§7991 Administration generally

Summary

The Secretary must use the Commodity Credit Corporation’s money, buildings, and powers to run this chapter. Decisions by the Secretary under this chapter are final. No later than 90 days after May 13, 2002, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation must make the rules needed to put this chapter into effect. They may create and run those rules without following the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44), the Secretary of Agriculture’s rulemaking policy dated July 24, 1971, or the notice-and-comment steps in section 553 of title 5. The Secretary will use the authority in section 808 of title 5 to do this. A protection that let producers speed up payments under the 1996 Farm Act (section 525 of Public Law 106–170) also applies to three payment options: advance direct and counter-cyclical payments under subchapters I and III, the one-time payment for eligible peanut quota holders under section 7960, and advance payments under title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.). If the Secretary finds that spending under subchapters I–V that counts against the Uruguay Round support limits (defined in section 3501 of title 19) will go over those limits for a reporting period, the Secretary must, as much as possible, adjust spending that period so it does not exceed the limits. Before making any adjustment, the Secretary must send a report about the finding and the planned change to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture.