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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 102 — Emergency Food Assistance

§ 7504. Initial processing costs

Statutory text

The Secretary may use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay costs of initial processing and packaging of commodities to be distributed under the program established under this chapter into forms, and in quantities, suitable, as determined by the Secretary, for use in individual households when such commodities are to be consumed by individual households or for institutional use, as applicable. The Secretary may pay such costs in the form of Corporation-owned commodities equal in value to such costs. The Secretary shall ensure that any such payments in kind will not displace commercial sales of such commodities.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 98–8 title II § 203A · 97 Stat. 13

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 7504

    Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203A, as added Pub. L. 98–92, § 2(5), Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 609

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203A, as added Pub. L. 98–92, § 2(5), Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 609

  2. Food Security Act of 1985

    Pub. L. 99–198 title XV § 1565(b) · 99 Stat. 1354

    Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 7504

    Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “, except that wheat from the Food Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs” after “equal in value to such costs”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “, except that wheat from the Food Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs” after “equal in value to such costs”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) The second sentence of section 203A of the Temporary Emergency Prohibitions. Food Assistance Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended by striking out “, except that wheat from the Food Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1985—Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “, except that wheat from the Food Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs” after “equal in value to such costs”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 98–92, § 2, , 97 Stat. 608, provided in part that this section is effective .

Credits

1983–1985 · 2 acts
  1. 1983Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203A, as added Pub. L. 98–92, § 2(5), , 97 Stat. 609
  2. 1985amended Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1565(b), , 99 Stat. 1591.
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(Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 203A, as added Pub. L. 98–92, § 2(5), , 97 Stat. 609; amended Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1565(b), , 99 Stat. 1591.)

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