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7 U.S.C. § 7272 — Sugar program
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**(a) Sugarcane** The Secretary shall make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane at a rate equal to—
(1) 18.00 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2008 crop year;
(2) 18.25 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2009 crop year;
(3) 18.50 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2010 crop year;
(4) 18.75 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2011 through 2018 crop years;
(5) 19.75 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2019 through 2024 crop years; and
(6) 24.00 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years.
**(b) Sugar beets** The Secretary shall make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugar beets at a rate equal to—
(1) 22.9 cents per pound for refined beet sugar for the 2008 crop year;
(2) a rate that is equal to 128.5 percent of the loan rate per pound of raw cane sugar for the applicable crop year under subsection (a) for each of the 2009 through 2024 crop years; and
(3) a rate that is equal to 136.55 percent of the loan rate per pound of raw cane sugar under subsection (a)(6) for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years.
**(c) Term of loans**
(1) **In general** — A loan under this section during any fiscal year shall be made available not earlier than the beginning of the fiscal year and shall mature at the earlier of—
(A) the end of the 9-month period beginning on the first day of the first month after the month in which the loan is made; or
(B) the end of the fiscal year in which the loan is made.
(2) **Supplemental loans** — In the case of a loan made under this section in the last 3 months of a fiscal year, the processor may repledge the sugar as collateral for a second loan in the subsequent fiscal year, except that the second loa
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**(a) Sugarcane** The Secretary shall make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane at a rate equal to—
(1) 18.00 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2008 crop year;
(2) 18.25 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2009 crop year;
(3) 18.50 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for the 2010 crop year;
(4) 18.75 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2011 through 2018 crop years;
(5) 19.75 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2019 through 2024 crop years; and
(6) 24.00 cents per pound for raw cane sugar for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years.
**(b) Sugar beets** The Secretary shall make loans available to processors of domestically grown sugar beets at a rate equal to—
(1) 22.9 cents per pound for refined beet sugar for the 2008 crop year;
(2) a rate that is equal to 128.5 percent of the loan rate per pound of raw cane sugar for the applicable crop year under subsection (a) for each of the 2009 through 2024 crop years; and
(3) a rate that is equal to 136.55 percent of the loan rate per pound of raw cane sugar under subsection (a)(6) for each of the 2025 through 2031 crop years.
**(c) Term of loans**
(1) **In general** — A loan under this section during any fiscal year shall be made available not earlier than the beginning of the fiscal year and shall mature at the earlier of—
(A) the end of the 9-month period beginning on the first day of the first month after the month in which the loan is made; or
(B) the end of the fiscal year in which the loan is made.
(2) **Supplemental loans** — In the case of a loan made under this section in the last 3 months of a fiscal year, the processor may repledge the sugar as collateral for a second loan in the subsequent fiscal year, except that the second loan shall—
(A) be made at the loan rate in effect at the time the first loan was made; and
(B) mature in 9 months less the quantity of time that the first loan was in effect.
**(d) Loan type; processor assurances**
(1) **Nonrecourse loans** — The Secretary shall carry out this section through the use of nonrecourse loans.
(2) **Processor assurances**
(A) *In general* — The Secretary shall obtain from each processor that receives a loan under this section such assurances as the Secretary considers adequate to ensure that the processor will provide payments to producers that are proportional to the value of the loan received by the processor for the sugar beets and sugarcane delivered by producers to the processor.
(B) *Minimum payments*
(i) *In general* — Subject to clause (ii), the Secretary may establish appropriate minimum payments for purposes of this paragraph.
(ii) *Limitation* — In the case of sugar beets, the minimum payment established under clause (i) shall not exceed the rate of payment provided for under the applicable contract between a sugar beet producer and a sugar beet processor.
(3) **Administration** — The Secretary may not impose or enforce any prenotification requirement, or similar administrative requirement not otherwise in effect on May 13, 2002, that has the effect of preventing a processor from electing to forfeit the loan collateral (of an acceptable grade and quality) on the maturity of the loan.
**(e) Loans for in-process sugar**
(1) **Definition of in-process sugars and syrups** — In this subsection, the term “in-process sugars and syrups” does not include raw sugar, liquid sugar, invert sugar, invert syrup, or other finished product that is otherwise eligible for a loan under subsection (a) or (b).
(2) **Availability** — The Secretary shall make nonrecourse loans available to processors of a crop of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets for in-process sugars and syrups derived from the crop.
(3) **Loan rate** — The loan rate shall be equal to 80 percent of the loan rate applicable to raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar, as determined by the Secretary on the basis of the source material for the in-process sugars and syrups.
(4) **Further processing on forfeiture**
(A) *In general* — As a condition of the forfeiture of in-process sugars and syrups serving as collateral for a loan under paragraph (2), the processor shall, within such reasonable time period as the Secretary may prescribe and at no cost to the Commodity Credit Corporation, convert the in-process sugars and syrups into raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar of acceptable grade and quality for sugars eligible for loans under subsection (a) or (b).
(B) *Transfer to corporation* — Once the in-process sugars and syrups are fully processed into raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar, the processor shall transfer the sugar to the Commodity Credit Corporation.
(C) *Payment to processor* — On transfer of the sugar, the Secretary shall make a payment to the processor in an amount equal to the amount obtained by multiplying—
(i) the difference between—
(I) the loan rate for raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar, as appropriate; and
(II) the loan rate the processor received under paragraph (3); by
(ii) the quantity of sugar transferred to the Secretary.
(5) **Loan conversion** — If the processor does not forfeit the collateral as described in paragraph (4), but instead further processes the in-process sugars and syrups into raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar and repays the loan on the in-process sugars and syrups, the processor may obtain a loan under subsection (a) or (b) for the raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar, as appropriate.
(6) **Term of loan** — The term of a loan made under this subsection for a quantity of in-process sugars and syrups, when combined with the term of a loan made with respect to the raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar derived from the in-process sugars and syrups, may not exceed 9 months, consistent with subsection (c).
**(f) Avoiding forfeitures; Corporation inventory disposition**
(1) **In general** — Subject to subsection (d)(3), to the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall operate the program established under this section at no cost to the Federal Government by avoiding the forfeiture of sugar to the Commodity Credit Corporation.
(2) **Inventory disposition**
(A) *In general* — To carry out paragraph (1), the Commodity Credit Corporation may accept bids to obtain raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar in the inventory of the Commodity Credit Corporation from (or otherwise make available such commodities, on appropriate terms and conditions, to) processors of sugarcane and processors of sugar beets (acting in conjunction with the producers of the sugarcane or sugar beets processed by the processors) in return for the reduction of production of raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar, as appropriate.
(B) *Bioenergy feedstock* — If a reduction in the quantity of production accepted under subparagraph (A) involves sugar beets or sugarcane that has already been planted, the sugar beets or sugarcane so planted may not be used for any commercial purpose other than as a bioenergy feedstock.
(C) *Additional authority* — The authority provided under this paragraph is in addition to any authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation under any other law.
**(g) Information reporting**
(1) **Duty of processors and refiners to report** — A sugarcane processor, cane sugar refiner, and sugar beet processor shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such information as the Secretary may require to administer sugar programs, including the quantity of purchases of sugarcane, sugar beets, and sugar, and production, importation, distribution, and stock levels of sugar.
(2) **Duty of producers to report**
(A) *Proportionate share States* — As a condition of a loan made to a processor for the benefit of a producer, the Secretary shall require each producer of sugarcane located in a State (other than the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) in which there are in excess of 250 producers of sugarcane to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary, the sugarcane yields and acres planted to sugarcane of the producer.
(B) *Other States* — The Secretary may require each producer of sugarcane or sugar beets not covered by subparagraph (A) to report, in a manner prescribed by the Secretary, the yields of, and acres planted to, sugarcane or sugar beets, respectively, of the producer.
(3) **Duty of importers to report**
(A) *In general* — Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall require an importer of sugars, syrups, or molasses to be used for human consumption or to be used for the extraction of sugar for human consumption to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary, the quantities of the products imported by the importer and the sugar content or equivalent of the products.
(B) *Tariff-rate quotas* — Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to sugars, syrups, or molasses that are within the quantities of tariff-rate quotas that are subject to the lower rate of duties.
(4) **Collection of information on Mexico**
(A) *Collection* — The Secretary shall collect—
(i) information on the production, consumption, stocks, and trade of sugar in Mexico, including United States exports of sugar to Mexico; and
(ii) publicly available information on Mexican production, consumption, and trade of high fructose corn syrups.
(B) *Publication* — The data collected under subparagraph (A) shall be published in each edition of the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
(5) **Penalty** — Any person willfully failing or refusing to furnish the information required to be reported by paragraph (1), (2), or (3), or furnishing willfully false information, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each such violation.
(6) **Monthly reports** — Taking into consideration the information received under this subsection, the Secretary shall publish on a monthly basis composite data on production, imports, distribution, and stock levels of sugar.
**(h) Substitution of refined sugar** For purposes of Additional U.S. Note 6 to chapter 17 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and the reexport programs and polyhydric alcohol program administered by the Secretary, all refined sugars (whether derived from sugar beets or sugarcane) produced by cane sugar refineries and beet sugar processors shall be fully substitutable for the export of sugar and sugar-containing products under those programs.
**(i) Effective period** This section shall be effective only for the 2008 through 2031 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane.
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Notwithstanding section 801—
(1) any rule that establishes, modifies, opens, closes, or conducts a regulatory program for a commercial, recreational, or subsistence activity related to hunting, fishing, or camping, or
(2) any rule which an agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rule issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest,
shall take effect at such time as the Federal agency promulgating the rule determines.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is not published in the Code. A current version of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule is maintained and published periodically by the United States International Trade Commission and is available at their website and for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
#### Reference to Tariff Schedules To Be Treated as Reference to Harmonized Tariff Schedule
Reference in any law to “Tariff Schedules of the United States”, “the Tariff Schedules”, “such Schedules”, and any other general reference to the old Schedules to be treated as reference to Harmonized Tariff Schedule, see [section 3012 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section3012&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Source** The Secretary shall provide the price support authorized or required herein through the Commodity Credit Corporation and other means available to him.
**(b) Authority of Secretary; factors considered** Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the amounts, terms, and conditions of price support operations and the extent to which such operations are carried out, shall be determined or approved by the Secretary. The following factors shall be taken into consideration in determining, in the case of any commodity for which price support is discretionary, whether a price-support operation shall be undertaken and the level of such support and, in the case of any commodity for which price support is mandatory, the level of support in excess of the minimum level prescribed for such commodity: (1) the supply of the commodity in relation to the demand therefor, (2) the price levels at which other commodities are being supported and, in the case of feed grains, the feed values of such grains in relation to corn, (3) the availability of funds, (4) the perishability of the commodity, (5) the importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy, (6) the ability to dispose of stocks acquired through a price-support operation, (7) the need for offsetting temporary losses of export markets, (8) the ability and willingness of producers to keep supplies in line with demand and (9), in the case of upland cotton, changes in the cost of producing such cotton.
**(c) Compliance by producer; program for diverted acres** Compliance by the producer with acreage allotments, production goals and marketing practices (including marketing quotas when authorized by law), prescribed by the Secretary, may be required as a condition of eligibility for price support. In admi
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural commodity** — The term “agricultural commodity” has the meaning given the term in [section 5602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section5602&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ([7 U.S.C. 2204](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 107–171).
**(b) Authorization** Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary may provide geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers direct reimbursement payments for activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Transportation**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary may provide direct reimbursement payments to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher to transport an agricultural commodity, or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity, during a fiscal year.
(2) **Proof of eligibility** — To be eligible to receive assistance under paragraph (1), a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher shall demonstrate to the Secretary that transportation of the agricultural commodity or inputs occurred over a distance of more than 30 miles, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) **Amount**
(A) *In general* — Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of direct reimbursement payments made to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the product obtained by multiplying—
(i) the amount of costs incurred by the geographically di
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**(a)** This section applies, according to the provisions thereof, except to the extent that there is involved—
(1) a military or foreign affairs function of the United States; or
(2) a matter relating to agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.
**(b)** General notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the Federal Register, unless persons subject thereto are named and either personally served or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance with law. The notice shall include—
(1) a statement of the time, place, and nature of public rule making proceedings;
(2) reference to the legal authority under which the rule is proposed;
(3) either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues involved; and
(4) the Internet address of a summary of not more than 100 words in length of the proposed rule, in plain language, that shall be posted on the Internet website under section 206(d) of the E-Government Act of 2002 ([44 U.S.C. 3501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim) note) (commonly known as regulations.gov).
Except when notice or hearing is required by statute, this subsection does not apply—
(A) to interpretative rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice; or
(B) when the agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rules issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.
**(c)** After notice required by this section, the agency shall give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making through subm
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**(a)** Unless this subsection is waived by the head of a Federal agency, a person may not obtain any Federal financial assistance in the form of a loan (other than a disaster loan or a marketing assistance loan or loan deficiency payment under subtitle C of the Agricultural Market Transition Act ([7 U.S.C. 7231](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7231&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.)) or loan insurance or guarantee administered by the agency if the person has an outstanding debt (other than a debt under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) with any Federal agency which is in a delinquent status, as determined under standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Such a person may obtain additional loans or loan guarantees only after such delinquency is resolved in accordance with those standards. The Secretary of the Treasury may exempt, at the request of an agency, any class of claims.
**(b)** The head of a Federal agency may delegate the waiver authority under subsection (a) to the Chief Financial Officer of the agency. The waiver authority may be redelegated only to the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of the agency.
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**(a) Maintenance of base acres and payment yields** The Secretary shall maintain, for each covered commodity and upland cotton, base acres and payment yields on a farm established under sections 8702 and 8751 of this title, as adjusted pursuant to sections 8711, 8712, 8718, and 8752 of this title, as in effect on September 30, 2013, and as adjusted pursuant to sections 9012 and 9013 of this title.
**(b) Streamlining** In implementing this chapter and the amendments made by this title,11 See References in Text note below. the Secretary shall—
(1) continue to reduce administrative burdens and costs to producers by streamlining and reducing paperwork, forms, and other administrative requirements, to ensure that—
(A) a producer (or an agent of a producer) may report information, electronically (including geospatial data) or conventionally, to the Department of Agriculture, subject to the Secretary—
(i) establishing reasonable levels of tolerance that reflect the differences in accuracy between measures of common land units and geospatial data; and
(ii) ensuring that discrepancies that occur within the levels of tolerance established under clause (i) shall not be used to penalize a producer (or an agent of a producer) under any program administered by the Department of Agriculture;
(B) on the request of a producer (or an agent of a producer), the Department of Agriculture electronically shares with the producer (or agent) in real time and without cost to the producer (or agent) the common land unit data, related farm level data, conservation practices, and other information of the producer through a single Department of Agriculture-wide login;
(C) not later than September 30, 2020, the Administrator of the Risk Management Agency and the Administrator of
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**(a) Definition of program** In this section, the term “program” means the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program established by subsection (b).
**(b) Establishment** There is established within the Environmental Protection Agency a program to be known as the “Sugar Cane Ethanol Program”.
**(c) Project**
(1) **In general** — Subject to the availability of appropriations under subsection (d), in carrying out the program, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall establish a project that is—
(A) carried out in multiple States—
(i) in each of which is produced cane sugar that is eligible for loans under [section 7272 of title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7272&num=0&edition=prelim), or a similar subsequent authority; and
(ii) at the option of each such State, that have an incentive program that requires the use of ethanol in the State; and
(B) designed to study the production of ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts.
(2) **Requirements** — A project described in paragraph (1) shall—
(A) be limited to sugar producers and the production of ethanol in the States of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Hawaii, divided equally among the States, to demonstrate that the process may be applicable to cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts;
(B) include information on the ways in which the scale of production may be replicated once the sugar cane industry has located sites for, and constructed, ethanol production facilities; and
(C) not last more than 3 years.
**(d) Authorization of appropriations** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $36,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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In this subpart:
(1) **Human consumption** — The term “human consumption”, when used in the context of a reference to sugar (whether in the form of sugar, in-process sugar, syrup, molasses, or in some other form) for human consumption, includes sugar for use in human food, beverages, or similar products.
(2) **Mainland State** — The term “mainland State” means a State other than an offshore State.
(3) **Market**
(A) *In general* — The term “market” means to sell or otherwise dispose of in commerce in the United States.
(B) *Inclusions* — The term “market” includes—
(i) the forfeiture of sugar under the loan program for sugar established under [section 7272 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7272&num=0&edition=prelim);
(ii) with respect to any integrated processor and refiner, the movement of raw cane sugar into the refining process; and
(iii) the sale of sugar for the production of ethanol or other bioenergy product, if the disposition of the sugar is administered by the Secretary under [section 8110 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section8110&num=0&edition=prelim).
(C) *Marketing year* — Forfeited sugar described in subparagraph (B)(i) shall be considered to have been marketed during the crop year for which a loan is made under the loan program described in that subparagraph.
(4) **Offshore State** — The term “offshore State” means a sugarcane producing State located outside of the continental United States.
(5) **State** — Notwithstanding [section 1301 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1301&num=0&edition=prelim), the term “State” means—
(A) a State;
(B) the District of Colum
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**(a) Sugar estimates**
(1) **In general** — Not later than August 1 before the beginning of each of the 2008 through 2031 crop years for sugarcane and sugar beets, the Secretary shall estimate—
(A) the quantity of sugar that will be subject to human consumption in the United States during the crop year;
(B) the quantity of sugar that would provide for reasonable carryover stocks;
(C) the quantity of sugar that will be available from carry-in stocks for human consumption in the United States during the crop year;
(D) the quantity of sugar that will be available from the domestic processing of sugarcane, sugar beets, and in-process beet sugar; and
(E) the quantity of sugars, syrups, and molasses that will be imported for human consumption or to be used for the extraction of sugar for human consumption in the United States during the crop year, whether the articles are under a tariff-rate quota or are in excess or outside of a tariff-rate quota.
(2) **Exclusion** — The estimates under this subsection shall not apply to sugar imported for the production of polyhydric alcohol or to any sugar refined and reexported in refined form or in products containing sugar.
(3) **Reestimates** — The Secretary shall make reestimates of sugar consumption, stocks, production, and imports for a crop year as necessary, but not later than the beginning of each of the second through fourth quarters of the crop year.
**(b) Sugar allotments**
(1) **Establishment** — By the beginning of each crop year, the Secretary shall establish for that crop year appropriate allotments under [section 1359cc of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1359cc&num=0&edition=prelim) for the marketing by processors of sugar processed from sugar can
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