H. R. 2051 
One Hundred Fourteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen 
An Act 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the livestock mandatory 
price reporting requirements, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture 
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. 
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 REPORTING. 
(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 ‘‘September 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 para-
graphs (10) through (23), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
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‘‘(9) NEGOTIATED
FORMULA
PURCHASE.—The term ‘nego-
tiated formula purchase’ means a swine or pork market formula 
purchase under which— 
‘‘(A) the formula is determined by negotiation 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 pur-
chase,’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (23) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subpara-
graph (E); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: 
‘‘(D) a negotiated formula purchase; and’’. 
(b) DAILY REPORTING.—Section 232(c) of the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635j(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking clause (ii) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(ii) PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS.—The information pub-
lished 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 Secretary, 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 nego-
tiated purchases and negotiated formula pur-
chases.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) LATE IN THE DAY REPORT INFORMATION.—The Sec-
retary shall include in the morning report and the after-
noon report for the following day any information required 
to be reported 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 imported 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 subparagraph (A), if the Sec-
retary determines that the person should be considered 
an importer based on their volume of lamb imports; and 
(2) the definition of the term ‘‘packer’’—
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(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 aver-
age of 35,000 head of lambs per year during the imme-
diately preceding 5 calendar years; and 
(C) may include any other lamb processing plant that 
does not meet the requirement referred to in subparagraph 
(B), if the Secretary determines that the processing plant 
should be considered 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 producers, packers, and other market 
participants, shall conduct a study on the program of informa-
tion regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and prod-
ucts of such livestock under subtitle B of the Agricultural 
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 recommendations 
made by cattle, swine, and lamb producers, packers, and 
other market participants to ensure that information pro-
vided under the program— 
(i) can be readily understood by producers, packers, 
and other market participants; 
(ii) reflects current marketing practices; and 
(iii) is relevant and useful to producers, packers, 
and other market participants; 
(C) analyze the price and supply information reporting 
services of the Department of Agriculture related to cattle, 
swine, and lamb; and 
(D) address any other issues that the Secretary con-
siders appropriate. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 2018, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri-
tion, and Forestry of the Senate a report containing the findings 
of the study conducted under subsection (a). 
TITLE II—NATIONAL FOREST 
FOUNDATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 201. NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION. 
(a) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE MATCHING FUNDS 
FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROJECT EXPENSES.—Section 405(b) of 
the National Forest Foundation Act (16 U.S.C. 583j–3(b)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘for a period of five years beginning October 
1, 1992’’ and inserting ‘‘during fiscal years 2016 through 2018’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 410(b) of the 
National Forest Foundation Act (16 U.S.C. 583j–8(b)) is amended