§7991 Administration Generally

Summary

The Secretary must use the money, facilities, and powers of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this chapter. Any decision the Secretary makes under this chapter is final. The Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation had to create needed regulations no later than 90 days after May 13, 2002. Making those rules and running this chapter does not have to follow chapter 35 of title 44, the Secretary of Agriculture’s July 24, 1971 policy (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), or the notice-and-comment rules in section 553 of title 5. In doing this, the Secretary must use the authority in section 808 of title 5 for congressional review. Producers who were allowed to speed up payment under section 525 of Public Law 106–170 (113 Stat. 1928; 7 U.S.C. 7212 note) get the same protection for three options: advance direct and counter-cyclical payments under subchapters I and III, the single payment for eligible peanut quota holders under section 7960, and advance direct and counter-cyclical 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 through V that counts toward the Uruguay Round allowable domestic support (as defined in section 3501 of title 19), as in effect on May 13, 2002, will go over the allowed level for any reporting period, the Secretary must, as much as possible, cut or change spending in that period so it does not exceed the allowed level. Before making such an adjustment, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture explaining the finding and the change.