§9091 Administration Generally

Summary

The Secretary must use the Commodity Credit Corporation’s money, offices, and powers to run this program. The Secretary’s decisions under the program are final. No later than 90 days after February 7, 2014, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation must create the rules needed to carry out the program and its changes. Creating those rules and running the program — including certain changes from the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (sections 11003, 11017, and 10109) — must be done without following the usual notice-and-comment rulemaking of section 553 of title 5 and without following the Paperwork Reduction Act (chapter 35 of title 44). In doing this, the Secretary must use the authority in section 808 of title 5. If the Secretary finds that spending under the program that counts toward the “total allowable domestic support levels” under the Uruguay Round Agreements (as defined in section 3501 of title 19) will exceed those limits for a reporting period, the Secretary must, as much as practicable, cut spending in that period so the limits are not exceeded. Before making any cut, the Secretary must send a report to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry explaining the finding and the size of the adjustment.