Expanding the ethanol development program to rural economic +infrastructure development, defining rural economic infrastructure; setting the +annual appropriation; increasing ethanol producer payments for certain older production facilities and authorizing catch up payments under certain+ earlier payments reduction conditions; increasing the total annual payment +limit per producer and eliminating the requirement for producers with more than+ one plant to file separate claims; eliminating the priority requirement for +payments to plants using closed loop biomass to generate electricity; authorizing+ the commissioner of agriculture to make direct payments to rural economic infrastructure producers with amounts of the standing appropriation +not required for ethanol producer or catch up payments; repealing the +ethanol production goal, the program expiration date and a certain obsolete +provision providing for certain continued payments (je)