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Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7628(a))
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) RESEARCH GRANT AUTHORIZED.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture may make grants to consortia of
land-grant colleges and universities to enhance the ability
of the consortia to carry out multi-State research projects
aimed at understanding and combating diseases of wheat,
triticale, and barley caused by Fusarium graminearum
and related fungi (referred to in this section as ‘wheat
scab’) or by Tilletia indica and related fungi (referred to
in this section as ‘Karnal bunt’).’’.
(2) RESEARCH COMPONENTS.—Section 408(b)
of such Act (7 U.S.C. 7628(b)) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or of
Karnal bunt,’’ after ‘‘epidemiology of wheat
scab’’;
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘,
triticale,’’ after ‘‘occurring in wheat’’;
(C) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or
Karnal bunt’’ after ‘‘wheat scab’’;
(D) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘and
barley for the presence of’’ and inserting ‘‘,
triticale, and barley for the presence of Karnal
bunt or of’’;
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(i) IN GENERAL.—The fellowships es-
tablished under subparagraph (A) shall
provide experience and training to develop
the skills and understanding necessary to
improve the humanitarian conditions and
the lives of individuals who suffer from
hunger, including—
(I) training in direct service to
the hungry in conjunction with com-
munity-based organizations through a
program of field placement; and
(II) experience in policy develop-
ment through placement in a govern-
mental entity or nonprofit organiza-
tion.
(ii) FOCUS OF BILL EMERSON HUN-
GER
FELLOWSHIP.—The Bill Emerson
Hunger Fellowship shall address hunger
and other humanitarian needs in the
United States.
(iii) FOCUS OF MICKEY LELAND HUN-
GER
FELLOWSHIP.—The Mickey Leland
Hunger Fellowship shall address inter-
national hunger and other humanitarian
needs.
Sec. 165. Producer agreement required as condition on provision of fixed, de-
coupled payments and counter-cyclical payments.
Sec. 166. Planting flexibility.
Sec. 167. Marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for peanuts.
Sec. 168. Quality improvement.
Sec. 169. Payment limitations.
Sec. 170. Termination of marketing quota programs for peanuts and compensa-
tion to peanut quota holders for loss of quota asset value.
Subtitle D—Administration
Sec. 181. Administration generally.
Sec. 182. Extension of suspension of permanent price support authority.
Sec. 183. Limitations.
Sec. 184. Adjustments of loans.
Sec. 185. Personal liability of producers for deficiencies.
Sec. 186. Extension of existing administrative authority regarding loans.
Sec. 187. Assignment of payments.
TITLE II—CONSERVATION
Subtitle A—Definition
Sec. 201. Definition of agricultural commodity.
Subtitle B—Wetland Conservation Program
Sec. 211. Ineligibility for certain loans and payments.
Subtitle C—Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve
Program
Sec. 221. Elimination of general provisions.
Subtitle D—Conservation Reserve Program
Sec. 231. Reauthorization.
Sec. 232. Enrollment.
Sec. 233. Duties of owners and operators.
Sec. 234. Duties of the Secretary.
Sec. 235. Acceptance of contract offers.
Sec. 236. Contracts.
Subtitle E—Wetlands Reserve Program
Sec. 241. Enrollment.
Sec. 242. Easements and agreements.
Sec. 243. Duties of the Secretary.
Sec. 244. Payment limitation.
Sec. 245. Changes in ownership; agreement modification; termination.
Subtitle F—Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Sec. 251. Purposes.
Sec. 252. Definitions.
Sec. 253. Establishment and administration.
Sec. 254. Evaluation of offers and payments.
Sec. 255. Duties of producers.
Sec. 256. Environmental Quality Incentives Program plan.
Sec. 257. Duties of the Secretary.
Sec. 258. Limitation on payments.
Sec. 259. Groundwater conservation.
Subtitle G—Funding and Administration
Sec. 261. Reauthorization.
Sec. 262. Funding.
Sec. 263. Allocation for livestock production.
Sec. 264. Use of other agencies.
Sec. 265. Administration and technical assistance.
Subtitle H—Other Programs
Sec. 271. Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program.
Sec. 272. Farmland Protection Program.
Sec. 273. Resource Conservation and Development Program.
Sec. 274. Grassland Reserve Program.
Sec. 275. Farmland Stewardship Program.
Sec. 276. Small Watershed Rehabilitation Program.
Subtitle I—Availability of Funds
Sec. 281. Availability of funds appropriated pursuant to the Soil Conservation
and Domestic Allotment Act.
Subtitle K—Repeals
Sec. 291. Provisions of Food Security Act of 1985.
TITLE III—TRADE
Sec. 301. Market Access Program.
Sec. 302. Food for Progress.
Sec. 303. Export Enhancement Program.
Sec. 304. Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program.
Sec. 305. Export Credit Guarantee Program.
Sec. 306. PL 480.
Sec. 307. Emerging markets.
Sec. 308. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.
Sec. 309. Technical assistance for specialty crops.
TITLE IV—NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program
Sec. 401. Simplified definition of income.
Sec. 402. Standard deduction.
Sec. 403. Transitional food stamps for families moving from welfare.
Sec. 404. Quality control systems.
Sec. 405. Simplified application and eligibility determination systems.
Sec. 406. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle B—Commodity Distribution
Sec. 441. Distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects.
Sec. 442. Commodity supplemental food program.
Sec. 443. Emergency food assistance.
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 461. Hunger fellowship program.
Sec. 462. General effective date.
TITLE V—CREDIT
Sec. 501. Eligibility of limited liability companies for farm ownership loans,
farm operating loans, and emergency loans.
Sec. 502. Suspension of limitation on period for which borrowers are eligible for
guaranteed assistance.
Sec. 503. Administration of certified lenders and preferred certified lenders pro-
grams.
Sec. 504. Simplified loan guarantee application available for loans of greater
amounts.
Sec. 505. Elimination of requirement that Secretary require county committees
to certify in writing that certain loan reviews have been con-
ducted.
Sec. 506. Authority to reduce percentage of loan guaranteed if borrower income
is insufficient to service debt.
Sec. 507. Timing of loan assessments.
Sec. 508. Making and servicing of loans by personnel of State, county, or area
committees.
Sec. 509. Eligibility of employees of State, county, or area committee for loans
and loan guarantees.
Sec. 510. Emergency loans in response to an economic emergency resulting
from sharply increasing energy costs.
Sec. 511. Extension of authority to contract for servicing of farmer program
loans.
Sec. 512. Authorization for loans.
Sec. 513. Reservation of funds for direct operating loans for beginning farmers
and ranchers.
Sec. 514. Extension of Interest Rate Reduction Program.
Sec. 515. Increase in duration of loans under Down Payment Loan Program.
Sec. 516. Horse breeder loans.
TITLE VI—RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 601. Funding for rural local television broadcast signal loan guarantees.
Sec. 602. Value-added agricultural product market development grants.
Sec. 603. Agriculture innovation center demonstration program.
Sec. 604. Funding of community water assistance grant program.
Sec. 605. Loan guarantees for the financing of the purchase of renewable en-
ergy systems.
Sec. 606. Loans and loan guarantees for renewable energy systems.
Sec. 607. Rural business opportunity grants.
Sec. 608. Grants for water systems for rural and native villages in Alaska.
Sec. 609. Rural cooperative development grants.
Sec. 610. National reserve account of Rural Development Trust Fund.
Sec. 611. Rural venture capital demonstration program.
Sec. 612. Increase in limit on certain loans for rural development.
Sec. 613. Pilot program for development and implementation of strategic re-
gional development plans.
(b) TENANTS
AND SHARECROPPERS.—In carrying
out this title, the Secretary shall provide adequate safe-
guards to protect the interests of tenants and share-
croppers.
(c) SHARING OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall
provide for the sharing of fixed, decoupled payments and
counter-cyclical payments among the eligible producers on
a farm on a fair and equitable basis.
SEC. 102. ESTABLISHMENT OF PAYMENT YIELD.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.—For the pur-
pose of making fixed decoupled payments and counter-cy-
clical payments under this subtitle, the Secretary shall
provide for the establishment of a payment yield for each
farm for each covered commodity in accordance with this
section.
(b) USE OF FARM PROGRAM PAYMENT YIELD.—Ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this section, the payment
yield for each of the 2002 through 2011 crops of a covered
commodity for a farm shall be the farm program payment
yield in effect for the 2002 crop of the covered commodity
under section 505 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7
U.S.C. 1465).
(c) FARMS WITHOUT FARM PROGRAM PAYMENT
YIELD.—In the case of a farm for which a farm program
payment yield is unavailable for a covered commodity
(other than soybeans or other oilseeds), the Secretary shall
establish an appropriate payment yield for the covered
commodity on the farm taking in consideration the farm
program payment yields applicable to the commodity
under subsection (b) for similar farms in the area.
(d) PAYMENT YIELDS FOR OILSEEDS.—
(1) AVERAGE YIELD.—In the case of soybeans
and each other oilseed, the Secretary shall establish
a payment yield for a farm for the oilseed by first
determining the average yield for the oilseed on the
farm for the 1998 through 2001 crop years, exclud-
ing any crop year in which the yield was zero. If, for
any of these four crop years in which the oilseed was
planted, the farm would have satisfied the eligibility
criteria established to carry out section 1102 of the
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–277; 7 U.S.C.
1421 note), the Secretary shall assign a yield for
that year equal to 65 percent of the county yield.
(2) REDUCTION.—The Secretary shall reduce
the average yield determined under paragraph (1)
for the oilseed by a percentage equal to the percent-
age increase in national average yields for the oil-
seed between the following two periods:
(A) The 1981 through 1985 crops.
(B) The 1998 through 2001 crops.
SEC. 103. ESTABLISHMENT OF BASE ACRES AND PAYMENT
ACRES FOR A FARM.
(a) ELECTION BY PRODUCERS OF BASE ACRE CAL-
CULATION METHOD.—For the purpose of making fixed
decoupled payments and counter-cyclical payments with
respect to a farm, the Secretary shall give producers on
the farm an opportunity to elect one of the following as
the method by which the base acres of all covered commod-
ities on the farm are to be determined:
(1) The four-year average of acreage actually
planted on the farm to a covered commodity for har-
vest, grazing, haying, silage, or other similar pur-
poses during crop years 1998, 1999, 2000, and
2001 and any acreage on the farm that the pro-
ducers were prevented from planting during such
crop years to the covered commodity because of
drought, flood, or other natural disaster, or other
condition beyond the control of the producer, as de-
termined by the Secretary.
(2) The contract acreage (as defined in section
102 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and
Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7202)) used by the
Secretary to calculate the fiscal year 2002 payment
(2) TRANSFER OF PAYMENT BASE.—There is
no restriction on the transfer of a farm’s base acres
or payment yield as part of a change in the pro-
ducers on the farm.
(3) MODIFICATION.—At the request of the
transferee or owner, the Secretary may modify the
requirements of subsection (a) if the modifications
are consistent with the objectives of such subsection,
as determined by the Secretary.
(4) EXCEPTION.—If a producer entitled to a
fixed, decoupled payment or counter-cyclical pay-
ment dies, becomes incompetent, or is otherwise un-
able to receive the payment, the Secretary shall
make the payment, in accordance with regulations
prescribed by the Secretary.
(d) ACREAGE REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—As a condition on the receipt
of any benefits under this subtitle or subtitle B, the
Secretary shall require producers to submit to the
Secretary acreage reports.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 15 of
the Agricultural Marketing Act (12 U.S.C. 1141j) is
amended by striking subsection (d).
(e) REVIEW.—A determination of the Secretary
under this section shall be considered to be an adverse
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crop year, means the price calculated by the Sec-
retary under section 105 to determine whether
counter-cyclical payments are required to be made
for that crop year.
(6) ELIGIBLE PRODUCER.—The term ‘‘eligible
producer’’ means a producer described in section
101(a).
(7) FIXED, DECOUPLED PAYMENT.—The term
‘‘fixed, decoupled payment’’ means a payment made
to producers under section 104.
(8) OTHER
OILSEED.—The term ‘‘other oil-
seed’’ means a crop of sunflower seed, rapeseed,
canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, or, if des-
ignated by the Secretary, another oilseed.
(9) PAYMENT
ACRES.—The term ‘‘payment
acres’’ means 85 percent of the base acres of a cov-
ered commodity on a farm, as established under sec-
tion 103, upon which fixed, decoupled payments and
counter-cyclical payments are to be made.
(10) PAYMENT
YIELD.—The term ‘‘payment
yield’’ means the yield established under section 102
for a farm for a covered commodity.
(11) PRODUCER.—The term ‘‘producer’’ means
an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or share-
cropper who shares in the risk of producing a crop
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‘‘(2) The ability of the injured animal or agri-
cultural enterprise to continue to operate, costs in-
curred by the animal or agricultural enterprise to re-
cover lost business, and the effect of the violation on
earnings of employees of the animal or agricultural
enterprise.
‘‘(3) The interruptions experienced by students
attending an academic animal or agricultural enter-
prise.
‘‘(4) Whether the violator has previously vio-
lated subsection (a).
‘‘(5) The violator’s degree of culpability.
‘‘(f) FUND TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF DISRUPTION.—
‘‘(1) FUND
ESTABLISHED.—There is estab-
lished in the Treasury a fund which shall consist of
that portion of each civil penalty collected under
subsection (c) that represents the recovery of eco-
nomic damages.
‘‘(2) USE OF AMOUNTS IN FUND.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall use amounts in the fund
to compensate animal or agricultural enterprises,
employees of an animal or agricultural enterprise,
and student attending an academic animal or agri-
cultural enterprise for economic losses incurred as a
result of the disruption of the functioning of an ani-
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‘‘(H) The development of forest or stand
management plans.
‘‘(I) Other activities approved by the Sec-
retary, in coordination with the State forester
and the State Forest Stewardship Coordinating
Committee.
‘‘(e) COOPERATION.—In implementing the Program,
the Secretary shall cooperate with other Federal, State,
and local natural resource management agencies, institu-
tions of higher education, and the private sector.
‘‘(f) REIMBURSEMENT OF ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall share
the cost of implementing the approved activities that
the Secretary determines are appropriate, in the
case of an owner that has entered into an agreement
to place nonindustrial private forest lands of the
owner in the Program.
‘‘(2) RATE.—The Secretary shall determine the
appropriate reimbursement rate for cost-share pay-
ments under paragraph (1) and the schedule for
making such payments.
‘‘(3) MAXIMUM.—The Secretary shall not make
cost-share payments under this subsection to an
owner in an amount in excess of 75 percent of the
total cost, or a lower percentage as determined by
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SEC. 112. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Architect of the Capitol may not reprogram
any funds with respect to any project or object class with-
out the approval of—
(1) the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives, in the case of a project or
object class within the House of Representatives;
(2) the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate, in the case of a project or object class within
the Senate; or
(3) both the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate, in the case of any
other project or object class.
(b) This section shall apply with respect to funds pro-
vided to the Architect of the Capitol before, on, or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 113. (a) LIMITATION.—(1) Except as provided
in paragraph (2), none of the funds provided by this Act
or any other Act may be used by the Architect of the Cap-
itol during fiscal year 2002 or any succeeding fiscal year
to employ any individual as a temporary employee within
a category of temporary employment which does not pro-
vide employees with the same eligibility for life insurance,
health insurance, retirement, and other benefits which is
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‘‘(d) JURISDICTION DESCRIBED.—The Family Court
shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the actions, applica-
tions, determinations, adjudications, and proceedings de-
scribed in section 11–1101, except that those actions with-
in the jurisdiction of the Domestic Violence Unit (a section
of the Civil Division, Criminal Division, and the Family
Court) pursuant to Administrative Order No. 96–25 (Oc-
tober 31, 1996) shall remain in that Unit.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 9.—
Section 11–906(b), District of Columbia Code, is amended
by inserting ‘‘the Family Court and’’ before ‘‘the various
divisions’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 11.—
(1) The heading for chapter 11 of title 11, District of Co-
lumbia, is amended by striking ‘‘FAMILY DIVISION’’ and
inserting ‘‘FAMILY COURT’’.
(2) Section 11–1101, District of Columbia Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘Family Division’’ and inserting
‘‘Family Court’’.
(3) The item relating to chapter 11 in the table of
chapters for title 11, District of Columbia, is amended by
striking ‘‘FAMILY DIVISION’’ and inserting ‘‘FAMILY
COURT’’.
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 16.—
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rect payment or counter-cyclical payment if a fore-
closure has occurred with respect to the farm and the
Secretary determines that forgiving the repayment is
appropriate to provide fair and equitable treatment.
‘‘(2) COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—This subsection shall
not void the responsibilities of the peanut pro-
ducers on a farm under subsection (a) if the pea-
nut producers on the farm continue or resume
operation, or control, of the farm.
‘‘(B) APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS.—On the
resumption of operation or control over the farm
by the peanut producers on the farm, the require-
ments of subsection (a) in effect on the date of
the foreclosure shall apply.
‘‘(c) TRANSFER OR CHANGE OF INTEREST IN FARM.—
‘‘(1) TERMINATION.—Except as provided in
paragraph (5), a transfer of (or change in) the inter-
est of the peanut producers on a farm in peanut acres
for which direct payments or counter-cyclical pay-
ments are made shall result in the termination of the
payments with respect to the peanut acres, unless the
transferee or owner of the acreage agrees to assume all
obligations under subsection (a).
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(1) CALCULATION
OF
CHILD
SUPPORT.—Sec-
tion 16–916.1(o)(6), District of Columbia Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘Family Division’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Family Court of the Superior Court’’.
(2) EXPEDITED JUDICIAL HEARING OF CASES
BROUGHT BEFORE HEARING COMMISSIONERS.—Sec-
tion 16–924, District of Columbia Code, is amended
by striking ‘‘Family Division’’ each place it appears
in subsections (a) and (f) and inserting ‘‘Family
Court’’.
(3) 
GENERAL
REFERENCES
TO
PRO-
CEEDINGS.—Chapter 23 of title 16, District of Co-
lumbia Code, is amended by inserting after section
16–2301 the following new section:
‘‘§ 16–2301.1. References deemed to refer to Family
Court of the Superior Court.
‘‘Upon the effective date of the District of Columbia
Family Court Act of 2001, any reference in this chapter
or any other Federal or District of Columbia law, Execu-
tive order, rule, regulation, delegation of authority, or any
document of or pertaining to the Family Division of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia shall be
deemed to refer to the Family Court of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia.’’.
(i) meet the qualifications for judges of
the Family Court of the Superior Court
under section 11–908A, District of Colum-
bia Code (as added by subsection (a)); and
(ii) are willing and able to serve on the
Family Court; and
(B) if the chief judge determines that the
number of individuals described in subpara-
graph (A) is less than 15, a request that the Ju-
dicial Nomination Commission recruit and the
President nominate (in accordance with section
433 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act)
such additional number of individuals to serve
on the Superior Court who meet the qualifica-
tions for judges of the Family Court under sec-
tion 11–908A, District of Columbia Code, as
may be required to enable the chief judge to make
the required number of assignments.
(2) ROLE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JUDICIAL
NOMINATION
COMMISSION.—For purposes of section
434(d)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
the submission of a request from the chief judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia under
paragraph (1)(B) shall be deemed to create a number
of vacancies in the position of judge of the Superior
propriate recommendations by the Under Secretary
of Veterans Affairs for Health and the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
(5) Any recommendations of the two Secre-
taries for expansion of the demonstration project to
additional facilities or for modification to any of the
authorities for the demonstration project provided in
section 3.
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(5) Oats, $0.025 per bushel.
(6) Upland cotton, $0.0667 per pound.
(7) Rice, $2.35 per hundredweight.
(8) Soybeans, $0.42 per bushel.
(9) Other oilseeds, $0.0074 per pound.
(c) PAYMENT AMOUNT.—The amount of the fixed, de-
coupled payment to be paid to the eligible producers on a
farm for a covered commodity for a crop year shall be equal
to the product of the following:
(1) The payment rate specified in subsection (b).
(2) The payment acres of the covered commodity
on the farm.
(3) The payment yield for the covered commodity
for the farm.
(d) TIME FOR PAYMENT.—
(1) GENERAL RULE.—Fixed, decoupled payments
shall be paid not later than September 30 of each of
fiscal years 2002 through 2011. In the case of the
2002 crop, payments may begin to be made on or
after December 1, 2001.
(2) ADVANCE PAYMENTS.—At the option of an el-
igible producer, 50 percent of the fixed, decoupled
payment for a fiscal year shall be paid on a date se-
lected by the producer. The selected date shall be on
or after December 1 of that fiscal year, and the pro-
(17)(A) According to the National Institute of
Justice, crime costs an estimated $450,000,000,000
annually in medical expenses, lost earnings, social
service costs, pain, suffering, and reduced quality of
life for victims, which harms the Nation’s produc-
tivity and drains the Nation’s resources.
(B) 
Violent 
crime 
accounts 
for
$426,000,000,000 per year of this amount.
(C) Rape exacts the highest costs per victim of
any 
criminal 
offense, 
and 
accounts 
for
$127,000,000,000 per year of the amount described
in subparagraph (A).
(18) Violent crime results in wage losses equiv-
alent to 1 percent of all United States earnings, and
causes 3 percent of the Nation’s medical spending
and 14 percent of the Nation’s injury-related med-
ical spending.
(19) The Bureau of National Affairs has esti-
mated that domestic violence costs United States
employers 
between 
$3,000,000,000 
and
$5,000,000,000 annually in lost time and produc-
tivity. Other reports have estimated that domestic
violence 
costs 
United 
States 
employers
$13,000,000,000 annually.
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