In the Senate of the United States, 
September 21, 2015. 
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2051) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the livestock mandatory 
price reporting requirements, and for other purposes.’’, 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 Reauthorizations Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—MANDATORY PRICE REPORTING 
Sec. 101. Extension of livestock mandatory reporting. 
Sec. 102. Swine reporting. 
Sec. 103. Lamb reporting. 
Sec. 104. Study on livestock mandatory reporting.
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TITLE II—NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ACT 
REAUTHORIZATION 
Sec. 201. National Forest Foundation Act reauthorization. 
TITLE III—UNITED STATES GRAIN STANDARDS ACT 
REAUTHORIZATION 
Sec. 301. Reauthorization of United States Grain Standards Act. 
Sec. 302. Report on disruption in Federal inspection of grain exports. 
Sec. 303. Report on policy barriers to grain producers. 
TITLE I—MANDATORY PRICE 
REPORTING 
SEC. 101. EXTENSION OF LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORT-
ING. 
(a) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.—Section 260 of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is 
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2015’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 942 of the 
Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1635 
note; Public Law 106–78) is amended by striking ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 
SEC. 102. SWINE REPORTING. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 231 of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635i) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through (22) 
as paragraphs (10) through (23), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol-
lowing:
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‘‘(9) NEGOTIATED
FORMULA
PURCHASE.—The 
term ‘negotiated formula purchase’ means a swine or 
pork market formula purchase under which— 
‘‘(A) the formula is determined by negotia-
tion on a lot-by-lot basis; and 
‘‘(B) the swine are scheduled for delivery to 
the packer not later than 14 days after the date 
on which the formula is negotiated and swine 
are committed to the packer.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (12)(A) (as so redesignated), 
by inserting ‘‘negotiated formula purchase,’’ after 
‘‘pork market formula purchase,’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (23) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 
subparagraph (E); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
following: 
‘‘(D) a negotiated formula purchase; and’’. 
(b) DAILY REPORTING.—Section 232(c) of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635j(c)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking clause (ii) 
and inserting the following:
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‘‘(ii) PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS.—The in-
formation published by the Secretary under 
clause (i) shall include— 
‘‘(I) a distribution of net prices in 
the range between and including the 
lowest net price and the highest net 
price reported; 
‘‘(II) a delineation of the number 
of barrows and gilts at each reported 
price level or, at the option of the Sec-
retary, the number of barrows and gilts 
within each of a series of reasonable 
price bands within the range of prices; 
and 
‘‘(III) the total number and 
weighted average price of barrows and 
gilts purchased through negotiated pur-
chases and negotiated formula pur-
chases.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(C) LATE IN THE DAY REPORT INFORMA-
TION.—The Secretary shall include in the morn-
ing report and the afternoon report for the fol-
lowing day any information required to be re-
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ported under subparagraph (A) that is obtained 
after the time of the reporting day specified in 
that subparagraph.’’. 
SEC. 103. LAMB REPORTING. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 
59.300 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, so that— 
(1) the definition of the term ‘‘importer’’— 
(A) includes only those importers that im-
ported an average of 1,000 metric tons of lamb 
meat products per year during the immediately 
preceding 4 calendar years; and 
(B) may include any person that does not 
meet the requirement referred to in subpara-
graph (A), if the Secretary determines that the 
person should be considered an importer based 
on their volume of lamb imports; and 
(2) the definition of the term ‘‘packer’’— 
(A) applies to any entity with 50 percent or 
more ownership in a facility; 
(B) includes a federally inspected lamb 
processing plant which slaughtered or processed 
the equivalent of an average of 35,000 head of 
lambs per year during the immediately pre-
ceding 5 calendar years; and
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(C) may include any other lamb processing 
plant that does not meet the requirement referred 
to in subparagraph (B), if the Secretary deter-
mines that the processing plant should be consid-
ered a packer after considering the capacity of 
the processing plant. 
SEC. 104. STUDY ON LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORTING. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture, 
acting through the Agricultural Marketing Service in 
conjunction with the Office of the Chief Economist 
and in consultation with cattle, swine, and lamb pro-
ducers, packers, and other market participants, shall 
conduct a study on the program of information re-
garding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and 
products of such livestock under subtitle B of the Ag-
ricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635 et 
seq.). 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The study shall— 
(A) analyze current marketing practices in 
the cattle, swine, and lamb markets; 
(B) identify legislative or regulatory rec-
ommendations made by cattle, swine, and lamb 
producers, packers, and other market partici-
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pants to ensure that information provided under 
the program— 
(i) can be readily understood by pro-
ducers, packers, and other market partici-
pants; 
(ii) reflects current marketing prac-
tices; and 
(iii) is relevant and useful to pro-
ducers, packers, and other market partici-
pants; 
(C) analyze the price and supply informa-
tion reporting services of the Department of Ag-
riculture related to cattle, swine, and lamb; and 
(D) address any other issues that the Sec-
retary considers appropriate. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 2018, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on Ag-
riculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a re-
port containing the findings of the study conducted under 
subsection (a).
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(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 407(b) of the Na-
tional Forest Foundation Act (16 U.S.C. 583j–5(b)) is 
amended by striking the comma after ‘‘The Founda-
tion shall’’. 
TITLE 
III—UNITED 
STATES 
GRAIN STANDARDS ACT RE-
AUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 301. REAUTHORIZATION OF UNITED STATES GRAIN 
STANDARDS ACT. 
(a) OFFICIAL INSPECTION AND WEIGHING REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(1) DISCRETIONARY WAIVER AUTHORITY.—Sec-
tion 5(a)(1) of the United States Grain Standards 
Act (7 U.S.C. 77(a)(1)) is amended in the first pro-
viso by striking ‘‘may waive the foregoing require-
ment in emergency or other circumstances which 
would not impair the objectives of this Act’’ and in-
serting ‘‘shall waive the foregoing requirement in 
emergency or other circumstances that would not im-
pair the objectives of this Act whenever the parties to 
a contract for such shipment mutually agree to the 
waiver and documentation of such agreement is pro-
vided to the Secretary prior to shipment’’. 
(2) WEIGHING REQUIREMENTS AT EXPORT ELE-
VATORS.—Section 5(a)(2) of the United States Grain
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Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 77(a)(2)) is amended in the 
proviso by striking ‘‘intracompany shipments of 
grain into an export elevator by any mode of trans-
portation, grain transferred into an export elevator 
by transportation modes other than barge,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘shipments of grain into an export elevator by 
any mode of transportation’’. 
(3) DISRUPTION
IN
GRAIN
INSPECTION
OR 
WEIGHING.—Section 5 of the United States Grain 
Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 77) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) DISRUPTION IN GRAIN INSPECTION OR WEIGH-
ING.—In the case of a disruption in official grain inspec-
tions or weighings, including if the Secretary waives the 
requirement for official inspection due to an emergency 
under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) immediately take such actions as are nec-
essary to address the disruption and resume inspec-
tions or weighings; 
‘‘(2) not later than 24 hours after the start of the 
disruption in inspection or weighing, submit to the 
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes— 
‘‘(A) the disruption; and
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‘‘(B) any actions necessary to address the 
concerns of the Secretary relating to the disrup-
tion so that inspections or weighings may re-
sume; and 
‘‘(3) once the initial report in paragraph (2) has 
been made, provide daily updates until official in-
spection or weighing services at the site of disruption 
have resumed.’’. 
(b) OFFICIAL INSPECTION AUTHORITY
AND FUND-
ING.— 
(1) DELEGATION OF OFFICIAL INSPECTION AU-
THORITY.—Section 7(e)(2) of the United States Grain 
Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79(e)(2)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(2) If the Secretary’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) DELEGATION
OF
AUTHORITY
TO
STATE 
AGENCIES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary’’; 
(B) in the first sentence— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and (A)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘and (i)’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘or (B)(i)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘or (ii)(I)’’; 
(iii) by striking ‘‘(ii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(II)’’; and
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(iv) by striking ‘‘(iii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(III)’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Every 5 years, the 
Secretary shall certify that each State agen-
cy with a delegation of authority is meeting 
the 
criteria 
described 
in 
subsection 
(f)(1)(A). 
‘‘(ii) PROCESS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of the Agri-
culture Reauthorizations Act of 2015, the 
Secretary shall establish a process for cer-
tification under which the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(I) publish in the Federal Reg-
ister notice of intent to certify a State 
agency and provide a 30-day period 
for public comment; 
‘‘(II) evaluate the public com-
ments received and, in accordance with 
paragraph (3), conduct an investiga-
tion to determine whether the State 
agency is qualified;
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‘‘(III) make findings based on the 
public comments received and inves-
tigation conducted; and 
‘‘(IV) publish in the Federal Reg-
ister a notice announcing whether the 
certification has been granted and de-
scribing the basis on which the Sec-
retary made the decision. 
‘‘(C) STATE AGENCY REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—If a State agency 
that has been delegated authority under this 
paragraph intends to temporarily dis-
continue official inspection or weighing 
services for any reason, except in the case of 
a major disaster, the State agency shall no-
tify the Secretary in writing of the inten-
tion of the State agency to do so at least 72 
hours in advance of the discontinuation 
date. 
‘‘(ii) SECRETARIAL CONSIDERATION.— 
The Secretary shall consider receipt of a no-
tice described in clause (i) as a factor in 
administering the delegation of authority 
under this paragraph.’’.