest to set aside forest acreage for preservation. Washington County's Forest Conservation Ordinance provides an example.
Promotes active forest management and identifies standards for logging, road building, reforestation, streamside protection and other forest practices.
Contains forest practices rules which establish standards for timber harvesting, pre-commercial thinning, road construction, fertilization, forest chemical application and other forest practices applications.
Sets standards for all commercial activities involving the establishment, management, or harvesting of trees on Oregon’s forestlands.
Requires forest owners to submit a forest cutting plan, upon which the state conducts a field review to ensure that best management practice are utilized and that forest regeneration standard are met.