§87f–2 Reporting Requirements

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must send yearly reports by December 1 to the House and Senate agriculture committees about how well the official grain inspection and weighing system worked in the prior fiscal year and must recommend any needed law changes to meet the goals in section 74. The Secretary must tell those committees within 30 days when a foreign buyer complains and the Secretary finds reasonable cause to believe a grain delivery was faulty. The Secretary must also tell them within 30 days after getting notice that an export contract for more than 100,000 metric tons of grain was canceled. Each December 1 the Secretary must also send a summary of other valid complaints from foreign buyers or prospective buyers and how those complaints were handled. Starting not later than 1 year after December 11, 2020, the Secretary must publish quarterly reports with aggregate test and inspection data for intrinsic quality (including protein, oil, and starch) and food safety covering fiscal years 2014–2018 as shown in the Federal Grain Inspection Service tables for 2016–2018. The reports must show whether tests were done by the Secretary or by delegated State or official agencies. Beginning by the same date, quarterly reports must also list numbers of exceptions requested and granted under section 79(f)(2)(B) and waivers requested and granted under section 77(a)(1). The Secretary may, after consulting delegated State agencies, official agencies, and the grain industry described in section 87j(a), publish other testing and inspection data. Trade secrets or other confidential business information under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) cannot be included in or publicly released from these reports.