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7 U.S.C. § 627 — Dairy forward pricing pilot program
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**(a) Pilot program required** Not later than 90 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a temporary pilot program under which milk producers and cooperatives are authorized to voluntarily enter into forward price contracts with milk handlers.
**(b) Minimum milk price requirements** Payments made by milk handlers to milk producers and cooperatives, and prices received by milk producers and cooperatives, under the forward contracts shall be deemed to satisfy—
(1) all regulated minimum milk price requirements of paragraphs (B) and (F) of subsection (5) of [section 608c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section608c&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) the requirement of paragraph (C) of such subsection regarding total payments by each handler.
**(c) Milk covered by pilot program**
(1) **Covered milk** — The pilot program shall apply only with respect to the marketing of federally regulated milk that—
(A) is not classified as Class I milk or otherwise intended for fluid use; and
(B) is in the current of interstate or foreign commerce or directly burdens, obstructs, or affects interstate or foreign commerce in federally regulated milk.
(2) **Relation to Class I milk** — To assist milk handlers in complying with the limitation in paragraph (1)(A) without having to segregate or otherwise individually track the source and disposition of milk, a milk handler may allocate milk receipts from producers, cooperatives, and other sources that are not subject to a forward contract to satisfy the handler’s obligations with regard to Class I milk usage.
**(d) Duration** The authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the pilot program shall terminate on December 31, 2004. No forward pric
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**(a) Pilot program required** Not later than 90 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a temporary pilot program under which milk producers and cooperatives are authorized to voluntarily enter into forward price contracts with milk handlers.
**(b) Minimum milk price requirements** Payments made by milk handlers to milk producers and cooperatives, and prices received by milk producers and cooperatives, under the forward contracts shall be deemed to satisfy—
(1) all regulated minimum milk price requirements of paragraphs (B) and (F) of subsection (5) of [section 608c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section608c&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) the requirement of paragraph (C) of such subsection regarding total payments by each handler.
**(c) Milk covered by pilot program**
(1) **Covered milk** — The pilot program shall apply only with respect to the marketing of federally regulated milk that—
(A) is not classified as Class I milk or otherwise intended for fluid use; and
(B) is in the current of interstate or foreign commerce or directly burdens, obstructs, or affects interstate or foreign commerce in federally regulated milk.
(2) **Relation to Class I milk** — To assist milk handlers in complying with the limitation in paragraph (1)(A) without having to segregate or otherwise individually track the source and disposition of milk, a milk handler may allocate milk receipts from producers, cooperatives, and other sources that are not subject to a forward contract to satisfy the handler’s obligations with regard to Class I milk usage.
**(d) Duration** The authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the pilot program shall terminate on December 31, 2004. No forward price contract entered into under the program may extend beyond that date.
**(e) Study and report on effect of pilot program**
(1) **Study** — The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a study on forward contracting between milk producers and cooperatives and milk handlers to determine the impact on milk prices paid to producers in the United States. To obtain information for the study, the Secretary may use the authorities available to the Secretary under [section 608d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section608d&num=0&edition=prelim), subject to the confidentiality requirements of subsection (2) of such section.
(2) **Report** — Not later than April 30, 2002, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report containing the results of the study.
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(1) **Issuance by Secretary** — The Secretary of Agriculture shall, subject to the provisions of this section, issue, and from time to time amend, orders applicable to processors, associations of producers, and others engaged in the handling of any agricultural commodity or product thereof specified in subsection (2) of this section. Such persons are referred to in this chapter as “handlers”. Such orders shall regulate, in the manner hereinafter in this section provided, only such handling of such agricultural commodity, or product thereof, as is in the current of interstate or foreign commerce, or which directly burdens, obstructs, or affects, interstate or foreign commerce in such commodity or product thereof. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall complete all informal rulemaking actions necessary to respond to recommendations submitted by administrative committees for such orders as expeditiously as possible, but not more than 45 days (to the extent practicable) after submission of the committee recommendations. The Secretary is authorized to implement a producer allotment program and a handler withholding program under the cranberry marketing order in the same crop year through informal rulemaking based on a recommendation and supporting economic analysis submitted by the Cranberry Marketing Committee. Such recommendation and analysis shall be submitted by the Committee no later than March 1 of each year. The Secretary shall establish time frames for each office and agency within the Department of Agriculture to consider the committee recommendations.
(2) **Commodities to which applicable** — Orders issued pursuant to this section shall be applicable only to (A) the following agricultural commodities and the products thereof (except canned or frozen pea
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(1) All parties to any marketing agreement, and all handlers subject to an order, shall severally, from time to time, upon the request of the Secretary, furnish him with such information as he finds to be necessary to enable him to ascertain and determine the extent to which such agreement or order has been carried out or has effectuated the declared policy of this chapter and with such information as he finds to be necessary to determine whether or not there has been any abuse of the privilege of exemptions from the antitrust laws. Such information shall be furnished in accordance with forms of reports to be prescribed by the Secretary. For the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of any report made to the Secretary pursuant to this subsection, or for the purpose of obtaining the information required in any such report, where it has been requested and has not been furnished, the Secretary is authorized to examine such books, papers, records, copies of income-tax reports, accounts, correspondence, contracts, documents, or memoranda, as he deems relevant and which are within the control (1) of any such party to such marketing agreement, or any such handler, from whom such report was requested or (2) of any person having, either directly or indirectly, actual or legal control of or over such party or such handler or (3) of any subsidiary of any such party, handler, or person.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 607 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section607&num=0&edition=prelim), all information furnished to or acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to this section, as well as information for marketing order programs that is categorized as trade secrets and commercial or financial information exe
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### Statutory Notes
Section 751, acts July 17, 1916, ch. 245, title I, § 10(a), 39 Stat. 369; Apr. 20, 1920, ch. 154, § 2, 41 Stat. 570; June 30, 1945, ch. 204, § 2, 59 Stat. 266; Aug. 18, 1959, Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 102(b), 73 Stat. 384, covered investigation of applications for mortgage loans by the loan committee. See [section 2033 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section2033&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 752, acts July 17, 1916, ch. 245, title I, § 10(b), 39 Stat. 369; Apr. 20, 1920, ch. 154, § 2, 41 Stat. 570; June 30, 1945, ch. 204, § 2, 59 Stat. 266; Aug. 18, 1959, Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 102(b), 73 Stat. 385, covered submission of loan applications and required reports to land banks. See [section 2033 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section2033&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 753, acts July 17, 1916, ch. 245, title I, § 10(c), 39 Stat. 369; June 30, 1945, ch. 204, § 2, 59 Stat. 266; Aug. 18, 1959, Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 102(b), 73 Stat. 385, provided for form for appraisal reports.
Section 754, acts July 17, 1916, ch. 245, title I, § 10(d), 39 Stat. 369; Aug. 18, 1959, Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 102(b), 73 Stat. 385, dealt with conflicting interests of farm credit or land bank appraisers, committeemen, and association directors. See [section 2254 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section2254&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 755, acts July 17, 1916, ch. 245, title I, § 10(e), 39 Stat. 369; Ex. Ord. No. 6084, Mar. 27, 1933; Aug. 18, 1959, Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 102(b), 73 Stat. 385, provided for appraisal standards studies by Federal land banks. See [section 2033 of this title](https://uscode.ho
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 627
DONE at the City of Washington this 11th day of Sep-
tember in the year of our Lord nineteen hun-
dred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the one hundred
and eighty-sixth.
[SEAL]
JOHN F. KENNEDY.
§ 625. Repealed. Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(s),
Oct. 22, 2004, 118 Stat. 1523
Section, Pub. L. 98–59, § 3, July 25, 1983, 97 Stat. 296,
related to review of the effects of Burley tobacco im-
ports on the Department of Agriculture’s Burley to-
bacco price-support program.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL
Repeal applicable to the 2005 and subsequent crops of
tobacco, see section 643 of Pub. L. 108–357, set out as an
Effective Date note under section 518 of this title.
SAVINGS PROVISION
Repeal not to affect the liability of any person under
this section with respect to the 2004 or an earlier crop
of tobacco, see section 614 of Pub. L. 108–357, set out as
a note under section 515 of this title.
§ 626. Import inventory
(a) Compilation and report on imports
The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation
with the Secretary of Commerce, the Inter-
national Trade Commission, the United States
Trade Representative, and the heads of all other
appropriate Federal agencies, shall compile and
report to the public statistics on the total value
and quantity of imported raw and processed ag-
ricultural products. The report shall be limited
to those statistics that such agencies already
obtain for other purposes.
(b) Compilation and report on consumption
The Secretary shall compile and report to the
public data on the total quantity of production
and consumption of domestically produced raw
and processed agricultural products.
(c) Issuing of data
The repor
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