§7991 Administration Generally

Summary

The Secretary must use the Commodity Credit Corporation’s money, offices, and powers to run this program. Any decision the Secretary makes under the law is final. Within 90 days after May 13, 2002, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation must write the rules needed to put the law into action. They do not have to follow the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44), the Secretary of Agriculture’s July 24, 1971 policy on notice-and-comment rulemaking, or the usual notice-and-comment rules in section 553 of title 5, and they will use the authority in section 808 of title 5. The same protection that allowed producers to speed up payments under section 525 of Public Law 106–170 (113 Stat. 1928; 7 U.S.C. 7212 note) also applies to three early-payment 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 payments under title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. If the Secretary finds that spending under subchapters I through V that counts toward the Uruguay Round “total allowable domestic support” (as defined in section 3501 of title 19), as in effect on May 13, 2002, will exceed the allowed amount for a reporting period, the Secretary must, as much as possible, adjust spending that period so the limit is not exceeded. Before making any such adjustment, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture describing the finding and the planned adjustment.