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7 U.S.C. § 9059 — Effect of failure to pay administrative fees or premiums
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**(a) Loss of benefits** A participating dairy operation that fails to pay the required annual administrative fee under [section 9054 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section9054&num=0&edition=prelim) or is in arrears on premium payments under [section 9057 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section9057&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) remains legally obligated to pay the administrative fee or premiums, as the case may be; and
(2) may not receive dairy margin coverage payments until the fees or premiums are fully paid.
**(b) Enforcement** The Secretary may take such action as necessary to collect administrative fees and premium payments for participation in dairy margin coverage.
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**(a) Loss of benefits** A participating dairy operation that fails to pay the required annual administrative fee under [section 9054 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section9054&num=0&edition=prelim) or is in arrears on premium payments under [section 9057 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section9057&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) remains legally obligated to pay the administrative fee or premiums, as the case may be; and
(2) may not receive dairy margin coverage payments until the fees or premiums are fully paid.
**(b) Enforcement** The Secretary may take such action as necessary to collect administrative fees and premium payments for participation in dairy margin coverage.
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**(a) Adjustment authority** Subject to subsection (e), the Secretary may make appropriate adjustments in the loan rates for any loan commodity (other than cotton) for differences in grade, type, quality, location, and other factors.
**(b) Manner of adjustment** The adjustments under subsection (a) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be made in such a manner that the average loan level for the commodity will, on the basis of the anticipated incidence of the factors, be equal to the level of support determined in accordance with this subchapter and subtitle C.
**(c) Adjustment on county basis**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary may establish loan rates for a crop for producers in individual counties in a manner that results in the lowest loan rate being 95 percent of the national average loan rate, if those loan rates do not result in an increase in outlays.
(2) **Prohibition** — Adjustments under this subsection shall not result in an increase in the national average loan rate for any year.
**(d) Adjustment in loan rate for cotton**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary may make appropriate adjustments in the loan rate for cotton for differences in quality factors.
(2) **Types of adjustments** — Loan rate adjustments under paragraph (1) may include—
(A) the use of non-spot market price data, in addition to spot market price data, that would enhance the accuracy of the price information used in determining quality adjustments under this subsection;
(B) adjustments in the premiums or discounts associated with upland cotton with a staple length of 33 or above due to micronaire with the goal of eliminating any unnecessary artificial splits in the calculations of the premiums or discounts; and
(C) such other adjustments as the Secretary determines appropr
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall continue to administer a dairy margin coverage program for dairy producers under which participating dairy operations are paid a dairy margin coverage payment when actual dairy production margins are less than the threshold levels for a dairy margin coverage payment.
**(b) Regulations** Subpart A of part 1430 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on December 20, 2018), shall remain in effect for dairy margin coverage beginning with the 2019 calendar year, except to the extent that the regulations are inconsistent with any provision of this Act.
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**(a) Coverage level threshold and coverage percentage**
(1) **Coverage level threshold**
(A) *In general* — For purposes of receiving dairy margin coverage payments for a month, a participating dairy operation shall annually elect a coverage level threshold that is equal to $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, $8.00, $8.50, $9.00, or $9.50.
(B) *Applicability* — Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the coverage level threshold elected under subparagraph (A) shall apply to the covered production elected by the participating dairy operation under paragraph (2).
(C) *Second coverage election for tier II* — In the case of a participating dairy operation that elects a coverage level threshold of $8.50, $9.00, or $9.50 under subparagraph (A)—
(i) that coverage level threshold shall apply to the first 6,000,000 pounds of milk marketings included in the covered production elected by the participating dairy operation; and
(ii) the participating dairy operation shall elect a coverage level threshold that is equal to $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, or $8.00 to apply to milk marketings in excess of 6,000,000 pounds included in the covered production elected by the participating dairy operation.
(2) **Coverage percentage** — For purposes of receiving dairy margin coverage payments for a month, a participating dairy operation shall annually elect a percentage of coverage, in 5-percent increments, not exceeding 95 percent of the production history of the participating dairy operation.
**(b) Payment threshold** A participating dairy operation shall receive a dairy margin coverage payment whenever the average actual dairy production margin for a month is less than the coverage level threshold selected by the participat
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**(a) Eligibility** All dairy operations in the United States shall be eligible to participate in dairy margin coverage to receive dairy margin coverage payments.
**(b) Registration process**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall specify the manner and form by which a participating dairy operation may register to participate in dairy margin coverage, including the establishment of a date each calendar year by which a dairy operation shall register for the calendar year.
(2) **Extension of election period for 2018 calendar year**
(A) *In general* — The Secretary shall extend the election period for the 2018 calendar year by not less than 90 days after February 9, 2018, or such additional period as the Secretary determines is necessary for dairy operations to make new elections to participate for that calendar year, including dairy operations that elected to so participate before February 9, 2018.
(B) *Retroactive program option* — In the case of a dairy operation that, by operation of subsection (d) (as in effect on the day before December 20, 2018), was ineligible to participate in the margin protection program for any part of calendar year 2018, the Secretary shall establish a new election period for that calendar year that ends on a date that is not less than 90 days after December 20, 2018, and the Secretary determines is necessary for dairy operations to make new elections to participate in the margin protection program (as in effect on the day before December 20, 2018) for that calendar year, including dairy operations that elected to participate in the livestock gross margin for dairy program under the Federal Crop Insurance Act ([7 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 9059
mium payments for participation in dairy mar-
gin coverage.
(Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1408, Feb. 7, 2014, 128
Stat. 693; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1401(k)(9), Dec.
20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4517.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(9)(A),
substituted ‘‘dairy margin coverage’’ for ‘‘margin pro-
tection’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(9)(B), substituted
‘‘dairy margin coverage’’ for ‘‘the margin protection
program’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2018 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 115–334 effective on Jan. 1,
2019, see section 1401(m) of Pub. L. 115–334, set out as a
note under section 9051 of this title.
§ 9059. Duration
Dairy margin coverage shall end on December
31, 2025.
(Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1409, Feb. 7, 2014, 128
Stat. 693; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1401(l), Dec. 20,
2018, 132 Stat. 4518; Pub. L. 118–22, div. B, title I,
§ 102(c)(2)(B)(i), Nov. 17, 2023, 137 Stat. 115; Pub.
L. 118–158, div. D, § 4101(c)(4)(A)(i), Dec. 21, 2024,
138 Stat. 1768.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2024—Pub. L. 118–158 substituted ‘‘December 31, 2025’’
for ‘‘December 31, 2024’’.
2023—Pub. L. 118–22 substituted ‘‘2024’’ for ‘‘2023’’.
2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted ‘‘Dairy margin cov-
erage’’ for ‘‘The margin protection program’’ and
‘‘2023’’ for ‘‘2018’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2024 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 118–158 to be applied and ad-
ministered as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2024, see section
4101(g) of Pub. L. 118–158, set out in an Extension of Ag-
ricultural Programs note under section 9001 of this
title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2023 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 118–22 to be applied and ad-
minist
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