I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7490 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary 
of Agriculture to make grants for improvements to meat and poultry 
facilities to allow for interstate shipment, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 6, 2020 
Mr. PETERSON (for himself, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Ms. PINGREE, 
Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. ROUZER, 
Mr. COSTA, Mr. ADERHOLT, and Ms. CRAIG) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct 
the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for improve-
ments to meat and poultry facilities to allow for inter-
state shipment, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Requiring Assistance 
to Meat Processors for Upgrading Plants Act’’ or the 
‘‘RAMP–UP Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MEAT AND POUL-
TRY FACILITIES TO ALLOW FOR INTERSTATE 
SHIPMENT. 
The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Subtitle H—Grants for Improve-
ments to Meat and Poultry Fa-
cilities to Allow for Interstate 
Shipment 
‘‘SEC. 298. GRANTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MEAT AND 
POULTRY FACILITIES TO ALLOW FOR INTER-
STATE SHIPMENT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service 
and in consultation with the Administrator of the Food 
Safety Inspection Service, shall make grants to meat and 
poultry processing facilities in operation as of the date on 
which an application for such a grant is made to assist 
such facilities with respect to costs incurred in making im-
provements to such facilities and carrying out other plan-
ning activities necessary to be subject to inspection under 
the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), 
or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 
et seq.). 
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‘‘(b) GRANT AMOUNT.—The amount of a grant under 
this section shall not exceed $100,000. 
‘‘(c) CONDITION.—As a condition on receipt of a 
grant under this section, a grant recipient shall agree that 
if the recipient is not subject to inspection or making a 
good faith effort to be subject to inspection under the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 
within 36 months of receiving such grant, the grant recipi-
ent shall make a payment (or payments) to the Secretary 
in an amount equal to the amount of the grant. 
‘‘(d) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall require 
a grant recipient to provide matching nonFederal 
funds in an amount equal to the amount of a grant. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary shall not re-
quire any grant recipient to provide matching funds 
with respect to a grant awarded in fiscal years 2020 
or 2021. 
‘‘(e) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) REPORTS ON GRANTS MADE.—Beginning 
not later than one year after the date on which the 
first grant is awarded under this section, and annu-
ally thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on 
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Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For-
estry and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate a report on grants made under this section 
and any facilities that were upgraded using such 
funds during the year covered by the report. 
‘‘(2) REPORT
ON
THE
COOPERATIVE
INTER-
STATE
SHIPMENT
PROGRAM.—Beginning not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
section, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee 
on Agriculture and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report 
of any recommendations, developed in consultation 
with States, for possible improvements to the cooper-
ative interstate shipment program under section 501 
of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 683) 
or section 31 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act 
(21 U.S.C. 472). 
‘‘(f) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) MANDATORY FUNDING.—Of the funds of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary 
shall use $80,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 
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2020 through 2023, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2021 through 2023.’’. 
Æ 
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