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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2419 
AN ACT 
To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs 
through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
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.
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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. 
Subtitle E—Administration 
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. 1512. Prevention of deceased persons receiving payments under farm com-
modity programs. 
TITLE II—CONSERVATION 
Subtitle A—Conservation Programs of the Food Security Act of 1985 
Sec. 2101. Conservation reserve program. 
Sec. 2102. Wetlands reserve program. 
Sec. 2103. Conservation security program. 
Sec. 2104. Grassland reserve program. 
Sec. 2105. Environmental quality incentives program. 
Sec. 2106. Regional water enhancement program. 
Sec. 2107. Grassroots source water protection program. 
Sec. 2108. Conservation of private grazing land. 
Sec. 2109. Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and sediment control. 
Sec. 2110. Farm and ranchland protection program. 
Sec. 2111. Farm viability program. 
Sec. 2112. Wildlife habitat incentive program. 
Subtitle B—Conservation Programs Under Other Laws 
Sec. 2201. Agricultural management assistance program. 
Sec. 2202. Resource Conservation and Development Program. 
Sec. 2203. Small watershed rehabilitation program. 
Subtitle C—Additional Conservation Programs 
Sec. 2301. Chesapeake Bay program for nutrient reduction and sediment con-
trol. 
Sec. 2302. Voluntary public access and habitat incentive program. 
Sec. 2303. Muck soils conservation. 
Subtitle D—Administration and Funding 
Sec. 2401. Funding of conservation programs under Food Security Act of 
1985. 
Sec. 2402. Improved provision of technical assistance under conservation pro-
grams. 
Sec. 2403. Cooperative conservation partnership initiative.
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Sec. 2404. Regional equity and flexibility. 
Sec. 2405. Administrative requirements for conservation programs. 
Sec. 2406. Annual report on participation by specialty crop producers in con-
servation programs. 
Sec. 2407. Promotion of market-based approaches to conservation. 
Sec. 2408. Establishment of State technical committees and their responsibil-
ities. 
Sec. 2409. Payment limitations. 
Subtitle E—Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 2501. Inclusion of income from affiliated packing and handling operations 
as income derived from farming for application of adjusted 
gross income limitation on eligibility for conservation programs. 
Sec. 2502. Encouragement of voluntary sustainability practices guidelines. 
Sec. 2503. Farmland resource information. 
Sec. 2504. Pilot program for four-year crop rotation for peanuts. 
TITLE III—TRADE 
Sec. 3001. Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. 
Sec. 3002. Export credit guarantee program. 
Sec. 3003. Market access program. 
Sec. 3004. Food for Progress Act of 1985. 
Sec. 3005. Reauthorization of McGovern-Dole International Food for Education 
and Child Nutrition Program. 
Sec. 3006. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust. 
Sec. 3007. Technical assistance for specialty crops. 
Sec. 3008. Technical assistance for the resolution of trade disputes. 
Sec. 3009. Representation by the United States at international standard-set-
ting bodies. 
Sec. 3010. Foreign market development cooperator program. 
Sec. 3011. Emerging markets. 
Sec. 3012. Export Enhancement Program. 
Sec. 3013. Minimum level of nonemergency food assistance. 
Sec. 3014. Germplasm conservation. 
Sec. 3015. Report on efforts to improve procurement planning. 
Sec. 3016. International disaster assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961. 
TITLE IV—NUTRITION PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Program 
Sec. 4001. Renaming the food stamp program. 
Sec. 4002. Definition of drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilita-
tion program. 
Sec. 4003. Nutrition education. 
Sec. 4004. Food distribution on Indian reservations. 
Sec. 4005. Excluding combat related pay from countable income. 
Sec. 4006. Increasing the standard deduction. 
Sec. 4007. Excluding dependent care expenses. 
Sec. 4008. Adjusting countable resources for inflation. 
Sec. 4009. Excluding education accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4010. Excluding retirement accounts from countable income. 
Sec. 4011. Deobligate food stamp coupons. 
Sec. 4012. Allow for the accrual of benefits.
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Sec. 4013. Increasing the minimum benefit. 
Sec. 4014. State option for telephonic signature. 
Sec. 4015. Review of major changes in program design. 
Sec. 4016. Grants for simple application and eligibility determination systems 
and improved access to benefits. 
Sec. 4017. Civil money penalties and disqualification of retail food stores and 
wholesale food concerns. 
Sec. 4018. Major systems failures. 
Sec. 4019. Funding of employment and training programs. 
Sec. 4020. Reductions in payments for administrative costs. 
Sec. 4021. Cash payment pilot projects. 
Sec. 4022. Findings of Congress regarding Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance program nutrition education. 
Sec. 4023. Nutrition education and promotion initiative to address obesity. 
Sec. 4024. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4025. Consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa. 
Sec. 4026. Study on comparable access to Secure Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program benefits for Puerto Rico. 
Sec. 4027. Reauthorization of community food project competitive grants. 
Sec. 4028. Emergency food assistance program. 
Subtitle B—Commodity Distribution 
Sec. 4201. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4202. Distribution of surplus commodities; special nutrition projects. 
Sec. 4203. Commodity distribution program. 
Subtitle C—Child Nutrition and Related Programs 
Sec. 4301. Purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools 
and service institutions. 
Sec. 4302. Buy American requirements. 
Sec. 4303. Expansion of fresh fruit and vegetable program. 
Sec. 4304. Purchases of locally produced foods. 
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous 
Sec. 4401. Seniors farmers’ market nutrition program. 
Sec. 4402. Congressional Hunger Center. 
Sec. 4403. Joint nutrition monitoring and related research activities. 
Sec. 4404 Sense of the Congress. 
TITLE V—CREDIT 
Subtitle A—Farm Ownership Loans 
Sec. 5001. Conservation loan guarantee program. 
Sec. 5002. Limitations on amount of ownership loans. 
Sec. 5003. Down payment loan program. 
Sec. 5004. Beginning farmer and rancher contract land sales program. 
Sec. 5005. Loans to purchasers of highly fractioned lands. 
Subtitle B—Operating Loans 
Sec. 5011. Limitations on amount of operating loans. 
Sec. 5012. Suspension of limitation on period for which borrowers are eligible 
for guaranteed assistance.