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Timestamp: 2014-07-22 20:20:43
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7 U.S. Code § 1522 - Research and development | LII / Legal Information Institute
The Board may approve up to 50 percent of the projected total research and development costs to be paid in advance to an applicant, in accordance with the procedures developed by the Board for the making of the payments, if, after consideration of the reviewer reports described in subparagraph (D) and such other information as the Board determines appropriate, the Board determines that—
at the sole discretion of the Board, the concept, if developed into a policy and approved by the Board, would provide crop insurance coverage—
The Board may waive the 50-percent limitation and, upon request of the submitter after the submitter has begun research and development activities, the Board may approve an additional 25 percent advance payment to the submitter for research and development costs, if, at the sole discretion of the Board, the Board determines that—
the submitter is making satisfactory progress towards developing a viable and marketable policy or plan of insurance consistent with section 1508
Requirement The Corporation shall reimburse maintenance costs associated with the annual cost of underwriting for a policy described in paragraph (1).
Research and development authority (1)
Authority The Corporation may conduct activities or enter into contracts to carry out research and development to maintain or improve existing policies or develop new policies to—
Authority The Corporation may conduct research and development or enter into contracts under procedures prescribed by the Corporation with qualified persons to carry out research and development for policies that promote the purposes of paragraph (1).
Consultation Before conducting research and development or entering into a contract under subparagraph (A), the Corporation shall consult with groups representing producers of agricultural commodities that would be served by the policies that are the subject of the research and development.
Use of resulting policies The Corporation may offer any policy developed under this subsection that is approved by the Board after expert review in accordance with section 1505
Research and development priorities The Corporation shall establish as one of the highest research and development priorities of the Corporation the development of policies that increase participation by producers of underserved agricultural commodities, including sweet sorghum, biomass sorghum, rice, peanuts, sugarcane, alfalfa, pennycress, dedicated energy crops, and specialty crops.
Margin coverage for catfish (A)
In general The Corporation shall offer to enter into a contract with a qualified entity to conduct research and development regarding a policy to insure producers against reduction in the margin between the market value of catfish and selected costs incurred in the production of catfish.
Eligibility Eligibility for the policy described in subparagraph (A) shall be limited to freshwater species of catfish that are propagated and reared in controlled or selected environments.
Implementation The Board shall review the policy described in subparagraph (B) under section 1508
(h) of this title and approve the policy if the Board finds that the policy—
Biomass and sweet sorghum energy crop insurance policies (A)
In general The Corporation shall offer to enter into 1 or more contracts with qualified entities to carry out research and development regarding—
Research and development Research and development with respect to each of the policies required in subparagraph (A) shall evaluate the effectiveness of risk management tools for the production of biomass sorghum or sweet sorghum, including policies and plans of insurance that—
Study on swine catastrophic disease program (A)
In general The Corporation shall contract with 1 or more qualified entities to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of insuring swine producers for a catastrophic event.
Report Not later than 1 year after February 7, 2014, the Corporation shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes the results of the study conducted under subparagraph (A).
Whole farm diversified risk management insurance plan (A)
In general Unless the Corporation approves a whole farm insurance plan, similar to the plan described in this paragraph, to be available to producers for the 2016 reinsurance year, the Corporation shall conduct activities or enter into contracts to carry out research and development to develop a whole farm risk management insurance plan, with a liability limitation of $1,500,000, that allows a diversified crop or livestock producer the option to qualify for an indemnity if actual gross farm revenue is below 85 percent of the average gross farm revenue or the expected gross farm revenue that can reasonably be expected of the producer, as determined by the Corporation.
Eligible producers The Corporation shall permit producers (including direct-to-consumer marketers and producers servicing local and regional and farm identity-preserved markets) who produce multiple agricultural commodities, including specialty crops, industrial crops, livestock, and aquaculture products, to participate in the plan developed under subparagraph (A) in lieu of any other plan under this subchapter.
Diversification The Corporation may provide diversification-based additional coverage payment rates, premium discounts, or other enhanced benefits in recognition of the risk management benefits of crop and livestock diversification strategies for producers that—
Market readiness The Corporation may include coverage for the value of any packing, packaging, or any other similar on-farm activity the Corporation determines to be the minimum required in order to remove the commodity from the field.
Study on poultry catastrophic disease program (A)
In general The Corporation shall contract with a qualified person to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of insuring poultry producers for a catastrophic event.
Poultry business interruption insurance policy (A)
Definitions In this paragraph, the terms “poultry” and “poultry grower” have the meanings given those terms in section 182 of this title.
Authority The Corporation shall offer to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with an institution of higher education or other legal entity to carry out research and development regarding a policy to insure the commercial production of poultry against business interruptions caused by integrator bankruptcy.
Research and development As part of the research and development conducted pursuant to a contract or cooperative agreement entered into under subparagraph (B), the entity shall—
Deadline for contract or cooperative agreement Not later than 180 days after February 7, 2014, the Corporation shall offer to enter into the contract or cooperative agreement required by subparagraph (B).
Deadline for completion of research and development Not later than 1 year after February 7, 2014, the Corporation shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes the results of the research and development conducted pursuant to the contract or cooperative agreement entered into under subparagraph (B).]
Study of food safety insurance (A)
In general The Corporation shall offer to enter into a contract with 1 or more qualified entities to conduct a study to determine whether offering policies that provide coverage for specialty crops from food safety and contamination issues would benefit agricultural producers.
Subject The study described in subparagraph (A) shall evaluate policies and plans of insurance coverage that provide protection for production or revenue impacted by food safety concerns including, at a minimum, government, retail, or national consumer group announcements of a health advisory, removal, or recall related to a contamination concern.
Alfalfa crop insurance policy (A)
In general The Corporation shall offer to enter into 1 or more contracts with qualified entities to carry out research and development regarding a policy to insure alfalfa.
Purpose The purpose of this subsection is to authorize the Corporation to enter into partnerships with public and private entities for the purpose of either—
(c) of this title, the Corporation may use to provide reimbursements under subsection (b) of this section not more than $7,500,000 for fiscal year 2008 and each subsequent fiscal year.
Conducting and contracting for research and development Of the amounts made available from the insurance fund established under section 1516
(c) of this title, the Corporation may use to conduct research and development and carry out contracting and partnerships under subsections (c) and (d) of this section not more than $12,500,000 for fiscal year 2008 and each subsequent fiscal year.
Underserved States Of the amount made available under subparagraph (A) for a fiscal year, the Corporation shall use not more than $5,000,000 for the fiscal year to conduct research and development and carry out contracting for research and development to carry out the purpose described in subsection (c)(1)(A) of this section.
Unused funding If the Corporation determines that the amount available under this section for a fiscal year is not needed for such purposes, the Corporation may use—
(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 522, as added Pub. L. 106–224, title I, § 131,June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 379; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title VII, § 7511(c)(1), title XII, §§ 12022–12024, 12033(c)(2)(B),May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1267, 1382–1388, 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a) title VII, § 7511(c)(1), title XII, §§ 12022–12024, 12033(c)(2)(B),June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2028, 2144–2150, 2167; Pub. L. 113–79, title XI, §§ 11010(b), 11022, 1023
(b), 11024, 11027(b), 11028(b),Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 959, 969, 973, 974, 977.)
2014—Subsec. (b)(2)(E). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11010(b), added subpar. (E) and struck out former subpar. (E) which related to Board approval of up to 50 percent of the projected total research and development costs to be paid in advance to an applicant.
Subsec. (b)(4)(A). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11028(b)(1), substituted “paragraph (1)” for “paragraphs (1)”.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(1), struck out “contracting” after “development” in heading.
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(2), substituted “may conduct activities or enter into contracts to carry out research and development to maintain or improve existing policies or develop new policies to” for “may enter into contracts to carry out research and development to” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (c)(2)(A). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(3)(A), inserted “conduct research and development or” after “The Corporation may”.
Subsec. (c)(2)(B). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(3)(B), inserted “conducting research and development or” after “Before”.
Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(4), inserted “after expert review in accordance with section 1505
(e) of this title” after “approved by the Board”.
Subsec. (c)(6). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(5), substituted “policies that increase participation by producers of underserved agricultural commodities, including sweet sorghum, biomass sorghum, rice, peanuts, sugarcane, alfalfa, pennycress, dedicated energy crops, and specialty crops” for “a pasture, range, and forage program”.
Subsec. (c)(10) to (16). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11023(b), redesignated pars. (11) to (17) as (10) to (16), respectively, and struck out former par. (10) which related to contracts for organic production coverage improvements.
Subsec. (c)(17) to (24). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11023(b)(2), redesignated pars. (18) to (25) as (17) to (24), respectively. Former par. (17) redesignated (16).
Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(7), (7), added pars. (17) to (24).
Subsec. (c)(25). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(a)(6), redesignated par. (17) as (25).
Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11024(a), added par. (1) and struck out former par. (1). Text read as follows: “The purpose of this subsection is to authorize the Corporation to enter into partnerships with public and private entities for the purpose of increasing the availability of loss mitigation, financial, and other risk management tools for producers, with a priority given to risk management tools for producers of agricultural commodities covered by section 7333 of this title, specialty crops, and underserved agricultural commodities.”
Subsec. (d)(3)(F). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11027(b), inserted “farm financial benchmarking,” after “financial management,”.
Subsec. (d)(3)(G), (H). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11024(b), added subpar. (G) and redesignated former subpar. (G) as (H).
Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11028(b)(2), inserted period at end.
Subsec. (e)(2)(A). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(b)(1)(A), in heading, substituted “Conducting and contracting for research and development” for “Authority” and, in text, inserted “conduct research and development and” after “the Corporation may use to”.
Subsec. (e)(2)(B). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(b)(1)(B), inserted “conduct research and development and” after “for the fiscal year to”.
Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(b)(2), struck out “to provide either reimbursement payments or contract payments” after “available” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (e)(4). Pub. L. 113–79, § 11022(b)(3), struck out par. (4) which related to prohibited research and development by the Corporation.
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