PUBLIC LAW 108–7—FEB. 20, 2003
117 STAT. 47
‘‘(2) in the case of lentils, United States number 3 lentils; and ‘‘(3) in the case of small chickpeas, United States number 3 small chickpeas that drop below a 20/64 screen.’’. (c) Section 1204 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7934) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and extra long staple cotton’’ and inserting ‘‘extra long staple cotton, and confectionery and each other kind of sunflower seed (other than oil sunflower seed)’’; (2) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (h); and (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: ‘‘(f) REPAYMENT RATES FOR CONFECTIONERY AND OTHER KINDS OF SUNFLOWER SEEDS.—The Secretary shall permit the producers on a farm to repay a marketing assistance loan under section 1201 for confectionery and each other kind of sunflower seed (other than oil sunflower seed) at a rate that is the lesser of— ‘‘(1) the loan rate established for the commodity under section 1202, plus interest (determined in accordance with section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)); or ‘‘(2) the repayment rate established for oil sunflower seed. ‘‘(g) QUALITY GRADES FOR DRY PEAS, LENTILS, AND SMALL CHICKPEAS.—The loan repayment rate for dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas shall be based on the quality grades for the applicable commodity specified in section 1202(d).’’. (d) This section and the amendments made by this section apply beginning with the 2003 crop of other oilseeds (as defined in section 1001 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7901)), dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas. SEC. 764. Of the amount of funds that are made available to producers in the State of Vermont under section 524 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524) for fiscal year 2003, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make a grant of $200,000 to the Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship at the University of Vermont to support value-added projects that contribute to agricultural diversification in the State, to remain available until expended. SEC. 765. (a) Section 319(e) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314e(e)) is amended in the fifth sentence— (1) by striking ‘‘: Provided, That’’ and inserting ‘‘, except that (1)’’; and (2) by inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, (2) the total quantity of all adjustments under this sentence for all farms for any crop year may not exceed 10 percent of the national basic quota for the preceding crop year, and (3) this sentence shall not apply to the establishment of a marketing quota for the 2003 marketing year’’. (b) During the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the last day of the 2002 marketing year for the kind of tobacco involved, the Secretary of Agriculture may waive the application of section 1464.2(b)(2) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations. (c) REGULATIONS.— (1) The Secretary of Agriculture may promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement this section and the amendments made by this section.
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