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Union Calendar No. 60
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2213
[Report No. 107–111]
To respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting American
agricultural producers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 19, 2001
Mr. COMBEST introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
JUNE 26, 2001
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 19, 2001]
A BILL
To respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely
affecting American agricultural producers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE.
(a) ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Ag-
riculture (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall,
to the maximum extent practicable, use $4,622,240,000 of
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make a mar-
ket loss assistance payment to owners and producers on a
farm that are eligible for a final payment for fiscal year
2001 under a production flexibility contract for the farm
under the Agriculture Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C.
7201 et seq.).
(b) AMOUNT.—The amount of assistance made avail-
able to owners and producers on a farm under this section
shall be proportionate to the amount of the total contract
payments received by the owners and producers for fiscal
year 2001 under a production flexibility contract for the
farm under the Agricultural Market Transition Act.
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL OILSEEDS PAYMENT.
The Secretary shall use $423,510,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to make a supplemental
payment under section 202 of the Agricultural Risk Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–224; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note)
to producers of the 2000 crop of oilseeds that previously re-
ceived a payment under such section.
SEC. 3. SUPPLEMENTAL PEANUT PAYMENT.
The Secretary shall use $54,210,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to provide a supplemental
payment under section 204(a) of the Agricultural Risk Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–224; 7 U.S.C. 1421
note) to producers of quota peanuts or additional peanuts
for the 2000 crop year that previously received a payment
under such section. The Secretary shall adjust the payment
rate specified in such section to reflect the amount made
available for payments under this section.
SEC. 4. SUPPLEMENTAL TOBACCO PAYMENT.
(a) SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENT.—The Secretary shall
use $129,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration to provide a supplemental payment under section
204(b) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Pub-
lic Law 106–224; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note) to eligible persons
(as defined in such section) that previously received a pay-
ment under such section.
(b) SPECIAL RULE
FOR GEORGIA.—The Secretary
may make payments under this section to eligible persons
in Georgia only if the State of Georgia agrees to use the
sum of $13,000,000 to make payments at the same time,
or subsequently, to the same persons in the same manner
as provided for the Federal payments under this section,
as required by section 204(b)(6) of the Agricultural Risk
Protection Act of 2000.
SEC. 5. SUPPLEMENTAL WOOL AND MOHAIR PAYMENT.
The Secretary shall use $16,940,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to provide a supplemental
payment under section 814 of the Agriculture, Rural Devel-
opment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by Public Law
106–387), to producers of wool, and producers of mohair,
for the 2000 marketing year that previously received a pay-
ment under such section. The Secretary shall adjust the
payment rate specified in such section to reflect the amount
made available for payments under this section.
SEC. 6. SUPPLEMENTAL COTTONSEED ASSISTANCE.
The Secretary shall use $84,700,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to provide supplemental as-
sistance under section 204(e) of the Agricultural Risk Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–224; 7 U.S.C. 1421
note) to producers and first-handlers of the 2000 crop of
cottonseed that previously received assistance under such
section.
SEC. 7. SPECIALTY CROPS.
(a) BASE STATE GRANTS.—The Secretary shall use
$26,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation
to make grants to the several States and the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico to be used to support activities that promote
agriculture. The amount of the grant shall be—
(1) $500,000 to each of the several States; and
(2) $1,000,000 to the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico.
(b) GRANTS FOR VALUE OF PRODUCTION.—The Sec-
retary shall use $133,400,000 of funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation to make a grant to each of the several
States in an amount that represents the proportion of the
value of specialty crop production in the State in relation
to the national value of specialty crop production, as fol-
lows:
(1) California, $63,320,000.
(2) Florida, $16,860,000.
(3) Washington, $9,610,000.
(4) Idaho, $3,670,000.
(5) Arizona, $3,430,000.
(6) Michigan, $3,250,000.
(7) Oregon, $3,220,000.
(8) Georgia, $2,730,000.
(9) Texas, $2,660,000.
(10) New York, $2,660,000.
(11) Wisconsin, $2,570,000.
(12) North Carolina, $1,540,000.
(13) Colorado, $1,510,000.
(14) North Dakota, $1,380,000.
(15) Minnesota, $1,320,000.
(16) Hawaii, $1,150,000.
(17) New Jersey, $1,100,000.
(18) Pennsylvania, $980,000.
(19) New Mexico, $900,000.
(20) Maine, $880,000.
(21) Ohio, $800,000.
(22) Indiana, $660,000.
(23) Nebraska, $640,000.
(24) Massachusetts, $640,000.
(25) Virginia, $620,000.
(26) Maryland, $500,000.
(27) Louisiana, $460,000.
(28) South Carolina, $440,000.
(29) Tennessee, $400,000.
(30) Illinois, $400,000.
(31) Oklahoma, $390,000.
(32) Alabama, $300,000.
(33) Delaware, $290,000.
(34) Mississippi, $250,000.
(35) Kansas, $210,000.
(36) Arkansas, $210,000.
(37) Missouri, $210,000.
(38) Connecticut, $180,000.
(39) Utah, $140,000.
(40) Montana, $140,000.
(41) New Hampshire, $120,000.
(42) Nevada, $120,000.
(43) Vermont, $120,000.
(44) Iowa, $100,000.
(45) West Virginia, $90,000.
(46) Wyoming, $70,000.
(47) Kentucky, $60,000.
(48) South Dakota, $40,000.
(49) Rhode Island, $40,000.
(50) Alaska, $20,000.
(c) SPECIALTY CROP PRIORITY.—As a condition on
the receipt of a grant under this section, a State shall agree
to give priority to the support of specialty crops in the use
of the grant funds.
(d) SPECIALTY CROP DEFINED.—In this section, the
term ‘‘specialty crop’’ means any agricultural crop, except
wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, and to-
bacco.
SEC. 8. COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
The Secretary shall use $10,000,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to make a grant to each of
the several States to be used by the States to cover direct
and indirect costs related to the processing, transportation,
and distribution of commodities to eligible recipient agen-
cies. The grants shall be allocated to States in the manner
provided under section 204(a) of the Emergency Food As-
sistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)).
SEC. 9. TECHNICAL CORRECTION REGARDING INDEMNITY
PAYMENTS FOR COTTON PRODUCERS.
(a) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT TO STATE.—Subsection
(b) of section 1121 of the Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(a) of
division A of Public Law 105–277 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note),
and as amended by section 754 of the Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by Public
Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–42), is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(b) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT TO STATE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall make the payment to the State
of Georgia under subsection (a) only if the State—
‘‘(1) contributes $5,000,000 to the indemnity
fund and agrees to expend all amounts in the indem-
nity fund by not later than January 1, 2002 (or as
soon as administratively practical thereafter), to pro-
vide compensation to cotton producers as provided in
such subsection;
‘‘(2) requires the recipient of a payment from the
indemnity fund to repay the State, for deposit in the
indemnity fund, the amount of any duplicate pay-
ment the recipient otherwise recovers for such loss of
cotton, or the loss of proceeds from the sale of cotton,
up to the amount of the payment from the indemnity
fund; and
‘‘(3) agrees to deposit in the indemnity fund the
proceeds of any bond collected by the State for the
benefit of recipients of payments from the indemnity
fund, to the extent of such payments.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE INDEM-
NITY FUND.—Subsection (d) of such section is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL DISBURSEMENT TO COTTON GIN-
NERS.—The State of Georgia shall use funds remaining in
the indemnity fund, after the provision of compensation to
cotton producers in Georgia under subsection (a) (including
cotton producers who file a contingent claim, as defined and
provided in section 5.1 of chapter 19 of title 2 of the Official
Code of Georgia), to compensate cotton ginners (as defined
and provided in such section) that—
‘‘(1) incurred a loss as the result of—
‘‘(A) the business failure of any cotton
buyer doing business in Georgia; or
‘‘(B) the failure or refusal of any such cot-
ton buyer to pay the contracted price that had
been agreed upon by the ginner and the buyer for
cotton grown in Georgia on or after January 1,
1997, and had been purchased or contracted by
the ginner from cotton producers in Georgia;
‘‘(2) paid cotton producers the amount which the
cotton ginner had agreed to pay for such cotton re-
ceived from such cotton producers in Georgia; and
‘‘(3) satisfy the procedural requirements and
deadlines specified in chapter 19 of title 2 of the Offi-
cial Code of Georgia applicable to cotton ginner
claims.’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (c) of such
section is amended by striking ‘‘Upon the establishment of
the indemnity fund, and not later than October 1, 1999,
the’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’.
SEC. 10. INCREASE IN PAYMENT LIMITATIONS REGARDING
LOAN 
DEFICIENCY 
PAYMENTS 
AND 
MAR-
KETING LOAN GAINS.
Notwithstanding section 1001(2) of the Food Security
Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(1)), the total amount of the pay-
ments specified in section 1001(3) of that Act that a person
shall be entitled to receive for one or more contract commod-
ities and oilseeds under the Agricultural Market Transition
Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) during the 2001 crop year may
not exceed $150,000.
SEC. 11. TIMING OF, AND LIMITATION ON, EXPENDITURES.
(a) DEADLINE FOR EXPENDITURES.—All expenditures
required by this Act shall be made not later than September
30, 2001. Any funds made available by this Act and re-
maining unexpended by October 1, 2001, shall be deemed
to be unexpendable, and the authority provided by this Act
to expend such funds is rescinded effective on that date.
(b) TOTAL AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES.—The total
amount expended under this Act may not exceed
$5,500,000,000. If the payments required by this Act would
result in expenditures in excess of such amount, the Sec-
retary shall reduce such payments on a pro rata basis as
necessary to ensure that such expenditures do not exceed
such amount.
SEC. 12. REGULATIONS.
(a) PROMULGATION.—As soon as practicable after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the
Commodity Credit Corporation, as appropriate, shall pro-
mulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement this
Act and the amendments made by this Act. The promulga-
tion of the regulations and administration of this Act shall
be made without regard to—
(1) the notice and comment provisions of section
553 of title 5, United States Code;
(2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of
Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg.
Union Calendar No. 60
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2213
[Report No. 107–111]
A BILL
To respond to the continuing economic crisis ad-
versely affecting American agricultural pro-
ducers.
JUNE 26, 2001
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed