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United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1987
Emergency Loan Extension and Adjustment Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make certain persons with 1987 crop damage eligible for emergency crop loans. Reduces such payments by any crop insurance premiums received.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1987
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make competitive research grants to: (1) develop a statistical framework to measure the extent to which microbiological and chemical agents in agricultural products pose human health risks; (2) identify such agents; and (3) devise appropriate testing and control procedures. Creates a peer review committee to evaluate grant applications. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees no later than one year after enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter. Authorizes FY 1988 through 1992 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1987
Amends the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to state that specified loan guarantee agreements between the Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal Financing Bank shall remain in effect, notwithstanding their effective dates, until superseded by other such agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1987
Amends the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to state that any borrowing agreement between the Federal Financing Bank and the Rural Electrification Administration shall remain in effect until superseded by a subsequent agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1987
Emergency Loan and Disaster Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make certain persons with 1987 crop damage eligible for emergency crop (insurance) loans.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1987
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Cooperative State Research Service, to construct a plant science research and education facility at Kansas State University.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1987
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate with other entities (such as States) to augment the federally-permitted payments for bringing certain land that is not highly erodible into the conservation reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from requiring a producer of oats to reduce oat acreage to less than 95 percent of the feed grain crop acreage base allocated to oats and barley with respect to the 1988 through 1990 crops. Directs the Secretary to announce revisions of the acreage limitation program for the 1988 feed grain crop to reflect this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1987
Dairy Farm Protection Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to agricultural price supports for milk during the period 1989 through 1995. States that the price support rate during this period shall be the rate in effect immediately prior to this Act's enactment. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to increase the rate by 50 cents if the estimated level of purchases of milk and milk products does not exceed 2,500,000,000 pounds. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a regional dairy production stabilization program during this same period under which the Secretary: (1) designates between six and ten dairy production regions in the United States; and (2) establishes for each region an authorized purchase level for milk products, in accordance with a formula described in this Act. Requires any region that exceeds its authorized purchase level in a given year to pay an assessment. Sets forth administrative details with regard to this assessment. Directs the Secretary to establish regional dairy production boards to assist in carrying out the regional dairy production stabilization program. Describes responsibilities and membership criteria with respect to these boards. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require each person who sells milk or milk products to the Commodity Credit Corporation and each person required to collect assessments under this Act to keep records and make reports as required by the Secretary. Establishes marketing penalties for persons who fail either to remit assessments required under this Act or to carry out duties under any regional dairy program established in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1987
Sugar Supply Stabilization Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 and the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to price support levels for crops of sugar beets and sugarcane. Reduces the sugar support price progressively over crop years from 18 cents per pound in 1986 to 12 cents per pound in 1991 and thereafter. Increases the annual import quota applicable to sugars, syrups, and molasses derived from sugarcane or sugar beets by 500,000 tons per year for 1989 through 1992. Repeals provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 that authorize the President to take certain actions to prevent sugar loan forfeitures. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study and report to specified congressional committees concerning means of reducing the difference between the loan rate and the market stabilization price by using alternative methods for determining transportation differentials, regional loan rates, and the market stabilization price of sugar.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1987
Sugar Supply Stabilization Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 and the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to price support levels for crops of sugar beets and sugarcane. Reduces the sugar support price progressively over crop years from 18 cents per pound in 1986 to 12 cents per pound in 1991 and thereafter. Increases the annual import quota applicable to sugars, syrups, and molasses derived from sugarcane or sugar beets by 500,000 tons per year for 1989 through 1992. Repeals provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 that authorize the President to take certain actions to prevent sugar loan forfeitures. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study and report to specified congressional committees concerning means of reducing the difference between the loan rate and the market stabilization price by using alternative methods for determining transportation differentials, regional loan rates, and the market stabilization price of sugar.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1987
Colonia Water and Sewage Service Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to public bodies and private nonprofit organizations for the installation or improvement of the operation or maintenance of facilities (and necessary related equipment) for the storage, treatment, purification, or distribution of water, and the collection, treatment, or disposal of waste, in rural areas in the United States within 30 miles of the Mexican border. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Housing to make loans, grants, and combined loans and grants to eligible very-low income families or persons (including the nonelderly) in rural areas in the United States within 30 miles of the Mexican border for the cost of repairs, improvements, and additions to provide sanitary waste facilities and convenient and sanitary water supplies. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1987
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the nature and effects of trading in futures contracts on equity indices, options and options on futures on such indices, and securities, during the period of high volatility beginning the week of October 12, 1987, with particular attention given to October 19, 1987. Lists specific topics to be addressed in the study. Requires that the Commission complete the study and report its findings to the Congress by June 1, 1988. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1987
Poultry Producers Financial Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to remove live poultry handlers from marketing practices' regulation under such Act. Establishes a statutory trust for the benefit of unpaid cash sellers or poultry growers which consists of the assets of live poultry dealers with average annual live poultry sales, or average annual value of poultry obtained by purchase or growing arrangement, greater than $100,000. States that a dishonored payment instrument shall not be considered as payment. Provides that an unpaid cash seller or poultry grower shall lose such trust benefit if he or she fails to give written notice of nonpayment or dishonored payment within specified time periods to the poultry dealers. States that the trust is preserved by giving written notice to the dealer and filing such notice with the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides a cause of action for violations under such Act with respect to poultry sales, purchases, or growing arrangements. Eliminates poultry handler recordkeeping provisions. States that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shall have power and jurisdiction over all (marketing) transactions in commerce of poultry products. States that the Secretary may exercise jurisdiction over poultry products in prompt payment or trust proceedings (as established by this Act) in order to avoid impairment of the Secretary's jurisdiction. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify the FTC of any intended action; and (2) not proceed further if notified within ten days that an FTC proceeding involving the same subject matter is pending. Authorizes the Secretary to seek injunctive relief for nonpayment of live poultry transactions, including growing arrangements. Requires poultry dealers to pay poultry producers within the following time limits: (1) for a cash sale, full payment by the close of business on the day after the sale; and (2) for a growing arrangement, full payment within 15 days after the week of slaughter. States that a payment delay or attempted delay shall be considered an "unfair practice" violation under such Act. Directs the Secretary, whenever he has reason to believe that a poultry dealer has violated the prompt payment or trust provisions created by this Act, to issue a written complaint and hold a hearing at least 30 days after service of the complaint. Authorizes the Secretary to issue a cease and desist order, and also to assess a civil penalty of up to $20,000 per violation, if he finds the dealer in violation of such provisions. Makes the Secretary's order final unless a poultry dealer files an appeal with the appropriate court of appeals within 30 days after service. Subjects a poultry dealer or his agents to fines of between $1,000 and $20,000 for failure to comply with the Secretary's order. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to limit or otherwise affect the power of the Federal Trade Commission under the Federal Trade Commission Act to prevent, with respect to poultry products, the use of unfair methods of competition, and unfair deceptive act or practices. Repeals title V of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1987
Increases the proposed FY 1988 allocation to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in the Omnibus Committee Funding Resolution of 1987 (S. Res. 80, 100th Congress).
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1987
Sunflower Indemnity Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available indemnity payments, in the form of cash or negotiable commodity certificates, to persons who plant oil-type sunflowers for harvest during the 1988 crop year. Sets the payment rate at the difference between average market prices and eight cents per pound. Limits the annual payment per recipient and sets a total payment limitation of $18,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the payment rate to comply with these limits. Directs the Secretary, after 180 days, but not later than one year following this Act's enactment, to: (1) determine whether the traditional and historic price and market share relationship between cottonseed and its products and sunflowers and their products has been changed as a result of direct payments to sunflower producers; and (2) take steps to restore the traditional relationship if a market share decrease or price decline is noted with respect to cottonseed or its derivative products.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1987
Agricultural Protection Cost Recovery Act of 1987 - Title I - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to assess and collect fees for the provision of agricultural quarantine inspection services from each commercial aircraft or ship passenger and from each commercial aircraft, ship, truck, or railroad car. Requires travel ticket-issuers to collect and remit such fees to the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account (established by this Act) within a specified time. Establishes a late remittance penalty. Title II - Authorizes fee assessments for specified animal and plant import and export services, including disease control. Authorizes the Secretary to quarantine all imported animals (current authority is limited to swine and ruminants, and for disease-related purposes.) States that such fees and any late penalties and interest shall be paid by the persons for whom an activity has been performed. Authorizes the Secretary in case of nonpayment to: (1) place a lien on certain property; (2) after notice, sell such property; or (3) suspend services. Title III - Authorizes the Secretary to issue implementing regulations. Authorizes the Attorney General to recover assessments. Defines "person" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1987
Safe Food Standards Act of 1987 - Title I: Testing and Inspection of Certain Products - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to administer a program to detect contamination in statistically selected samples of meat and meat food products that have already passed inspection. Requires the Secretary to monitor a slaughtering house during a review period whenever a sample from such house is found to contain a pathogenic microorganism in excess of the established standards. Directs the Secretary to publish the identity of, issue a warning to, and exact fines from an establishment exceeding standards during the review period. Withholds inspection services from establishments failing to pay assessed fines or persistently exceeding standards during the monitoring period. Provides for administrative and judicial review of decisions not to provide inspection services. Requires the Secretary to develop sampling procedures, baselines of contamination by pathogenic microorganisms harmful to humans, and procedures to identify the sources of slaughtered cattle, sheep, and swine. Permits exemptions to the identification requirement under specified circumstances. Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct the Secretary to administer a similar program for poultry products. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a similar program for seafood. Provides waivers for seafood monitored by established alternative methods and when water quality monitoring is taken into account. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a water quality monitoring program. Prohibits monitored establishments from participating in the voluntary seafood inspection program established under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and administer a similar program to test statistically selected samples of animal feed intended for poultry, sheep, cattle, or swine to be slaughtered, including contamination by toxic chemicals as well as pathogenic microorganisms. Excludes persistent violators from participation in the voluntary animal feed inspection program. Title II: Miscellaneous - Provides for consumer education about food safety through various channels, including a toll-free food safety hotline, cooperative agricultural extension services, and demonstration project grants to States. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an animal feed improvements program, including maintaining a toll-free hotline. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1988 through 1992. Directs the Secretary to establish a research program to develop methods to reduce foodborne illnesses in the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1989. Directs the Secretary to conduct pilot studies on the effectiveness of labeling fresh meats and poultry with handling and cooking instructions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1989. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on such studies. Authorizes civil actions by persons aggrieved by the Secretary's failure to enforce the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act. Prohibits discrimination against whistle-blowers.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Declares that the National Rural Crisis Response Center is deserving of recognition, encouragement, and support of the Congress and the American people. Recognizes the Center for the valuable service being rendered and authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to recognize, encourage, and support the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1987
Colonia Water and Sewage Service Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to public bodies and private nonprofit organizations for the installation or improvement of the operation or maintenance of facilities (and necessary related equipment) for the storage, treatment, purification, or distribution of water, and the collection, treatment, or disposal of waste, in rural areas in the United States within 30 miles of the Mexican border. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Housing to make loans, grants, and combined loans and grants to eligible very-low income families or persons (including the nonelderly) in rural areas in the United States within 30 miles of the Mexican border for the cost of repairs, improvements, and additions to provide sanitary waste facilities and convenient and sanitary water supplies. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1987
Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (3) rental payments; (4) building operations and maintenance; (5) advisory committees; (6) hazardous waste management; (7) departmental administration; (8) Working Capital Fund; (9) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs; (10) Office of the Inspector General; (11) Office of the General Counsel; (12) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (13) Economic Research Service; (14) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (15) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (16) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (17) Agricultural Research Service; (18) Cooperative State Research Service; (19) extension service; (20) National Agricultural Library; (21) Office of the Assistant Secretary of Marketing and Inspection Services; (22) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (23) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (24) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (25) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (26) Agricultural Marketing Service; (27) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (28) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (29) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (30) Dairy Indemnity Program; (31) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (32) Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes specified amounts to be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the General Sales Manager in expanding commodity sales abroad. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make specified amounts available for short-term and intermediate export credit. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the borrowing authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation. Increases the amount of outstanding obligations the Corporation may have at any one time. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service; and (3) Human Nutrition Information Service. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to the Congress not later than February 1, 1990, on a study of savings in assistance to families with newborns under State medical assistance plans (Medicaid) and State indigent health care programs, during the first 60-day period after birth, as the result of the prenatal participation of mothers in the special supplemental food program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (4) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection. Authorizes the use of funds for replacement passenger motor vehicles and uniforms and allowances. Limits the availability of funds for contracting for research and service work. Prohibits the use of funds for production payments to recipients who harvest marihuana or other prohibited drug-producing plants for illegal use. Limits the amount of transfers to the Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services and National Finance Center operations. Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to any resolution of disapproval. Provides that the certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 65 percent of the value of loans closed during the fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the use of funds to prevent or interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at competitive prices. Authorizes the provision of specified commodities to individuals in cases of hardship. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Administration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Exempts Department of Agriculture veterinarians from personal service contract restrictions with respect to taking animal blood samples, testing and vaccinating animals, and performing branding and tagging activities on a fee-for-service basis. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes the use of funds for a one-year contract which is to be performed in two fiscal years if such contract's total amount is obligated in the same year for which the funds are appropriated. States that appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made, unless otherwise provided by law. Prohibits the use of funds to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease jointly-occupied space for its own use or on behalf of other Department of Agriculture agencies. Prohibits the use of funds to release information acquired from certain handlers under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. Prohibits the use of funds by the FmHA to employ or otherwise contract with private debt collection agencies to collect delinquent payments from FmHA borrowers. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to continue the program of guaranteed loans and grants to nonprofit national rural development and finance corporations through FY 1988. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available indemnity payments, in the form of cash or negotiable commodity certificates, to persons who plant oil-type sunflowers for harvest during the 1988 crop year. Sets the payment rate at the difference between average market prices and eight cents per pound. Limits the annual payment per recipient and sets a total payment limitation of $18,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the payment rate to comply with these limits. Directs the Secretary, after 180 days, but not later than one year following this Act's enactment, to: (1) determine whether the traditional and historic price and market share relationship between cottonseed and its products and sunflowers and their products has been changed as a result of direct payments to sunflower producers; and (2) take steps to restore the traditional relationship if a market share decrease or price decline is noted with respect to cottonseed or its derivative products. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that, notwithstanding the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the subsequent sequestration order issued by the President (under such Act), FY 1987 dairy expenditure reductions shall be implemented through a reduction in the price received by milk producers rather than through a reduction in Commodity Credit Corporation payments for dairy product purchases. States that such reductions shall be no greater than needed to equal the reduction in milk support expenditures required by such order.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to nonimmigrant classification for temporary agricultural workers under the H-2A program. Defines the temporary or seasonal work addressed in the H-2A program to include work related to both the production of agricultural commodities and the breeding and preparation for market of poultry and livestock of all kinds, regardless of the time of year when the work is required. Permits a worker under the program to petition to the Secretary of Labor for certification if the work demands the worker's presence for a year or more.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1987
Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (4) rental payments; (5) building operations and maintenance; (6) advisory committees; (7) hazardous waste management; (8) departmental administration; (9) Working Capital Fund; (10) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs; (11) Office of the Inspector General; (12) Office of the General Counsel; (13) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (14) Economic Research Service; (15) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (16) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (17) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (18) Agricultural Research Service; (19) Cooperative State Research Service; (20) Extension Service; (21) National Agricultural Library; (22) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (23) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (24) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (25) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (26) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (27) Agricultural Marketing Service; (28) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (29) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (30) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (31) Dairy Indemnity Program; (32) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (33) Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes specified amounts to be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the General Sales Manager in expanding commodity sales abroad. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make specified amounts available for short-term and intermediate export credit. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service; and (3) Human Nutrition Information Service. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (4) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditures of appropriations for consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection. Authorizes the use of funds for replacement passenger motor vehicles and uniforms and allowances. Limits the availability of funds for contracting for research and service work. Prohibits the use of funds for production payments to recipients who harvest marihuana or other prohibited drug-producing plants for illegal use. Limits the amount of transfers to the Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services and National Finance Center operations. Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to any resolution of disapproval. Provides that the certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 65 percent of the value of loans closed during the fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the use of funds to prevent or interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at competitive prices. Authorizes the provision of specified commodities to individuals in cases of hardship. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Administration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Exempts Department of Agriculture veterinarians from personal service contract restrictions with respect to taking animal blood samples, testing and vaccinating animals, and performing branding and tagging activities on a fee-for-service basis. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes the use of funds for a one-year contract which is to be performed in two fiscal years if such contract's total amount is obligated in the same year for which the funds are appropriated. States that appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made, unless otherwise provided by law. Prohibits the use of funds to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease jointly-occupied space for its own use or on behalf of other Department of Agriculture agencies. Prohibits the use of funds to release information acquired from certain handlers under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. Prohibits the use of funds by the FmHA to employ or otherwise contract with private debt collection agencies to collect delinquent payments from FmHA borrowers. Allows each district office of the FmHA to exempt any existing dwelling from living area footage limitations established for eligibility for a loan under the Housing Act of 1949. Permits the prepayment of Federal financing bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems. Prohibits the use of funds to alter the method of computing normalized prices for agricultural commodities that was in effect as of January 1, 1987. Prohibits the use of funds to sell loans made by the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Authorizes the use of funds to assist an international organization to meet the costs of employing Federal personnel who transfer to it, or of other well-qualified citizens, for the performance of activities that contribute to increased understanding of international agricultural issues.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1987
Pesticide Monitoring Improvements Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a computerized data management system for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to better monitor pesticide residues in food products. Requires the FDA to use such system to summarize information on: (1) the types, amounts, and origins of food products; (2) the types and amounts of pesticides detected; and (3) the rate of violations and their disposition. Requires the Secretary to make summarized data from such system available to interested agencies and persons on an annual basis. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require imported raw agricultural commodities to be accompanied by documents identifying the pesticides used in their production. Requires the Secretary to amend such documents for subsequent shipments where analysis finds unreported pesticides. Directs the Secretary to keep current information on the contents and administrators of pesticide registration and monitoring programs of countries which export significant quantities of food to the United States. Requires the Secretary to keep the FDA and such countries informed of information compiled, including violations. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees. Requires the Secretary to issue guidelines for laboratory audit procedures to assure the reliability of pesticide residue monitoring results. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and report to the appropriate congressional committees on a research plan for pesticide analytical methods.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1987
Rural Crisis Recovery Program Act of 1987 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants for educational, retraining, and counseling assistance to farmers and rural families who have been adversely affected by the current rural economic crisis. Includes the following services among such assistance: (1) clinical outreach counseling and crisis management assistance; (2) financial planning; (3) vocational counseling and job search assistance; (4) literacy skills training; and (5) tuition and educational assistance. Encourages the Agricultural Extension Service to work with State, local, and nonprofit organizations to develop a comprehensive grant plan. Terminates grant authority on December 23, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1987
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide that in any price support reductions under a Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) sequestration order, the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, shall make program revisions based upon program outlay reductions not exceeding specified cumulative sequestration percentage reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1987
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that meat and meat food products containing specified amounts of cheese substitutes or imitations are so labeled.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1987
Farm Program Payments Integrity Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to define "person" for purposes of farm program benefits limitations to include active farmers, including specified corporations, landowners, and sharecroppers not having beneficial interests in more than three entities receiving program benefits. Subjects any person who adopts a scheme or device to evade the restrictions of such Act to loss of benefits. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide Department of Agriculture personnel with education and training in applying such payment limitations. Limits benefits to U.S citizens and legal permanent residents only. Makes State and local governments and agencies ineligible for certain farm program benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1987
Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1987 - Title I: Reorganization Within Department of Agriculture - Amends Federal law to rename the Department of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Retitles the Secretary of Agriculture the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development. Establishes the Rural Development Administration within such Department. Renames the Farmers Home Administration the Farm Administration. Makes conforming administrative changes. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the Secretary to provide employment-related technical assistance in economically distressed rural areas. Directs the Secretary to carry out the provisions of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, except for specified loan provisions, through the Rural Development Administration. States that titles V and VI of the Rural Development Act of 1972 shall be carried out through the Rural Development Administration. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to expand the number of designated assistance areas from 225 to 450. Transfers certain conservation loan programs from the Farmers Home Administration to the Soil Conservation Service. Makes conforming amendments to specified agricultural and rural affairs Acts. Title II: Administration of Federal Rural Housing and Community Development Programs - Transfers to the Rural Development Administration current Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan programs for: (1) business and industry; (2) community facilities; (3) water and waste disposal (including grant authority); and (4) rural development and planning, excluding farm production. Transfers to the new Farm Administration current FmHA single-family housing loan programs. Makes conforming amendments to the Housing Act of 1949. Provides for farm ownership assistance to be carried out through such Administration. Makes conforming amendments to the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973. Title III: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make available in advance a portion of the 1987 wheat emergency deficiency payments.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1987
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer or donate Farmers Home Administration inventory land, or interests therein, if the land is marginal, environmentally sensitive, or of administrative importance, for Federal or State wildlife conservation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1987
Poultry Producers Financial Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to remove live poultry handlers from marketing practices regulation under such Act. Establishes a statutory trust for the benefit of unpaid cash sellers or poultry growers which consists of the assets of live poultry dealers with average annual live poultry sales, or average annual value of poultry obtained by purchase or growing arrangement, greater than $100,000. States that a dishonored payment instrument shall not be considered as payment. Provides that an unpaid cash seller or poultry grower shall lose such trust benefit if he or she fails to give written notice of nonpayment or dishonored payment within specified time periods to the poultry dealer and then by filing such notice with the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides a cause of action for violations under such Act relating to poultry sales, purchases, or growing arrangements. Eliminates poultry handler recordkeeping provisions. States that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shall have power and jurisdiction over all (marketing) transactions in commerce of poultry products. States that the Secretary may exercise jurisdiction over poultry products in prompt payment or trust proceedings (as established by this Act) in order to avoid impairment of the Secretary's jurisdiction. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify the FTC of any intended action; and (2) not proceed further if notified within ten days that an FTC proceeding is pending involving the same subject matter. Authorizes the Secretary to seek injunctive relief for nonpayment of live poultry transactions, including growing arrangements. Requires poultry dealers to pay poultry producers within the following time limits: (1) for a cash sale, full payment by the close of business on the day after the sale; and (2) for a growing arrangement, full payment within 15 days after the week of slaughter. States that a payment delay or attempted delay shall be considered an "unfair practice" violation under such Act. Directs the Secretary, whenever he has reason to believe that a poultry dealer has violated the prompt payment or trust provisions created by this Act, to issue a written complaint and hold a hearing at least 30 days after service of the complaint. Authorizes the Secretary to issue a cease and desist order, and also to assess a civil penalty of up to $20,000 per violation, if he finds the dealer in violation of such provisions. Makes the Secretary's order final unless a poultry dealer files an appeal with the appropriate court of appeals within 30 days after service. Subjects a poultry dealer or his agents to fines of between $1,000 and $20,000 for failure to comply with the Secretary's order. Repeals title V of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1987
Agriculture Nitrogen Management Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Agricultural Nitrogen Best Management Practices Task Force to: (1) develop agricultural best management practices to minimize nitrogen losses from all potential uses of agricultural nitrogen; (2) develop and disseminate to American farmers educational and training materials with respect to such practices; and (3) report to the Congress in one year on the progress of its efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act) to require that any State assessment report or management report be developed in consultation with the task force. Directs the Administrator to consult with the task force in preparing annual reports and final reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1987
Oats Promotion Act of 1987 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that 1988 feed grain acreage planted in oats: (1) shall not be subject to the acreage limitation program; and (2) shall not subject a farm to eligibility terms of any other commodity program under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1987
Amends the Child Nutrition Act to permit a specified amount of savings from supplemental food program purchases to be used for the additional nutrition services and administrative costs of feeding an increased number of persons.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1987
Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to establish in each State an agricultural competitiveness task force to develop strategies to expand foreign and domestic markets for U.S. agricultural commodities. Locates such task forces in State agricultural universities. Establishes within each task force an industry advisory board to direct task force operations. Authorizes appropriations. Requires State matching contributions. Terminates task force and advisory board authority five years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that, notwithstanding the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the subsequent sequestration order issued by the President (under such Act), FY 1987 dairy expenditure reductions shall be implemented through a reduction in the price received by milk producers rather than through a reduction in Commodity Credit Corporation payments for dairy product purchases. States that such reductions shall be no greater than needed to equal the reduction in milk support expenditures required by such order.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance deficiency payments for the 1988 through 1990 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1987
Rural Economy Act of 1987 - Title I: General Provisions - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a Rural Development Financing Authority, headed by an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes appropriations for the Authority for FY 1988 and subsequent fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and subsequent fiscal years for: (1) the Rural Development Financing Authority; (2) the Rural Development Loan Fund; (3) rural infrastructure grants; (4) basic community facility needs grants; (5) local capacity building grants; (6) rural technology development; (7) one-stop rural financial and technical assistance centers; and (8) State incentive grants. Title II: Business Development - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Directs the Assistant Secretary to develop a program to provide interest rate subsidies to lenders for loans to private business enterprises in rural areas. Prescribes eligibility requirements for such subsidies. Sets forth a program of rural industrialization assistance, including: (1) direct and insured loans for private business enterprises encompassing economic and environmental improvement, aquaculture, and solar energy systems; (2) joint loans for such enterprises from specified Federal departments and agencies, State agencies, and private and quasi-public financial institutions; and (3) insured and guaranteed loans for the construction or improvement of subterminal facilities. Subtitle B: Rural Development Loan Fund - Establishes in the Treasury a Rural Development Loan Fund as a revolving fund to be used for making rural development loans and rural opportunity grants. Title III: Community Development Assistance for Smaller Communities - Subtitle A: Rural Infrastructure Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to States, territories, and Indian tribes to provide funds for the development of local infrastructure in eligible rural communities. Sets forth allocation and program requirements. Subtitle B: Basic Community Facility Needs Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, to make grants to specified associations to test cost-effective methods of meeting the basic needs of residents of rural areas who do not have and cannot afford safe drinking water and wastewater disposal. Title IV: Capacity Building for Local Development - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private institutions: (1) to stimulate local businesses in rural areas affected by recent declines or chronic underdevelopment in basic economic sectors like agriculture; (2) to establish and operate centers of rural technology development in order to promote new processes and products that can be produced in rural areas; and (3) to establish three one-stop rural financial and technical assistance centers. Title V: State Incentive Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to States to fund the Federal matching contribution for State programs to promote rural development. Title VI: Administration - Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions and procedures for ensuring compliance and sanctioning noncompliance (including civil actions by the Attorney General). Sets forth remedies for noncompliance with any provision of this Act, including civil actions by the Attorney General. Provides for judicial review of any termination, reduction, or limitation of payments under this Act. Requires annual reports to the Congress on progress made in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1987
Food Security Improvements Act of 1987 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to limit reductions in the 1988 farm program payment yield to not more than seven percent of 1985 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1987
Rural Economy Act of 1987 - Title I: General Provisions - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a Rural Development Financing Authority, headed by an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes appropriations for the Authority for FY 1988 and subsequent fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and subsequent fiscal years for: (1) the Rural Development Financing Authority; (2) the Rural Development Loan Fund; (3) rural infrastructure grants; (4) basic community facility needs grants; (5) local capacity building grants; (6) rural technology development; (7) one-stop rural financial and technical assistance centers; and (8) State incentive grants. Title II: Business Development - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Directs the Assistant Secretary to develop a program to provide interest rate subsidies to lenders for loans to private business enterprises in rural areas. Prescribes eligibility requirements for such subsidies. Sets forth a program of rural industrialization assistance, including: (1) direct and insured loans for private business enterprises encompassing economic and environmental improvement, aquaculture, and solar energy systems; (2) joint loans for such enterprises from specified Federal departments and agencies, State agencies, and private and quasi-public financial institutions; and (3) insured and guaranteed loans for the construction or improvement of subterminal facilities. Subtitle B: Rural Development Loan Fund - Establishes in the Treasury a Rural Development Loan Fund as a revolving fund to be used for making rural development loans and rural opportunity grants. Title III: Community Development Assistance for Smaller Communities - Subtitle A: Rural Infrastructure Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to States, territories, and Indian tribes to provide funds for the development of local infrastructure in eligible rural communities. Sets forth allocation and program requirements. Subtitle B: Basic Community Facility Needs Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, to make grants to specified associations to test cost-effective methods of meeting the basic needs of residents of rural areas who do not have and cannot afford safe drinking water and wastewater disposal. Title IV: Capacity Building for Local Development - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private institutions: (1) to stimulate local businesses in rural areas affected by recent declines or chronic underdevelopment in basic economic sectors like agriculture; (2) to establish and operate centers of rural technology development in order to promote new processes and products that can be produced in rural areas; and (3) to establish three one-stop rural financial and technical assistance centers. Title V: State Incentive Grants - Directs the Assistant Secretary to make grants to States to fund the Federal matching contribution for State programs to promote rural development. Title VI: Administration - Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions and procedures for ensuring compliance and sanctioning noncompliance (including civil actions by the Attorney General). Sets forth remedies for noncompliance with any provision of this Act, including civil actions by the Attorney General. Provides for judicial review of any termination, reduction, or limitation of payments under this Act. Requires annual reports to the Congress on progress made in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1987
Family Farm Protection Act - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to replace the current system of price supports for wheat with a system of nonrecourse loans and equity payments for the 1990 through 1995 crop years. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers nonrecourse loans for each of the 1990 through 1995 crops of wheat at a level of $1.60 per bushel. Provides for upward adjustment of such loan level for the 1992 crop years and following years. Directs the Secretary for such crop years to make equity payment to eligible producers. Sets the payment rate at $1.31 per bushel, adjusted downward annually until it reaches 50 percent for the 1995 crop. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring participation in any production adjustment program for wheat as a condition of eligibility for such loans or payments. Permits the Secretary to make land diversion payments to wheat producers in certain circumstances. Specifies general safeguards the Secretary must provide tenants and sharecroppers. Makes certain Federal law requirements inapplicable to wheat crops under this title. Suspends certain marketing quota and producer certificate provisions of specified Federal law. Title II: Feed Grains - Replaces the current system of price supports for feed grains with a system of nonrecourse loans and equity payments for the 1990 through 1995 crops of feed grains. Sets forth provisions similar to those for wheat under title I. Sets the nonrecourse loan rate for corn at $1.30 per bushel and the equity payment rate at $1.04 per bushel, with annual downward adjustments of the payment rate until it reaches 50 percent for the 1995 crop. Title III: Cotton - Replaces the current system of price supports for cotton with a system of nonrecourse loans and equity payments for the 1990 through 1995 crops. Sets forth provisions similar to those for wheat and feed grains. Sets the nonrecourse loan rate at $.45 per pound and the equity payment rate at $.208 per pound, adjusted downward annually until it reaches 50 percent in 1995. Title IV: Rice - Replaces the current price support program for rice with a system of nonrecourse loans and equity payments for the 1990 through 1995 rice crops. Sets forth provisions similar to those for wheat, feed grains, and cotton. Sets the nonrecourse loan rate at $4.50 per hundredweight and the equity payment rate at $4.38 per hundredweight, adjusted downward annually until it reaches 50 percent. Title V: Soybeans and Sunflowers - Establishes a system of support prices for soybeans and sunflowers for the 1990 through 1995 crops. Sets forth provisions similar to those for wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice. Sets the price support of soybeans at $3.50 per bushel and the equity payment rate at $.80, adjusted downward annually until it reaches zero. Directs the Secretary to set the price support and equity payment rate for sunflowers taking into account specified considerations. Requires annual downward adjustment of the equity payment rate for sunflowers until it reaches zero. Title VI: General Commodity Provisions - Limits to $200,000 (currently $250,000) the total payments a person is entitled to receive for all crops produced during a crop year. Sets forth a payment limit schedule, with successive ten percent reductions for each $50,000 credited. Establishes a schedule of permitted plantings for nonprogram crops, beginning with zero for the 1990 crop years and rising to 50 percent for the 1995 crop years. Sets forth conditions for land diversion payments. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) from selling any basic or nonbasic agricultural commodity until its market price equals at least 125 percent of the current price support. Requires the CCC to cease selling when the market price drops below 125 percent of the current price support. Requires the Secretary to ensure that net farm income under the new farm program established under this Act equals or exceeds net farm income under the old farm program. Title VII: Trade - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal authority to export bulk commodities through the Export Enhancement Program (EEP). Extends through FY 1995 the Secretary's authority to use agricultural commodities to expand export markets. Decreases from $1,500,000,000 to $250,000,000 the maximum value of the commodities so used. Extends through FY 1995 the export credit guarantee program. Reduces from $5,000,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 the minimum amount of credit guarantees made available under such program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1987
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to expand progressively the conservation reserve program to 65,000,000 acres by the end of the 1990 crop year. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to report to specified congressional committees by January 1, 1988, on the inclusion in the program of lands other than highly erodible lands. Authorizes cash and in-kind conservation reserve incentives. Directs the Secretary to expand the quantity of land eligible for conservation reserve programs for acreage devoted to trees. Provides for commercial use of conservation reserve acreage under certain conditions. Revises the ownership/operation requirements related to contracts under the conservation reserve program. Requires the Secretary, in determining the acceptability of contract offers, to consider the land's fair market and rental values. Extends through FY 1990 the authority of the Secretary to use the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the conservation reserve program. Directs the Secretary, not later than July 1, 1988, to formulate and implement a groundwater pilot program to assist owners and operators of eligible land in conserving and improving the soil and water resources of their farms or ranches. Makes eligible for such program land: (1) that is irrigated for certain crops in an area identified as subject to the overdraft of groundwater; or (2) that is associated with an aquifer adversely affected by such irrigation. Amends the Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984 to require the Secretary to implement a program for the reamortization of certain loans based on future revenue from softwood timber crops. (Under current law, the program is discretionary.) Increases from 50,000 acres to 200,000 acres the amount of land that may be placed in such a program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that, notwithstanding the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the subsequent sequestration order issued by the President (under such Act), FY 1987 dairy expenditure reductions shall be implemented through a reduction in the price received by milk producers rather than through a reduction in Commodity Credit Corporation payments for dairy product purchases. States that such reductions shall be no greater than needed to equal the reduction in milk support expenditures required by such order.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1987
Grain Quality Incentive Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Grain Advisory Committee to develop economic incentives to improve grain quality. Requires the Secretary to solicit recommendations from the Committee for developing a method of providing Commodity Credit Corporation bonuses in the form of payment-in-kind commodity certificates to producers and exporters to: (1) encourage the delivery, storage, and export of high quality, clean grain that is pledged as collateral for Corporation loans or exported; and (2) offer incentives to minimize poor quality in grain lots pledged as collateral or exported. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service to revise grain standards to define a bushel solely on the basis of dry matter. Requires the Secretary to direct the Administrator to conduct a study of the need for changes in grain standards and to implement revised standards that provide the economic incentives to deliver clean grain. Directs the Secretary to conduct a research program to improve grain quality measurements to more accurately reflect the value of grain for end-users. Requires that such program take into account end-use factors such as the breakage susceptibility of corn, the protein content of wheat, and the free-fatty acid content of soybeans, and include a cost evaluation for providing such measurements. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year on actions taken to implement each of the preceding provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to limit reductions in the 1988 farm program payment yield to not more than seven percent of 1985 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1987
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1988 through 1990 crops of wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance deficiency payments if an acreage limitation or set-aside program is in effect and deficiency payments will likely be made. Sets forth crop payment rates.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1987
Food Stamp Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make food stamp program (program) eligibility permanent for households made up solely of members who receive supplemental security income assistance or aid to the aged, blind, or disabled. Excludes from income for purposes of program eligibility: (1) educational assistance for training programs and secondary school equivalency programs; (2) child support payments received under the aid to families with dependent children program (AFDC); (3) certain agricultural commodity two-party payments; (4) advance earned income tax credit payments; and (5) dependent care payments received under specified employment and training programs. Sets maximum monthly dependent care deductions at $200 for each dependent under two years old and $175 for each other dependent. (Current deduction is $160 per month regardless of age.) Provides for annualizing self-employment farming income and expenses. Prohibits the use of past self-employment farm income as an indicator of anticipated income if income changes have occurred or are anticipated. Excludes certain property (including land, equipment, and supplies) from financial resources determinations for one year after a person ceases to be self-employed in farming. Permits higher education students living in households receiving food stamps to retain their program benefits under specified conditions. Sets maximum monthly dependent care reimbursements for employment and training program participants at $200 for each dependent under two years old and $175 for each other dependent. Increases individual maximum transportation and related reimbursable employment and training costs. Revises performance standards criteria, including the requirement that the Office of Technology Assessment develop model performance standards. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop an incentives payment proposal. Authorizes: (1) outreach activities for farm households; and (2) special training for personnel who certify farm households. Requires the Secretary to publish training materials annually. Requires State food stamp offices and points of issuance to be open sufficient hours and at sufficient locations to ensure access by participants who work or study. Requires State agencies to insure that each participating household receive a notice of expiration prior to the start of the last month of certification. Requires coordination of applications for program and AFDC benefits. Authorizes a five-year Family Independence Demonstration Project in the State of Washington as an alternative to providing benefits under the food stamp program. Sets forth Project provisions, including: (1) combination of AFDC and program benefits into a basic cash grant; (2) assistance to the homeless; (3) minimum cash assistance for food at not less than program equivalents; (4) outreach services; (5) employment and training requirements; (6) assurances that the State will permit continued program participation; (7) audit and congressional reporting requirements by the Comptroller General of the United States; (8) a Project evaluation requirement by the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services; and (9) the ineligibility of persons receiving only food assistance from Project participation. Authorizes up to ten State projects under the terms and conditions of the Washington Project, except that such projects could not replace food stamps with cash payments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1987
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should make 1988 advance deficiency payments for wheat, feed grains (up to 40 percent of projected payments for such crops), upland cotton, and rice (up to 30 percent of projected payments for such crops).
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should make 1988 advance deficiency payments for wheat, feed grains (up to 40 percent of projected payments for such crops), upland cotton, and rice (up to 30 percent of projected payments for such crops).