Crop Year 2001 Agricultural Economic Assistance Act
PL 107-25 (H.R.2213), enacted 08/13/2001

PUBLIC LAW 107-25—AUG. 13, 2001 
115 STAT. 201 
Public Law 107-25 
107th Congress 
An Act 
To respond to the continuing economic crisis adversely affecting American agricul- 
Aug. 13, 2001 
tural producers. 
[H.R. 2213] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
(referred to in this Act as the "Secretary") shall, to the maximum 
extent practicable, use $4,622,240,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to make a market loss assistance payment to 
owners and producers on a farm that are eligible for a final payment 
for fiscal year 2001 under a production flexibility contract for the 
farm under the Agriculture Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 
et seq.). 
(b) AMOUNT.—The amount of assistance made available to 
owners and producers on a farm under this section shall be propor-
tionate to the amount of the total contract payments received by 
the owners and producers for fiscal year 2001 under a production 
flexibility contract for the farm under the Agricultural Market 
Transition Act. 
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL OILSEEDS PAYMENT. 
The Secretary shall use $423,510,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to make a supplemental payment under section 
202 of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106-224; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note) to producers of the 2000 crop of 
oilseeds that previously received a payment under such section. 
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SUPPLEMENTAL 
PEANUT 
PAYMENT. 
The Secretary shall use $54,210,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to provide a supplemental pa3anent under sec-
tion 204(a) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Public 
Law 106-224; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note) to producers of quota peanuts 
or additional peanuts for the 2000 crop year that previously received 
a payment under such section. The Secretary shall adjust the pay-
ment rate specified in such section to reflect the amount made 
available for pa5anents under this section. 
SEC. 4. SUPPLEMENTAL TOBACCO PAYMENT. 
(a) 
SUPPLEMENTAL 
PAYMENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall use 
$129,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
provide a supplemental payment under section 204(b) of the Agricul-
tural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (PubUc Law 106-224; 7 U.S.C. 
1421 note) to eligible persons (as defined in such section) that 
previously received a payment under such section. 
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(b) SPECIAL RULE FOR GEORGIA.—The Secretary may make 
payments under this section to eligible persons in Georgia only 
if the State of Georgia agrees to use the sum of $13,000,000 to 
make payments at the same time, or subsequently, to the same 
persons in the same manner as provided for the Federal pajmients 
under this section, as required by section 204(b)(6) of the Agricul-
tural Risk Protection Act of 2000. 
SEC. 5. SUPPLEMENTAL WOOL AND MOHAIR PAYMENT. 
The Secretary shall use $16,940,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to provide a supplemental payment under sec-
tion 814 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as 
enacted by Public Law 106-387), to producers of wool, and producers 
of mohair, for the 2000 marketing year that previously received 
a payment under such section. The Secretary shall adjust the pay-
ment rate specified in such section to reflect the amount made 
available for pa3nTients under this section. 
SEC. 6. SUPPLEMENTAL COTTONSEED ASSISTANCE. 
The Secretary shall use $84,700,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to provide supplemental assistance under section 
204(e) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106-224; 7 U.S.C. 1421 note) to producers and first-handlers of 
the 2000 crop of cottonseed that previously received assistance 
under such section. 
SEC. 7. SPECIALTY CROPS. 
(a) BASE STATE GRANTS.—The Secretary shall use $26,000,000 
of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make grants 
to the several States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to 
be used to support activities that promote agriculture. The amount 
of the grant shall be— 
(1) $500,000 to each of the several States; and 
(2) $1,000,000 to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
(b) GRANTS FOR VALUE O F PRODUCTION.—The Secretary shall 
use $133,400,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to make a grant to each of the several States in an amount that 
represents the proportion of the value of specialty crop production 
in the State in relation to the national value of specialty crop 
production, as follows: 
(1) California, $63,320,000. 
(2) Florida, $16,860,000. 
(3) Washington, $9,610,000. 
(4) Idaho, $3,670,000. 
(5) Arizona, $3,430,000. 
(6) Michigan, $3,250,000. 
(7) Oregon, $3,220,000. 
(8) Georgia, $2,730,000. 
(9) Texas, $2,660,000. 
(10) New York, $2,660,000. 
(11) Wisconsin, $2,570,000. 
(12) North Carolina, $1,540,000. 
(13) Colorado, $1,510,000. 
(14) North Dakota, $1,380,000. 
(15) Minnesota, $1,320,000. 
(16) Hawaii, $1,150,000. 
(17) New Jersey, $1,100,000. 
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115 STAT. 203 
(18) Pennsylvania, $980,000. 
(19) New Mexico, $900,000. 
(20) Maine, $880,000. 
(21) Ohio, $800,000. 
(22) Indiana, $660,000. 
(23) Nebraska, $640,000. 
(24) Massachusetts,$640,000. 
(25) Virginia, $620,000. 
(26) Maryland, $500,000. 
(27) Louisiana, $460,000. 
(28) South Carolina, $440,000. 
(29) Tennessee, $400,000. 
(30) Illinois, $400,000. 
(31) Oklahoma, $390,000. 
(32) Alabama, $300,000. 
(33) Delaware, $290,000. 
(34) Mississippi, $250,000. 
(35) Kansas, $210,000. 
(36) Arkansas, $210,000. 
(37) Missouri, $210,000. 
(38) Connecticut, $180,000. 
(39) Utah, $140,000. 
(40) Montana, $140,000. 
(41) New Hampshire, $120,000. 
(42) Nevada, $120,000. 
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(43) Vermont, $120,000. 
(44) Iowa, $100,000. 
(45) West Virginia, $90,000. 
(46) Wyoming, $70,000. 
(47) Kentucky, $60,000. 
(48) South Dakota, $40,000. 
(49) Rhode Island, $40,000. 
(50) Alaska, $20,000. 
(c) SPECIALTY CROP PRIORITY.—^As a condition on the receipt 
of a grant under this section, a State shall agree to give priority 
to the support of specialty crops in the use of the grant funds. 
(d) SPECIALTY CROP DEFINED.—In this section, the term "spe-
cialty crop" means any agricultural crop, except wheat, feed grains, 
oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, and tobacco. 
SEC. 8. COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 
The Secretary shall use $10,000,000 of funds of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation to make a grant to each of the several States 
to be used by the States to cover direct and indirect costs related 
to the processing, transportation, and distribution of commodities 
to eligible recipient agencies. The grants shall be allocated to States 
in the manner provided under section 204(a) of the Emergency 
Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 7508(a)). 
SEC. 
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TECHNICAL 
CORRECTION 
REGARDING 
INDEMNITY 
PAYMENTS 
FOR 
COTTON 
PRODUCERS. 
(a) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT TO STATE.—Subsection (b) of sec-
tion 1121 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as 
contained in section 101(a) of division A of Public Law 105-277 
(7 U.S.C. 1421 note)), and as amended by section 754 of the Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Grants. 
Georgia. 
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PUBLIC LAW 107-25—AUG. 13, 2001 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by Public 
Law 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549A-42), is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENT TO STATE.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture shall make the payment to the State of Georgia under 
subsection (a) only if the State— 
"(1) contributes $5,000,000 to the indemnity fund and 
agrees to expend all amounts in the indemnity fund by not 
later than January 1, 2002 (or as soon as administratively 
practical thereafter), to provide compensation to cotton pro-
ducers as provided in such subsection; 
"(2) requires the recipient of a payment from the indemnity 
fund to repay the State, for deposit in the indemnity fund, 
the amount of any duplicate payment the recipient otherwise 
recovers for such loss of cotton, or the loss of proceeds from 
the sale of cotton, up to the amount of the payment from 
the indemnity fund; and 
"(3) agrees to deposit in the indemnity fund the proceeds 
of any bond collected by the State for the benefit of recipients 
of payments from the indemnity fund, to the extent of such 
pajmients.". 
(b) ADDITIONAL DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE INDEMNITY FUND.— 
7 use 1421 note. Subsection (d) of such section is amended to read as follows: 
"(d) 
ADDITIONAL DISBURSEMENT TO COTTON GINNERS.—The 
State of Georgia shall use funds remaining in the indemnity fund, 
after the provision of compensation to cotton producers in Georgia 
under subsection (a) (including cotton producers who file a contin-
gent claim, as defined and provided in section 5.1 of chapter 19 
of title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia), to compensate cotton 
ginners (as defined and provided in such section) that— 
"(1) incurred a loss as the result of— 
"(A) the business failure of any cotton buyer doing 
business in Georgia; or 
"(B) the failure or refusal of any such cotton buyer 
to pay the contracted price that had been agreed upon 
by the ginner and the buyer for cotton grown in Georgia 
on or after January 1, 1997, and had been purchased 
or contracted by the ginner from cotton producers in 
Georgia; 
"(2) paid cotton producers the amount which the cotton 
ginner had agreed to pay for such cotton received from such 
cotton producers in Georgia; and 
"(3) satisfy the procedural requirements and deadlines 
specified in chapter 19 of title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia 
applicable to cotton ginner claims.". 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (c) of such section 
is amended by striking "Upon the establishment of the indemnity 
fund, and not later than October 1, 1999, the" and inserting "The". 
SEC. 10. INCREASE IN PAYMENT LIMITATIONS REGARDING LOAN DEFI-
CIENCY PAYMENTS AND MARKETING LOAN GAINS. 
Notwithstanding section 1001(2) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(1)), the total amount of the payments specified 
in section 1001(3) of that Act that a person shall be entitled to 
receive for one or more contract commodities and oilseeds under 
the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) 
during the 2001 crop year may not exceed $150,000. 
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SEC. 11. TIME^G OF, AND LIMITATION ON, EXPENDITURES. 
(a) DEADLINE FOR EXPENDITURES.—^All expenditures required 
by this Act shall be made not later than September 30, 2001. 
Any funds made available by this Act and remaining unexpended 
by October 1, 2001, shall be deemed to be unexpendable, and 
the authority provided by this Act to expend such funds is rescinded 
effective on that date. 
(b) TOTAL AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES.—The total amount 
expended under this Act may not exceed $5,500,000,000. If the 
payments required by this Act would result in expenditures in 
excess of such amount, the Secretary shall reduce such payments 
on a pro rata basis as necessary to ensure that such expenditures 
do not exceed such amount. 
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SEC. 12. REGULATIONS. 
(a) PROMULGATION.—^As soon as practicable after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, as appropriate, shall promulgate such regulations as 
are necessary to implement this Act and the amendments made 
by this Act. The promulgation of the regulations and administration 
of this Act shall be made without regard to— 
(1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of 
title 5, United States Code; 
(2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture 
effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to notices 
of proposed rulemaking and public participation in rulemaking; 
and 
(3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly 
known as the "Paperwork Reduction Act"). 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGENCY RULEMAKING.—In car-
rying out this section, the Secretary shall use the authority provided 
under section 808 of title 5, United States Code. 
Approved August 13, 2001. 
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L E G I S L A T I V E H I S T O R Y — H . R . 2213 (S. 1246): 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 107-111 (Comm. on Agriculture). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 147 (2001): 
June 26, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 3, considered and passed Senate. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 37 (2001): 
Aug. 13, Presidential statement.