§8781 Administration generally

Summary

The Secretary must use the Commodity Credit Corporation’s money, facilities, and powers to carry out the programs in this chapter unless another part of the chapter says otherwise. Any decision the Secretary makes under these rules is final. Within 90 days after the Act is enacted, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation must create the rules needed to put the chapter and its changes into effect. They may do this without following the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44), the Secretary’s July 24, 1971 policy (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), or the notice-and-comment steps in section 553 of title 5, and must use the authority in section 808 of title 5. Changes from sections 1603 and 1604 must be applied for the 2009 crop, fiscal, or program year by an interim rule. If the Secretary finds that spending covered by the “total allowable domestic support levels” under the Uruguay Round Agreements (see section 3501 of title 19) will exceed those limits for a reporting period, the Secretary must, as much as possible, adjust spending during that period so it does not go over the limit. Before making any such adjustment, the Secretary must send a report to the House Committee on Agriculture or the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry explaining the finding and the planned adjustment.