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February 14, 2002
Ordered to be printed as passed
In the Senate of the United States,
February 13, 2002.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2646) entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the con-
tinuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2011.’’,
do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ag-
riculture, Conservation, and Rural Enhancement Act of
2002’’.
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this
Act is as follows:
TITLE I—COMMODITY PROGRAMS
Sec. 101. Definitions.
Subtitle A—Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
Sec. 111. Direct and counter-cyclical payments.
Sec. 112. Violations of contracts.
Sec. 113. Planting flexibility.
Sec. 114. Pilot program for farm counter-cyclical savings accounts.
Subtitle B—Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency
Payments
Sec. 121. Nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments.
Sec. 122. Eligible production.
Sec. 123. Loan rates.
Sec. 124. Term of loans.
Sec. 125. Repayment of loans.
Sec. 126. Loan deficiency payments.
Sec. 127. Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage.
Sec. 128. Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton.
Subtitle C—Other Commodities
CHAPTER 1—DAIRY
Sec. 131. Milk price support program.
Sec. 132. National dairy program.
Sec. 133. Dairy export incentive and dairy indemnity programs.
Sec. 134. Fluid milk promotion.
Sec. 135. Dairy product mandatory reporting.
Sec. 136. Funding of dairy promotion and research program.
Sec. 137. Dairy studies.
CHAPTER 2—SUGAR
Sec. 141. Sugar program.
Sec. 142. Storage facility loans.
Sec. 143. Flexible marketing allotments for sugar.
Sec. 144. Reallocation of sugar quota.
CHAPTER 3—PEANUTS
Sec. 151. Peanut program.
Sec. 152. Termination of marketing quotas for peanuts and compensation to pea-
nut quota holders.
Subtitle D—Administration
Sec. 161. Marketing orders for caneberries.
Sec. 162. Reserve stock level.
Sec. 163. Farm reconstitutions.
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Sec. 164. Adjustment authority related to Uruguay Round compliance.
Sec. 165. Suspension of permanent price support authority.
Sec. 166. Commodity purchases.
Sec. 167. Hard white wheat incentive payments.
Sec. 168. Livestock assistance program.
Sec. 169. Payment limitations; nutrition and commodity programs.
Sec. 170. Restriction of commodity and crop insurance payments, loans, and ben-
efits to previously cropped land; food stamp program for certain
qualified aliens.
Sec. 171. Reduction of commodity benefits to improve nutrition assistance.
Sec. 172. Reports on equitable relief and misaction-misinformation requests.
Sec. 173. Estimates of net farm income.
Sec. 174. Commodity Credit Corporation inventory.
Sec. 175. Agricultural producers supplemental payments and assistance.
Subtitle E—Payment Limitation Commission
Sec. 181. Establishment of Commission.
Sec. 182. Duties.
Sec. 183. Powers.
Sec. 184. Commission personnel matters.
Sec. 185. Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Sec. 186. Funding.
Sec. 187. Termination of Commission.
Subtitle F—Emergency Agriculture Assistance
Sec. 191. Income loss assistance.
Sec. 192. Livestock assistance program.
Sec. 193. Market loss assistance for apple producers.
Sec. 194. Commodity Credit Corporation.
Sec. 195. Administrative expenses.
Sec. 196. Regulations.
Sec. 197. Emergency requirement.
TITLE II—CONSERVATION
Subtitle A—Conservation Security
Sec. 201. Conservation security program.
Sec. 202. Funding.
Sec. 203. Partnerships and cooperation.
Sec. 204. Administrative requirements for conservation programs.
Sec. 205. Reform and assessment of conservation programs.
Sec. 206. Conservation security program regulations.
Sec. 207. Conforming amendments.
Subtitle B—Program Extensions
Sec. 211. Comprehensive conservation enhancement program.
Sec. 212. Conservation reserve program.
Sec. 213. Environmental quality incentives program.
Sec. 214. Wetlands reserve program.
Sec. 215. Water conservation.
Sec. 216. Resource conservation and development program.
Sec. 217. Wildlife habitat incentive program.
Sec. 218. Farmland protection program.
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Sec. 219. Grassland reserve program.
Sec. 220. State technical committees.
Sec. 221. Use of symbols, slogans, and logos.
Subtitle C—Organic Farming
Sec. 231. Organic Agriculture Research Trust Fund.
Sec. 232. Establishment of National Organic Research Endowment Institute.
Subtitle D—Regional Equity
Sec. 241. Allocation of conservation funds by State.
Subtitle E—Miscellaneous
Sec. 261. Cranberry acreage reserve program.
Sec. 262. Klamath Basin.
TITLE III—TRADE
Subtitle A—Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and
Related Statutes
Sec. 301. United States policy.
Sec. 302. Provision of agricultural commodities.
Sec. 303. Generation and use of currencies by private voluntary organizations
and cooperatives.
Sec. 304. Levels of assistance.
Sec. 305. Food Aid Consultative Group.
Sec. 306. Maximum level of expenditures.
Sec. 307. Administration.
Sec. 308. Assistance for stockpiling and rapid transportation, delivery, and dis-
tribution of shelf-stable prepackaged foods.
Sec. 309. Pilot emergency relief program to provide live lamb to Afghanistan.
Sec. 310. Sale procedure.
Sec. 311. Prepositioning.
Sec. 312. Expiration date.
Sec. 313. Micronutrient fortification program.
Sec. 314. John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program.
Subtitle B—Agricultural Trade Act of 1978
Sec. 321. Export credit guarantee program.
Sec. 322. Market access program.
Sec. 323. Export enhancement program.
Sec. 324. Foreign market development cooperator program.
Sec. 325. Food for progress and education programs.
Sec. 326. Exporter assistance initiative.
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Agricultural Trade Provisions
Sec. 331. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.
Sec. 332. Emerging markets.
Sec. 333. Biotechnology and agricultural trade program.
Sec. 334. Surplus commodities for developing or friendly countries.
Sec. 335. Agricultural trade with Cuba.
Sec. 336. Sense of Congress concerning agricultural trade.
Sec. 337. Report on use of perishable commodities.
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Sec. 338. Sense of Senate concerning foreign assistance programs.
TITLE IV—NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Sec. 401. Short title.
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program
Sec. 411. Encouragement of payment of child support.
Sec. 412. Simplified definition of income.
Sec. 413. Increase in benefits to households with children.
Sec. 414. Simplified determination of housing costs.
Sec. 415. Simplified utility allowance.
Sec. 416. Simplified procedure for determination of earned income.
Sec. 417. Simplified determination of deductions.
Sec. 418. Simplified definition of resources.
Sec. 419. Alternative issuance systems in disasters.
Sec. 420. State option to reduce reporting requirements.
Sec. 421. Benefits for adults without dependents.
Sec. 422. Preservation of access to electronic benefits.
Sec. 423. Cost neutrality for electronic benefit transfer systems.
Sec. 424. Alternative procedures for residents of certain group facilities.
Sec. 425. Redemption of benefits through group living arrangements.
Sec. 426. Availability of food stamp program applications on the Internet.
Sec. 427. Simplified determinations of continuing eligibility.
Sec. 428. Clearinghouse for successful nutrition education efforts.
Sec. 429. Transitional food stamps for families moving from welfare.
Sec. 430. Delivery to retailers of notices of adverse action.
Sec. 431. Reform of quality control system.
Sec. 432. Improvement of calculation of State performance measures.
Sec. 433. Bonuses for States that demonstrate high performance.
Sec. 434. Employment and training program.
Sec. 435. Reauthorization of food stamp program and food distribution program
on Indian reservations.
Sec. 436. Coordination of program information efforts.
Sec. 437. Expanded grant authority.
Sec. 438. Access and outreach pilot projects.
Sec. 439. Consolidated block grants and administrative funds.
Sec. 440. Assistance for community food projects.
Sec. 441. Availability of commodities for the emergency food assistance program.
Sec. 442. Use of approved food safety technology.
Sec. 443. Innovative programs for addressing common community problems.
Sec. 444. Report on use of electronic benefit transfer systems.
Sec. 445. Vitamin and mineral supplements.
Subtitle B—Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 451. Reauthorization of commodity programs.
Sec. 452. Partial restoration of benefits to legal immigrants.
Sec. 453. Commodities for school lunch programs.
Sec. 454. Eligibility for free and reduced price meals.
Sec. 455. Eligibility for assistance under the special supplemental nutrition pro-
gram for women, infants, and children.
Sec. 456. Report on conversion of WIC program into an individual entitlement
program.
Sec. 457. Commodity donations.
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Sec. 458. Purchases of locally produced foods.
Sec. 459. Seniors farmers’ market nutrition program.
Sec. 460. Farmers’ market nutrition program.
Sec. 461. Fruit and vegetable pilot program.
Sec. 462. Congressional Hunger Fellows Program.
Sec. 463. Nutrition information and awareness pilot program.
Sec. 464. Effective date.
TITLE V—CREDIT
Subtitle A—Farm Ownership Loans
Sec. 501. Direct loans.
Sec. 502. Financing of bridge loans.
Sec. 503. Limitations on amount of farm ownership loans.
Sec. 504. Joint financing arrangements.
Sec. 505. Guarantee percentage for beginning farmers and ranchers.
Sec. 506. Guarantee of loans made under State beginning farmer or rancher pro-
grams.
Sec. 507. Down payment loan program.
Sec. 508. Beginning farmer and rancher contract land sales program.
Subtitle B—Operating Loans
Sec. 511. Direct loans.
Sec. 512. Amount of guarantee of loans for tribal farm operations; waiver of limi-
tations for tribal farm operations and other farm operations.
Subtitle C—Administrative Provisions
Sec. 521. Eligibility of limited liability companies for farm ownership loans,
farm operating loans, and emergency loans.
Sec. 522. Debt settlement.
Sec. 523. Temporary authority to enter into contracts; private collection agencies.
Sec. 524. Interest rate options for loans in servicing.
Sec. 525. Annual review of borrowers.
Sec. 526. Simplified loan applications.
Sec. 527. Inventory property.
Sec. 528. Definitions.
Sec. 529. Loan authorization levels.
Sec. 530. Interest rate reduction program.
Sec. 531. Options for satisfaction of obligation to pay recapture amount for
shared appreciation agreements.
Sec. 532. Waiver of borrower training certification requirement.
Sec. 533. Annual review of borrowers.
Subtitle D—Farm Credit
Sec. 541. Repeal of burdensome approval requirements.
Sec. 542. Banks for cooperatives.
Sec. 543. Insurance Corporation premiums.
Sec. 544. Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
Subtitle E—General Provisions
Sec. 551. Inapplicability of finality rule.
Sec. 552. Technical amendments.
Sec. 553. Effective date.
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TITLE VI—RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Subtitle A—Empowerment of Rural America
Sec. 601. National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund.
Sec. 602. Rural business investment program.
Sec. 603. Full funding of pending rural development loan and grant applications.
Sec. 604. Rural Endowment Program.
Sec. 605. Enhancement of access to broadband service in rural areas.
Sec. 606. Value-added agricultural product market development grants.
Sec. 607. National Rural Development Information Clearinghouse.
Subtitle B—National Rural Development Partnership
Sec. 611. Short title.
Sec. 612. National Rural Development Partnership.
Subtitle C—Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act
Sec. 621. Water or waste disposal grants.
Sec. 622. Rural business opportunity grants.
Sec. 623. Rural water and wastewater circuit rider program.
Sec. 624. Multijurisdictional regional planning organizations.
Sec. 625. Certified nonprofit organizations sharing expertise.
Sec. 626. Loan guarantees for certain rural development loans.
Sec. 627. Rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program.
Sec. 628. Tribal college and university essential community facilities.
Sec. 629. Emergency community water assistance grant program.
Sec. 630. Water and waste facility grants for Native American tribes.
Sec. 631. Water systems for rural and native villages in Alaska.
Sec. 632. Rural business enterprise grants.
Sec. 633. Rural cooperative development grants.
Sec. 634. Grants to broadcasting systems.
Sec. 635. Business and industry loan modifications.
Sec. 636. Value-added intermediary relending program.
Sec. 637. Use of rural development loans and grants for other purposes.
Sec. 638. Simplified application forms for loan guarantees.
Sec. 639. Definition of rural and rural area.
Sec. 640. Rural entrepreneurs and microenterprise assistance program.
Sec. 641. Rural seniors.
Sec. 642. Children’s day care facilities.
Sec. 643. Rural telework.
Sec. 644. Historic barn preservation.
Sec. 645. Grants for emergency weather radio transmitters.
Sec. 646. Grants for training farm workers.
Sec. 647. Delta Regional Authority.
Sec. 648. SEARCH grants for small communities.
Sec. 649. Northern Great Plains Regional Authority.
Subtitle D—Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
Sec. 651. Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation.
Sec. 652. Telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas.