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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4817
To promote the use of vegetable oils derived from soybeans and other oilseeds
in industrial products and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture
to undertake certain activities to increase domestic and export demand
for such vegetable oils.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 22, 1994
Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. EMERSON, Mr. SLATTERY,
Mr. MINGE, Mr. EWING, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. SARPALIUS, Mr. POMEROY,
Mr. BARLOW, Mr. GRANDY, Mr. GLICKMAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. LIGHT-
FOOT, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. VOLKMER, Mr.
DICKEY, Mr. BISHOP, and Mr. NUSSLE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To promote the use of vegetable oils derived from soybeans
and other oilseeds in industrial products and to authorize
the Secretary of Agriculture to undertake certain activi-
ties to increase domestic and export demand for such
vegetable oils.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Vegetable Oil Use Pro-
motion Act’’.
SEC. 2. PROMOTION OF INCREASED DEMAND FOR AND USE
OF VEGETABLE OILS DERIVED FROM CER-
TAIN OILSEEDS.
(a) 
VEGETABLE
OIL
INDUSTRIAL
PRODUCTS
FUND.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established
within the Commodity Credit Corporation a fund to
be known as the ‘‘Vegetable Oil Industrial Products
Fund’’, which shall to be administered and used by
the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out subsection
(b).
(2) CONTENTS OF FUND.—The Fund shall con-
sist of amounts deposited in the Fund by the Sec-
retary in each of the fiscal years 1995 through 2000
from amounts available to the Commodity Credit
Corporation, as follows:
(A) $7,800,000 for fiscal year 1995.
(B) $15,500,000 for fiscal year 1996.
(C) $23,300,000 for fiscal year 1997.
(D) $31,100,000 for fiscal year 1998.
(E) $38,900,000 for fiscal year 1999.
(F) $46,700,000 for fiscal year 2000.
(3) AVAILABILITY OF FUND.—Amounts in the
Fund shall remain available to the Secretary until
expended.
(b) USE OF FUND TO PROMOTE INDUSTRIAL PROD-
UCTS CONTAINING VEGETABLE OILS.—The Secretary
shall use amounts in the Fund to make grants to promote
the increased commercial use of industrial products that
contain, as an ingredient, vegetable oils produced from eli-
gible oilseeds. For each fiscal year in which amounts are
available in the Fund, the Secretary shall solicit grant ap-
plications from persons whose manufacturing operations
are located in the United States and that desire financial
assistance to begin or expand production of such industrial
products. The applications shall be in such form, shall con-
tain such information, and shall be submitted at such
time, as the Secretary may prescribe. On the basis of such
applications, the Secretary shall select as grant recipients
to the extent practicable those persons whose manufactur-
ing operations will use the greatest possible amount of
vegetable oils produced from eligible oilseeds in compari-
son to the amount of assistance requested.
(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE.—A
person may not receive more than 10 percent of the total
assistance provided by the Secretary in any fiscal year
from the Fund.
(d) ANNUAL
ESTIMATES
OF
VEGETABLE
OIL
STOCKS.—Not later than October 1 and April 1 of each
fiscal year, the Secretary shall announce an estimate of—
(1) the amount of vegetable oil to be produced
in the United States from oilseeds grown in the
United States and consumed domestically or ex-
ported from the United States during that fiscal
year; and
(2) the amount of such vegetable oil likely to
remain available in public and private stocks in the
United States at the end of the marketing year.
(e) ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE DEMAND FOR VEGETA-
BLE OIL.—If the October 1 estimate of end-of-year stocks
of vegetable oil produced in the United States from oil-
seeds grown in the United States, as a percentage of total
domestic and export demand, exceeds the average percent-
age of end-of-year stocks to total demand during fiscal
years 1985 through 1994, the Secretary shall use existing
authorities to promote an increase in domestic and export
demand for such vegetable oil by an amount that will pre-
vent end-of-year stocks from exceeding this level. If the
April 1 estimate indicates a significant change in the
stocks to use ratio from the October 1 estimate, the Sec-
retary shall adjust the vegetable oil demand expansion ac-
tivities to reflect this change. The authorities that the Sec-
retary may use to effect an increase in domestic and ex-
port demand for such vegetable oil shall include the follow-
ing:
(1) Purchasing for donation to meet critical
human dietary needs in developing countries.
(2) Purchasing for donation to emerging de-
mocracies, with the proceeds from any subsequent
sale required to be used for economic development,
infrastructure improvements, or activities that foster
development of markets for United States agricul-
tural products in recipient countries.
(3) Purchasing for donation or discounted sale
to producers of industrial products that contain, as
an ingredient, vegetable oils produced from eligible
oilseeds, to promote the increased commercial use of
such products.
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
(1) FUND.—The term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Vege-
table Oil Industrial Products Fund.
(2) OILSEEDS.—The term ‘‘oilseeds’’ means
soybeans, corn, cottonseed, sunflower seed, flaxseed,
canola, rapeseed, safflower, and mustard seed.
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Agriculture.
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