‘‘(5) TERM OF GUARANTEE.—A facility payment 
guarantee under this subsection shall be for a term 
that is not more than the lesser of— 
‘‘(A) the term of the depreciation schedule of 
the facility assisted; or 
‘‘(B) a maximum period, as determined by 
the Secretary.’’. 
SEC. 207. FOOD FOR PROGRESS ACT OF 1985. 
(a) PROVISION OF ELIGIBLE COMMODITIES TO DEVEL-
OPING COUNTRIES.—Subsection (f)(3) of the Food for 
Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o; section 1110 of the 
Food Security Act of 1985) is amended by striking ‘‘1996 
through 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2008 through 2012’’. 
(b) MINIMUM TONNAGE.—Subsection (g) of such Act 
is amended— 
(1) 
by 
striking 
‘‘400,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘500,000’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2002 through 2007’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2008 through 2012’’. 
(c) REPORT.—Subsection (j)(3) of such Act is amended 
by inserting ‘‘and the Committee on Foreign Affairs’’ after 
‘‘Committee on Agriculture’’ the first place such term ap-
pears. 
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(d) EFFECTIVE
AND
TERMINATION
DATES.—Sub-
section (k) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘2007’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2012’’. 
(e) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Subsection (l)(1) of 
such Act is amended by striking ‘‘1996 through 2007’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2008 through 2012’’. 
(f) PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.—Subsection (n)(2)(C) of 
such Act is amended, by striking ‘‘Committee on Inter-
national Relations’’ and inserting ‘‘Committee on Foreign 
Affairs’’. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SPECIALTY CROPS. 
(a) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.—Section 3205 of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
5680) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 
(e); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) MAXIMUM AWARD.—The maximum amount 
of assistance provided annually to a project under the 
program shall be $500,000. 
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‘‘(2) PROJECT DURATION.—The Secretary may 
extend a project under the program irrespective of the 
initial estimated duration of the project.’’. 
(b) FUNDING.—Such section is further amended in 
subsection (e) (as redesignated by subsection (a)(1)), to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(e) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) COMMODITY
CREDIT
CORPORATION.—The 
Secretary shall use the funds, facilities, and authori-
ties of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry 
out this section. 
‘‘(2) FUNDING
AMOUNT.—The Secretary shall 
make available the following amounts of the funds of, 
or an equal value of commodities owned by, the Com-
modity Credit Corporation, to the maximum extent 
practicable, for the following fiscal years to carry out 
this section: 
‘‘(A) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2008. 
‘‘(B) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
‘‘(C) $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2010. 
‘‘(D) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2011 through 2015.’’. 
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SEC. 302. SUPPORT FOR SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY 
PRIORITIES OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN 
CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 
(a) SUPPORT AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture is authorized to enhance United States support for 
international organizations, including international orga-
nizations described in subsection (b), that establish inter-
national standards regarding food, food safety, plants, and 
animals by funding additional positions of associate profes-
sional officers to address sanitary and phytosanitary prior-
ities of the United States within such international organi-
zations. The Secretary shall carry out this subsection pursu-
ant to the authority of the Secretary under section 
1458(a)(3) of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3291(a)(3)). 
(b) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DESCRIBED.— 
The international organizations referred to in subsection 
(a) are the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Codex 
Alimentarius Commission, the International Plant Protec-
tion Convention, and the World Organization for Animal 
Health. 
SEC. 303. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE RESOLUTION 
OF TRADE DISPUTES. 
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture is authorized to provide monitoring, 
analytic support, and other technical assistance to limited- 
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resource persons and organizations associated with agricul-
tural trade (as determined by the Secretary) to address un-
fair trade practices of foreign countries, including intellec-
tual property right violations, and to reduce trade barriers. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to 
the Secretary such sums as may be necessary for each of 
the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 
SEC. 304. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE GLOBAL 
CROP DIVERSITY TRUST. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Crop diversity—the natural diversity exhib-
ited in the array of varieties in every crop—is one 
of the world’s least recognized, but most valuable re-
sources. It provides the genetic building blocks for 
adapting crops to constantly evolving pests, diseases, 
and changing climates. Without crop diversity, agri-
culture cannot retain current productivity levels and 
cannot meet anticipated future challenges associated 
with population growth and global warming. 
(2) Currently, much of the world’s crop diversity 
is neither safely conserved, nor readily available to 
scientists and farmers who rely on it to safeguard ag-
ricultural productivity. 
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(3) The Global Crop Diversity Trust, an inde-
pendent organization created by the United Nations 
Food and Agricultural Organization in conjunction 
with the 2001 International Treaty on Plant Genetic 
Resources, is the only organization working globally 
to solve the problem of protecting crop diversity. The 
Global Crop Diversity Trust became a legal entity at 
the end of 2004, but has already raised $135,000,000 
from a broad alliance of partners, including developed 
and developing countries, private corporations, and 
philanthropic foundations, including a joint initia-
tive with the United Nations Foundation funded by 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 
(4) The United States was an early supporter of 
the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and has so far con-
tributed $6,500,000 to the Global Crop Diversity 
Trust. Robust involvement of the United States in the 
Global Crop Diversity Trust ensures significant bene-
fits to United States farmers. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the President should provide significant United States 
financial resources to the Global Crop Diversity Trust to 
ensure the conservation of crop diversity which can yield 
significant benefits to United States farmers. 
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SEC. 305. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
Subsection (a) of section 3206 of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5603a) is 
amended by striking ‘‘Committee on International Rela-
tions’’ and inserting ‘‘Committee on Foreign Affairs’’. 
SEC. 306. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this 
Act shall be construed to supersede the provisions of the 
Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
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Union Calendar No. 165 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2844 
[Report No. 110–257, Part I] 
A BILL 
To promote United States emergency and non- 
emergency food and other assistance programs, 
to promote United States agricultural export pro-
grams, and for other purposes. 
JULY 23, 2007 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed 
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