[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 6, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13402-13407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5492]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation

7 CFR Part 1421

RIN 0560-AG22


Grazing Payments for 2001 Wheat, Barley, or Oats

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation; USDA.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This rule implements provisions of the Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA) related to grazing payments in lieu of 
loan deficiency payments (LDP's), for the 2001 crop year only, to 
include producers who elect to use acreage planted to wheat, barley, or 
oats for the grazing by livestock and forgo any other harvesting of 
such acreage.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 6, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Raellen Erickson, Program Specialist, 
Price Support Division, Farm Service Agency (FSA), USDA, STOP 0512, 
1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-0540, telephone: 
(202) 720-7320.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice and Comment

    Section 263 of the ARPA requires that these regulations be 
promulgated without regard to the notice and comment provisions of 5 
U.S.C. 553 or the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture 
effective July 24, 1971, (36 FR 13804) relating to notices of proposed 
rulemaking and public participation in rulemaking. These regulations 
are thus issued as final.

Executive Order 12866

    This final rule is issued in conformance with Executive Order 12866 
and has been determined to be significant and has been reviewed by the 
Office of Management and Budget.

Federal Assistance Programs

    The titles and numbers of the Federal assistance programs, as found 
in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, to which this final rule 
applies is Commodity Loan Deficiency Payments--10.051.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    It has been determined that the Regulatory Flexibility Act is not 
applicable to this rule because USDA is not required by 5 U.S.C. 553 or 
any other provision of law to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking 
with respect to the subject matter of this rule.

Environmental Evaluation

    It has been determined by an environmental evaluation that this 
action will have no significant impact on the quality of the human 
environment. Therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an 
Environmental Impact Statement is needed.

Executive Order 12372

    This program is not subject to the provisions of Executive Order 
12372, which require intergovernmental consultation with State and 
local officials. See the notice related to 7 CFR part 3015, subpart V, 
published at 48 FR 29115 (June 24, 1983).

Unfunded Mandates

    The provisions of Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 
1995 are not applicable to this rule because the USDA is not required 
by 5 U.S.C. 553 or any other provision of law to publish a notice of 
proposed rulemaking with respect to the subject matter of this rule.

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996

    Section 263 of the Act of 2000 requires that the regulations 
necessary to implement Title II, Subtitle A of the Act of 2000 be 
issued as soon as practicable and without regard to the notice and 
comment provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553 or the Statement of Policy of the 
Secretary of Agriculture effective July 24, 1971, (36 FR 13804) related 
to the notice of proposed rulemaking and public participation in 
rulemaking. It also requires the Secretary to use the provisions of 5 
U.S.C. 808 (the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Act (SBREFA), 
which provide that a rule may take effect at such time as the agency 
may determine if the agency finds for good cause that public notice is 
impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public purpose and thus 
does not have to meet the requirements of section 801 of SBREFA 
requiring a 60-day delay for Congressional review of a major regulation 
before the regulation can go into effect. This final rule is considered 
major for the purposes of SBREFA. Based on the foregoing authorities, 
however, it has been determined that it would be contrary to the public 
interest to delay the implementation of this rule. This rule, 
accordingly, has been made effective immediately.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    Section 263 of the Act of the ARPA also requires that these 
regulations be promulgated and the program administered without regard 
to the Paperwork Reduction Act. This means the information to be 
collected from the public to implement these programs and the burden, 
in time and money, the collection of the information would have on the 
public, does not have to be approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget.

Background

    Producers of certain commodities are allowed by the provisions 
under section 135 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7235) and related provisions to obtain, upon harvest, market assistance 
loans, or, in lieu of those loans, ``loan deficiency payments'' 
(LDP's). Section 205 of ARPA, however, provides additional relief for 
farmers in a form which in effect amounts to the equivalent of an LDP. 
Under section 205 of ARPA, a farmer who is otherwise eligible for a 
wheat, barley, or oat LDP under section 135 of AMTA can graze the 
acreage instead and still receive a payment if the producer enters into 
an agreement with the Secretary to forgo any other harvesting of the 
wheat, barley, or oats on that acreage. That section (Section 205 of 
ARPA) provides further that the amount of the payment shall be 
determined using the loan deficiency payment rate determined under 
section 135(c) of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 
7235(c)) in effect, as of the date of the agreement, for the county in 
which the farm is located. That rate, the statute provides, will be 
multiplied by the payment quantity. The payment quantity, the law 
provides, is determined by multiplying (for the commodity involved) the 
quantity of the grazed acreage involved by the higher of the farm's 
established yield or the county's average yield. Further, section 205 
provides that the payment shall be made at the same time and in the 
same manner as loan deficiency payments. Still further, the statute 
specifies that the payment shall be made not later than September 30, 
2001. Also, section 205 provides that, in operating this program, the 
Secretary shall establish an availability period for the payment 
consistent with the availability period for wheat, barley, and oats 
established for AMTA marketing assistance loans. Section 205 further 
specifies that the Secretary shall promulgate such regulations as are 
needed to administer the payments in a fair and equitable manner with 
respect to those producers of wheat and feed grains that will not 
receive the new payments.
    This rule implements those provisions by regulations that will be 
codified in a new subpart in 7 CFR part 1421. In so doing, however, 
several important determinations had to be made. Among those, was a 
determination with respect to limitations on payments. LDPs under 
section 135 of AMTA are, by the provisions of section 1001 of the Food 
Security Act of 1985, 7 U.S.C. 1308, as amended, payment-limited. That 
is, the amount that any one ``person'' (as defined in rules in 7 CFR 
part 1400) can receive in any one program year, in the form of LDPs, is 
limited to a set amount. By the terms of section 1001 of the Food 
Security Act, the limit applies to payments under section 135 of AMTA, 
and does not, for that reason, cover these new grazing payments, as 
such, in section 205 of ARPA. That follows because section 205 does 
not, as such, amend section 135 of AMTA. Rather,

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section 205 is a stand-alone source of authority for making the new 
payments. Nonetheless, as indicated above, Congress, by the terms of 
section 205, instructs the agency to make the payment ``in the same 
manner'' as section 135 of AMTA and further instructs the agency to 
make the payments in such a way as to be fair with respect to farmers 
who will not be making use of the new authority. For those reasons, it 
seems clear that the payments should be treated as limited as well and, 
in order to do so, it is provided in these rules that a farmer will be 
considered to be eligible to receive, or retain, payments under section 
205 of ARPA only to the extent that the farmer would have a remaining 
eligibility for payments under section 135 of AMTA taking into account 
the payment limit that applies to payment under that section. That is, 
if the producer had for example hit the payment limit under that 
section by receiving LDP's up to that limit, then the producer would 
not be eligible for grazing payments under the new program and would, 
if payments for grazing had already been received, be required to 
return those payments with interest. This conclusion--linking the two 
payments--is consistent with still another provision in section 205 of 
ARPA that being the provision which specifies that the producer will 
only be eligible for payments under section 205 to the extent that the 
farmer would be eligible for a payment under section 135. While that 
provision does not directly address the situation where the producer 
was eligible for the payment when it was received and only later hits 
the LDP payment limit, it would not make sense to have the rules allow 
the farmer retain the grazing as such would change the connection 
between the two programs from being a matter of substance to being one 
of timing only. Presumably, placing form over substance was not 
intended. Accordingly, once it has been determined that the grazing 
payment will in effect be tied to the same payment limit it follows 
that this rule will apply regardless of which payments were requested 
first. As indicated, this seems to be fully consistent with the idea of 
the statute which appear to be that the LDP program should not force 
farmers to harvest forage of certain crops just to utilize their LDP 
eligibility. Provision has been made in the rule to assure that the 
connection between the two programs will be enforced irrespective of 
whether the normal rules of offset would allow a charge-off between the 
two programs.
    Other provisions in the new regulations specify that producers will 
not be eligible for the payment if the crop could not be harvested 
anyway because of weather or other reasons. Also, the rules provide 
that applications cannot be filed before the date on which mechanical 
harvesting of the crop would, otherwise, have first been possible. This 
provision is consistent with the timing provisions of the statute as 
described above. Also, there are provisions, requiring consistency 
between the producer's grazing reports and others that might be filed, 
and a number of other aspects of the program as well. Further, since 
the grazing payments allowed by the new rules only apply where the 
producer could otherwise have obtained LDP for the crop, the new rules 
will only apply to wheat, barley and oats crops produced by the 
applicant on a farm on which that person has an existing and valid 
production flexibility contract (PFC). That is because wheat, barley, 
and oats are so-called ``contract commodities'' and, by statute, 
generally, contract commodities are eligible for LDP only if produced 
on a PFC farm. The PFC program is a program in which farmers with 
certain crop bases under older programs can receive certain special 
payments it they agreed to abide by certain limited conditions with 
respect to the operation of their farms. The PFC program is 
administered under 7 CFR part 12. For the 2000 crop only, Congress has 
severed the tie between PFC's and LDP's. However, as the new grazing 
payment program applies only to the 2001 crops wheat, barley, and oats, 
the existence of a PFC contract will continue to be an eligibility 
requirement for the new payment. Should the requirements for LDP's be 
modified again, it would have to be determined whether such a change 
would also expand eligibility for the new grazing payment provided for 
in these new rules.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 1421

    Loan programs/Agriculture, Loan Deficiency Payment, Grazing 
Payments for 2001 Crop of Wheat, Barley, or Oats, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Accordingly, 7 CFR part 1421 is amended to read as follows:

PART 1421--GRAINS AND SIMILARLY HANDLED COMMODITIES

    1. The authority citation for part 1421 is revised to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7213-7235, 7237; 15 U.S.C. 714b, 714c; Sec. 
813, Pub. L. 106-78, 113 Stat. 1182; Secs. 205 and 206, Pub. L. 106-
224 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note).


    2. Part 1421 is amended by adding Subpart--Grazing Payments for 
2001 Crop of Wheat, Barley, or Oats to read as follows:

Subpart--Grazing Payments for 2001 Crop of Wheat, Barley, or Oats

Sec.
1421.300   Applicability.
1421.301   Administration.
1421.302   Definitions.
1421.303   Eligible producer and eligible land.
1421.304   Time and method for application.
1421.305   Payment amount.
1421.306   Misrepresentation and scheme or device.
1421.307   Refunds; joint and several liability.


Sec. 1421.300  Applicability.

    (a) The regulations in this subpart are applicable to 2001 crops of 
eligible acreage planted to wheat, barley, or oats that is grazed by 
livestock and not harvested in any other manner. This subpart sets 
forth the terms and conditions under which a grazing payment in lieu of 
a loan deficiency payment can be made by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation (CCC).
    (b) The form that is used in administering these payments is 
available in State and county FSA offices and shall be prescribed by 
CCC.


Sec. 1421.301  Administration.

    (a) This subpart shall be administered by the Farm Service Agency 
(FSA) under the general direction and supervision of the Executive Vice 
President, CCC or designee. The program shall be carried out in the 
field by State and county FSA employees under the general direction and 
supervision of the State and county FSA committees.
    (b) State and county committees, and representatives and employees 
thereof, do not have the authority to modify or waive any of the 
provisions of the regulations in this part, as amended or supplemented.
    (c) The State committee shall take any action required by this part 
which has not been taken by the county committee. The State committee 
shall also:
    (1) Correct, or require a county committee to correct, any action 
taken by such county committee which is not in accordance with the 
regulations of this part; or
    (2) Require a county committee to withhold taking any action which 
is not in accordance with the regulations of this part.
    (d) No delegation herein to a State or county committee shall 
preclude the

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Executive Vice President, CCC, or a designee, from determining any 
question arising under the program or from reversing or modifying any 
determination made by a State or county committee.
    (e) The Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs (DAFP), FSA, may 
authorize State and county committees to waive or modify deadlines and 
other program requirements in cases where timeliness or failure to meet 
such other requirements does not adversely affect the operation of the 
program. In addition, DAFP may establish other conditions for payments 
that will assist in achieving the goals of the program and may include 
such provisions in the program agreement or other program documents.


Sec. 1421.302  Definitions.

    The definitions set forth in this section shall be applicable for 
all purposes of program administration under this subpart:
    COC means the FSA county office committee.
    CCC means the Commodity Credit Corporation.
    Department means the United States Department of Agriculture.
    Deputy Administrator means the Deputy Administrator for Farm 
Programs, Farm Service Agency (FSA) or a designee of that person.
    FSA means the Farm Service Agency of the Department.
    Secretary means the Secretary of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, or the Secretary's delegate.
    STC means the FSA State committee.


Sec. 1421.303  Eligible producer and eligible land.

    (a) To be an eligible producer for purposes of this subpart, the 
person must be a producer of an eligible crop which the producer agrees 
under the terms of this part to graze in lieu of any other harvesting. 
The only crops which are eligible for this program are the 2001 crops 
of wheat, barley or oats, and then only if all other conditions for 
eligibility under this part have met. For this purpose and all purposes 
of this subpart, the ``person'' may be an individual, partnership, 
association, corporation, estate, trust, or State or political 
subdivision or agency thereof, or other legal entity. The crop year 
will be determined using the normal designations that apply in 
connection with farm commodity programs operated under this chapter. 
Also, to be an eligible producer, the person must meet all other 
qualifications for payment that are set out in this subpart, set out in 
the program agreement, set out under other provisions of this title, 
including regulations that appeal in parts 12, 718, 1400, and 1405 of 
this title, or otherwise set out. A person will not be considered the 
``producer'' of the crop unless that person was responsible for the 
planting of the crop and had the risk of loss in the crop at all times 
material to the request for payment, including, but not limited to, the 
time of planting and the time of the request for, and payment of 
benefits under, this part.
    (b) A minor may participate in the program if the right of majority 
has been conferred on the minor by court order or by statute, or if the 
minor participates through a guardian authorized to act on the minor's 
behalf in these matters. Alternatively, a minor may participate if the 
program documents are all signed by an acceptable (to CCC) guarantor or 
if bond, acceptable to CCC, is provided by a surety.
    (c) For the crop to be eligible, the crop, in addition to other 
standards that may apply, must be grown on land that is classified as 
``cropland'' in FSA farm records or on land that FSA determines has 
been cropped in the last 3 years except that the land may also qualify 
if the land is committed to a crop rotation, normal for the locality, 
that includes harvesting the subject crop for grain. These rules are 
designed to assure, to the extent practicable, the available payment 
did not produce plantings that otherwise would not have occurred and 
the CCC may deny payments in any instance in which there is reason to 
believe that the planting was done for that purpose. To that end, if 
the commodity involved has not been previously grown by the producer or 
is not one which is not predominately produced locally, the producer 
must submit evidence of seed purchases for planting the commodities and 
other evidence deemed needed or appropriate by the COC in order to 
assure that the program goals are made and that the land was not 
planted to an eligible commodity simply to obtain a payment. Also, the 
land to be eligible must, for the year involved, be grazed and cannot, 
during the crop year, be harvested at any time for any purpose, except 
as determined by the Deputy Administrator to accommodate producers with 
a history of double-cropping when the crop to be harvested is not the 
crop for which a payment is to be made under this subpart. Land will be 
considered grazed only to the extent that the crop on the land is 
consumed in the field as live plants by livestock for the normal period 
of time for grazing in the area.
    (d) Further, the producers must have, to be eligible at the time 
the crop is grown and used, full right of possession in the property 
with the consent of the landowner and must have, but for an agreement 
made to receive payments under this subpart, the right to harvest and 
market the crop as grain and, as that time the crop is grazed, the 
right and ability to obtain a loan deficiency payment (LDP) under this 
title. Further, the producer must, at the time of the agreement made 
under this part to obtain a payment, meet all other eligible criteria 
for LDP's including the general statutory requirement that the producer 
will eligible for LDP for ``contract commodities'' only if they were 
produced by that person on the farm on which there is a ``production 
flexibility contract'' (PFC) under the PFC program administered under 7 
CFR part 1412. As wheat, barley and oats are contract commodities, this 
means that no grazing payments will be made under this subpart unless 
the wheat, barley or oat crop which is, or will be, grazed, was 
produced by the person seeking the payment on land on which there is 
PFC to which such person is party. In the event, that Congress, as it 
did for the 2000 crop, change the requirements for LDP's so as to 
eliminate the tie to an existing PFC, CCC shall determine whether that 
waiver will also expand the eligibility of producers for grazing 
payments under this subpart.
    (e) In addition, no payment will be made if the crop could not have 
been harvested and used to obtain LDP's because of weather or other 
conditions that may have occurred or because of any legal restrictions 
against harvesting the crop, or because of promises made in connection 
with other programs, or because of any promise to any person, or 
because of any other reason. The producer must, in addition, to be 
considered eligible to receive a grazing payment on the commodity under 
this subpart, retain the control, title and risk of loss in the 
commodity for which the payment is sought from the date of planting 
through the date on which no mechanical harvesting of the crop is still 
possible. However, nothing in the prior sentence shall prevent a person 
from receiving a payment merely because the producer has granted a 
licence or permission to some other party to graze their animals upon 
the property. In addition, the producer can receive no payment for any 
crop on any land for which, for the relevant crop year, the producer 
reported to anyone for any purpose, harvesting the crop for grain. This 
prohibition and others under the program only apply to land for which

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the payment is sought (that is, the part of the farm on which the crop 
is to be grazed) and does not extend to other parts of the farm. Any 
condition that applies under this subpart as a condition of payment, 
shall also be considered to be a condition for retaining payment.


Sec. 1421.304  Time and method for application.

    Application for the program must be received, at the county office 
that is responsible for administering programs for the farm, no earlier 
than the date on which eligible crops would, for the 2001 crop, 
normally be harvested and no later than August 31, 2001. The 
application must describe the land to be grazed and, in accordance with 
standards set by CCC, the tract/field location. The COC will determine 
the first harvest date which shall take into account the date on which 
such crops are, locally, normally harvested for any purpose. Where 
multiple producers are involved, the form must reflect each producer's 
share in the crop. No producer must receive payments under this subpart 
except to the extent that the payments are commensurate with that 
share. Should a person who is entitled to receive a payment under this 
subpart die, that payment, as earned, may be made to other persons as 
provided for in the rules set out in part 707. Third parties may also 
receive payments to the extent provided for in that part for other 
situations involving an incapacitation of the producer. Refusals to 
allow CCC to verify information on any form or report utilized for this 
subpart can result in program ineligibility and producers must provide 
CCC and its agent to the property involved and to all records as may be 
relevant to the making of payments under this subpart. Further, false 
statements will disqualify the producer from the program and may be 
subject to other sanctions including criminal sanctions.


Sec. 1421.305  Payment amount.

    (a) Eligible persons growing an eligible crop and agreeing to the 
restrictions provided for in this subpart may (if all other conditions 
of eligibility are met) receive a payment under this subpart. That 
payment for purposes of this section shall be referred to as a 
``grazing payment''. The grazing payment shall be made at the per/unit 
LDP rate for the relevant crop. The LDP rate that applies shall be that 
which is current on the date on which the producer submits a complete 
program application or is deemed, by CCC, to have submitted a completed 
application. The rate shall be the rate for the relevant county in 
which the farm is located. The ``LDP rate'' for this purpose means the 
rate for ``loan deficiency payments'' under this subpart. The LDP rate 
shall be applied against the payable units of production as determined 
under this section.
    (b) The payable units of production shall be computed by 
multiplying the eligible grazed acres by the applicable yield 
determined under paragraph (c) of this section.
    (c) The yield shall be either the farm's established yield for the 
crop as determined under part 1412 by the FSA or the relevant average 
county yield as determined by the FSA. The average county yield must be 
established by the COC by August 31, 2001, but shall be valid only if 
the STC concurs. That yield shall, if acceptable data is available, be 
based on NASS data using an Olympic average for the 1996 through 2000 
crop years. If that data is not available, or STC does not concur, 
other sources may be used.
    (d) No payment may be received or retained under this subpart to 
the extent that the payment, were they considered to be LDP's, would 
place that person over the per person per year payment limit that 
applies to LDP's. The producer agrees that the CCC may collect any 
payment considered to be an overpayment by reason of this subsection by 
withholding LDP payments until the matter is resolved, by treating the 
LDP as being not payable to the extent that a grazing refund would 
otherwise be due , by setoff, or by any other means available to CCC.
    (e) Payments can be withheld until the actual grazed acreage is 
verified and justified in connection with any other reports filed with 
FSA with respect to the farm (or filed with some other person or 
agency) and until all other necessary information is obtained. The CCC 
may require such other verification as it deems appropriate to assure 
that the program goals are met.
    (f) To receive the payment, the eligible producer must submit a 
request for payment on the FSA-approved form. That form will be ``CCC-
633 Grazing (Grazing Payment Program Application)''. The form may be 
obtained from the county FSA office. Also, a copy may be obtained at 
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/psd. The form must be submitted to the 
county by the close of business on August 31, 2001.
    (g) The producer will ineligible for payments under this subpart if 
any discrepancies between the reported acreage on the program form and 
other reports of acreage by the producer are not resolved by a date set 
by the CCC.
    (h) Unless otherwise authorized by the Deputy Administrator, all 
payment shall be made no later than September 28, 2001.


Sec. 1421.306  Misrepresentation and scheme or device.

    (a) A producer shall be ineligible to receive payments under this 
subpart if it is determined by DAFP, the State committee, or the county 
committee to have:
    (1) Adopted any scheme or device which tends to defeat the purpose 
of this program;
    (2) Made any fraudulent representation; or
    (3) Misrepresented any fact affecting a program determination.
    (b) Any funds disbursed pursuant to this subpart to a producer 
engaged in a misrepresentation, scheme, or device, or to any other 
person as a result of the producer's actions, shall be refunded with 
interest together with such other sums as may become due. Any producer 
engaged in acts prohibited by this section and any person receiving 
payment under this subpart, as a result of such acts, shall be jointly 
and severally liable for any refund due under this section and for 
related charges. The remedies provided in this subpart shall be in 
addition to other civil, criminal, or administrative remedies which may 
apply.


Sec. 1421.307  Refunds; joint and several liability.

    (a) In the event there is a failure to comply with any term, 
requirement, or condition for payment arising under this application, 
or this subpart, and if any refund of a payment to CCC shall become due 
for that or other reason in connection with the application, or this 
subpart, all payments made under this subpart to any producer shall be 
refunded to CCC together with interest as determined in accordance with 
paragraph (c) of this section and late-payments charges as provided for 
in part 1402 of this chapter.
    (b) All persons listed on an application shall be jointly and 
severally liable for any refund due in connection with that application 
and for any related charges which may be determined to be due for any 
reason.
    (c) Interest shall be applicable to refunds required of the 
producer. Such interest shall be charged at the rate of interest which 
the United States Treasury charges CCC for funds, as of the date CCC 
made such benefits available. Such interest shall accrue from the date 
such benefits were made available to the date of repayment but the 
interest rate shall increase to reflect

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any increase in the rate charged to CCC by Treasury for any percent of 
time for which the interest assessment is collected. CCC may waive the 
accrual of interest if CCC determines that the cause of the erroneous 
determination was not due to any action of the producer.
    (d) Late payment interest shall be assessed on refunds in 
accordance with the provisions of, and subject to the rates in 7 CFR 
part 1403.
    (e) Producers must refund to CCC any excess payments made by CCC 
with respect to any application in which they have an interest. Such 
refund shall be subject to interest at the same rate that applies to 
other refunds.

    Signed at Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2001.
Diane Sharp,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
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