§9053 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must keep running a dairy margin coverage program. Under the program, participating dairy operations get payments when their actual dairy production margins fall below the program’s payment thresholds. The rules in Subpart A of part 1430 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as they were on December 20, 2018, will continue to apply to the dairy margin coverage program starting with the 2019 calendar year, unless those rules conflict with any part of this Act.

Title 7, §9053

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(a)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)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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 113–79, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 649, known as the Agricultural Act of 2014. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 9001 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(4)(B)–(D), designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “The Secretary shall continue to administer a dairy margin coverage program” for “Not later than September 1, 2014, the Secretary shall establish and administer a margin protection program”, substituted “dairy margin coverage payment” for “margin protection payment” in two places, and added subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(4)(A), substituted “Dairy margin coverage” for “Establishment of margin protection program for dairy producers” in section catchline.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment 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.

§9053 Dairy margin coverage