7 USC Ch. 35A: Front Matter

From Title 7-AGRICULTURECHAPTER 35A-PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

CHAPTER 35A-PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

SUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec.

1421.

Price support.

(a)

Source.

(b)

Authority of Secretary; factors considered.

(c)

Compliance by producer; program for diverted acres.

(d)

Time of determining levels.

(e)

Processors' assurances; payment if assurances inadequate.

1421a.

Financial impact study.

(a)

Study.

(b)

Report.

(c)

Informational purposes.

1421b.

Costs of production.

1421c.

Repealed.

1421d.

Commodity reports.

(a)

Crop reports.

(b)

Special reports.

(c)

Tree inventories.

(d)

Omitted.

(e)

Authorization.

1422.

Increase of price support levels.

1423.

Adjustments of support prices.

(a)

In general.

(b)

Adjustment in support prices for cotton.

(c)

Limitation on adjustments for wheat and feed grains.

1424.

Utilization of services and facilities of Commodity Credit Corporation.

1425.

Producer rights and liabilities.

(a)

Liability for deficiencies.

(b)

Sugarcane and sugar beets.

1425a.

Producers of honey; loan obligations and liabilities.

(a)

Loan forfeiture limitation.

(b)

Liability for nonforfeitable part of obligation.

(c)

Extent of personal liability.

(d)

Promulgation of regulations.

1426.

Repealed.

1427.

Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions.

(a)

In general.

(b)

Inventories.

(c)

Sales price restrictions.

(d)

Nonapplication of sales price restrictions.

(e)

Distress, disaster, and livestock emergency areas.

(f)

Efficient operations.

(g)

Sales for export.

1427–1.

Quality requirements for Commodity Credit Corporation owned grain.

(a)

Establishment of minimum standards.

(b)

Inspection of grain acquisitions.

1427a.

Reserve inventories for alleviation of distress of natural disaster.

(a)

Establishment, maintenance and disposal by Secretary; amount and nature of reserve.

(b)

Acquisition of commodities through price support program.

(c)

Prerequisites for sale or disposition of commodities in reserve.

(d)

Additional authorization for disposition of commodities to relieve distress or for civil defense emergencies.

(e)

Sale at equivalent prices for maintenance of reserve.

(f)

Utilization of Commodity Credit Corporation and usual and customary channels, etc., of trade and commerce.

(g)

Rules and regulations.

(h)

Authorization of appropriations.

1428.

Definitions.

1429.

Determinations of Secretary as final and conclusive.

1430.

Retroactive effect.

1431.

Disposition of commodities to prevent waste.

(a)

Eligible recipients; barter; estimates; reprocessing and other charges.

(b)

Furnishing of eligible commodities for carrying out programs of assistance in developing and friendly countries; availability of eligible commodities for nonprofit and voluntary agencies and cooperatives.

(c)

Ultra-high temperature processed fluid milk; two-year pilot program; report to Congress.

1431a.

Cotton donations to educational institutions.

1431b.

Distribution of surplus commodities to other United States areas.

1431c.

Enrichment and packaging of cornmeal, grits, rice, and white flour available for distribution.

1431d.

Donations for school feeding programs abroad; student financing; priorities.

1431e.

Distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects; reprocessing agreements with private companies.

1432.

Extension of price support on long staple cotton seeds and products.

1433.

Repealed.

1433a.

Forgiveness of violations; determinations.

1433b.

Processing of surplus agricultural commodities into liquid fuels and agricultural commodity byproducts.

(a)

Authority of Commodity Credit Corporation; terms and conditions established by Secretary; fuel prices.

(b)

Feasibility of processing.

(c)

Annual report to Congress.

1433c.

Advance recourse commodity loans.

1433c–1.

Advance recourse loans.

(a)

Availability; due date; procedures for repayment; applicability; security; limitation.

(b)

Use of Commodity Credit Corporation, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, and county committees.

(c)

Regulations.

1433d to 1433f.

Omitted or Repealed.

1434.

Encouragement of production of crops of which United States is a net importer and for which price support programs are not in effect; authority to plant on set-aside acreage with no reduction in payment rate.

1435.

Production of commodities for conversion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for use as motor fuels or other fuels; terms and conditions; determinations; payments, etc., for program.

SUBCHAPTER II-BASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

1441.

Price support levels.

1441–1.

Omitted.

1441–1a.

Marketing certificates for rice.

(a)

Authority of Commodity Credit Corporation to issue negotiable marketing certificates.

(b)

Determination of value of certificates.

(c)

Commodity Credit Corporation assistance in redemption, marketing, or exchange of certificates.

(d)

Exchange of certificates for commodities and products.

(e)

Prevention of adverse effects.

(f)

Transfer of certificates.

1441–2.

Repealed.

1441a.

Cost of production study and establishment of current national weighted average cost of production.

1442.

Price support and acreage requirements for corn and other feed grains.

(a)

Conditions of eligibility.

(b)

Referendum of producers of corn.

(c)

Restriction on acreage allotment of corn; price support level.

(d)

Price support level for 1956 and 1957 crops of grain sorghums, barley, rye, oats, and corn.

1443.

Omitted.

1444.

Cotton price support levels.

(a)

Basic support levels for 1961 and subsequent years.

(b)

Additional support levels for 1964 and 1965.

(c)

Alternative operations for carrying out additional price support; payment-in-kind certificates: value, marketing assistance, redemption, and deductions after thirty day period.

(d)

Price support and diversion payments for 1966 through 1970 crops.

(e)

Price support, diversion, and cropland set-aside program for crops beginning with 1971 crop.

(f),

(g) Omitted.

(h)

Program for extra long staple cotton beginning with 1984 crop.

1444–1, 1444–2.

Omitted or Repealed.

1444a.

Corn and feed grains and cotton programs.

(a)

Referendum of 1958 corn producers.

(b)

Operative status of certain provisions.

(c)

Cotton research program.

(d)

Cotton insect eradication.

1444b.

Feed grains; price support program.

1444c to 1444e.

Repealed or Omitted.

1444e–1.

Loans and purchases for 1986 through 1996 crops of corn.

1444f, 1444f–1.

Repealed.

1445.

Tobacco price support levels for 1960 and subsequent years.

1445–1.

Producer contributions and purchaser assessments for No Net Cost Tobacco Fund.

(a)

Definitions.

(b)

Commodity Credit Corporation loans to associations.

(c)

Establishment of No Net Cost Tobacco Funds.

(d)

Requirements.

(e)

Failure or refusal of association to comply.

(f)

Termination of loan agreement; dissolution or merger of association; disposition of amounts in Fund.

(g)

Regulations.

(h)

Failure to collect contribution or assessment; marketing penalty; civil action for review of penalty.

1445–2.

Marketing assessments to No Net Cost Tobacco Account.

(a)

Definitions.

(b)

Continued availability of price support; establishment of No Net Cost Tobacco Account.

(c)

Establishment of No Net Cost Tobacco Account within Commodity Credit Corporation; disposition of amounts in No Net Cost Tobacco Fund.

(d)

Payment of assessments to Corporation for deposit into Account; determination and adjustment of amounts; collection.

(e)

Deposits into Account; insurance against net losses.

(f)

Suspension of payment and collection of marketing assessments.

(g)

Disposition of amounts in Account in the event of termination of loan agreement or account or dissolution or merger of association.

(h)

Net gains.

(i)

Regulations.

(j)

Failure to collect assessment; marketing penalty; civil action for review of penalty.

1445–3.

Purchase of inventory stock.

(a)

Sale of inventory stock.

(b)

Sale prices.

(c)

Terms of agreements.

(d)

Approval of agreements.

(e)

Disclosure.

1445a.

Wheat price support levels; "cooperator" defined.

1445b to 1445c–3. Repealed, Transferred, or Omitted.

1445d.

Special wheat acreage grazing and hay program for 1978 through 1990 crop years.

(a)

Authorization for program; acreage designation; payment.

(b)

Specific farm acreage.

(c)

Determination of payment.

(d)

Other acreage set-aside programs.

(e)

Rules and regulations.

(f)

Commodity Credit Corporation.

1445e.

Farmer owned reserve program.

(a)

In general.

(b)

Terms of program.

(c)

Interest charges.

(d)

Storage payments.

(e)

Emergencies.

(f)

Quantity of commodities in program.

(g)

Announcement of program.

(h)

Discretionary exit.

(i)

Reconcentration of grain.

(j)

Management of grain.

(k)

Use of Commodity Credit Corporation.

(l)

Use of commodity certificates.

(m)

Additional authority.

(n)

Regulations.

(o)

Review.

(p)

Crops.

1445f.

International Emergency Food Reserve.

1445g.

Production of commodities for conversion into industrial hydrocarbons; terms and conditions; incentive payments; regulations; appropriations; effective date.

1445h.

Repealed.

1445i.

Multiyear set-aside contracts for 1986 through 1990 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice.

1445j.

Deficiency and land diversion payments.

(a)

Deficiency payments.

(b),

1445k.

Payments in commodities.

(a)

In-kind payments by Secretary.

(b)

Methods of payments.

(c)

Commodity certificates.

SUBCHAPTER III-NONBASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

1446.

Price support levels for designated nonbasic agricultural commodities.

1446a.

Dairy products; availability through Commodity Credit Corporation.

(a)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs; needs; report to Congress.

(b)

Secretary of the Army; needs; report to Congress.

(c)

Costs.

(d)

Dairy products available.

1446a–1.

Use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds for purchases of dairy products requirements for school and other programs.

1446b.

Policy with regard to dairy products.

1446c.

Domestic disposal programs for dairy products.

1446c–1.

Reduction of dairy product inventories.

1446c–2.

Domestic casein industry.

(a)

Annual availability of surplus stocks of nonfat dry milk; bid basis.

(b)

Acceptance of bids at lower than resale price.

(c)

Nonfat dry milk sold to be used only for manufacture of casein.

1446d to 1446i.

Omitted or Repealed.

1447.

Price support levels for other nonbasic agricultural commodities.

1448.

Price support levels for storable nonbasic agricultural commodities.

1449.

Determination of price support level.

1450.

Repealed.

SUBCHAPTER IV-ACREAGE BASE AND YIELD SYSTEM

1461 to 1469.

Omitted.

SUBCHAPTER V-EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK FEED ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1988

1471.

Definitions.

1471a.

Emergency livestock assistance.

1471b.

Determination of need for assistance.

(a)

Determination and request by Governor or county committee.

(b)

Consideration for assistance without request.

(c)

Prompt action by Secretary.

(d)

Eligibility under prior programs; availability of other programs.

1471c.

Eligible producers.

(a)

Qualifying livestock producers.

(b)

Availability of additional assistance.

(c)

Program participation option.

1471d.

Assistance programs.

(a)

Available programs.

(b)

Feed grain through dealer or manufacturer; reimbursement; feed grain stored on farm of producer.

(c)

Payments or reimbursements through issuance of negotiable certificates.

(d)

Approved application prerequisite to benefits.

(e)

Time for application.

(f)

Livestock transportation assistance.

1471e.

Additional assistance.

(a)

Determination by Secretary.

(b)

Programs authorized.

(c)

Water development projects for 1988 and 1989 emergencies.

1471f.

Use of Commodity Credit Corporation.

1471g.

Benefits limitation.

(a)

Total amount of benefits.

(b)

Issuance of regulations.

(c)

Receipt of other disaster payments.

(d)

Total combined payment and benefits limitation.

1471h.

Ineligibility.

1471i.

Administration.

(a)

Regulations.

(b)

Processing and decisions to be made as quickly as practicable.

(c)

Indigenous plants not considered feed on hand.

1471j.

Penalties.

Chapter Referred to in Other Sections

This chapter is referred to in sections 511r, 1301, 1308–3, 1309, 1310, 1314, 1314f, 1334b, 1385, 1421a, 1433c–1, 1435, 1446c, 1745, 2279, 4608, 5671, 5822, 7202, 7301, 7502 of this title; title 15 section 3391a; title 16 sections 3832, 3834, 3837d, 3839c; title 21 section 889; title 26 section 451; title 31 section 3902; title 42 section 1766; title 43 section 620c.