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Calendar No. 339 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2419 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 
Received and read the first time 
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs 
through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
TITLE I—COMMODITY PROGRAMS 
Sec. 1001. Definitions. 
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Subtitle A—Direct Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments 
Sec. 1101. Adjustments to base acres. 
Sec. 1102. Availability of direct payments. 
Sec. 1103. Availability of counter-cyclical payments. 
Sec. 1104. Availability of revenue-based counter-cyclical payments. 
Sec. 1105. Producer agreement required as condition of provision of direct pay-
ments and counter-cyclical payments. 
Sec. 1106. Planting flexibility. 
Sec. 1107. Period of effectiveness. 
Subtitle B—Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments 
Sec. 1201. Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for loan com-
modities. 
Sec. 1202. Loan rates for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans. 
Sec. 1203. Term of loans. 
Sec. 1204. Repayment of loans. 
Sec. 1205. Loan deficiency payments. 
Sec. 1206. Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage. 
Sec. 1207. Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton. 
Sec. 1208. Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton. 
Sec. 1209. Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed 
cotton. 
Sec. 1210. Deadline for repayment of marketing assistance loan for peanuts. 
Sec. 1211. Commodity quality incentive payments for healthy oilseeds. 
Subtitle C—Sugar 
Sec. 1301. Sugar program. 
Sec. 1302. United States membership in the international sugar organization. 
Sec. 1303. Flexible marketing allotments for sugar. 
Subtitle D—Dairy-Related Provisions 
Sec. 1401. Dairy product price support program. 
Sec. 1402. Dairy forward pricing program. 
Sec. 1403. Dairy export incentive program. 
Sec. 1404. Revision of Federal marketing order amendment procedures. 
Sec. 1405. Dairy indemnity program. 
Sec. 1406. Extension of milk income loss contract program. 
Sec. 1407. Dairy promotion and research program. 
Sec. 1408. Report on Department of Agriculture reporting procedures for non-
fat dry milk. 
Sec. 1409. Federal Milk Marketing Order Review Commission. 
Subtitle E—Administration 
Sec. 1501. Administration generally. 
Sec. 1502. Suspension of permanent price support authority. 
Sec. 1503. Payment Limitations. 
Sec. 1504. Adjusted gross income limitation. 
Sec. 1505. Adjustments of loans. 
Sec. 1506. Personal liability of producers for deficiencies. 
Sec. 1507. Extension of existing administrative authority regarding loans. 
Sec. 1508. Assignment of payments. 
Sec. 1509. Tracking of benefits. 
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Sec. 1510. Upland cotton storage payments. 
Sec. 1511. Government publication of cotton price forecasts. 
Sec. 1512. Prevention of deceased persons receiving payments under farm com-
modity programs. 
TITLE II—CONSERVATION 
Subtitle A—Conservation Programs of the Food Security Act of 1985 
Sec. 2101. Conservation reserve program. 
Sec. 2102. Wetlands reserve program. 
Sec. 2103. Conservation security program. 
Sec. 2104. Grassland reserve program. 
Sec. 2105. Environmental quality incentives program. 
Sec. 2106. Regional water enhancement program. 
Sec. 2107. Grassroots source water protection program. 
Sec. 2108. Conservation of private grazing land. 
Sec. 2109. Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and sediment control. 
Sec. 2110. Farm and ranchland protection program. 
Sec. 2111. Farm viability program. 
Sec. 2112. Wildlife habitat incentive program. 
Subtitle B—Conservation Programs Under Other Laws 
Sec. 2201. Agricultural management assistance program. 
Sec. 2202. Resource Conservation and Development Program. 
Sec. 2203. Small watershed rehabilitation program. 
Subtitle C—Additional Conservation Programs 
Sec. 2301. Chesapeake Bay program for nutrient reduction and sediment con-
trol. 
Sec. 2302. Voluntary public access and habitat incentive program. 
Sec. 2303. Muck soils conservation. 
Subtitle D—Administration and Funding 
Sec. 2401. Funding of conservation programs under Food Security Act of 
1985. 
Sec. 2402. Improved provision of technical assistance under conservation pro-
grams. 
Sec. 2403. Cooperative conservation partnership initiative. 
Sec. 2404. Regional equity and flexibility. 
Sec. 2405. Administrative requirements for conservation programs. 
Sec. 2406. Annual report on participation by specialty crop producers in con-
servation programs. 
Sec. 2407. Promotion of market-based approaches to conservation. 
Sec. 2408. Establishment of State technical committees and their responsibil-
ities. 
Sec. 2409. Payment limitations. 
Subtitle E—Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 2501. Inclusion of income from affiliated packing and handling operations 
as income derived from farming for application of adjusted 
gross income limitation on eligibility for conservation programs. 
Sec. 2502. Encouragement of voluntary sustainability practices guidelines. 
Sec. 2503. Farmland resource information. 
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Sec. 2504. Pilot program for four-year crop rotation for peanuts. 
TITLE III—TRADE 
Sec. 3001. Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. 
Sec. 3002. Export credit guarantee program. 
Sec. 3003. Market access program. 
Sec. 3004. Food for Progress Act of 1985. 
Sec. 3005. Reauthorization of McGovern-Dole International Food for Education 
and Child Nutrition Program. 
Sec. 3006. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust. 
Sec. 3007. Technical assistance for specialty crops. 
Sec. 3008. Technical assistance for the resolution of trade disputes. 
Sec. 3009. Representation by the United States at international standard-set-
ting bodies. 
Sec. 3010. Foreign market development cooperator program. 
Sec. 3011. Emerging markets. 
Sec. 3012. Export Enhancement Program. 
Sec. 3013. Minimum level of nonemergency food assistance. 
Sec. 3014. Germplasm conservation. 
Sec. 3015. Report on efforts to improve procurement planning. 
Sec. 3016. International disaster assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961. 
TITLE IV—NUTRITION PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program 
Sec. 4001. Renaming the food stamp program. 
Sec. 4002. Definition of drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilita-
tion program. 
Sec. 4003. Nutrition education. 
Sec. 4004. Food distribution on Indian reservations. 
Sec. 4005. Excluding combat related pay from countable income. 
Sec. 4006. Increasing the standard deduction. 
Sec. 4007. Excluding dependent care expenses. 
Sec. 4008. Adjusting countable resources for inflation. 
Sec. 4009. Excluding education accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4010. Excluding retirement accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4011. Deobligate food stamp coupons. 
Sec. 4012. Allow for the accrual of benefits. 
Sec. 4013. Increasing the minimum benefit. 
Sec. 4014. State option for telephonic signature. 
Sec. 4015. Review of major changes in program design. 
Sec. 4016. Grants for simple application and eligibility determination systems 
and improved access to benefits. 
Sec. 4017. Civil money penalties and disqualification of retail food stores and 
wholesale food concerns. 
Sec. 4018. Major systems failures. 
Sec. 4019. Funding of employment and training programs. 
Sec. 4020. Reductions in payments for administrative costs. 
Sec. 4021. Cash payment pilot projects. 
Sec. 4022. Findings of Congress regarding Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance program nutrition education. 
Sec. 4023. Nutrition education and promotion initiative to address obesity. 
Sec. 4024. Authorization of appropriations. 
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Sec. 4025. Consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa. 
Sec. 4026. Study on comparable access to Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program benefits for Puerto Rico. 
Sec. 4027. Reauthorization of community food project competitive grants. 
Sec. 4028. Emergency food assistance program. 
Subtitle B—Commodity Distribution 
Sec. 4201. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4202. Distribution of surplus commodities; special nutrition projects. 
Sec. 4203. Commodity distribution program. 
Subtitle C—Child Nutrition and Related Programs 
Sec. 4301. Purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools 
and service institutions. 
Sec. 4302. Buy American requirements. 
Sec. 4303. Expansion of fresh fruit and vegetable program. 
Sec. 4304. Purchases of locally produced foods. 
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous 
Sec. 4401. Seniors farmers’ market nutrition program. 
Sec. 4402. Congressional Hunger Center. 
Sec. 4403. Joint nutrition monitoring and related research activities. 
Sec. 4404 Sense of the Congress. 
TITLE V—CREDIT 
Subtitle A—Farm Ownership Loans 
Sec. 5001. Conservation loan guarantee program. 
Sec. 5002. Limitations on amount of ownership loans. 
Sec. 5003. Down payment loan program. 
Sec. 5004. Beginning farmer and rancher contract land sales program. 
Sec. 5005. Loans to purchasers of highly fractioned lands. 
Subtitle B—Operating Loans 
Sec. 5011. Limitations on amount of operating loans. 
Sec. 5012. Suspension of limitation on period for which borrowers are eligible 
for guaranteed assistance. 
Subtitle C—Administrative Provisions 
Sec. 5021. Inventory sales preferences. 
Sec. 5022. Loan fund set-asides. 
Sec. 5023. Transition to private commercial or other sources of credit. 
Sec. 5024. Extension of the right of first refusal to reacquire homestead prop-
erty to immediate family members of borrower-owner. 
Sec. 5025. Rural development and farm loan program activities. 
Subtitle D—Farm Credit 
Sec. 5031. Bank for cooperatives voting stock. 
Sec. 5032. Rural utility loans. 
Sec. 5033. Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation. 
Sec. 5034. Risk-based capital levels. 
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TITLE VI—RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
Sec. 6001. Definition of rural. 
Sec. 6002. Water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility grants. 
Sec. 6003. Rural business opportunity grants. 
Sec. 6004. Rural water and wastewater circuit rider program. 
Sec. 6005. Tribal college and university essential community facilities. 
Sec. 6006.
Emergency and imminent community water assistance grant pro-
gram. 
Sec. 6007. Water systems for rural and native villages in Alaska. 
Sec. 6008. Grants to nonprofit organizations to finance the construction, refur-
bishing, and servicing of individually-owned household water 
well systems in rural areas for individuals with low or moderate 
incomes. 
Sec. 6009. Rural cooperative development grants. 
Sec. 6010. Criteria to be applied in
providing loans and loan guarantees 
under the business and industry loan program. 
Sec. 6011. Appropriate technology transfer for rural areas program. 
Sec. 6012. Grants to improve technical infrastructure and improve quality of 
rural health care facilities. 
Sec. 6013. Rural entrepreneur and microenterprise assistance program. 
Sec. 6014. Criteria to be applied in considering applications for rural develop-
ment projects. 
Sec. 6015. National sheep industry improvement center. 
Sec. 6016. National rural development partnership. 
Sec. 6017. Historic barn preservation. 
Sec. 6018. Grants for NOAA weather radio transmitters. 
Sec. 6019. Delta regional authority. 
Sec. 6020. Northern great plains regional authority. 
Sec. 6021. Rural strategic investment program. 
Sec. 6022. Expansion of 911 access. 
Sec. 6023. Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas. 
Sec. 6024. Community connect grant program. 
Sec. 6025. Agriculture innovation center demonstration program. 
Sec. 6026. Rural firefighters and emergency medical service assistance pro-
gram. 
Sec. 6027. Value-added agricultural market development program. 
Sec. 6028. Assistance for rural public television stations. 
Sec. 6029. Telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas. 
Sec. 6030. Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or tele-
phone purposes. 
Sec. 6031. Comprehensive rural broadband strategy. 
Sec. 6032. Study of railroad issues. 
TITLE VII—RESEARCH 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
Sec. 7101. Definitions. 
Sec. 7102. Budget submission and funding. 
Sec. 7103. Additional purposes of agricultural research and extension. 
Sec. 7104. National agricultural research program office. 
Sec. 7105. Establishment of competitive grant programs under the National In-
stitute for Food and Agriculture. 
Sec. 7106. Merging of IFAFS and NRI. 
Sec. 7107. Capacity building grants for ASCARR institutions. 
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Sec. 7108. Establishment of research laboratories for animal diseases. 
Sec. 7109. Grazinglands research laboratory. 
Sec. 7110. Researcher training. 
Sec. 7111. Fort Reno Science Park research facility. 
Sec. 7112. Assessing the nutritional composition of beef products. 
Sec. 7113. Sense of Congress regarding funding for human nutrition research. 
Subtitle B—National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 
Act of 1977 
Sec. 7201. Advisory board. 
Sec. 7202. Advisory board termination. 
Sec. 7203. Renewable energy committee. 
Sec. 7204. Specialty crop committee report. 
Sec. 7205. Inclusion of UDC in grants and fellowships for food and agricultural 
sciences education. 
Sec. 7206. Grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education. 
Sec. 7207. Grants for research on production and marketing of alcohols and in-
dustrial hydrocarbons from agricultural commodities and forest 
products. 
Sec. 7208. Policy research centers. 
Sec. 7209. Human nutrition intervention and health promotion research pro-
gram. 
Sec. 7210. Pilot research program to combine medical and agricultural re-
search. 
Sec. 7211. Nutrition education program. 
Sec. 7212. Continuing animal health and disease research programs. 
Sec. 7213. Cooperation among eligible institutions. 
Sec. 7214. Appropriations for research on national or regional problems. 
Sec. 7215. Authorization level of extension at 1890 land-grant colleges. 
Sec. 7216. Authorization level for agricultural research at 1890 land-grant col-
leges. 
Sec. 7217. Grants to upgrade agriculture and food sciences facilities at the Dis-
trict of Columbia Land Grant University. 
Sec. 7218. Grants to upgrade agricultural and food sciences facilities at 1890 
land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University. 
Sec. 7219. National research and training virtual centers. 
Sec. 7220. Matching funds requirement for research and extension activities of 
1890 institutions. 
Sec. 7221. Hispanic-serving institutions. 
Sec. 7222. Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities. 
Sec. 7223. International agricultural research, extension, and education. 
Sec. 7224. Competitive grants for international agricultural science and edu-
cation programs. 
Sec. 7225. Limitation on indirect costs for agricultural research, education, and 
extension programs. 
Sec. 7226. Research equipment grants. 
Sec. 7227. University research. 
Sec. 7228. Extension service. 
Sec. 7229. Supplemental and alternative crops. 
Sec. 7230. Aquaculture Assistance Programs. 
Sec. 7231. Rangeland research. 
Sec. 7232. Special authorization for biosecurity planning and response. 
Sec. 7233. Resident instruction and distance education grants program for in-
sular area institutions of higher education. 
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Sec. 7234. Hispanic Serving Institutions. 
Sec. 7235. Specialty crops policy research institute. 
Sec. 7236. Emphasis of Human Nutrition Initiative. 
Sec. 7237. Grants to upgrade agriculture and food sciences facilities at insular 
area land-grant institutions. 
Subtitle C—Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 
Sec. 7301. National genetics resources program. 
Sec. 7302. National agricultural weather information system. 
Sec. 7303. Partnerships. 
Sec. 7304. Aflatoxin research and extension. 
Sec. 7305. High-priority research and extension areas. 
Sec. 7306. High-priority research and extension initiatives. 
Sec. 7307. Nutrient management research and extension initiative. 
Sec. 7308. Agricultural telecommunications program. 
Sec. 7309. Assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities. 
Sec. 7310. Organic research. 
Sec. 7311. National rural information center clearinghouse. 
Sec. 7312. New era rural technology program. 
Subtitle D—Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
1998 
Sec. 7401. Partnerships for high-value agricultural product quality research. 
Sec. 7402. Precision agriculture. 
Sec. 7403. Biobased products. 
Sec. 7404. Thomas Jefferson initiative for crop diversification. 
Sec. 7405. Integrated research, education, and extension competitive grants 
program. 
Sec. 7406. Fusarium graminearum grants. 
Sec. 7407. Bovine Johne’s disease control program. 
Sec. 7408. Grants for youth organizations. 
Sec. 7409. Agricultural biotechnology research and development for developing 
countries. 
Sec. 7410. Agricultural bioenergy and biobased products research initiative. 
Sec. 7411. Specialty crop research initiative. 
Sec. 7412. Office of pest management policy. 
Subtitle E—Other Laws 
Sec. 7501. Critical agricultural materials act. 
Sec. 7502. Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. 
Sec. 7503. Agricultural experiment station Research Facilities Act. 
Sec. 7504. National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act 
Amendments of 1985. 
Sec. 7505. Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (national 
research initiative). 
Sec. 7506. Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (carbon cycle research). 
Sec. 7507. Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978. 
Sec. 7508. National Aquaculture Act of 1980. 
Sec. 7509. Construction of a Chinese Garden at the National Arboretum. 
Sec. 7510. Public education regarding use of biotechnology in producing food 
for human consumption. 
Sec. 7511. Fresh cut produce safety grants. 
Sec. 7512. UDC/EFNEP Eligibility. 
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Sec. 7513. Hatch Act of 1987. 
Subtitle F—Additional Provisions 
Sec. 7601. Merit review of extension and educational grants. 
Sec. 7602. Review of plan of work requirements. 
Sec. 7603. Multistate and integration funding. 
Sec. 7604. Expanded food and nutrition education program. 
Sec. 7605. Grants to 1890 schools to expand extension capacity. 
Sec. 7606. Borlaug international agricultural science and technology fellowship 
program. 
Sec. 7607. Cost Recovery. 
Sec. 7608. Organic Food and Agricultural Systems Funding. 
TITLE VIII—FORESTRY 
Subtitle A—Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 
Sec. 8001. National priorities for private forest conservation. 
Sec. 8002. Long-term, State-wide assessments and strategies for forest re-
sources. 
Sec. 8003. Assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. 
Sec. 8004. Changes to Forest Resource Coordinating Committee. 
Sec. 8005. Changes to State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committees. 
Sec. 8006. Competition in programs under Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act 
of 1978. 
Sec. 8007. Cooperative forest innovation partnership projects. 
Subtitle B—Amendments to Other Laws 
Sec. 8101. Healthy forest reserve program. 
Sec. 8102. Emergency forest restoration program. 
Sec. 8103. Office of International Forestry. 
Sec. 8104. Rural revitalization technologies. 
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 8201. Hispanic-serving institution agricultural land national resources 
leadership program. 
TITLE IX—ENERGY 
Sec. 9001. Table of contents. 
Sec. 9002. Federal procurement of biobased products. 
Sec. 9003. Loan guarantees for biorefineries and biofuel production plants. 
Sec. 9004. Energy audit and renewable energy development program. 
Sec. 9005. Renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. 
Sec. 9006. Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000. 
Sec. 9007. Adjustments to the bioenergy program. 
Sec. 9008. Research, extension, and educational programs on biobased energy 
technologies and products. 
Sec. 9009. Energy Council of the Department of Agriculture. 
Sec. 9010. Farm energy production pilot program. 
Sec. 9011. Rural energy self-sufficiency initiative. 
Sec. 9012. Agricultural biofuels from biomass internship pilot program. 
Sec. 9013. Feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers. 
Sec. 9014. Biomass inventory report. 
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