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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. 
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.
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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. 
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 
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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. 
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
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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. 
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
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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. 
Sec. 9015. Future farmsteads program. 
Sec. 9016. Sense of Congress on renewable energy. 
Sec. 9017. Biodiesel fuel education program. 
Sec. 9018. Biomass energy reserve. 
Sec. 9019. Forest biomass for energy. 
Sec. 9019. Community wood energy program. 
Sec. 9020. Supplementing corn as an ethanol feedstock. 
TITLE X—HORTICULTURE AND ORGANIC AGRICULTURE 
Subtitle A—Honey and Bees 
Sec. 10001. Annual report on response to honey bee colony collapse disorder. 
Subtitle B—Horticulture Provisions 
Sec. 10101. Tree assistance program. 
Sec. 10102. Specialty crop block grants. 
Sec. 10103. Additional section 32 funds for purchase of fruits, vegetables, and 
nuts to support domestic nutrition assistance programs. 
Sec. 10103A. Additional section 32 funds to provide grants for the purchase 
and operation of urban gardens growing organic fruits and 
vegetables for the local population. 
Sec. 10104. Independent evaluation of Department of Agriculture commodity 
purchase process. 
Sec. 10105. Quality requirements for clementines. 
Sec. 10106. Implementation of food safety programs under marketing orders. 
Sec. 10107. Inclusion of specialty crops in census of agriculture. 
Sec. 10108. Maturity requirements for Hass avocados. 
Sec. 10109. Mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information. 
Sec. 10110. Fresh produce education initiative. 
Subtitle C—Pest and Disease Management 
Sec. 10201. Pest and disease program. 
Sec. 10202. Multi-species fruit fly research and sterile fly production. 
Subtitle D—Organic Agriculture 
Sec. 10301. National organic certification cost-share program. 
Sec. 10302. Organic production and market data. 
Sec. 10303. Organic conversion, technical, and educational assistance.
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Subtitle E—Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 10401. Grant program to improve movement of specialty crops. 
Sec. 10402. Authorization of appropriations for market news activities regard-
ing specialty crops. 
Sec. 10403. Farmer marketing assistance program. 
Sec. 10404. National Clean Plant Network. 
Sec. 10405. Healthy food urban enterprise development program. 
TITLE XI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—Federal Crop Insurance 
Sec. 11001. Premiums and reinsurance requirements. 
Sec. 11002. Catastrophic risk protection administrative fee. 
Sec. 11003. Funding for reimbursements, contracting, risk management edu-
cation, and information technology. 
Sec. 11004. Reimbursement of research and development costs related to new 
crop insurance products. 
Sec. 11005. Research and development contracts for organic production cov-
erage improvements. 
Sec. 11006. Targeting risk management education for beginning farmers and 
ranchers and certain other farmers and ranchers. 
Sec. 11007. Crop insurance ineligibility related to crop production on noncrop-
land. 
Sec. 11008. Funds for data mining. 
Sec. 11009. Noninsured crop assistance program. 
Sec. 11010. Change in due date for Corporation payments for underwriting 
gains. 
Sec. 11011. Sesame insurance pilot program. 
Sec. 11012. National Drought Council and drought preparedness plans. 
Sec. 11013. Payment of portion of premium for area revenue plans. 
Sec. 11014. Share of risk. 
Sec. 11015. Livestock Assistance. 
Sec. 11016. Determination of certain sweet potato production. 
Subtitle B—Livestock and Poultry 
Sec. 11101. Sense of Congress regarding pseudorabies eradication program. 
Sec. 11102. Arbitration of livestock and poultry contracts. 
Sec. 11103. State-inspected meat and poultry. 
Sec. 11104. Country of origin labeling. 
Sec. 11105. Sense of Congress regarding the voluntary control program for low 
pathogenic avian influenza. 
Sec. 11106. Sense of Congress regarding the cattle fever tick eradication pro-
gram. 
Subtitle C—Socially Disadvantaged Producers and Limited Resource 
Producers 
Sec. 11201. Outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged farm-
ers and ranchers and limited resource farmers and ranchers. 
Sec. 11202. Improved program delivery by Department of Agriculture on In-
dian reservations. 
Sec. 11203. Transparency and accountability for socially disadvantaged farmers 
and ranchers. 
Sec. 11204. Beginning farmer and rancher development program.
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Sec. 11205. Provision of receipt for service or denial of service. 
Sec. 11206. Tracking of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and lim-
ited resource farmers and ranchers in Census of Agriculture 
and certain studies. 
Sec. 11207. Farmworker coordinator. 
Sec. 11208. Office of Outreach relocation. 
Sec. 11209. Minority farmer advisory committee. 
Sec. 11210. Coordinator for chronically underserved rural areas. 
Subtitle D—Other Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 11301. Designation of separate cotton-producing States under Cotton Re-
search and Promotion Act. 
Sec. 11302. Cotton classification services. 
Sec. 11303. Availability of excess and surplus computers in rural areas. 
Sec. 11304. Permanent debarment from participation in Department of Agri-
culture programs for fraud. 
Sec. 11305. No discrimination against use of registered pesticide products or 
classes of pesticide products. 
Sec. 11306. Prohibition on closure or relocation of county offices for the Farm 
Service Agency, Rural Development Agency, and Natural Re-
sources Conservation Service. 
Sec. 11307. Regulation of exports of plants, plant products, biological control 
organisms, and noxious weeds. 
Sec. 11308. Grants to reduce production of methamphetamines from anhydrous 
ammonia. 
Sec. 11309. USDA Graduate School. 
Sec. 11310. Prevention and investigation of payment and fraud and error. 
Sec. 11311. Sense of Congress regarding food deserts, geographically isolated 
neighborhoods and communities with limited or no access to 
major chain grocery stores. 
Sec. 11312. Pigford claims. 
Sec. 11313. Comptroller general study of wastewater infrastructure near 
United States-Mexico border. 
Sec. 11314. Elimination of statute of limitations applicable to collection of debt 
by administrative offset. 
Sec. 11315. Pollinator protection. 
Sec. 11316. Prohibition on use of live animals for marketing medical devices; 
fines under the Animal Welfare Act. 
Sec. 11317. Protection of pets. 
TITLE XII—PREVENTION OF TAX TREATY EXPLOITATION TO 
EVADE UNITED STATES TAXATION 
Sec. 12001. Limitation on treaty benefits for certain deductible payments. 
TITLE XIII—ADDITIONAL OFFSETS 
Subtitle A—Conservation of Resources Fees and Repeal of Royalty Relief 
Sec. 13001. Conservation of resources fees. 
Sec. 13002. Repeal of certain taxpayer subsidized royalty relief for the oil and 
gas industry. 
Sec. 13003. Time for payment of corporate estimated taxes.
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Subtitle B—Allocation of Offsets 
Sec. 13011. Report on funds; rate of federal crop insurance. 
TITLE I—COMMODITY 
PROGRAMS 
Sec. 1001. Definitions. 
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. 
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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. 
Sec. 1510. Upland cotton storage payments. 
Sec. 1511. Government publication of cotton price forecasts. 
SEC. 1001. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) AGRICULTURAL
ACT
OF
1949.—The term 
‘‘Agricultural Act of 1949’’ means the Agricultural 
Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.), as in effect 
prior to the suspensions under section 171 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 7301), section 1602(b) of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 
U.S.C. 7992(b)), and section 1502(b) of this Act. 
(2) BASE ACRES.—The term ‘‘base acres’’, with 
respect to a covered commodity on a farm, means 
the number of acres established under sections 1101 
and 1302 of the Farm Security and Rural Invest-
ment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7911, 7952), as in ef-
fect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
this Act, subject to any adjustment under section 
1101 of this Act. 
(3) COMPARABLE UNITED STATES QUALITY.— 
The term ‘‘Comparable United States Quality’’, with
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respect to upland cotton, means upland cotton clas-
sified as Middling (M) 13⁄32-inch cotton with a 
micronaire of 3.7 to 4.2, strength 30 grams per tex, 
and uniformity of 83. 
(4) COUNTER-CYCLICAL PAYMENT.—The term 
‘‘counter-cyclical payment’’ means a payment made 
to producers on a farm under section 1103 or 1104. 
(5) COVERED COMMODITY.—The term ‘‘covered 
commodity’’ means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, bar-
ley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, peanuts, and 
other oilseeds. 
(6) DIRECT PAYMENT.—The term ‘‘direct pay-
ment’’ means a payment made to producers on a 
farm under section 1102. 
(7) EFFECTIVE
PRICE.—The term ‘‘effective 
price’’, with respect to a covered commodity for a 
crop year, means the price calculated by the Sec-
retary under section 1103 to determine whether 
counter-cyclical payments are required to be made 
for that crop year under that section. 
(8) EXTRA LONG STAPLE COTTON.—The term 
‘‘extra long staple cotton’’ means cotton that— 
(A) is produced from pure strain varieties 
of the Barbadense species or any hybrid of the 
species, or other similar types of extra long sta-