Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act of 2025

The "Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act of 2025" aims to significantly improve federal support for community wood facilities and forest products manufacturing by amending two key grant programs: the Community Wood Facilities Grant Program and the Wood Innovations Grant Program, broadening their scope and increasing financial assistance. Specifically, the bill renames the Community Wood Facilities Grant Program and expands its focus to primarily forest biomass, including processing or manufacturing. It increases the federal share of project costs to 50% and raises the maximum grant amount to $5,000,000 , while also broadening eligible activities to include the construction, use, or retrofitting of forest products manufacturing facilities. The legislation further increases the thermal energy capacity threshold for projects to 15 megawatts and mandates that 50% of thermal energy come from forest biomass. To support these enhancements, authorized appropriations for the program are doubled to $50,000,000 annually for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, and the Wood Innovations Grant Program is also modified to emphasize expanding forest products manufacturing.