Vegetable Oil Use Promotion Act

Summary: Vegetable Oil Use Promotion Act - Establishes in the Commodity Credit Corporation the Vegetable Oil Industrial Products Fund to promote industrial products containing vegetable oils from specified oilseeds. 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to:  (1) make annual estimates of vegetable oil stocks; and (2) engage in activities, including purchases, to increase vegetable oil consumption and demand if stocks exceed certain limits.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Vegetable Oil Use Promotion Act''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTION OF INCREASED DEMAND FOR AND USE OF VEGETABLE OILS 
              DERIVED FROM CERTAIN OILSEEDS.

    (a) Vegetable Oil Industrial Products Fund.--
            (1) Establishment.--There is established within the 
        Commodity Credit Corporation a fund to be known as the 
        ``Vegetable Oil Industrial Products Fund'', which shall to be 
        administered and used by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry 
        out subsection (b).
            (2) Contents of fund.--The Fund shall consist of amounts 
        deposited in the Fund by the Secretary in each of the fiscal 
        years 1995 through 2000 from amounts available to the Commodity 
        Credit Corporation, as follows:
                    (A) $7,800,000 for fiscal year 1995.
                    (B) $15,500,000 for fiscal year 1996.
                    (C) $23,300,000 for fiscal year 1997.
                    (D) $31,100,000 for fiscal year 1998.
                    (E) $38,900,000 for fiscal year 1999.
                    (F) $46,700,000 for fiscal year 2000.
            (3) Availability of fund.--Amounts in the Fund shall remain 
        available to the Secretary until expended.
    (b) Use of Fund To Promote Industrial Products Containing Vegetable 
Oils.--The Secretary shall use amounts in the Fund to make grants to 
promote the increased commercial use of industrial products that 
contain, as an ingredient, vegetable oils produced from eligible 
oilseeds. For each fiscal year in which amounts are available in the 
Fund, the Secretary shall solicit grant applications from persons whose 
manufacturing operations are located in the United States and that 
desire financial assistance to begin or expand production of such 
industrial products. The applications shall be in such form, shall 
contain such information, and shall be submitted at such time, as the 
Secretary may prescribe. On the basis of such applications, the 
Secretary shall select as grant recipients to the extent practicable 
those persons whose manufacturing operations will use the greatest 
possible amount of vegetable oils produced from eligible oilseeds in 
comparison to the amount of assistance requested.
    (c) Limitation on Amount of Assistance.--A person may not receive 
more than 10 percent of the total assistance provided by the Secretary 
in any fiscal year from the Fund.
    (d) Annual Estimates of Vegetable Oil Stocks.--Not later than 
October 1 and April 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall announce 
an estimate of--
            (1) the amount of vegetable oil to be produced in the 
        United States from oilseeds grown in the United States and 
        consumed domestically or exported from the United States during 
        that fiscal year; and
            (2) the amount of such vegetable oil likely to remain 
        available in public and private stocks in the United States at 
        the end of the marketing year.
    (e) Activities To Increase Demand for Vegetable Oil.--If the 
October 1 estimate of end-of-year stocks of vegetable oil produced in 
the United States from oilseeds grown in the United States, as a 
percentage of total domestic and export demand, exceeds the average 
percentage of end-of-year stocks to total demand during fiscal years 
1985 through 1994, the Secretary shall use existing authorities to 
promote an increase in domestic and export demand for such vegetable 
oil by an amount that will prevent end-of-year stocks from exceeding 
this level. If the April 1 estimate indicates a significant change in 
the stocks to use ratio from the October 1 estimate, the Secretary 
shall adjust the vegetable oil demand expansion activities to reflect 
this change. The authorities that the Secretary may use to effect an 
increase in domestic and export demand for such vegetable oil shall 
include the following:
            (1) Purchasing for donation to meet critical human dietary 
        needs in developing countries.
            (2) Purchasing for donation to emerging democracies, with 
        the proceeds from any subsequent sale required to be used for 
        economic development, infrastructure improvements, or 
        activities that foster development of markets for United States 
        agricultural products in recipient countries.
            (3) Purchasing for donation or discounted sale to producers 
        of industrial products that contain, as an ingredient, 
        vegetable oils produced from eligible oilseeds, to promote the 
        increased commercial use of such products.
    (f) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) Fund.--The term ``Fund'' means the Vegetable Oil 
        Industrial Products Fund.
            (2) Oilseeds.--The term ``oilseeds'' means soybeans, corn, 
        cottonseed, sunflower seed, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, 
        safflower, and mustard seed.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.