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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2209k Prohibition on payments to fossil fuel refiners and importers

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2209k

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Agriculture Department cannot use Commodity Credit Corporation or USDA money, facilities, or powers to pay or help companies that refine or import fossil fuels. It also cannot help those companies meet the renewable fuel program (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)) or any law that requires blending fossil fuel with renewable fuel. Exception: payments or help to biofuel producers, refiners, or importers are allowed. Refiner/importer — see 40 C.F.R. §80.2 (or successor). Biofuel — see 7 U.S.C. 8101. Also, the two exchange authorities in 15 U.S.C. 714b(h) could not be used for the 180-day period beginning October 1, 2020.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2209k

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of Agriculture may not use any funds, facilities, or authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation or the Department of Agriculture—
(1)to provide a payment to a refiner or importer (as those terms are defined in section 80.2 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)); or
(2)to otherwise support, directly or indirectly, a refiner or importer (as so defined) in meeting any requirements under—
(A)the renewable fuel program under section 7545(o) of title 42; or
(B)any other provision of law that requires the blending of fossil fuel with renewable fuel.
(b)The exclusion in (a) shall not apply to any payments or support to producers, refiners, or importers of biofuel (as defined in section 8101 of this title).
(c)The authorities under the ninth and tenth sentences of section 714b(h) of title 15 (relating to the availability of agricultural products for the Secretary of Energy to exchange for petroleum products and the terms and conditions of those exchanges, respectively) shall not be used during the 180-day period beginning on October 1, 2020.

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section 8101 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “7 U.S.C. 8101” but probably should have been a reference to section 9001 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–171, which is classified to section 8101 of this title.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2209k

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73