Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§7504 Initial processing costs

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 102— - EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE › § 7504

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to pay for initial processing and packaging of commodities to be distributed under this program. The Secretary decides package forms and sizes for households or institutions. Payments may be CCC-owned commodities of equal value but must not displace commercial sales.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §7504

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The Secretary may use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay costs of initial processing and packaging of commodities to be distributed under the program established under this chapter into forms, and in quantities, suitable, as determined by the Secretary, for use in individual households when such commodities are to be consumed by individual households or for institutional use, as applicable. The Secretary may pay such costs in the form of Corporation-owned commodities equal in value to such costs. The Secretary shall ensure that any such payments in kind will not displace commercial sales of such commodities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1985—Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “, except that wheat from the Food Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs” after “equal in value to such costs”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 98–92, § 2, Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 608, provided in part that this section is effective Oct. 1, 1983.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 7504

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73