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(5) it is in the national interest and crucial to
milk producers that an alternative be found to the
continued expansion of budget reconciliation levies
and the corresponding diminution of the benefits of
the Federal milk price support program;
(6) since most Government outlays under the
Federal milk price support program stem from Com-
modity Credit Corporation removals of surplus dairy
products from the market to reduce the adverse ef-
fect of the surpluses on producer market prices for
milk, net Federal expenditures under that program
can be reduced, and thus needed budget savings
achieved, by reducing the level of removals of sur-
plus dairy products by the Corporation under the
price support program;
(7) an effective way to reduce the level of the
Commodity Credit Corporation’s price support re-
movals is through the implementation of a producer-
funded program (using deductions from producer
revenues) as a supplement to the existing milk price
support program to remove surplus dairy products
from the market before the Corporation has to take
them, and develop additional markets for domesti-
cally-produced dairy products;
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(8) implementation of such a producer-funded
self-help program is preferable to just increasing the
level of budget reconciliation levies, because, while
effectively reducing net Federal expenditures under
the milk price support program, it also stabilizes the
market for milk producers and lessens the economic
effect of the budget deficit reduction effort on them;
(9) implementation of the self-help program
also is fairer to milk producers because it will use
the funds collected from them under the budget rec-
onciliation process to provide them with tools that
they, as an industry, need to effectively develop new
markets for their products;
(10) if milk producers shoulder the financial
burden of removing surplus dairy products from the
market and developing new markets for domestic
milk production under this self-help program, it is
appropriate, as well as most conducive to the effi-
cient implementation of the program, that the milk
production and marketing industry be directly in-
volved in the operation of the program under the
oversight of the Secretary of Agriculture;
(11) the Federal milk price support program it-
self is the responsibility of the Secretary of Agri-
culture under the Agricultural Act of 1949, and the
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producer-funded efforts to dispose of surplus dairy
products and develop new markets for dairy prod-
ucts under the self-help program established by this
Act should be overseen by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and be coordinated with the milk price sup-
port program and other Department of Agriculture
programs; and
(12) the future of milk price stabilization re-
quires the opening of new market opportunities that
the efficient production capacity of our Nation’s
milk producers can respond to, and the self-help ef-
fort provided for in this Act should include aggres-
sive efforts to search out and find new market op-
portunities in promising export markets.
(b) STATEMENT OF PURPOSES AND POLICY.—
(1) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are
to—
(A) achieve a reduction in net Federal ex-
penditures under the Federal milk price support
program that contributes substantially to the
needed reductions in net Federal outlays re-
quired under the Concurrent Budget Resolution
for fiscal years 1994 through 1998;
(B) achieve such reduction in net expendi-
tures through implementation of a self-help pro-