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§9060 Administration and Enforcement

Title 7 › Chapter 115— AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY POLICY AND PROGRAMS › Subchapter III— DAIRY › Part A— Dairy Margin Coverage › § 9060

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Create rules to run and enforce dairy margin coverage, and to stop producers reorganizing a dairy just to get payments. Under section 1308(h) and subtitle H (7 U.S.C. 6991 et seq.), rules must let producers appeal adverse decisions.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §9060

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(a)The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to address administrative and enforcement issues involved in carrying out dairy margin coverage.
(b)The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to prohibit a dairy producer from reconstituting a dairy operation for the purpose of the dairy producer receiving dairy margin coverage payments.
(c)Using authorities under section 1308(h) of this title and subtitle H of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act (7 U.S.C. 6991 et seq.), the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to provide for administrative appeals of decisions of the Secretary that are adverse to participants of dairy margin coverage.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act, referred to in subsec. (c), probably means the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 which is title II of Pub. L. 103–354, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3209. Subtitle H of the Act is classified principally to subchapter VIII (§ 6991 et seq.) of chapter 98 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section is comprised of section 1410 of Pub. L. 113–79. Subsec. (d) of section 1410 of Pub. L. 113–79 amended section 7253 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(10)(A), substituted “dairy margin coverage” for “the margin protection program”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(10)(B), substituted “dairy margin coverage payments” for “margin protection payments”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(10)(A), substituted “dairy margin coverage” for “the margin protection program”.

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.

Reference

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 9060

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60