Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60
§7504 Initial Processing Costs
Title 7 › Chapter 102— EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE › § 7504
Summary
The Secretary can use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to pay initial processing and packaging so program commodities fit household or institutional use. Payments can be made with Corporation-owned commodities and must not displace commercial sales.
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Title 7, §7504
Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60