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7 U.S.C. § 7918 — Relation to remaining payment authority under production flexibility contracts
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**(a) Termination of superseded payment authority** Notwithstanding [section 7213(a)(7) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7213/a/7&num=0&edition=prelim) or any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not make payments for fiscal year 2002 after May 13, 2002, under a production flexibility contract entered into under [section 7211 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7211&num=0&edition=prelim) unless requested by the producer that is a party to the contract.
**(b) Contract payments made before enactment** If a producer receives all or any portion of the payment authorized for fiscal year 2002 under a production flexibility contract, the Secretary shall reduce the amount of the direct payment otherwise due the producer for the 2002 crop year under [section 7913 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7913&num=0&edition=prelim) by the amount of the fiscal year 2002 payment received by the producer under the production flexibility contract.
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**(a) Termination of superseded payment authority** Notwithstanding [section 7213(a)(7) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7213/a/7&num=0&edition=prelim) or any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not make payments for fiscal year 2002 after May 13, 2002, under a production flexibility contract entered into under [section 7211 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7211&num=0&edition=prelim) unless requested by the producer that is a party to the contract.
**(b) Contract payments made before enactment** If a producer receives all or any portion of the payment authorized for fiscal year 2002 under a production flexibility contract, the Secretary shall reduce the amount of the direct payment otherwise due the producer for the 2002 crop year under [section 7913 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7913&num=0&edition=prelim) by the amount of the fiscal year 2002 payment received by the producer under the production flexibility contract.
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**(a) Establishment and purpose** For the purpose of making direct payments and counter-cyclical payments under this subchapter, the Secretary shall provide for the establishment of a payment yield for each farm for each covered commodity in accordance with this section.
**(b) Use of farm program payment yield** Except as otherwise provided in this section, the payment yield for each of the 2002 through 2007 crops of a covered commodity for a farm shall be the farm program payment yield established for the 1995 crop of the covered commodity under [section 1465 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1465&num=0&edition=prelim), as adjusted by the Secretary to account for any additional yield payments made with respect to that crop under [section 1465(b)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1465/b/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Farms without farm program payment yield** In the case of a farm for which a farm program payment yield is unavailable for a covered commodity (other than soybeans or other oilseeds), the Secretary shall establish an appropriate payment yield for the covered commodity on the farm taking into consideration the farm program payment yields applicable to the commodity under subsection (b) for similar farms, but before the yields for the similar farms are updated as provided in subsection (e).
**(d) Payment yields for oilseeds**
(1) **Determination of average yield** — In the case of soybeans and each other oilseed, the Secretary shall determine the average yield per planted acre for the oilseed on a farm for the 1998 through 2001 crop years, excluding any crop year in which the acreage planted to the oilseed was zero.
(2) **Adjustment for paym
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**(a) Offer and terms** The Secretary shall offer to enter into a production flexibility contract with an eligible owner or producer described in subsection (b) on a farm containing eligible cropland. Under the terms of a contract, the owner or producer shall agree, in exchange for annual contract payments, to—
(1) comply with applicable conservation requirements under subtitle B of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 ([16 U.S.C. 3811](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3811&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.);
(2) comply with applicable wetland protection requirements under subtitle C of title XII of the Act ([16 U.S.C. 3821](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3821&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.);
(3) comply with the planting flexibility requirements of [section 7218 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7218&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(4) use the land subject to the contract for an agricultural or related activity, but not for a nonagricultural commercial or industrial use, as determined by the Secretary.
**(b) Eligible owners and producers described** The following producers and owners shall be eligible to enter into a contract:
(1) An owner of eligible cropland who assumes all or a part of the risk of producing a crop.
(2) A producer (other than an owner) on eligible cropland with a share-rent lease of the eligible cropland, regardless of the length of the lease, if the owner enters into the same contract.
(3) A producer (other than an owner) on eligible cropland who cash rents the eligible cropland under a lease expiring on or after September 30, 2002, in which case the owner is not required to enter into the contract.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 7932
§ 7917. Relation to remaining payment authority
under production flexibility contracts
(a) Termination of superseded payment author-
ity
Notwithstanding section 7213(a)(7) of this title
or any other provision of law, the Secretary
shall not make payments for fiscal year 2002
after May 13, 2002, under a production flexibility
contract entered into under section 7211 of this
title unless requested by the producer that is a
party to the contract.
(b) Contract payments made before enactment
If a producer receives all or any portion of the
payment authorized for fiscal year 2002 under a
production flexibility contract, the Secretary
shall reduce the amount of the direct payment
otherwise due the producer for the 2002 crop year
under section 7913 of this title by the amount of
the fiscal year 2002 payment received by the pro-
ducer under the production flexibility contract.
(Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1107, May 13, 2002, 116
Stat. 154.)
§ 7918. Period of effectiveness
This subchapter shall be effective beginning
with the 2002 crop year of each covered com-
modity through the 2007 crop year.
(Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1108, May 13, 2002, 116
Stat. 155.)
SUBCHAPTER II—MARKETING ASSISTANCE
LOANS AND LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS
§ 7931. Availability of nonrecourse marketing as-
sistance loans for loan commodities
(a) Nonrecourse loans available
(1) Availability
For each of the 2002 through 2007 crops of
each loan commodity, the Secretary shall
make available to producers on a farm non-
recourse marketing assistance loans for loan
commodities produced on the farm.
(2) Terms and conditions
The marketing assistance loans shall be
made under terms and conditions that are pre-
scribed by the Secretary and at the lo
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