The House Ways and Means Committee will hold hearings and markups in April to decide which of five dozen temporary tax provisions including biodiesel should be kept. Those extenders expired at the end of last year. Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp says a short extension of tax policies is no way to legislate. National Biodiesel Board’s Ben Evans says while he agrees with Camp that a long term fix would be helpful, just getting the measure approved for biodiesel is what’s most important.

Evans says while they have good bi partisan backing for the biodiesel tax extender his group still needs to make their case before Congress.

Camp says he wants his committee to continue its work by going policy by policy to determine which tax provisions deserve to be made permanent. He says his eventual goal is to overhaul the U.S. tax code.