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About NEB: Board Structure & Funding
The Nebraska Ethanol Board focuses on four key issues: ethanol production and industry support, market development, research and technology issues, and public policy development. Funding for the Nebraska Ethanol Board is provided through a program that refunds the state motor fuel tax to those who purchase fuel for off-road or industrial use. A portion of the refund requested by off-road/industrial fuel users is diverted to a fund that supports the Nebraska Ethanol Board. Since the Nebraska Ethanol Board was established, there has been a significant shift in the source of these refund requests. Originally, the majority of the refunds was requested by farmers using gasoline to power their equipment. However, as diesel fuel became the standard in farm equipment, refund requests dropped. At the same time, however, ethanol plants were coming on line in Nebraska—and these plants use gasoline to “denature” the ethanol so that it can only be used as a fuel. The tremendous growth in ethanol production in the state has made gas tax refund requests by ethanol plants the largest source of funding for the Nebraska Ethanol Board. |
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The Nebraska Ethanol Board is a state agency, created in 1971 by the
Nebraska Legislature—the first state agency in the United States
devoted solely to the development of the ethanol industry.