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Title I: Commodity Programs

Administration

• Conservation Compliance
• Cotton Price Forecasting
• Durum Wheat Quality Program
• Geographically Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
• Hard White Wheat Development Program
• Information Gathering
• Payment Limits and Income Eligibility: Adjusted Gross Income Limitation
• Payment Limits and Income Eligibility: Attribution of Benefits
• Payment Limits and Income Eligibility: Commodity Program Limits
• Permanent Law
• Quality Incentive Payments for Covered Oilseed Producers
• Storage Facility Loan Program
• Tracking of Benefits
• Uruguay Round Compliance

Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program

• ACRE Guarantee Parameters
• ACRE Payment Parameters
• ACRE Payment Timing
• ACRE Payments
• Payment Acreage for ACRE

Dairy

• Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)
• Dairy Forward Pricing Program
• Dairy Indemnity Program
• Federal Milk Marketing Orders
• Mandatory Reporting of Dairy Commodities
• Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Payments
• National Dairy Promotion and Research Program (NDPRP) and National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program (NFMPPP)
• Price Support
• Studies of Dairy Policy and Marketing Orders

Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments

• Acreage Base and Payment Acres for Calculating Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
• Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCPs)
• Direct Payments
• Payment Yield for Calculating Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments
• Planting Flexibility and Restrictions for Program Participants
• Treatment of Farms With Limited Base Acres

Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments (LDPs)

• Commodity Certificates
• Commodity Loan Rates
• Loan Deficiency Payments
• Recourse Loans for High-Moisture Corn and Seed Cotton
• Repayment of Loans
• Special Competitive Provisions for Extra-Long Stable Cotton
• Special Upland Cotton Marketing Loan Provisions
• Upland Cotton Economic Adjustment Assistance

Peanuts

• Storage and Handling Costs

Sugar

• Avoiding Forfeitures: Bioenergy Feedstock
• Avoiding Forfeitures: Inventory Reduction
• Flexible Marketing Allotments
• Information Reporting
• Price Support
• Sugar Storage Facility Loan Program
• Tariff-Rate Quotas (TRQs)

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Title II: Conservation

Agricultural Land Preservation Programs

• Farm Protection Program (formerly Farm and Ranchland Protection Program)
• Grassland Reserve Program (GRP)

Compliance Mechanisms

• Highly Erodible Land Conservation (Conservation Compliance/Sodbuster)
• Wetland Conservation (Swampbuster)

Conservation Reserve and Wetland Reserve Programs

• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP): Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP): Continuous Signup
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP): Emergency Forestry Conservation Reserve Program
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP): Farmable Wetlands Program (FWP)
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP): General Signup
• Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)

Cross-Program Provisions

• Acreage Limitations
• Compliance and Performance
• Conservation Access
• Encouragement of Pollinator Habitat Development and Protection
• Incentives for Certain Farmers and Ranchers and Indian Tribes
• Partnerships and Cooperation
• Regional Equity
• Streamlined Application
• Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program

Market-Based Incentives for Conservation

• Promotion of Conservation through Environmental Services Markets

Miscellaneous Conservation Programs and Provisions

• Agricultural Conservation Experienced Service Program (ACES)
• Amendments to Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act (RCA) of 1977
• Basin States Program
• Privacy of Personal Information

Technical Assistance (TA)

• Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA)
• Delivery of Technical Assistance: Technical Assistance for Organic Conservation Practices

Watershed Programs

• Chesapeake Bay Watershed Conservation Program
• Conservation Corridor Demonstration Program
• Desert Terminal Lakes
• Grassroots Source Water Protection Program
• Great Lakes Basin Program for Erosion and Sediment Control
• Resource Conservation and Development Program (RC&D)
• Small Watershed Rehabilitation Program

Working Land Programs

• Agricultural Management Assistance Program (AMA)
• Conservation of Private Grazing Lands (CPGL)
• Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)
• Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
• Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP): Agricultural Water Enhancement Program
• Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP): Conservation Innovation Grants
• Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)

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Title III: Trade

Amendments to Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 and Related Statutes

• Export Credit Guarantee Programs: Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102)
• Export Credit Guarantee Programs: Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-103)
• Export Credit Guarantee Programs: Supplier Credit Guarantee Program (SCGP)
• Export Enhancement Program (EEP)
• Food for Progress (FFP): Sub-Saharan Africa: Project in Malawi
• Foreign Market Development Program (FMD)
• Market Access Program (MAP)
• McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program

Food for Peace Act

• Determination of Domestic Supply Requirements
• Food Aid Consultative Group
• Oversight, Monitoring, and Evaluation
• Preparation, Stockpiling, and Rapid Delivery of Shelf-Stable Prepackaged Foods
• Prepositioning Commodities
• Provision of Agricultural Commodities, Levels of Assistance, and Authorization of Appropriations
• Removal of Market Development Objective

Miscellaneous Trade Provisions

• Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust
• Consultative Group to Eliminate Use of Child Labor and Forced Labor in Imported Agricultural Products
• Emerging Markets and Facility Guarantee Loan Programs: Emerging Markets Program
• Emerging Markets and Facility Guarantee Loan Programs: Facility Guarantee Loan Program
• Global Diversity Trust
• Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Projects
• Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) Program

Softwood Lumber Importer Declaration Program

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Title IV: Nutrition

Community Food Security and Emergency Food Grants

• Emergency Food Infrastructure Grants
• Hunger-Free Community Grants
• National and International Hunger Fellows

Farmers' Market and Community Food Promotion

• Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs
• Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center
• Locally Produced Foods

Food Distribution Programs

• Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
• Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)
• Purchase of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Distribution
• The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

Food Stamp (FSP)/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

• Benefits
• Eligibility
• Operations: Benefit Issuance
• Operations: Employment and Training
• Operations: Miscellaneous
• Operations: Nutrition Education, Promotion, and Outreach
• Operations: Program Integrity
• Operations: Program Simplification

Fruit and Vegetable Promotion

• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
• Healthy Food Education and School Gardening Pilot Programs

Nutrition Monitoring

School Meals Issues

• Buy American
• Survey of School Food Purchases
• Whole Grain Pilot Projects

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Title V: Credit

Administrative Provisions

• Beginning Farmer and Rancher Individual Development Accounts Pilot Program
• Extension of Right of First Refusal to Reacquire Homestead Property to Immediate Family Members of Borrower-Owner
• Inventory Sales Preferences
• Loan Fund Set Asides
• Transition to Private Commercial or Other Sources of Credit

Emergency Loans

• Eligibility of Equine Farmers and Ranchers for Emergency Loans

Farm Credit

• Bank for Cooperatives Voting Stock
• Equalization of Loan-Making Power of Certain Districts
• Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation Premiums and Certification of Premiums
• Rural Utility Loans

Farm Ownership Loans

• Beginning Farmer or Rancher and Socially Disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher Contract Land Sales Program
• Conservation Loan and Loan Guarantee Program
• Down Payment Loan Program
• Farming Experience (Direct Farm Ownership Loans)
• Limitations on Amount of Farm Ownership Loans

Miscellaneous

• Loans to Purchasers of Highly Fractionated Land

Operating Loans

• Farming Experience (Direct Farm Operating Loans)
• Limitations on Amount of Operating Loans
• Suspension of Limitation on Period for Eligibility for Guaranteed Assistance

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Title VI: Rural Development

Communication and Information Programs

• Broadband Programs
• Local Television Access Programs
• Telemedicine and Distance Learning

Definitions

• Definition of Rural
• Other Definition Changes

General Business Assistance Programs

• Existing Programs
• New Small Business Programs

Promoting Value-Added Agriculture

• Appropriate Technology Transfer Program For Rural Areas
• Business and Industry Program Changes
• Farm Labor Housing Program
• Transportation Study
• Value-Added Agricultural Product Marketing Development Grants

Regional Development

• Miscellaneous Programs
• National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP)
• Regional Authorities

Rural Electric Programs

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs
• Review of Bonding Requirements
• Study on Rural Power Generation Needs

Water and Waste Facilities and Community Programs

• Circuit Rider Program
• For Alaskan and Native American Communities
• For Nonprofit Organizations
• For Very Small Communities
• General Water and Waste Program Provisions
• Special-Purpose Community Programs

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Title VII: Research and Related Matters

Bioenergy Research

Biotechnology

• Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
• Research and Development for Developing Countries

Bioterrorism/Biosecurity

Funding and Administration of Education-Related Institutions

• Amendments to Existing Authorities
• International Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education
• Land Grant Institutions – 1862 and 1890 Institutions
• Non-Land Grant Universities and Colleges of Agriculture
• Other Minority-Serving Land Grant Institutions
• Other Types of Institutions

High-Priority Research and Extension Initiatives

• Initiatives for Competitive Grants
• Pollinator Research

Miscellaneous Provisions

• Amendments to Existing Legislation
• New Grants and Research Programs
• Nutrition
• Other New Provisions
• Repeals and Terminations

Organic Agriculture

Research and Extension Funding

• Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
• Budget Submission and Funding
• Cap on Indirect Costs

Research Management and Coordination

• Agricultural Research Facility Funding
• National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board (NAREEEAB)
• National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• Research Planning and Review
• Research, Education, and Extension Office (REEO)

Rural Development

• Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
• Competitive Grants for Research to Assist Farmers
• Grants to Rural Community Colleges

Specialty Crops

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Title VIII: Forestry

Amendments to Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (CFAA)

• Assistance to Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau
• Changes to State Forest Stewardship Committee
• Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program
• Competition in Programs
• Competitive Allocation of Funds for Cooperative Forest Innovation Partnerships
• Long-Term Statewide Assessments and Strategies for Forest Resources
• National Priorities for Private Forest Conservation

Amendments to Other Forestry-Related Laws

• Emergency Forest Restoration Program
• Healthy Forest Reserve Program
• Office of International Forestry
• Prevention of Illegal Logging Practices
• Rural Revitalization Technologies

Boundary Adjustment and Land Conveyance Provisions

• Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) Boundary Adjustment
• Green Mountain National Forest Land Exchange/Sale
• Land Conveyances, Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park, NM, and George Washington National Forest, VA

Cultural and Heritage Cooperation Authority

• Authorization for Reburial of Human Remains and Cultural Items on National Forest System Lands
• Forest Products for Traditional and Cultural Purposes
• Prohibition on Disclosure
• Severability and Savings Provisions
• Temporary Closure of National Forest System Land for Traditional and Cultural Purposes

Miscellaneous Provisions

• Hispanic-Serving Institution Agricultural Land National Resources Leadership Program
• Qualifying Timber Contracts Options

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Title IX: Energy

Biobased Markets Program

Biodiesel Fuel Education Program

Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels

Biofuels Infrastructure Study

Biomass Crop Assistance Program

Biomass Research and Development

Biorefinery Assistance

Community Wood Energy Program

Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers

Forest Biomass for Energy

Renewable Fertilizer Study

Repowering Assistance

Research, Extension, and Educational Programs on Biobased Energy Technologies and Products

Rural Energy for America Program

Rural Energy Self Sufficiency Initiative

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Title X: Hort & Organic Ag

Organic Agriculture

• Cost-Share Assistance
• National Organic Program Support
• Production and Market Data

Specialty Crops

• Census of Agriculture
• Farmers' Market Promotion Program
• Food Safety Education Initiative
• Grants to Improve Transporting Specialty Crops
• Market Loss Assistance for Asparagus Producers
• Market News Activities Regarding Specialty Crops
• Marketing Orders Research and/or Promotion Programs: Clementine Marketing Order
• Marketing Orders Research and/or Promotion Programs: Hass Avocado Marketing Order
• Marketing Orders Research and/or Promotion Programs: Mushroom Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Program
• Marketing Orders Research and/or Promotion Programs: National Honey Board
• Pest and Disease Management: National Clean Plant Network
• Pest and Disease Management: Pest and Disease Revolving Loan Fund
• Pest and Disease Management: Pest Eradication and Detection
• Specialty Crop Competitiveness

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Title XI: Livestock

Country-of-Origin Labeling

• Compliance and Verification
• Content and Placement of Labels
• Covered Commodities: Fish
• Covered Commodities: Meat
• Covered Commodities: Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Ginseng, Peanuts, Pecans, and Macadamia Nuts

Hog and Poultry Production Contracts

Livestock Health and Diseases

• Animal Health Protection
• Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program
• National Aquatic Animal Health Plan
• Pseudorabies Eradication Program
• Trichinae Certification Program

Livestock Mandatory Reporting

Meat, Poultry, and Catfish Inspection

• Catfish Grading and Inspection
• State-Inspected Meat and Poultry: Audits
• State-Inspected Meat and Poultry: State Coordinator
• State-Inspected Meat and Poultry: Technical Assistance

Miscellaneous

• Association of Producers
• Food Safety Improvements
• National Sheep Industry Improvement Center
• Reporting Violations of Packers and Stockyards Act
• Study on Bioenergy Operations

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Title XII: Crop Insurance

Crop insurance

• Insurance of Organic Crops
• Other Risk Management Provisions
• Pilot Programs and New Product Development
• Premiums
• Program Administration and Integrity
• Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA)

Fisheries Disaster Assistance

Small Business Loan Program

Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance (SADA)

• Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish
• Livestock Forage Disaster Program
• Livestock Indemnity Payments
• Orchard and Nursery Tree Assistance Program
• Payment Limitations
• Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE)

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Title XIII: Commodity Futures

General Provisions

• Anti-Fraud Authority over Principal-to-Principal Transactions
• Authorization of Appropriations
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Authority over Agreements, Contracts, or Transactions in Foreign Currency
• Criminal and Civil Penalties
• Portfolio Margining and Security Index Issues
• Technical and Conforming Amendments

Significant Price-Discovery Contracts on Exempt Commercial Markets

• Effective Date
• Large Trader Reporting
• Significant Price-Discovery Contracts

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Title XIV: Miscellaneous

Agricultural Security

• Agricultural Biosecurity Grant Program
• Biosecurity Communications Center
• Local Capacity in Agricultural Biosecurity Planning, Preparedness, and Response
• Research and Development of Agricultural Countermeasures

Other Miscellaneous Provisions

• Animal Welfare Act Fines
• Coordinator for Chronically Underserved Areas
• Department of Agriculture Conference Transparency
• Designation of States for Cotton Research and Promotion
• Domestic Food Assistance Programs (Section 32 Funds)
• Excess and Surplus USDA Computers to Rural Areas
• Farm Service Agency Office Closure
• Fraudulent USDA Program Participation and Debarment
• Grants to Improve Agricultural Labor Supply, Stability, Safety, and Training
• Grants to Reduce Methamphetamine Production
• Regional Infrastructure and Economic Development
• USDA Graduate School

Socially Disadvantaged and Limited-Resource Producers

• Accurate Documentation
• Determination on Merits of Pigford Claims
• Foreclosure
• Minority Farmers Advisory Committee
• National Appeals Division
• Office of Advocacy and Outreach
• Outreach and Assistance Program for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers: Oversight and Compliance
• Receipt for Services
• Report of Civil Rights Complaints, Resolution, and Actions
• Sense of Congress Regarding Claims Against USDA by Socially Disadvantaged Farmers or Ranchers
• Transparency and Accountability

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Title XV: Trade and Tax Provisions

Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act

Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2008 (HOPE II)

Permanent Disaster Assistance

• Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund

Revenue Provisions for Agriculture Programs

• Customs User Fees
• Time for Payment of Corporate Estimated Taxes

Tax Provisions

• Agricultural Provisions: Agricultural Chemicals Security Credit
• Agricultural Provisions: Allowance of Section 1031 Treatment for Exchanges Involving Certain Mutual Ditch, Reservoir, or Irrigation Company Stock
• Agricultural Provisions: Competitive Certification Awards Modification Authority
• Agricultural Provisions: Increase in Loan Limits on Agricultural Bonds
• Agricultural Provisions: Temporary Tax Relief for Kiowa County, KS, and Surrounding Area
• Agricultural Provisions: Three-Year Depreciation for Race Horses That Are 2 Years Old or Younger
• Deduction for Endangered Species Recovery Expenditures
• Energy Provisions: Calculation of Volume of Alcohol for Fuel Credits
• Energy Provisions: Comprehensive Study of Biofuels
• Energy Provisions: Credit for Production of Cellulosic Biofuel
• Energy Provisions: Ethanol Duty Extension
• Energy Provisions: Limitations on Duty Drawback on Certain Imported Ethanol
• Energy Provisions: Modification of Alcohol Credit
• Exclusion of Conservation Reserve Program Payments from SECA (Self-Employed Contributions Act) Tax for Certain Individuals
• Other Revenue Provisions: Information Reporting for CCC Transactions
• Other Revenue Provisions: Limitation on Excess Farm Losses of Certain Taxpayers
• Other Revenue Provisions: Modification of Optional Method of Computing Net Earnings for Self-Employment
• Protection of Social Security
• Temporary Reduction in Rate of Tax on Qualified Timber Gain of Corporations
• Timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Modernization: Mineral Royalty Income Qualifying Income for Timber REITs
• Timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Modernization: Modification of Taxable REIT Subsidiary Asset Test for Timber REITs
• Timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Modernization: Qualified Forestry Conservation Bonds
• Timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Modernization: Safe Harbor for Timber Property
• Two-Year Extension of Special Rule Encouraging Contributions of Capital Gain Real Property for Conservation Purposes

Unused Merchandise Drawback

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