HR 2646 - 107Became Public Law No: 107-171.
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Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 Became Public Law No: 107-171. Agriculture and Food
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 Became Public Law No: 107-171. Agriculture and Food
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Agriculture, Conservation, and Rural Enhancement Act of 2002 - Title I: Commodity Programs - Subtitle A: Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payments - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to enter into contracts with eligible owners and producers (and tenants and cash-rent owners under specified conditions) of eligible cropland (land with contract acreage and payment yield, or expired or terminated conservation reserve contract) for both direct and counter-cyclical payments in crop years 2002 through 2006. Requires owner or producer compliance with appropriate conservation, wetlands, planting flexibility, and agricultural use requirements. Provides for: (1) tenant and sharecropper protection; and (2) equitable contract payment sharing among eligible producers. Gives producers a one-time election for specified contract acreage and yield determination methods, which shall apply to all commodities produced on a farm. Sets forth contract elements. Directs the Secretary to make direct payments for FY 2002 through 2006. Sets forth payment rates for wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds. States that the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of the payment rate, acreage, and yield. Directs the Secretary to make counter-cyclical payments for crop years 2002 through 2006. States that: (1) the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of the payment rate, acreage, and yield; and (2) the payment rate shall equal the difference between the income protection price and the sum of the direct payment price and the higher of the five-month average price or the loan rate for the crop. Sets income protection prices (as amended by section 171 of this Act) at: (1) $3.4460 per bushel for wheat; (2) $2.3472 per bushel for corn; (3) $2.3472 per bushel of grain sorghum; (4) $2.1973 per bushel of barley; (5) $1.5480 per bushel for oats; (6) $0.6793 per pound for upland cotton; (7) $9.2914 per hundredweight for rice; (8) $5.7431 per bushel for soybeans; and (9) $0.1049 per pound for oilseeds. (Sec. 112) Establishes a refund or payment reduction penalty for first-time planting flexibility violations of not more than twice the amount otherwise payable on the number of acres involved. (Sec. 113) Permits planting flexibility on base acres, with exceptions for fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice (as of crop year 2003). (Sec. 114) Directs the Secretary to establish a three-State pilot program for each of FY 2003 through 2005 under which a producer may establish a farm counter-cyclical savings account, consisting of producer contributions and matching contributions by the Secretary (two percent of producer's adjusted gross income, $5,000 maximum). Establishes an annual State maximum of $4 million. Subtitle B: Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments - Amends FAIRA to direct the Secretary to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available to producers of specified commodities through crop year 2006 (upland cotton through crop year 2007). (Sec. 123) Sets forth loan rates (as amended by section 171 of this Act) for: (1) wheat at $2.9960 per bushel; (2) corn and grain sorghum at $2.0772 per bushel; (3) barley at $1.9973 per bushel; (4) oats at $1.4980 per bushel; (5) upland cotton at $0.5493 per pound; (6) extra long staple cotton at $0.7965 per pound; (7) rice at $6.4914 per hundredweight; (8) soybeans at $5.1931 per bushel; (9) other oilseeds at $0.0949 per pound; (10) graded wool at $1.00 per pound; (11) nongraded wool at $0.40 per pound; (12) honey at $0.60 per pound; (13) dry peas at $6.78 per hundredweight; (14) lentils at $12.79 per hundredweight; (15) large chickpeas at $17.44 per hundredweight; (16) small chickpeas at $8.10 per hundredweight; and (17) mohair at $2.00 per pound. (Sec. 124) Provides for a market loan term of nine months. (Sec. 126) Authorizes the Secretary to make loan deficiency payments available to producers (other than extra long staple cotton) who have a beneficial interest in a commodity, and who are eligible for but forgo marketing assistance loans in favor of such payments. Extends payment eligibility to crop-year 2001 producers who lose beneficial interest in a covered commodity. (Sec. 127) Provides payments to producers of wheat, grain sorghum, barley, or oats in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage. (Sec. 128) Provides special upland cotton marketing loan calculations (without the 1.25 cent threshold) through July 31, 2003. Subtitle C: Other Commodities - Chapter 1: Dairy - Amends FAIRA, as amended by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, to extend the dairy price support program through 2006 (at $9.90 per hundredweight for milk containing 3.67 percent butterfat). (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to provide market loss payments from December 1, 2001, through September 30, 2005, to milk producers in a State other than States receiving Northeast Dairy Market Loss payments (as provided for by this Act). Provides that the payment amount shall be the product of the payment quantity (producer's quarterly milk marketing quantity) and the payment rate (40 percent of the amount by which the quarterly average milk price is less than the five year average price for such quarter). Sets forth a Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funding ceiling for such program. Directs the Secretary to offer to enter into milk payment contracts through September 30, 2005, with dairy producers in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia. Requires compliance with specified conservation and wetland provisions. Sets forth: (1) payment amount and payment quantity provisions; (2) separate milk marketing bases for new and established producers; and (3) a CCC funding ceiling. (Sec. 133) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the dairy export incentive program through 2006. Amends Federal law to extend the dairy indemnity program through 2006. (Sec. 134) Amends the Fluid Milk Promotion Act to: (1) repeal the December 31, 2002, milk order termination date; and (2) revise the definitions of "fluid milk product" and "fluid milk processor." (Sec. 136) Amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 respecting dairy importers to provide for: (1) National Dairy Promotion and Research Board representation, (2) referenda voting eligibility; and (3) assessments at rates equal to domestic producers. Defines "imported dairy product." (Sec. 137) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the effects of: (1) terminating Federal milk price and management programs; (2) granting congressional consent to State price and management efforts; and (3) including in the identity of fluid milk a required minimum protein content. Chapter 2: Sugar - Amends FAIRA to authorize (currently requires) the Secretary to adjust domestic sugarcane and sugar beet sugar loan rates if foreign subsidies exceed certain Agreement on Agriculture commitments. Directs the Secretary to make loans available to insolvent or bankrupt producers. Prohibits the Secretary from imposing any administrative requirement that has the effect of preventing a processor from electing to forfeit loan collateral. Terminates authority for: (1) marketing assessments; and (2) forfeiture penalties. Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse loans available (at 80 percent of raw sugarcane or refined sugar beet rates) to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets for in-process sugars and syrups. Directs the Secretary to operate the sugar program at no cost to the Federal Government by avoiding sugar forfeiture to CCC. Authorizes CCC to accept processor bids for sugar inventory purchases in exchange for reduced production. Sets forth producer and importer reporting requirements. Provides for the substitution of refined sugar with respect to certain sugar export and polyhydric alcohol programs. Extends the sugar program through crop year 2006. Makes CCC interest rate provisions inapplicable to sugarcane, sugar beets, and in-process sugar. (Sec. 142) Directs CCC to establish a sugar storage and handling facility loan program for processors of domestically produced sugarcane and sugar beets. (Sec. 143) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide for estimates of: (1) U.S. sugar consumption; and (2) total U.S. sugar supply. Revises sugar marketing allotment provisions. Directs the United States Trade Representative to: (1) determine the annual amount of cane sugar quota used by each supplying country (as defined by this Act); and (2) permit reallocation of the unused quota among such countries. Chapter 3: Peanuts - Amends FAIRA to direct the Secretary to determine for each historical peanut producer the average yield for the 1998 through 2001 crops (excluding any nonproduction years), and a four-year acreage average (1998 through 2001 planted acreage and acreage prevented by disasters from being planted). Sets forth payment yield and payment acre assignment provisions. Limits payment acres on a farm to 85 percent of the peanut acres assigned to the farm. Directs the Secretary, for FY 2002 through 2006, to make: (1) direct payments to peanut producers at a rate of $0.018 per pound; and (2) counter-cyclical payments available when the effective price is less than the income protection price ($520 per ton). States that the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of the payment rate, acreage, and yield. Provides for 50 percent advance direct payments at producer option. Requires producers to comply with specified conservation, wetland, planting flexibility, and agricultural use provisions. Provides for: (1) tenant and sharecropper protection; (2) payment forgiveness in the event of foreclosure; (3) termination of payments in the event of farm transfer or change of interest, unless the transferee agrees to assume such obligation; (4) transfer of payment base and yield upon transfer of interest; and (5) planting flexibility on peanut acres, with exceptions for fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice (as of 2003). Directs the Secretary to make nine-month nonrecourse marketing loans available to peanut producers through crop year 2006 ($400 per ton). Sets forth loan conditions for producers of commingled peanuts. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for producers who are eligible for but forgo such loans. Requires producers to comply with appropriate conservation and wetland provisions. States that peanuts under a marketing assistance loan shall be federally or State inspected. Terminates the Peanut Administrative Committee. Directs the Secretary to establish a Peanut Standards Board to assist in establishing peanut standards. (Sec. 152) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to terminate the peanut marketing quota program. Directs the Secretary to offer eligible peanut quota holders a compensation contract (of five equal installments) through FY 2006, which shall be the product of the 2001 actual farm poundage quota and $0.11. Eliminates peanuts from certain eminent domain provisions. Subtitle D: Administration - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to authorize the Secretary to issue marketing orders for caneberries (including raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries). (Sec. 162) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to revise the definition of "reserve stock level" for Flue-cured tobacco. (Sec. 163) Directs the Secretary to allow special farm reconstitutions in lieu of leases and transfer of tobacco allotments and quotas for crop year 2002. (Sec. 164) Authorizes the Secretary to make expenditure adjustments if expenditures will exceed total allowable domestic support levels under the Uruguay Round Agreement. (Sec. 165) Extends through 2006 specified suspensions of permanent price support authority for loan commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Agricultural Act of 1949. (Sec. 166) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds (in addition to other funds) for FY 2002 through 2006 to purchase specialty crops; with set-asides for: (1) fresh fruit and vegetable purchases for the school lunch program; and (2) emergency food assistance program purchases. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary should attempt to alleviate the economic crisis among cranberry growers by continuing to purchase cranberries at FY 2001 expenditure levels. (Sec. 167) Directs the Secretary to provide hard white wheat incentive payments for crop years 2003 through 2005. (Sec. 168) Directs the Secretary to provide livestock feed assistance to producers who have been adversely affected by disasters. Authorize specified appropriations for FY 2003 through 2008. (Sec. 169) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise payment limitation provisions. Sets forth individual and entity limits for: (1) direct and counter-cyclical payments at $75,000 per fiscal year; and (2) marketing loan gains, loan deficiency payments, and commodity certificates at $150,000 per crop year. Requires an individual or entity to be actively engaged in farming to qualify for such assistance. Exempts land owned by a public school district or State-owned land used to maintain a public school from such limits. Permits limitation changes based upon the addition of a family member to a farming operation. Revises administrative provisions. Requires the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture to conduct specified administrative reviews during each of FY 2002 through 2006. Limits assistance eligibility to an individual or entity whose adjusted gross income does not exceed $2.5 million. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase FY 2002 through 2011 food stamp program standard deduction amounts for households with children. Revises such determination for Guam. Revises excess shelter expense deductions. (Sets forth dollar limits for FY 2002 and 2003, and a formula beginning with FY 2004. Eliminates caps as of October 1, 2009.) Amends FAIRA to make loan deficiency payments available to producers who: (1) forgo marketing assistance loans in return for such loan deficiency payments; and (2) for crop years 2000 and 2001, are not eligible for marketing assistance loans but who produce loan commodities. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to set forth loan levels for direct loans (farm ownership and operating loans) and guaranteed loans (guaranteed ownership and operating loans) for FY 2002 through 2006. Directs the Secretary to use specified additional CCC funds for FY 2002 beginning farmer and rancher loans. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to: (1) increase FY 2002 through 2006 research and development reimbursement funding; (2) increase FY 2002 through 2006 information and education program funding; and (3) eliminate funding for the partnerships for risk management education program. (Sec. 170) Amends FAIRA to restrict commodity and crop insurance payments, loans, and benefits under this title to qualifying previously cropped land, including conservation reserve land. Sets forth qualifying provisions for Indian lands. Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1968 to exclude from: (1) the five-year eligibility limit, food stamp benefits provided to qualifying legal aliens under 18 years old; and (2) the seven-year eligibility limit, food stamp benefits provided to qualifying aliens who have resided in the United States for five years or more. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) increase the food stamp program standard deduction by tying it to the Federal poverty income guideline; (2) make current standard deduction amounts minimum deduction amounts; and (3) set forth deduction provisions for Guam. (Sec. 172) Amends FAIRA to direct the Secretary to report on the number and disposition of requests for equitable relief. (Sec. 173) Directs the Secretary to include in projections of net farm income an estimate of net farm income: (1) earned by U.S. commercial producers; and (2) attributable to commercial producers of livestock, and loan and non-loan commodities. (Sec. 174) Authorizes CCC to use private sector entities to purchase and sell commodities. (Sec. 175) Authorizes the Secretary to use CCC funds to make specified supplemental payments to agricultural producers who did not receive such payments before October 1, 2001. Subtitle E: Payment Limitation Commission - Establishes the Commission on the Application of Payment Limitations for Agriculture which shall recommend legislative and regulatory modifications to payment limitation requirements. Obligates specified CCC funds for the Commission. Terminates the Commission after submission of certain required reports. Subtitle F: Emergency Agricultural Assistance - Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds for emergency assistance to producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 income losses, including losses from army worms. (Sec. 192) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds for 2001 assistance to livestock producers in emergency-designated counties. Obligates specified amounts for the American Indian livestock program. (Sec. 193) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds for FY 2002 market loss assistance to apple producers. Prohibits the establishment of related payment or income eligibility limitations. (Sec. 195) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer specified funds to the Secretary for administrative expenses under this subtitle. Title II: Conservation - Subtitle A: Conservation Security - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a FY 2003 through 2006 conservation security program to assist owners and operators to adopt or maintain conservation practices on production land. Includes among such practices promotion of: (1) soil, water, air, energy; (2) flora and fauna; (3) wetland conservation; (4) regeneration of biological resources; (5) carbon sequestration; and (6) invasive species management. Defines eligible providers and lands (excludes lands in the conservation and wetland reserve programs, and certain other converted lands). Requires a participant to submit a conservation security plan. Establishes three tiers of conservation contracts, and bases a participant's annual payments upon implemented tiers. Sets forth related program and operating provisions. Authorizes the Secretary, as of October 1, 2004, to establish a conservation security pilot program. (Sec. 202) Obligates FY 2002 through 2006 CCC funding for the conservation security program. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Secretary to designate special projects to enhance technical and financial assistance to owners, operators, and producers to address clean water and air issues. Obligates specified funds for such projects. (Sec. 204) Provides, with respect to conservation programs, for: (1) specified equitable relief to participants who rely in good faith on inaccurate advice from an employee of the Secretary; (2) education, outreach technical assistance, and evaluation; (3) incentives for beginning farmers and ranchers, and Indian tribes; and (4) privacy of personal information.. (Sec. 205) Directs the Secretary to develop a conservation program reform plan. (Sec. 207) Renames the environmental conservation acreage reserve program as the comprehensive conservation enhancement program. Subtitle B: Program Extensions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the comprehensive conservation reserve program through 2006. Gives priority to areas that would facilitate the most rapid completion of on-going projects. (Sec. 212) Extends the conservation reserve program and related habitat use provisions through 2006. Revises program priority provisions. Increases maximum program acreage to 40 million acres. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) extend existing hardwood tree contracts for up to15 years with a 50 percent rental payment reduction; and (2) enter into new contracts for ten- to thirty-year periods. Extends the program for conservation reserve enrollment of wetland and buffer acreage through 2006. Eliminates pilot program designation. Permits enrollment of ten-acre tracts (payment eligibility limited to five acres). Provides for conservation reserve enrollment of irrigated land as conservation buffers or into the conservation reserve enhancement program at irrigated land rates unless the Secretary determines otherwise. Expands marginal pastureland eligibility to include native prairie grass. Revises haying and grazing provisions. Permits wind turbine installation on program land that is not enrolled under continuous sign-up. Provides for reduced rental payments on land with wind turbines. Exempts land enrolled under continuous sign-up from specified county acreage limitations. Provides for a study of the conservation reserve program's economic and social effects on rural communities. (Sec. 213) Revises and extends the environmental quality incentives program through FY 2006. Includes conservation education among eligible practices. Reduces minimum program contracts to three years. Limits: (1) a producer to one contract for structural practices involving livestock nutrient management during FY 2002 through 2006; and (2) a producer with an interest in more than one large confined livestock operation to one contract for cost-share payments for animal waste management. Provides 90 percent cost-share assistance to limited resource and beginning producers. Revises provisions respecting: (1) cost-share and incentive payments; (2) evaluation of offers and payments; and (3) duties of the Secretary and producers. Revises payment limitations to provide that total payments to a producer shall not exceed: (1) $30,000 per fiscal year, with exceptions; (2) $90,000 for a three-year contract; (3) $120,000 for a four-year contract; and (4) $150,000 for a contract in excess of four years. Obligates specified FY 2003 through 2006 funds for conservation innovation grants (50 percent cost-sharing). Directs the Secretary to provide cost-share payments, incentive payments, and groundwater education assistance to producers who draw water from the Southern High Plains Aquifer (as defined in this Act). Obligates specified FY 2003 through 2006 funds for such activities. Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with local water suppliers, to carry out a drinking water suppliers pilot program. Directs the Secretary to provide FY 2003 through 2006 incentive payments to agricultural producers to: (1) reduce nutrient loads to the Chesapeake Bay; and (2) achieve specified goals of the Chesapeake Executive Council. Provides for program partnership with State governments, nonprofit organizations, and State universities and colleges. Obligates specified funds for FY 2003 through 2006. Obligates specified FY 2002 through 2006 funds for the environmental quality incentives program. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to permit fund use for technical assistance. (Sec. 214) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the wetlands reserve program through 2006. Permits fund use for technical assistance. Increases maximum program acreage to 2,225,000 acres. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with State, local, or private entities to address critical environmental needs through wetland restoration activities in watershed areas. Authorizes annual enrollment of 25,000 acres. (Sec. 215) Directs the Secretary to enroll up to 500,000 acres in the conservation reserve program for water conservation purposes in Nevada, California, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Maine, and New Hampshire. Sets forth State and acreage eligibility provisions. Gives priority to State proposals that: (1) provide more than 20 percent cost-sharing; and (2) significantly enhance fish, wildlife, and plant conservation, including threatened or endangered species. States that nothing in such program shall: (1) preempt State water laws; (2) affect any individual's water rights; (3) authorize the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a landowner for water obtained from a water district, irrigation district, or other similar entity in California; and (4) affect a groundwater right unless granted under State law or an integrated groundwater-surface water rights process. Directs the Secretary to establish, through the National Resources Conservation Service, the water benefits program for eligible entities in Nevada, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Maine, and New Hampshire to provide cost-share assistance for: (1) irrigation efficiency infrastructure; (2) water-intensive crop conversion; or (3) in-stream flows for fish and wildlife. Provides for private property rights protection. Directs the Secretary to establish a State monitoring program within the Agricultural Research Service. States that nothing in such program shall: (1) preempt State water laws; (2) authorize the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a landowner for water obtained from a water district, irrigation district, or other similar entity in California; and (3) affect a groundwater right unless granted under State law or an integrated groundwater-surface water rights process. Sets forth program and monitoring expenditure limitations. Excludes Nebraska and North Dakota from provisions under this section. Obligates FY 2002 through 2006 CCC funds for programs under this section. (Sec. 216) Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to revise the resource conservation and development program. Provides technical and financial assistance through councils for conservation and development projects. Makes the authorization of appropriations permanent. Renames the Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board as the Resource Conservation and Development Policy Advisory Board. (Sec. 217) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate the conservation farm option pilot program. Directs the Secretary to establish a wildlife habitat incentive program of cost-sharing payments to eligible owners for wildlife habitat development. Obligates 15 percent of funds for endangered and threatened species projects. Authorizes a pilot program to use up to 15 percent of funds to enroll lands for 15 years or longer for critical habitat or species protection. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 CCC funds for such programs. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to provide assistance, including purchase of flood plain easements, to watersheds impaired by flood, fire, or other natural occurrence. Gives priority to impacted flood plain areas adjacent to a major river. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) carry out the Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and sediment control; and (2) provide related grants, technical assistance, and education programs. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations for the conservation of private grazing land program, including establishment of two grazing management demonstration districts. (Transfers program authority from FAIRA to the Food Security Act of 1985.) Directs the Secretary to establish a national grassroots water protection program to more effectively use onsite technical assistance capabilities of State rural water associations that operate wellhead or groundwater protection programs. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 218) Extends CCC funding for the farmland protection program (to be carried out through the Natural Resources Conservation Service) through FY 2007. Eliminates acreage limitations. Includes land containing historic or archaeological resources within the program. Expands participating entity eligibility. (Transfers program authority from FAIRA to the Food Security Act of 1985.) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified funds to provide matching market viability grants and technical assistance. (Sec. 219) Directs the Secretary, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to establish a grassland reserve program for land that is or has historically been natural grass or shrubland, and has significant potential for animal or plant restoration. Provides for: (1) enrollment through 30-year rental agreements or permanent or 30-year easements; and (2) maximum enrollment of 2 million acres. Funds the program through CCC. Sets forth provisions respecting enrollment contracts, easements, and Federal payments. (Sec. 220) Directs the Secretary to establish a technical committee in each State. (Sec. 221) Amends FAIRA to authorize the Secretary to: (1) use, license, or transfer Department of Agriculture (Department) symbols, slogans, and, logos; and (2) use the revenues for conservation purposes. Subtitle C: Organic Farming - Establishes in the Treasury the Organic Agriculture Research Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Department the National Organic Research Endowment Institute. Subtitle D: Regional Equity - Directs the Secretary, for each of FY 2002 through 2006, to ensure that: (1) each State receives at least $12 million for conservation programs; and (2) of such minimum, at least $5 million shall be for the environmental quality incentives program, and $7 million for other conservation programs. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to establish a cranberry acreage reserve program. Authorizes specified appropriations for such program. (Sec. 262) Directs the Secretary, in conjunction with the Secretary of the Interior, to establish the Klamath Basin Interagency Task Force which shall use Federal conservation programs in the Klamath basin in Oregon and California for: (1) agricultural promotion, (2) water conservation and quality improvement; (3) aquatic ecosystem restoration; and (4) wildlife and wildlife refuge protection. Directs: (1) the Secretary, and the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce, to enter into cooperative agreements to fund the Task Force; and (2) the Task Force to establish a grant program under which the Secretaries may enter into an agreement with non-Federal entities, Indian tribes, environmental organizations, and water districts within the Basin to carry out the above programs. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2003 through 2006 for such activities, with specified amounts for the Klamath, Hoopa, Yurok, and Karuk Tribes in Oregon and California. Prohibits fund obligation after September 30, 2006. Title III: Trade - Subtitle A: Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and Related Statutes - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) respecting the food for peace program to: (1) extend the program through 2006; (2) make the amount of funds available for eligible organizations on a percent rather than fixed amount basis; (3) permit private voluntary organizations to be certified institutional partners; (4) permit commodity sale proceeds to be denominated in other than the local currency; (5) increase maximum assistance tonnage levels; (6) extend the Food Aid Consultative Group through 2006; (7) increase the maximum annual expenditure level to $2 billion; (8) extend funding authority for certain commodity prepositioning through FY 2006; (9) authorize the President to establish a pilot emergency program to provide live lamb to Afghanistan; (10) extend authorization of appropriations through FY 2006 for stockpiling, delivery, and distribution of shelf-stable pre-packaged goods; (11) extend the micronutrient fortification program through FY 2006 (ends the program's pilot status); and (12) extend the John Ogonowski farmer-to-farmer program through FY 2006 (increases minimum funding provisions). Subtitle B: Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend: (1) supplier credit program loans from 180 days to12 months; and (2) the export credit guarantee program, including required guarantees for processed and high-value products, through FY 2006. (Sec. 322) Extends market access program funding through FY 2006. Establishes priority for annual amounts available above $90 million for (1) new program participants; or (2) programs in emerging markets. Directs the Secretary to establish a quality export initiative program under which several high-quality U.S. agricultural products will be permitted to carry the "U.S. Quality" seal, and be promoted at trade fairs and through electronic and print media. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 323) Extends the export enhancement program through FY 2006. Expands the definition of "unfair trade practices" to include certain: (1) agricultural pricing practices by state trading enterprises; and (2) dollar exchange rate changes. (Sec. 324) Amends the foreign market development cooperator program to: (1) replace current authorization of appropriations with a permanent CCC fund or commodity obligation; and (2) establish priority for new program participants and programs in emerging markets for annual amounts available above $35 million. (Sec. 325) Directs the Secretary to establish the food for progress program to provide agricultural commodities to support free trade enterprises and provide food assistance to recipient countries. Authorizes agreements with: (1) governments of emerging agricultural countries; (2) private voluntary organizations; (3) nonprofit agricultural organizations; (4) non-governmental organizations; and (5) other entities. Directs the Secretary to establish the international food for education and nutrition program to provide agricultural commodities and nutrition assistance for preschool and primary school age children. Provides commodities for such programs on a grant or credit basis. Provides for: (1) quality assurance; (2) certification of voluntary organizations as institutional partners; (3) commodity transshipment or resale, or military handling only upon approval of the Secretary; (4) use of proceeds for humanitarian or development purposes; and (5) CCC funding and facility use. Establishes minimum commodity tonnages (400,000 metric tons) for each of FY 2002 through 2006. Authorizes: (1) appropriations; and (2) CCC fund use under Title I of Public Law 480 to carry out such programs. Sets forth specified funding limitations. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 (Food for Progress Act of 1985) to repeal the food for progress program. (Sec. 326) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to develop a website to assist agricultural exporters. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Agricultural Trade Provisions - Amends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to extend the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (food security commodity trust) through FY 2006. (Sec. 332) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend funds through FY 2006 for the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program. (Sec. 333) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to enhance foreign acceptance of agricultural biotechnology and related U.S. products; and (2) use specified CCC funds and facilities. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 334) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, respecting the program of providing surplus commodities to developing or friendly countries, to permit: (1) commodity sales in recipient countries to be transacted in other than the local currency; (2) direct commodity delivery to mills or other processing facilities in recipient countries which are majority-owned by U.S. citizens; and (3) private voluntary organizations to be certified as institutional partners. (Sec. 335) Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to eliminate restrictions on private financing of sales of food and medicine to Cuba. (Sec. 336) Expresses the sense of Congress respecting priorities and concerns for bilateral and multilateral agricultural trade negotiations. (Sec. 337) Directs the Secretary to report on funding, transport, and storage deficiencies that have limited perishable commodities' use in international food programs. (Sec. 338) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should: (1) increase humanitarian, economic development, and agricultural assistance to foster peace and human rights; and (2) lead international efforts to provide increased financial assistance to countries with disadvantaged populations that are the breeding grounds for terrorism. Title IV: Nutrition Programs - Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002 - Subtitle A: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 exclude from income for food stamp program (program) purposes legally-obligated child support payments made by a household member on behalf of a person not a member of such household. Allows a State to continue to provide a child support deduction, rather than such exclusion. Requires that such deduction be determined before computing the excess shelter expense deduction. Allows a State to use information from child support enforcement agencies to determine the amount of child support paid for program purposes. (Sec. 412) Excludes from income for program purposes deferred educational and veterans' educational assistance, State complementary assistance payments, and certain medical assistance not included as income under specified provisions of titles IV and XIX of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 413) Revises, and increases, the standard deduction by tying it to the Federal poverty income guideline, according to household size and indexed for inflation. Specifies standard deduction provisions for Guam. (Sec. 414) Authorizes: (1) a household to claim as shelter expenses any housing-related money paid to a landlord without specific-charge designation; and (2) a State to elect to give a homeless household with some shelter expenses a $143 monthly deduction rather than an excess shelter expense deduction. (Sec. 415) Revises provisions respecting: (1) utility allowances; (2) earned income determination; and (3) deduction determinations. (Sec. 419) Authorizes the Secretary to select alternative methods to issue emergency food stamps to disaster victims. (Sec. 420) Authorizes a State to reduce household reporting requirements. (Sec. 421) Revises the time-limit for program participation for non-excluded individuals without dependents to three out of 36 months without working or participating in a work program to six out of 24 months. Qualifies certain job search activities under the work requirement. (Sec. 422) Prohibits a State from removing a recipient's electronic benefit transfer access unless the account has been inactive for at least 180 days. Requires recipient notice of reinstatement procedures when an account is taken off-line. (Sec. 423) Eliminates the requirement that electronic benefit transfer systems not cost the Federal Government more than paper issuance systems. (Sec. 424) Authorizes a State to provide a standardized monthly benefit to residents of group homes and substance abuse centers, which shall be issued to the facility as representative of the residents. (Sec. 425) Authorizes program benefit redemptions through group living arrangements under specified circumstances. (Sec. 426) Requires a State that has a program website to make on-line applications available in each language in which printed applications are available. (Sec. 427) Revises program eligibility certification provisions. (Sec. 428) Directs the Secretary to make descriptions of successful State nutrition education programs available on the Department's website. (Sec. 429) Authorizes a State agency to provide up to six months of transitional program benefits to households moving from the temporary assistance for needy families program (TANF). (Sec. 431) Revises program quality control provisions. (Sec. 433) Provides high performance bonus payments beginning in FY 2003 to the six States with the highest or most improved performance. (Sec. 434) Extends employment and training program funding allocations through FY 2006. Allocates additional FY 2002 through 2006 amounts to States that ensure availability of specified work opportunities. Repeals: (1) the 80 percent set-aside for able-bodied adults without dependents; (2) the maintenance-of-effort requirement to access new unmatched funds; and (3) the limits on the amount States are reimbursed for each work slot offered. Increases from $25 to $50 the monthly cap on the amount States may reimburse participants for transportation and other work expenses for FY 2002 through 2009. (Sec. 435) Extends: (1) reductions in program administrative payment provisions through FY 2006; (2) cash payment pilot programs through October 1, 2006; (3) grants to improve program participation through FY 2006; and (4) program authorization of appropriations through FY 2006. (Sec. 436) Authorizes States to use TANF funds for program information costs. (Sec. 437) Authorizes the Secretary to grant waivers to non-governmental entities for program research. (Sec. 438) Directs the Secretary to provide matching grants to States and non-government organizations to improve program access and outreach. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2005 appropriations. (Sec. 439) Consolidates, and extends through FY 2006, the funding structure for nutrition assistance in American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Provides for inflation adjustments. Authorizes Puerto Rico to use specified FY 2002 grant amounts for data processing and benefit transfer modernization. Authorizes additional appropriations upon submission of a specified report by the Comptroller General. (Sec. 440) Extends community food project funding through FY 2006. Increases Federal cost- sharing from 50 percent to 75 percent. (Sec. 441) Extends commodity purchase funding for the emergency food assistance program through FY 2006. Authorizes specified fund use for State processing, storing, transporting, and distribution costs. (Sec. 442) States that the Secretary shall not prohibit the use of approved food safety technology in acquiring commodities for the program and other specified food programs, including the school lunch and child nutrition programs. (Sec. 443) Directs the Secretary to contract with a qualifying non-governmental organization to develop innovative programs to address common community problems, such as the loss of farms, rural poverty, hunger, welfare dependency, and crime. Provides specified program funding. (Sec. 444) Directs the Secretary to report on the difficulties, including fraud, in using electronic benefit transfer systems for food stamp issuance. (Sec. 445) Authorizes program purchase of vitamin and mineral supplements. Directs the Secretary to contract with a scientific research organization to evaluate related nutritional, health, economic, and other consequences of allowing such program purchases. Authorizes specified appropriations. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to: (1) extend the Secretary's authority to provide commodities for nutrition assistance programs though FY 2006; and (2) extend the commodity supplemental food program through FY 2006, and redistribute administrative and program funds to provide an inflation-indexed grant per assigned caseload slot for administrative costs. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects through FY 2006. Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for State reimbursement in processing, transporting, storing, and distributing emergency food assistance through FY 2006. (Sec. 452) Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to make all legal immigrant children, regardless of U.S. entry date, eligible for the supplemental security income (SSI) and food stamp programs, beginning in FY 2004. Makes legal immigrants who are able to demonstrate 16 (currently 40) quarters of work history eligible for such programs. Eliminates the seven-year eligibility limit for: (1) food stamp benefits for refugees and asylees; and (2) SSI benefits for blind or disabled aliens who were lawfully residing in the United States on August 22, 1996. (Sec. 453) Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to: (1) revise from October 1, 2001, to October 1, 2003, the beginning period for which commodities other than those under a direct commodity expenditure provision may be used to meet a minimum 12 percent commodity assistance school lunch program requirement; and (2) exclude from FY 2002 and 2003 income calculations certain military housing allowances in determining eligibility for free and reduced-price meals school meals. (Sec. 455) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exclude certain military housing allowances from income eligibility calculations for the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). (Sec. 456) Directs the Secretary to report on an analysis of the conversion of WIC from a discretionary program to an individual entitlement program. (Sec. 457) Amends the Commodity Distribution reform Act and WIC Amendments Act of 1987 to permit commodity donations to other specified programs. (Sec. 458) Directs the Secretary to encourage institutions participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs to purchase locally produced foods. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 459) Directs the Secretary to carry out a senior farmers' market nutrition program. Provides for the transfer of specified funds for the program through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 460) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide for the transfer of specified funds for the farmers' market nutrition program. (Sec. 461) Directs the Secretary to carry out a fresh fruit and vegetable distribution program during the 2002 school year in each of four States (25 primary or secondary schools in each State) and on one Indian reservation. Directs: (1) participating schools to publicize the program; and (2) the Secretary, through the Economic Research Service, to evaluate such program.. (Sec. 462) Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002 - Establishes the Congressional Hunger Fellows Program and the Congressional Hunger Fellows Trust Fund in order to establish Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, respectively, to address hunger and other humanitarian needs in the United States and abroad. Authorizes specified appropriations. (Sec. 463) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a nutrition information and awareness pilot program in up to 15 States to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and convey related health promotion messages. Authorizes specified FY2002 through 2006 appropriations. Title V: Credit: Subtitle A: Farm Ownership Loans - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make direct farm ownership loans available to a farmer or rancher who has participated (currently, operates) in the business operations of a farm or ranch for at least three years. (Sec. 502) Authorizes the use of a direct farm ownership loan to refinance a "bridge loan'' made by a commercial lender to a beginning farmer or rancher who has been approved for, but has not yet received, a farm ownership loan. (Sec. 503) Increases the limit on direct farm ownership debt for a beginning farmer or rancher to $250,000, and indexes the amount to inflation. (Sec. 504) Sets the interest rate in a joint financing arrangement for beginning farmers and ranchers at 50 basis points less than the rate for non-beginning farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 505) Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretary to provide beginning farmers and ranchers who participate in the farmland down payment loan program with a 95 percent guarantee on ownership and operating loans. (Sec. 506) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans made under State beginning farmer or rancher programs. (Sec. 507) Increases the loan term to 20 years and Department financing to 40 percent as part of the down payment program for beginning farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 508) Directs the Secretary to carry out a FY 2003 through 2006 pilot program in at least ten States to guarantee up to five loans in each State made by a private land seller to a beginning farmer or rancher on a contract land sale basis. Subtitle B: Operating Loans - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to eliminate the prohibition on direct operating loans for farmers who have operated a farm or ranch for more than five years. (Sec. 512) Provides with respect to Indian farmers or ranchers on Indian reservation land for: (1) 95 percent operating loan guarantees; and (2) term limit waivers where commercial credit is not generally available. Subtitle C: Administrative Provisions - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development to make limited liability companies eligible to receive farm ownership loans, farm operating loans, and natural disaster emergency loans. (Sec. 522) Eliminates: (1) the requirement that county committees certify that certain loan reviews have been conducted; and (2) authority to contract with private entities for loan service and debt collection. (Sec. 524) Includes among interest options on a direct loan that is being rewritten the interest rate in effect on the date that a borrower applies for servicing. (Sec. 525) Eliminates the requirement that county committees certify that certain annual reviews of borrower credit histories have been conducted. (Sec. 526) Increases the loan amount for which a simplified loan guarantee application may be used to $100,000. (Sec. 527) Increases to 135 days the preference period for a beginning farmer or rancher to purchase Department inventory farmland. Directs the Secretary to: (1) combine or divide property parcels to maximize such purchases and (2) offer to sell or grant farmland preservation easements on inventory land. (Sec. 528) Increases to 30 percent the amount of land that an applicant may own under the definition of a "qualified beginning farmer or rancher." Excludes from the definition of` "debt forgiveness'' any write-down as part of a discrimination complaint resolution against the Secretary. (Sec. 529) Increases FY 2002 through 2006 loan authorization levels for the direct and the guaranteed loan programs. (Sec. 530) Makes the interest rate reduction program permanent. Provides a maximum four percent subsidy for beginning farmers and ranchers, and a maximum three percent subsidy for other farmers and ranchers. Replaces the current aggregate funding limit with a specified fiscal year limit. (Sec. 531) Sets forth recapture amount repayment options. (Sec. 532) Authorizes the Secretary to waive borrower training certification requirements. (Sec. 533) Requires annual (currently biannual) borrower review. Subtitle D: Farm Credit - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to eliminate certain prior approval requirements for multi-lender Farm Credit System institutions. (Sec. 542) Authorizes cooperative banks to finance the export of "agricultural supplies." (Current law is limited to farm supplies.) (Sec. 543) Authorizes the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation to reduce premiums for Government Sponsored Enterprise-guaranteed loans (as defined by this Act). (Sec. 544) Increases from 15 to 17 the number of Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation. Makes other Board- related amendments. Subtitle E: General Provisions - Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to make the finality of decision rule inapplicable to an agricultural credit decision made by a State, county, or area committee. Title VI: Rural Development - Subtitle A: Empowerment of Rural America - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a new subtitle which shall be cited as the "National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund Act." Authorizes qualifying private investors (including insured depository institutions) to establish a non-Federal entity to be known as the National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund to generate and provide equity capital for rural businesses. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make specified funds available to the Fund upon equal private investment in the Fund; (2) guarantee 50 percent of each investment; and (3) guarantee principal and interest investor repayment on Fund-issued debentures. Limits the Secretary's aggregate private investment liability to $300 million. States that an investor: (1) may redeem a guarantee five years after initial investment, or annually thereafter; and (2) upon such redemption shall be prohibited from making future Fund investments. Authorizes: (1) the Fund to generate additional capital through debt security issuance, which shall be 100 percent guaranteed by the Secretary (aggregate of the lesser of twice the value of Fund assets or $500 million); and (2 ) debt security purchases by authorized private investors. Makes the Secretary a priority creditor for guarantee payments. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 602) Directs the Secretary to establish a Rural Business Investment Program under which the Secretary may: (1) enter into participation agreements with rural business investment companies to promote rural economic development and to establish venture capital programs; and (2) make grants to and guarantee debentures of rural business investment companies. Sets forth Program provisions. (Sec. 603) Establishes in the Treasury the Rural America Infrastructure Development Account, which shall fund rural development loans, loan guarantees, and grants for: (1) community facility direct loans; (2) community facility grants; (3) water or waste disposal grants or direct loans; (4) rural water or wastewater technical assistance and training grants; (5) emergency community water assistance grants; (6) business and industry guaranteed loans; and (7) solid waste management grants. (Sec. 604) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary to establish the Rural Endowment Program which shall provide matching grants to: (1) enhance comprehensive rural community development, including leveraging of public and private resources; (2) make Federal agency personnel available to directly assist the community development efforts of an approved program entity or eligible rural area; and (3) strengthen the asset base of an eligible rural area to further long-term community development. Limits grants to a maximum of $6 million, based upon specified criteria of size, population, and social and economic stress. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage regional applications from program entities serving more than one rural area; and (2) give preference to a joint application submitted by a private, nonprofit community development corporation, and a local government or Indian tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make supplemental grants to conditionally-approved program entities for development of a comprehensive community development strategy; and (2) make grants to private intermediaries for technical and capacity building assistance. Requires an approved program entity to establish an endowment fund. Provides for the transfer of FY 2002 and 2003 funds for the Program. (Sec. 605) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary to make: (1) grants and loans (and loan guarantees) for construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment for rural broadband service (as defined by this Act); and (2) grants for broadband planning and feasibility studies. Authorizes loan use to refinance a telecommunications loan that will improve rural broadband deployment. Prohibits grants, loans, or loan guarantees from being made after September 30, 2006. (Sec. 606) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to define ``value-added agricultural product'' as any agricultural commodity or product that: (1) has undergone a change in physical state, or was produced in a manner that enhances its value, as demonstrated through a business plan; and (2) as a result of such change the customer base has been expanded, and a greater portion of the revenue derived from the processing of the agricultural commodity or product is available to the producer of such commodity or product. Directs the Secretary, for each of FY 2002 through 2006, to use specified funds transferred from the Treasury for grants ($500,000 maximum per recipient) to independent producers and nonprofit entities to develop business plans and marketing strategies for value-added agricultural products. Gives preference to: (1) proposals for less than $200,000; and (2) entities located in Indian reservations or cities, towns, or areas with populations of not more than 5,000 people. Obligates specified amounts for grants to assist producers of certified organic agricultural products to market or process their products through business or cooperative ventures. Revises funding limits for the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center from $5 million under current law to 7.5 percent of the funding made available under this section. (Sec. 607) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to establish the National Rural Development Information Clearinghouse. Obligates specified funds for Clearinghouse operations. Subtitle B: National Rural Development Partnership - National Rural Development Partnership Act of 2002 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act establish the National Rural Development Partnership composed of the National Rural Development Coordinating Committee (established by this Act) and State development councils (authorized by this Act). Includes among Partnership purposes: (1) enhancement of State and local rural development capacities; and (2) engagement of Federal, State, local, tribal, and private and nonprofit sectors in such efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for State rural development council matching requirements. Terminates the Partnership five years after enactment of this Act. Subtitle C: Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility grants from $590 million to $1.5 billion. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to private entities to capitalize revolving funds for water and wastewater projects. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 622) Authorizes appropriations for rural business opportunity grants through FY 2006. (Sec. 623) Directs the Secretary to establish a national rural water and wastewater circuit rider program modeled after the national rural water association rural water circuit rider program. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 624) Directs the Secretary to make grants to multijurisdictional regional planning and development entities for grants (75 percent maximum Federal share) to local governments to improve their infrastructure, services, and development capabilities. Gives priority to an organization that: (1) serves a rural area that is undergoing out-migration, or has a median household income that is less than the nonmetropolitan household income of the applicable State; and (2) has a history of providing substantive assistance to local governments and economic development organizations. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 625) Sets forth criteria for a nonprofit organization to be certified to provide rural development technical assistance. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 626) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee, and sets forth requirements for, loan guarantees for water, wastewater, and essential community facilities loans, including loans financed by bonds issued respecting first-time farmer property. (Sec. 627) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local governments and Indian tribes to train rural firefighters and emergency medical personnel in firefighting, emergency medical practices, and hazardous material and bioagent response. Permits fund use for training center improvement and construction. Obligates specified amounts for training scholarships. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 628) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants (75 percent maximum Federal share) to tribal colleges and universities for essential community facilities in rural areas. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2005 appropriations. (Sec. 629) Authorizes appropriations for the emergency community water assistance grant program through FY 2006. (Sec. 630) Authorizes appropriations for water and waste facility grants for Indian tribes. (Sec. 631) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for water systems for rural and Native villages in Alaska. (Sec. 632) Makes a nonprofit or other tax exempt entity whose principal office is located on an existing or former Indian reservation, or in a city or town of fewer than 5,000 people eligible for rural business grants. (Sec. 633) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for: (1) rural cooperative development grants; and (2) broadcasting system grants. (Sec. 635) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make business and industry loan guarantees for the purchase of start-up capital stock for a venture that will process agricultural commodities or otherwise process value-added agricultural products; and (2) make or guarantee such loans to a metropolitan-based cooperative if used for a rural project. Permits refinancing use of such loans under specified circumstances. (Sec. 636) Provides for a value-added intermediary relending program. Gives preference to bioenergy projects. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 637) Allows the use of rural development loans and grants for other purposes.if the Secretary determines that the original circumstances have sufficiently changed to make the project no longer appropriate. (Sec. 638) Directs the Secretary to provide simplified guarantee applications for specified loan circumstances. (Sec. 639) Defines "rural' and "rural area" for purposes of: (1) water and waste disposal grants and direct and guaranteed loans; (2) community facility loans and grants; (3) business and industry direct and guaranteed loans; (4) multijurisdictional regional planning organizations and national rural development partnership; and (5) the rural entrepreneurs and microenterprise assistance program, the national rural cooperative and business equity fund, and the rural business investment program. (Sec. 640) Directs the Secretary to establish a rural entrepreneur and microenterprise (an entity with five or fewer employees that is unable to obtain sufficient credit) program to help low- and moderate- income individuals acquire small business skills. Provides such assistance (75 percent Federal share) through qualifying microenterprise development organizations or programs. Requires at least 50 percent of funding for low-income individuals. Provides program funding through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 641) Directs the Secretary to establish an interagency coordinating committee for rural seniors. Directs the Secretary to make grants (20 percent Federal maximum) to nonprofit organizations (including cooperatives) for programs that (1) provide facilities, equipment, and technology for seniors in a rural area; and (2) may be replicated in other rural areas. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. Obligates funds for: (1) senior facilities; and (2) children's day care facilities. (Sec. 643) Directs the Secretary to make grants (50 percent Federal share through year three, zero percent for years four and five) to establish and operate a regional rural telework institute which shall: (1) serve as a clearinghouse for telework research and development and information-sharing; (2) conduct outreach activities; (3) develop and share best practices within the region and throughout the United States; (4) develop telework projects and joint ventures with the private sector; (5) support private sector businesses that are transitioning to telework; and (6) assist telework projects and individuals at the State and local level. Directs the Secretary to make grants for equipment and facilities to expand and operate rural telework locations. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations, with a specified obligation for the rural telework institute. (Sec. 644) Directs the Secretary to establish a historic barn preservation program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, or enter into contracts with State departments of agriculture or certain nonprofit organizations for historic barn preservation. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 645) Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to make grants (75 percent Federal maximum) to public and private nonprofit entities for rural emergency weather radio transmitters; and (2) FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 646) Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible organizations to train farm workers in agricultural technology and higher value crop skills. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 647) Extends and authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for the Delta Regional Authority. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for state-of-the-art technology in animal nutrition and value-added manufacturing to promote economic development in the Lower Mississippi Delta region. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Includes within such region the Alabama counties of Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, and Monroe. (Sec. 648) Establishes the SEARCH Grant Program under which the Secretary shall, upon State request, award environmental grants to qualifying States for communities of not more than 2,500 persons. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 649) Establishes the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority which shall develop programs and approve grants for the economic development of the region encompassing Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Allows the Authority to: (1) approve grants to States, local governments, Indian tribes, and public and nonprofit entities for approved economic development projects (such as transportation, job training, and public services); (2) use funds to supplement Federal grant requirements under specified circumstances; and (3) make grants to local development districts (as defined by this Act). States that Northern Great Plains Inc., a Minnesota nonprofit entity, shall serve as a primary regional resource for the Authority. Directs the Authority to designate annually, and obligate funds for, distressed counties and areas. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Establishes a minimum State allotment. Terminates the Authority as of October 1, 2006. Subtitle D: Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act of 1990. (Terminates the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation, related grants, and the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund, and transfers assets to the Secretary.) (Sec. 652) Authorizes appropriations for rural area telemedicine and distance learning services through FY 2006. Subtitle E: Rural Electrification Act of 1936 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary to guarantee bonds or notes issued by non-profit cooperative or other lender if the proceeds of the bonds or notes are used for electrification or telephone projects eligible for assistance under this Act (including the refinancing of bonds or notes issued for such projects). Prohibits a guarantee on a bond or note whose proceeds are to be used for electricity generation. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates program authority as of September 30, 2006. (Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary to make telephone loans to State or local governments, Indian tribes, or other public entities for expansion of rural 911 access. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension and Related Matters - Subtitle A: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to define: (1) "insular area'' as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Virgin Islands of the United States; and (2) ``State'' as any of the States, the District of Columbia, and any insular area. (Sec. 702) Extends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board through September 30, 2006. (Sec. 703) Authorizes appropriations for grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education through FY 2006. Includes rural economic, community, and business development degrees within the program. (Sec. 704) Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to State cooperative or Hispanic-serving institutions for the construction, acquisition, or renovation of food and agricultural research facilities. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 705) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for: (1) grants for research on the production and marketing of alcohols and industrial hydrocarbons from agricultural commodities and forest products; (2) policy research centers; (3) the human nutrition intervention and health promotion research program; (4) the pilot research program to combine medical and agricultural research; (5) the nutrition education program; (6) animal health and disease research programs; (7) research on national and regional animal health or disease problems; (8) education grant programs for Hispanic-serving institutions; (9) competitive grants for international agricultural science and education programs; (10) agricultural research programs; (11) extension education; (11) aquaculture; and (12) rangeland research. (Sec. 714) Revises the indirect cost cap from 19 percent to the indirect cost rate established for an institution by its cognizant Federal audit agency, except for certain Small Business Act awards. (Sec. 715) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the acquisition of special purpose scientific research equipment for use in the food and agricultural sciences programs of institutions of higher education. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 718) Makes funds for competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant programs available for obligation for a two-year period beginning on October 1 of the fiscal year for which the funds are made available. (Sec. 719) Authorizes the Secretary to issue joint requests for proposals, or to award grants with other agencies including the National Science Foundation, to eliminate duplication of research, review, and evaluation resources. (Sec. 720) Extends supplemental and alternative crop research project authority through FY 2006. (Sec. 723) Establishes in the Treasury an Agriculture Infrastructure Security Fund which shall provide funding to protect and strengthen the Federal food safety and agricultural infrastructure. Directs the Secretary to establish the Agriculture Infrastructure Security Commission which shall: (1) advise the Secretary on Fund use; (2) review all agricultural research facilities for research and infrastructure security importance, and identify facilities that should be closed, consolidated, or modernized; and (4) evaluate the agricultural research facilities acquisition and modernization systems. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Authorizes additional FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations for biosecurity planning and response activities to: (1) reduce U.S. food and agricultural system vulnerability; (2) continue joint research initiatives between the Agricultural Research Service and other entities; and (3) make grants to universities for counterbioterrorism research. Directs the Secretary to make construction grants (50 percent Federal share) to land grant colleges and universities for bioterrorism research facility construction and modernization. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2005 appropriations. Expresses the sense of Congress that funding for the Agricultural Research Service, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and other Department agencies with responsibilities for biosecurity should be increased as necessary. Subtitle B: Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for the national genetic resources program through FY 2006. (Sec. 732) Directs the Secretary to give priority for biotechnology risk assessment research grants to institutions whose goals include: (1) forming interdisciplinary teams to review or conduct research: (2) conducting studies on the biosafety of genetically modified agricultural products; (3) evaluating identity preservation systems; (4) establishing international partnerships; and (5) reviewing the nutritional enhancement and environmental effects of genetically modified agricultural products. (Sec. 733) Directs the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to establish: (1) a rural electronic commerce extension program for small businesses and microenterprises; (2) an Office of Rural Electronic Commerce; and (3) a grant program at land grant colleges and universities to assist such businesses, and to develop innovative electronic commerce business strategies. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 734) Authorizes appropriations for high-priority research and extension initiatives through FY 2006. Includes in such program grants for: (1) animal infectious disease control; (2) childhood obesity control; (3) integrated pest management; (4) beef cattle genetics; (5) prevention of dairy pipeline cleaner; and (6) development of publicly held plant and animal varieties. (Sec. 735) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for the: (1) nutrient management research and extension initiative; (2) organic agriculture research and extension initiative; (3) agricultural telecommunications program; and (4) assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities. Subtitle C: Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 - Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to extend funding for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems through October 1, 2005. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for: (1) the partnerships for high-value agricultural product quality research; (2) the Thomas Jefferson initiative for crop diversification; (3) biobased products (extends pilot program authority through FY 2006); (4) the integrated research, education, and extension competitive grant program (limits grants to five-year terms); (5) research regarding certain wheat and barley diseases; and (6) the Office of Pest Management Policy. (Sec. 747) Authorizes appropriations for precision agriculture activities through FY 2006. Includes horticulture within such program. (Sec. 748) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a bovine Johne's disease control program. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 749) Directs the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to make grants to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, the National 4-H Council, and the National FFA Organization to establish pilot projects to expand their rural and small town activities. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 750) Directs the Secretary, through the Foreign Agricultural Service, to provide grants to historically black land-grant institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions, or tribal institutions to develop agricultural biotechnology for developing countries. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 750B) Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Senior Scientific Research Service. Subtitle D: Land-Grant Funding - Chapter 1: 1862 Institutions - Amends the Hatch Act of 1887 to allow unexpended funds provided to a State agricultural experiment station to be carried over to the following fiscal year. States that if any of such amounts are not expended by the end of the second fiscal year an equal amount shall be deducted from the State's next annual allotment. (Sec. 752) Requires land grant institutions to report on technology transfer activities. (Sec. 753) Amends the Smith-Lever and Hatch Acts, respectively, to require a State to have spent on multistate extension activities and integrated research and extension activities, from all sources of cooperative extension and research funding, an amount equal to 25 percent of the Federal funds provided to the State in the prior fiscal year, before receiving its annual allocation of research or extension funding. Exempts from such provision funds provided to: (1) Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands; or (2) 1994 (Native American) Institutions. Chapter 2: 1994 Institutions - Amends the Smith-Lever Act to authorize appropriations, beginning in FY 2002, for extension activities at 1994 Institutions. (Sec. 755) Amends the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 with respect to such Institutions to: (1) revise the list of Institutions; (2) require accreditation in order to receive research grants; (3) revise the full-time Indian student count formula; (4) increase the authorization of appropriations for institutional payments; (5) authorize institutional capacity building grants and appropriations through FY 2006 (uncaps FY 20002 authorizations); and (6) authorize appropriations for institution research grants through FY 2006. (Sec. 756) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to allow 1994 Institutions to participate in the integrated grants program. Chapter 3: 1890 Institutions - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 with respect to1890 Institutions to revise the authorization of appropriations formulas for extension and research activities. (Sec. 758) Allows unexpended fiscal year funds provided to an Institution to be carried over for the following fiscal year. States that if any of such carried-over amounts are not expended by the end of the second fiscal year an equal amount shall be deducted from the Institution's next annual allotment. (Sec. 759) Requires Institutions to report on technology transfer activities. (Sec. 760) Authorizes appropriations for grants to upgrade agricultural and food sciences facilities through FY 2006. (Increases the FY 2002 authorization.) (Sec. 761) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2006 for national research and training virtual centers (as redesignated by this Act). (Sec. 762) Revises the State matching fund formula for FY 2003 (60 percent) through 2006 (110 percent of the preceding year). Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement for any amount above the 50 percent level. Chapter 4: Land-Grant Institutions - Subchapter A: General - Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to require the Department to establish minimum stakeholder review requirements that ensure transparency and opportunity for stakeholder input. (Sec. 772) Terminates 60 days after enactment of this Act Federal Schedule A civil service appointments for extension workers at land-grant institutions who hold dual government appointments. Provides continued eligibility for specified Federal health, life insurance, retirement, employment credit, and thrift savings benefits, subject to specified limitations. Subchapter B: Land-Grant Institutions in Insular Areas - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary to: (1) make grants to land-grant institutions in insular areas for digital network distance food and agriculture programs; and (2) establish matching requirements. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 776) Amends the Hatch Act of 1887 and the Smith-Lever Act, respectively, to create a 50 percent matching requirement (which the Secretary may waive) for research and extension formula funds for insular area land grant institutions. Subtitle E: Other Laws - Amends the Critical Agricultural Materials Act to authorize appropriations for critical agricultural materials research through FY 2006. (Sec. 782) Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize appropriations for agricultural experiment stations research facilities through FY 2006. (Sec. 783) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to authorize appropriations for Federal agricultural research facilities through FY 2006. (Sec. 784) Amends the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Grant Act to authorize appropriations for competitive, special, and facilities research grants through FY 2006. (Sec. 785) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to specify that risk management education grants may also be made to beginning farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 786) Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for aquaculture policy, planning, and development through FY 2006. (Sec. 787) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize appropriations for carbon cycle research through FY 2006. Subtitle F: New Authorities - Requires the Secretary to: (1) consider the most practicable and cost-effective public or private source to meet the Department's research and inspection needs; and (2) establish conflict of interest guidelines. (Sec. 793) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to two percent ($5 million fiscal year maximum) of any extension- or education-related appropriation to address imminent threats to animal and plant health, food safety, or human nutrition, including bioterrorism. (Sec. 794) Requires the Secretary to evaluate the purpose and impact of the Agricultural Research Service on agricultural research. Provides FY 2002 through 2004 funding. (Sec. 795) Directs the Secretary, through the Rural Business-Cooperative Service and the Agricultural Research Service, to establish a program to promote rural technology transfers. (Sec. 796) Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to foster training, education, outreach, and technical assistance for beginning farmers or ranchers. States that such grants shall: (1) be made to a collaborative State, local, or regionally-based network or partnership of public or private entities; (2) not exceed a three-year term; (3) have a 25 percent matching requirement; and (4) obligate not less than 25 percent of funds for farm workers, and limited resource and socially disadvantaged beginning farmers or ranchers. Directs the Secretary to establish beginning farmer and rancher education teams to conduct educational programs in diverse geographical areas of the United States. Provides specified funding for two fiscal years. (Sec. 797) Expresses the sense of Congress that Federal investments in food and agricultural research should double over the next five years. (Sec. 798) Establishes a Rural Research Fund Account in the Treasury from which the Secretary shall make grants for rural policy research regarding: (1) sociology; (2) demographic changes, (3) infrastructure, and community and business development; (4) education and extension programs; and (5) health. (Sec. 798A) Directs the Secretary to: (1) give on-farm research or extension priority to farmers or ranchers participating in conservation programs; (2) collect and disseminate organic industry market data; (3) report on the national organic standards program impact on small farms; (4) facilitate research and extension professionals' access to organic research conducted outside the United States; and (5) report on handlers and producers of organic products. Title VIII: Forestry - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for the Office of International Forestry through FY 2006. (Sec. 802) Expresses the sense of Congress reaffirming the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act. (Sec. 803) Amends the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 to extend program authority and authorization of appropriations for renewable resources extension activities through FY 2006. Directs the Secretary to establish the sustainable forestry outreach initiative to educate landowners about the value of practicing sustainable forestry, and related resources available to them. (Sec. 804) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the forestry incentives program through FY 2006. (Sec. 805) Directs the Secretary to establish the sustainable forestry cooperative program to develop forestry cooperatives: (1) owned and operated by nonindustrial private forest landowners; and (2) comprised of at least 51 percent farmer or rancher membership. Provides specified funds through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to establish a sustainable forest management program which shall provide grants to nonindustrial private forest landowners who agree to develop a management plan and implement approved activities for at least ten years. Includes among approved activities: (1) timber production; (2) water quality protection; (3) forest habitat, wetland, and riparian area enhancement; (4) energy conservation; (5) hazardous fuels reduction; and (6) invasive species control. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 807) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Management Act of 1978 to authorize a State to permit local governments or qualified organizations to acquire forest legacy program conservation easements. (Sec. 808) Amends the Forest Rangeland Renewable Resources Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to establish at least two forest fire research centers at institutions of higher learning. Requires one to be in California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington, and the other in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, or Wyoming. States that such centers shall: (1) conduct research into the ecological, socioeconomic, and environmental impact of fire control; and (2) develop new fire control technologies. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 809) Directs the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior to provide wildfire prevention and hazardous fuel purchase pilot program grants to: (1) a person, community, Indian tribe, business, or nonprofit organization that operates a biomass-to-energy facility to offset costs incurred in purchasing hazardous fuels derived from public and private land adjacent to eligible communities (as defined by this Act); and (2) a person in a rural community seeking to add value or improve the use of hazardous fuels. Limits fiscal year grants to $1.5 million per facility, with an exemption for small facilities. Directs the Secretary to monitor such treatments' effects upon the environment and public land. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into stewardship contracts for the removal of hazardous fuels from National Forest System land in order to implement the National Fire Plan. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Terminates authority under this section on September 30, 2006. (Sec. 810) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to: (1) direct the Secretary, through the Forest Service, to establish the Chesapeake Bay watershed forestry program to provide technical assistance to the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council, Bay-area States (including the District of Columbia), local governments, and eligible nonprofit organizations; and (2) direct the Secretary to designate a Forest Service employee as the Director for Chesapeake Bay watershed forestry efforts. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make Chesapeake watershed forestry grants (75 percent Federal maximum); and (2) establish a Chesapeake Bay urban watershed forestry research cooperative program. Authorizes specified appropriations for FY 2002 through 2006. (Sec. 811) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to cooperate with State foresters and officials to enhance community fire protection and tree and forest growth and resource conservation. Directs the Secretary to establish the community and private land fire assistance program which may include: (1) fuel hazard mitigation and prevention; (2) invasive species management; (3) multisource wildfire and community protection; (4) community and landowner education, including the FIREWISE program; and (5) market development. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to establish a watershed forestry assistance program, including a watershed forestry cost-sharing program, to provide States with technical, financial, and related assistance to: (1) expand forest stewardship capacities; and (2) prevent water quality degradation on non-Federal forest land. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 813) Establishes within the Forestry Service the suburban and community forestry and open space initiative which shall provide grants (50 percent Federal maximum) to: (1) conserve private forest land and maintain working forests in suburban environments; and (2) address suburban sprawl. States that land purchases may be made only from willing sellers. Authorizes appropriations beginning in FY 2003. (Sec. 815) Includes the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a component of each State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee. (Sec. 816) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 rename the Semiarid Agroforestry Research Center as the USDA National Agroforestry Research Center. Revises program purposes. (Sec. 817) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to establish in the Forest Service the Office of Tribal Relations. Sets forth operational and administrative provisions. (Sec. 818) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial, technical, educational, and related assistance to Indian tribes for: (1) Forest Service coordination respecting resource management, tribal land interests, and traditional and cultural matters; (2) conservation activities; and (3) tribal acquisition of conservation interests from willing sellers. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 819) Directs the Secretary to conduct sudden oak death syndrome programs respecting: (1) research, monitoring, and treatment; (2) management and fire prevention; and (3) outreach and education. Directs the Secretary to establish a Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Advisory Committee. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 820) Requires the Inspector General of the Department to conduct an investigation independent of the Forest Service whenever a firefighter employed by the Service is killed because of wildfire entrapment or burnover. (Sec. 821) Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) an Ecological Restoration Institute in Flagstaff, Arizona; and (2) an Institute at a college or university in New Mexico. Provides for Institute cooperation with Federal agencies, universities, and regional entities. Authorizes specified appropriations. Title IX: Energy - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require Federal purchasing of biobased products if they are: (1) on a Department biobased products list; and (2) comparable in price, performance and availability to non-biobased products. Directs the Secretary to develop a labeling program for biobased products similar to the EPA's Energy Star program. Provides program funding through October 1, 2005. Directs the Secretary to make grants (30 percent Federal maximum, with exceptions) to eligible entities to develop and construct biorefineries for projects that demonstrate the commercial viability of biomass conversion to fuels or chemicals. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities for a biodiesel fuel education program. Authorizes specified FY 2003 through 2006 appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through he Rural Business Cooperative Service, to: (1) make grants, loans, and loan guarantees (50 percent Federal maximum) to assist cooperatives and business ventures (at least 51 percent farmer- or rancher-owned) produce and market electricity from renewable energy sources; and (2) make grants to assist farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses increase energy efficiency and renewable energy use. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make additional loans, loan guarantees, and grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to purchase renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts for projects to demonstrate farm and rural applications of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to provide farmers and ranchers with technical and educational assistance to develop and market renewable energy resources. Directs the Secretary to establish a carbon sequestration research and development program to promote understanding of: (1) the net sequestration of organic carbon in soil and plants and trees; and (2) the net emissions of other greenhouse gases from agriculture. Directs the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to carry out a related grant program. Directs the Secretary, through the Agricultural Research Service, to collaborate with Federal agencies to perform research concerning: (1) carbon losses and gains in soil and plants; and (2) net emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from cultivation and animal management activities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out carbon sequestration-related research in the areas of agronomy, agricultural economics, forestry, and other agricultural sciences; and (2) develop benchmark standards for measuring soil and plant carbon content. Authorizes the Secretary to designate up to two research consortia. Directs the Secretary to convene a carbon sequestration conference to: (1) establish benchmark standards for measuring soil and plant carbon content and net emissions of other greenhouse gases; (2) designate measurement techniques and modeling approaches; and (3) evaluate results of analyses on baseline, permanence and leakage issues. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations for carbon sequestration research and programs. Directs the Secretary to develop: (1) programs to monitor the carbon sequestration benefits of conservation practices and net changes in greenhouse gas emissions; and (2) related outreach programs. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 903) Amends the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 to: (1) revise funding provisions to provide funding through October 1, 2005, through Treasury transfers, and authorize additional specified appropriations for FY 2002 through 2006; and (2) extend authority through September 30, 2006. (Sec. 904) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary to make grants, loans, and loan guarantees to rural electric cooperatives and other rural electric utilities to develop renewable energy, or for rural economic development. Authorizes: (1) grant use for renewable energy project feasibility studies and technical assistance; and (2) loan subsidies. Provides funding through October 1, 2005. (Sec. 905) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary to: (1) make grants to qualifying agricultural producers, non-industrial private forest owners, and farmer-owned cooperatives to test the methodologies by which private parties pay farmers and foresters to store carbon and to otherwise reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases; and (2) establish a related Internet site. Sets forth priority criteria. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations, with a specified set-aside for farmer-owned projects. (Sec. 906) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a national renewable fuels program, including motor fuels, should be adopted; (2) the Department should ensure that its policies and programs promote fuel production from renewable fuel sources; (3) ethanol and biofuel production capacity will be needed to phase out use of methyl tertiary butyl ether in gasoline and U.S. dependence on foreign oil; and (4) the Department's bioenergy program should be expanded. Title X: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: Country of Origin and Quality Grade Labeling - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require a retailer of a covered commodity (beef, lamb, pork, wild or farm-raised fish, perishable agricultural commodities or peanuts, but not processed beef, lamb and pork items or frozen entrees containing beef, lamb and pork) to inform consumers at the final point of sale of a commodity's country of origin. States that U.S. designation of origin may be used only if the article is exclusively from an animal, fish, peanut, or perishable commodity that is, as appropriate, born, hatched, produced, raised, harvested, and slaughtered, or processed in the United States. Exempts food service establishments from such requirements. Prohibits the Secretary from using a mandatory country of origin identification system, but permits use of certain current certification programs. Provides for violation warnings and fines. Prohibits an imported carcass or part, meat, or meat food product from bearing a Department quality grade label. Subtitle B: Crop Insurance - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide crop insurance for sweet potatoes. (Sec. 1012) Removes the time limit on the prohibition of continuous coverage. (Sec. 1013) Requires that certain quality loss adjustment procedures be made by the 2003 reinsurance year. (Sec. 1014) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include: (1) indemnity payments among the benefits that a person who produces commodities on highly erodible land is ineligible for, and (2) farm storage facility loans, disaster payments, and indemnity payments among the benefits that a person who produces commodities on converted wetland is ineligible for. Removes production flexibility benefits from the category of such benefits. Amends the Controlled Substances Act to expand the list of loans and payments for which persons convicted of cultivating controlled substances are ineligible. Subtitle C: Animal Health Protection - Animal Health Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary to restrict the importation, entry, or further movement in the United States, or order the destruction or removal, of animals (including livestock) and related conveyances and facilities for reasons of: (1) livestock pest or disease control; or (2) humane treatment. Authorizes related activities respecting exportation, interstate movement, cooperative agreements, enforcement and penalties, seizure, and quarantine and disease and pest eradication. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a veterinary accreditation program; (2) produce and sell sterile screwworms to foreign countries and international organizations; and (3) enter into reimbursable fee agreements for preclearance abroad of animals or articles for movement into the United States. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations of such provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer necessary funds in a livestock pest or disease-related emergency. Subtitle D: General Provisions - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to: (1) revise and increase specified pesticide registration fees; (2) unify registration fees; (3) redefine "small business" for fee purposes; and (4) extend specified fee authorities. (Sec. 1042) Directs: (1) EPA to develop a sample school pest management plan; and (2) States and local educational agencies to develop school pest management plans as part of cooperative enforcement agreements with EPA. Includes among plan components: (1) mitigation of health risks through integrated methods, pest inspections and monitoring; (2) notification during the school year and related registry of staff members and parents; and (3) use of certified applicators. (Sec. 1043) Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended to be slaughtered for: (1) a cooperative whose majority membership owns, feeds, or controls the livestock that the cooperative slaughters; or (2) a packer, owned or controlled by producers of a type of livestock, that slaughters less than two percent of such livestock slaughtered annually in the United States. Sets forth exceptions. (Sec. 1044) Includes "livestock contractor" as a covered entity under such Act. Authorizes a party to a contract for the sale of livestock or poultry to discuss confidential information with: (1) a legal adviser; (2) a lender; (3) an accountant; (4) an executive or manager; (5) a landlord; (6) a family member; or (7) a Federal or State enforcement or administrative agency. (Sec. 1045) Makes it unlawful for any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to buy, sell, give, receive, transfer, market, hold, or drag any nonambulatory livestock unless such livestock has been humanely euthanized. Provides exceptions for: (1) farms not subject to animal care provisions of the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration; and (2) veterinary care intended to make the livestock ambulatory. (Sec. 1046) States that a person seeking to resolve a dispute in a livestock or poultry production or sale contract may elect: (1) arbitration in accordance with the contract; or (2) any other lawful method of dispute resolution, including mediation and civil action. (Sec. 1047) Amends the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act to extend cotton classification services through FY 2006. (Sec. 1048) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise specified protection provisions for purchasers of farm products. (Sec. 1049) Amends the Animal Welfare Act to: (1) include among humane standards for animal treatment provisions respecting socialization of dogs and breeding initiation and frequency of female dogs; (2) revise temporary license suspension provisions; and (3) establish mandatory suspension provisions. (Sec. 1050) Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to provide FY 2003 through 2006 funding for State marketing and marketing research programs, with priority given to small farms and limited resource farmers. Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to: (1) work to train, and share information among, managers of farmers' markets; (2) train extension service employees in the development of direct marketing techniques; and (3) work with producers to develop farmers' markets. Directs the Secretary to carry out a Farmers' Market Promotion Program to make grants (60 percent Federal maximum) to establish and promote farmers' markets. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 1051) Amends the Animal Welfare Act to exclude birds, rats, and mice bred for research from coverage under such Act. (Sec. 1052) Revises provisions prohibiting animal fighting to: (1) increase monetary and prison penalties for violations; (2) include within "intrastate or foreign commerce" movement from a State into a foreign country; and (3) replace the State-law based prohibition on live bird fighting ventures with a prohibition on the sale, purchase, transport, or delivery in interstate or foreign commerce of any animal for fighting purposes. (Sec. 1054) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to carry out an outreach and technical assistance program to assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in: (1) owning and operating farms and ranches; and (2) participating in Department programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, eligible entities to provide related information and technical assistance. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Includes gender within the definition of "socially disadvantaged group." (Sec. 1055) Amends the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to authorize the Secretary to permit certification and labeling of salt water-harvested wild fish and wild shellfish as organic. (Sec. 1056) Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to direct the Secretary to establish within the Department the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights. (Sec. 1057) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to ensure compilation and disclosure of data to assess and hold the Department accountable for the nondiscriminatory participation of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in Department programs. (Sec. 1058) Amends Federal criminal law with respect to animal enterprise terrorism to: (1) redefine such offense; (2) revise penalties for economic damage (up to six months' imprisonment and /or fined), major economic damage (up to three years' imprisonment and /or fined), serious bodily injury (up to 20 years' imprisonment and /or fined), and death (up to life imprisonment and/or fined); and (3) allow restitution for other economic damage. (Sec. 1059) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend the pseudorabies eradication program through FY 2006. (Sec. 1060) Amends Federal law to make permanent the provision allowing the Postal Service to require air carriers to accept day-old poultry as mail if the air carrier allows the shipment of any live animals as cargo. (Sec. 1061) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations for emergency grants to assist low-income migrant and seasonal farm workers. Eliminates: (1) the permanent authorization of appropriations; and (2) the annual grant cap. (Sec. 1062) Amends FAIRA to authorize the Secretary to provide assistance (replanting assistance and/or seedlings) to eligible commercial orchardists who have suffered qualifying tree losses (greater than 15 percent mortality rate) caused by a natural disaster. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. Applies such provision to losses incurred after January 1, 2000. (Sec. 1063) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to require that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service conduct airport preclearance quarantine inspections of persons, baggage, cargo and other items destined from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Directs that such provision shall not be implemented unless the Service's appropriation for inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities is increased by $3 million in a non-agriculture FY 2002 appropriations Act. (Sec. 1064) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 regarding loans to seed producers who were unsecured creditors of a seed company that filed for bankruptcy in 2000 to lengthen such loans from 18 months to 54 months. (Sec. 1065) Directs the Secretary, through the Agricultural Marketing Service, to use specified FY 2002 through 2005 CCC funds to establish a national organic certification cost-share program (75 percent Federal maximum). (Sec. 1066) Establishes the Food Safety Commission, which shall be composed of 15 members from consumer groups; food processors, producers, retailers; public health professionals; food inspectors; former or current food safety regulators; members of academia; or any other interested individuals. Directs the Commission to make recommendations to implement a specified National Academy of Sciences report which shall serve as the legislative basis to improve the food safety system and public health. Authorizes $3 million to carry out such activities. Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of required recommendations and reports. (Sec. 1067) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary should resume violation tracking and reporting under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958, fully enforce such Act to ensure humane livestock slaughter and worker safety, and bring about improvement of products and economies in slaughtering operations; and (2) U.S. policy should be that livestock handling and slaughter should be carried out only by humane methods. (Sec. 1068) Amends the Plant Protection Act to revise penalties provisions, including: (1) criminal and civil forfeiture; and (2) categories of criminal offenses for major violations, multiple violations, and intent to harm U.S. agriculture. (Sec. 1069) Amends Federal law to extend congressional consent to the interstate compact respecting restoration of Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River Basin and creation of the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission for an additional 20 years. Authorizes specified appropriations for the Commission through FY 2010. (Sec. 1070) Bear Protection Act of 2002 - Prohibits any person from: (1) importing bear viscera into, or exporting it from, the United States; or (2) selling bear viscera, bartering, offering for sale or barter, or purchasing, possessing, transporting, delivering, or receiving it in interstate or foreign commerce. Subjects violators to specified criminal and civil penalties. Waives such prohibition for wildlife law enforcement purposes where a valid permit has been issued. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to continue discussions concerning trade in bear viscera with the appropriate representatives of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and with representatives of non-CITES countries that are leading importers, exporters, or consumers of such products. Declares that nothing in this Act shall affect State regulation of bear populations or the lawful hunting of bears under State law. (Sec. 1071) Reenacts family farmer bankruptcy provisions. (Sec. 1072) Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter, with exceptions for: (1) animals held for not more than 14 days before slaughter; (2) a cooperative whose majority membership owns, feeds, or controls the livestock that the cooperative slaughters; or (3) a packer, owned or controlled by producers of a type of livestock, that slaughters less than two percent of such livestock slaughtered annually in the United States. (Sec. 1073) Amends the Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Act to require the Secretary to: (1) review seat allocation on the Hass Avocado Board; and (2) allow avocado importers to pay the assessment not less than 30 days after customs clearance, unless deemed not feasible by the Commissioner of Customs and the Secretary. (Sec. 1074) Expresses the sense of the Senate that no Social Security surplus funds should be used to make currently scheduled tax cuts permanent or for wasteful spending. (Sec. 1075) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the repeal of the estate tax should be made permanent by eliminating the sunset provision's (December 31, 2010) applicability to the estate tax. (Sec. 1076) Appropriates specified additional FY 2002 funds for emergency disaster assistance for the commercial fishery failure with respect to Northeast multispecies fisheries. Directs such funds' use to support a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program in the Northeast multispecies fishery that: (1) is certified by the Secretary of Commerce; and (2) permanently revokes multispecies limited access permits so as to obtain expedited fishing capacity reduction and prevent capacity replacement. Requires that the program be: (1) carried out in accordance with a specified Interim Final rule; and (2) terminated one year after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1077) Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive review of each State's meat and poultry inspection program. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1078) Authorizes FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations for: (1) studies on the transmission of spongiform encephalopathy in deer, elk, and moose, and chronic wasting disease; (2) a research and extension grant program to develop prevention and control methodologies for infectious animal diseases of livestock, and laboratory tests to expedite detection of infected livestock and presence of disease in herds or flocks; (3) a vaccine storage and shortfall study; and (4) a veterinary training program to ensure State and Federal capacities to recognize and diagnose exotic and endemic animal diseases. (Sec. 1079) Authorizes the President to establish within the Office of Science and Technology Policy a position of Veterinary Advisor to provide expertise in: (1) food safety; (2) exotic and endemic animal disease prevention; and (3) animal agriculture. (Sec. 1079A) Directs the Secretary to review the operation of agricultural and natural resource programs on tribal and trust land, including natural resource management, incentive, and farm income support programs. (Sec. 1079B) Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to assist geographically disadvantaged farmers (as defined by this Act) in owning and operating farms and participating equitably in Department programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with eligible entities to provide information and technical assistance. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2006 appropriations. (Sec. 1079C) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should ensure that the name ``ginseng'' or any name that includes the word ``ginseng'' shall be used in reference to an herb or herbal ingredient that: (1) is part of the plant of one of the species of the genus Panax; and (2) and is produced in compliance with U.S. pesticide laws. (Sec. 1079D) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to expand for the 2003 reinsurance year the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program into at least eight counties in the State that produces the highest quantity of specialty crops for which adjusted gross revenue insurance is not available. Directs the Corporation to carry out such program through at least the 2004 reinsurance year. (Sec. 1079E) Defines "pasteurization" for any provision of Federal law under which a food or food product is required to undergo pasteurization. Subtitle E: Studies and Reports - Directs the Secretary to report respecting: (1) the promotion, marketing, and purchasing of U.S. poached and canned salmon under Department food and nutrition programs; (2) the creation of a Department litter bank at the University of Arkansas for the purpose of enhancing health and viability of watersheds in areas with large concentrations of animal producing units; (3) the feasibility of expanding crop insurance and noninsured crop assistance eligibility to agricultural producers experiencing disaster conditions caused primarily by Federal agency action; and (4) (through GAO) the implications of including birds, rats, and mice in the definition of ``animal'' under the Animal Welfare Act. (Sec. 1083) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should report on Department implementation of recommendations made by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants (of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council) regarding: (1) food safety, ecological research, and monitoring needs for transgenic crops with plant incorporated protectants; and (2) operational enhancements to the biotechnology regulatory framework. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1086) Directs the Administrator of EPA to report on EPA regulation of the sale and use of agricultural pesticides through electronic transactions. (Sec. 1088) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to evaluate the merits of establishing one or more National Institutes for Plant and Agricultural Sciences. Subtitle F: Organic Products Promotion - Organic Products Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 2002 - Authorizes the Secretary to issue an order providing for a program of organic product promotion, research, and information. Applies such program to producers, first handlers and other marketers, and importers of organic products. Requires the order to establish a National Organic Products Board that shall effectuate such program. Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) administration and operations; (2) assessments; (3) referenda; (4) enforcement authority; (5) petition and review of orders; and (6) suspension or termination of orders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Administration - Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate necessary implementing regulations. (Sec. 1099A) States that amendments made by the Act shall not affect the Secretary's authority to carry out current price support or production adjustment programs as in effect before the date of enactment.
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 - Title I: Commodity Programs - Subtitle A: Direct Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments - (Sec. 1101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary), for purposes of making direct and counter-cyclical payments, to give a farm owner the opportunity to elect one of four base acre calculation methods which shall apply to all covered commodities (wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds) on a farm. Identifies the applicable method for nonelection. Provides for base acre adjustment upon conservation reserve contract termination or acreage release. Authorizes an owner to permanently reduce a commodity's base acres. (Sec. 1102) Directs the Secretary to establish payment yields for each farm for each covered commodity. States that: (1) the yield shall be the payment yield in effect for the 2002 crop of the commodity; or (2) if no yield is available the Secretary shall establish an appropriate payment yield based upon similar yields in the area. Directs the Secretary to establish soybean and other oilseed yields for a farm by determining the average yield from 1998 through 2001, excluding years where the planted oilseed acreage was zero. Sets forth crop acreage base and payment yield update provisions. (Sec. 1103) Directs the Secretary to make direct payments for FY 2002 through 2007. Sets forth payment rates for wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds. States that the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of the payment rate, acreage, and yield. Authorizes up to 50 percent in advance payments. (Sec. 1104) Directs the Secretary to make counter-cyclical payments for crop years 2002 through 2007 whenever the effective rate is less than the target price. States that the effective price shall be equal to the sum of: (1) the higher of the national average market price during the 12-month marketing year for the commodity or the national average loan rate for the commodity, and (2) the direct payment rate for the commodity. Authorizes partial payments. Sets forth covered commodity target prices for: (1) crop years 2002 and 2003; and (2) crop years 2004 through 2007. States that: (1) the payment rate for counter-cyclical payments shall be equal to: (1) the difference between the target price and the effective price for the commodity; and (2) the payment amount for such payments shall be equal to the product of the payment rate, acreage, and yield. (Sec. 1105) Sets forth contract elements. Provides for: (1) tenant and sharecropper protection; and (2) equitable contract payment sharing among eligible producers. (Sec. 1106) Permits planting flexibility on base acres, with exceptions for tree-or perennial-grown fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice, unless the base acreage commodity is destroyed before harvest. (Sec. 1107) Terminates the Secretary's authority to make production flexibility contract payments on the date of the enactment of this Act, unless requested by the producer. Reduces any direct payments due a producer by any FY 2002 payments made under a production flexibility contract. (Sec. 1108) Makes the provisions of this subtitle effective through crop year 2007. Subtitle B: Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments - (Sec. 1201) Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans to producers of specified commodities through crop year 2007. Requires producers to comply with appropriate conservation and wetland provisions. Directs the Secretary to make loans to a producer with covered commodities commingled in an unlicensed storage facility if the producer agrees to immediately redeem the loan collateral. Terminates FY 2002 marketing loan assistance under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA). (Sec. 1202) Sets forth crop year 2002 through 2003 and 2004 through 2007 loan rates for: (1) wheat; (2) corn; (3) grain sorghum; (4) barley; (5) oats; (6) upland cotton; (7) extra long staple cotton; (8) rice; (9) soybeans; (10) other oilseeds; (11) graded wool; (12) nongraded wool; (13) honey; (14) dry peas; (15) lentils; (16) small chickpeas; and (17) mohair. (Sec. 1203) Provides for a market loan term of nine months with no extensions. (Sec. 1204) Permits producers of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans, other oilseeds, dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, wool, mohair, and honey to repay marketing assistance loans at the lesser of: (1) the loan rate for the commodity plus interest; or (2) a loan rate that will minimize forfeitures, accumulation of stocks, storage costs, allow competitive marketing, and minimize State and county discrepancies. Permits producers of: (1) upland cotton and rice to repay marketing assistance loans at a rate that is the lesser of the loan rate for the commodity plus interest, or the prevailing world market price (adjusted to U.S. quality and location); and (2) extra long staple cotton to repay marketing assistance loans at the loan rate plus interest. (Sec. 1205) Directs the Secretary to make loan deficiency payments to producers who, although eligible for a marketing assistance loan, agree to forgo a loan in favor of receiving a payment. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for unshorn pelts, hay, or silage derived from a loan commodity. States that: (1) the loan deficiency payment shall be the product of the payment rate and the quantity of the loan commodity produced, excluding any commodity for which the producer obtained a loan; and (2) the payment rate shall be the amount by which the loan rate exceeds the repayment rate. Sets forth payment rates for unshorn pelts, hay, and silage. Exempts extra long staple cotton from such provisions. Sets forth loan deficiency payment rules for producers of wool, mohair, honey, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas who lost beneficial interest in the crop before publication of certain implementing regulations. Amends FAIRA to extend to crop year 2001 loan deficiency payment availability to producers who, although not eligible for marketing assistance loans, produce a contract commodity. (Sec. 1206) Directs the Secretary to make payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments through crop year 2007 to producers who: (1) elect to use wheat, barley, or oats acreage for grazing; and (2) agree to forgo any other harvesting of such crops on the acreage. States that: (1) the payment shall be the product of the loan deficiency payment rate and the payment quantity; and (2) such acreage, including triticale acreage, shall be ineligible for Federal crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make payments through crop year 2007 to producers with triticale acreage used for grazing if the producer agrees to forgo any other harvesting of triticale on the acreage. (Sec. 1207) Sets forth special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton through July 31, 2008. (Removes the 1.25 cent threshold through July 31, 2006.) Directs the President to carry out, under specified cotton price related circumstances: (1) a special import quota through July 31, 2008; and (2) a limited global import quota for upland cotton. (Sec. 1208) Directs the Secretary, through July 31, 2008, to make payments to producers and exporters of U.S.-produced extra long staple cotton in order to maintain and expand such cotton's domestic and export use. (Sec. 1209) Directs the Secretary to make recourse loans available to producers of high moisture feed grains (corn and grain sorghum) and seed cotton through crop year 2007. Terminates crop year 2002 loan authority under FAIRA. Subtitle C: Peanuts - (Sec. 1302) Sets forth payment yield and payment acre provisions for peanuts. (Sec. 1303) Directs the Secretary to make direct payments: (1) to historic peanut producers (producers who planted or were prevented from planting 1998 through 2001 crops) for the 2002 crop year; and (2) for each of the 2003 through 2007 crop years, to producers on a farm on which payment yield and base acres have been assigned. Establishes a $36 per ton payment rate. Authorizes producers to elect 50 percent advance payments. (Sec. 1304) Directs the Secretary to make counter-cyclical payments available when the effective price is less than the target price ($495 per ton) to: (1) historic producers for the 2002 crop year; and (2) producers on a farm on which payment yield and base acres have been assigned for crop years 2003 through 2007. Sets forth effective price, payment rate, and payment amount provisions. Provides for a partial payment option. (Sec. 1305) Requires producers to comply with specified conservation, wetland, planting flexibility, and agricultural use provisions. (Sec. 1306) Permits planting flexibility on peanut acres, with exceptions for fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice. Prohibits planting of trees and perennials on base acres. Exempts from such limitations: (1) any region with a history of double-cropping; or (2) a farm or a producer that has a history of planting such agriculture commodities. (Sec. 1307) Directs the Secretary to: (1) make nine-month nonrecourse marketing loans available to peanut producers through crop year 2007 at $355 per ton, including certain instances of commingled peanuts; and (2) provide related storage costs through crop year 2006. Requires compliance with conservation and wetlands provisions. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for producers who are eligible for but forgo such loans, with a special determination rate for crop year 2002. (Sec. 1308) Requires Federal or Federal-State inspection of all U.S.-marketed peanuts. Terminates the Peanut Administrative Committee. Directs the Secretary to establish a Peanut Standards Board to assist in establishing peanut standards. Authorizes appropriations, in addition to other funds that may be available, to carry out such activities. (Sec. 1309) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to terminate the peanut marketing quota program. Directs the Secretary to offer eligible peanut quota holders a compensation contract through FY 2006, which shall be the product of the farm poundage quota and $0.11. Authorizes producers to elect a single lump-sum payment in lieu of five installment payments. Eliminates peanuts from certain eminent domain provisions. (Sec. 1310) Amends FAIRA to terminate the peanut price support program. Sets forth crop insurance provisions for crop year 2002 peanuts. Subtitle D: Sugar - (Sec. 1401) Amends FAIRA to direct the Secretary to carry out the sugar program through nonrecourse (currently recourse) loans, including loans to processors of in-process sugars and syrups at 80 percent of sugarcane and sugar beet rates. Makes current foreign subsidy-based mandatory loan rate reductions for domestic sugar discretionary. Directs the Secretary to operate the sugar program at no cost to the Federal Government by avoiding sugar forfeiture to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). Authorizes CCC to accept processor bids for sugar inventory purchases in exchange for reduced production. Sets forth producer and importer reporting requirements. Provides for the substitution of refined sugar in certain sugar export and polyhydric alcohol programs. Extends the sugar program through crop year 2007. Makes CCC interest rate provisions inapplicable to sugarcane, sugar beets, and in-process sugar. (Sec. 1402) Directs CCC to establish a sugar storage and handling facility loan program for processors of domestically produced sugarcane and sugar beets. (Sec. 1403) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide for estimates of: (1) U.S. sugar consumption; and (2) total U.S. sugar supply. Revises sugar marketing allotment provisions. Directs the United States Trade Representative to: (1) determine the annual amount of cane sugar quota used by each supplying country (as defined by this Act); and (2) permit reallocation of the unused quota among such countries. Subtitle E: Dairy - (Sec. 1501) Extends the dairy price support program through 2007 (at $9.90 per hundredweight for milk containing 3.67 percent butterfat). Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) maintain such level through purchases of cheese, butter, and nonfat dry milk; and (2) modify butter and nonfat dry milk prices up to twice a year. (Sec. 1502) Directs the Secretary to provide market loss payments from December 1, 2001, through September 30, 2005, to milk producers in all States Provides that the producer payment amount shall equal 45 percent of the difference between $16.94 and the price per hundredweight of Class I fluid milk in Boston under the applicable Federal milk marketing order. Limits single operation producer payments to 2.4 million pounds of milk marketed per year. (Sec. 1503) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the dairy export incentive program through 2007. Amends Federal law to extend the dairy indemnity program through 2007. (Sec. 1504) Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to revise dairy product mandatory reporting provisions. (Sec. 1505) Amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 respecting dairy importers to provide for: (1) National Dairy Promotion and Research Board representation; (2) referenda voting eligibility; and (3) assessments at rates equal to domestic producers. Defines "imported dairy product." Prohibits importer assessments from being used for foreign export promotion. (Sec. 1506) Amends the Fluid Milk Promotion Act to: (1) repeal the December 31, 2002, milk order termination date; and (2) revise the definitions of "fluid milk product" and "fluid milk processor." (Sec. 1507) Directs the Secretary to conduct a national dairy policy study. (Sec. 1508) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the effects of: (1) terminating Federal milk price and management programs; (2) granting congressional consent to State price and management efforts; and (3) including in the identity of fluid milk a required minimum protein content. Subtitle F: Administration - (Sec. 1601) Directs the Secretary to use CCC funds, facilities, and authorities to carry out this title. Authorizes the Secretary to make expenditure adjustments if expenditures will exceed total allowable domestic support levels under the Uruguay Round Agreement. (Sec. 1602) Extends through 2007: (1) specified suspensions of permanent price support authority respecting loan commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Agricultural Act of 1949; and (2) a specified suspension of wheat and corn marketing quota provisions. (Sec. 1603) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise limitations on direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, marketing loan gains, and loan deficiency payments. Limits: (1) direct and counter-cyclical payments to a person for corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, wheat, soybeans, minor oilseeds, cotton, rice, and peanuts to $40,000 and $65,000, respectively; and (2) marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments to a person for corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, wheat, soybeans, minor oilseeds, cotton, rice peanuts, wool, mohair, honey, lentils, dry peas, and small chickpeas to $75,000. (Sec. 1604) States that through crop year 2007, an individual or entity shall not receive any of the following benefits during a crop year if the average adjusted gross income of the individual or entity exceeds $2.5 million unless not less than 75 percent of the average adjusted gross income of the individual or entity is derived from farming, ranching, or forestry operations: (1) direct or counter-cyclical payments; (2) marketing loan or loan deficiency payments; or (3) payments under title XII of this Act or title II of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. (Sec. 1605) Establishes the Commission on the Application of Payment Limitations for Agriculture. (Sec. 1606) Amends FAIRA to include title I of this Act within the criteria for: (1) commodity loan adjustments; (2) producer liability for deficiencies; and (3) loan administrative authority. (Sec. 1609) Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act permit CCC use of private sector entities. (Sec. 1610) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to reduce the reserve stock level for Flue-cured tobacco from 100 million pounds (farm sales weight) to 60 million pounds or ten percent of the national marketing quota. (Sec. 1611) Directs the Secretary to: (1) allow special farm reconstitutions in lieu of leases and transfer of tobacco allotments and quotas for crop year 2002; and (2) study the effects on producer limitations on moving tobacco quotas to a farm other than the farm to which the quota was originally assigned. (Sec. 1612) Provides that producers may assign any payments received under this Act by providing notice as prescribed by the Secretary. (Sec. 1613) Authorizes the Secretary and State Executive Directors of the Farm Service Agency and State Conservationists with the Natural Resource Conservation Service to grant relief from loan and other benefit ineligibility under specified circumstances. (Sec. 1615) Directs the Secretary to include in projections of net farm income an estimate of net farm income: (1) earned by U.S. commercial producers; and (2) attributable to commercial producers of livestock, and loan and non-loan commodities. (Sec. 1616) Directs the Secretary to provide hard white wheat incentive payments for crop years 2003 through 2005 to producers who demonstrate that buyers and end-users are available. (Sec. 1617) Authorizes the Secretary to use CCC funds to make specified supplemental payments to agricultural producers who did not receive such payments before October 1, 2001. (Sec. 1618) Permits producers in Erie County, Pennsylvania, to retain erroneously paid loan deficiency and marketing loan benefits. Title II: Conservation - Subtitle A: Conservation Security - (Sec. 2001) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a FY 2003 through 2007 conservation security program to assist owners and operators adopt or maintain conservation practices on production land. Includes among such practices promotion of: soil, water, air, energy; and plant and animal life. Defines eligible providers and lands (excludes lands in the conservation, grassland, and wetland reserve programs, and certain other converted lands). Requires a participant to submit a conservation security plan. Establishes three tiers of conservation contracts, and bases a participant's annual payments upon implemented tiers. Sets forth related program and operating provisions. (Sec. 2002) Prohibits the Secretary from delegating compliance determination authority with respect to the highly erodible land and wetland programs. (Sec. 2003) Authorizes the Secretary to designate and provide incentives for special projects to enhance technical and financial assistance to owners, operators, and producers to address agriculture-related natural resource issues. Obligates specified funds for such projects. (Sec. 2004) Authorizes the Secretary to provide agricultural conservation program incentives to: (1) beginning farmers and ranchers; (2) Indian tribes; and (3) limited resource agricultural producers. (Sec. 2005) Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to coordinate land retirement and agricultural working land conservation programs in order to: (1) eliminate redundancy; (2) streamline program delivery; and (3) improve producer services. Subtitle B: Conservation Reserve - (Sec. 2101) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise and extend the conservation reserve program through 2007. Provides a one-year extension for contracts expiring in 2002. Revises eligible land provisions, including expansion of marginal pastureland eligibility, and inclusion of wildlife resources. Increases maximum program acreage enrollment. Extends the pilot program for enrollment of wetland and buffer acreage through 2007. Eliminates provisions limiting the program to Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Increases maximum program acreage enrollment, and revises State acreage limitations. Permits wetland enrollment of ten-acre tracts (payment eligibility limited to five acres). Sets forth owner-operator and Secretarial duties. Revises haying and grazing provisions. Permits wind turbine and biomass activities. Sets forth payment and contract provisions. Authorizes the conversion of highly erodible cropland devoted to vegetative cover to: (1) hardwood trees, windbreaks, shelterbelts, or wildlife corridors; or (2) wetland. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the conservation reserve program's economic and social effects on rural communities. Subtitle C: Wetlands Reserve Program - (Sec. 2201) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the wetlands reserve program through 2007. (Sec. 2202) Increases maximum acreage enrollment. Eliminates enrollment method percentages. (Sec. 2203) Revises easement provisions. Subtitle D: Environmental Quality Incentives - (Sec. 2301) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise and extend the environmental quality incentives program through 2007. Reduces minimum program contracts. Provides increased cost-share assistance for limited resource and beginning farmers. Eliminates the prohibition on cost-share payments for construction of certain animal waste management facilities. Modifies incentive payment provisions. Targets 60 percent of cost-share and incentive payments for livestock production practices. Revises provisions respecting: (1) priorities; and (2) producer and Secretarial duties. Sets forth plan requirements for confined livestock feeding operations. Increases payment limitation provisions, including: (1) eliminating annual limitations; and (2) increasing aggregate limitations. Eliminates temporary program provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to make cost-share grants to stimulate innovative approaches to leveraging Federal investment in environmental enhancement and protection. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the environmental quality incentives program, to promote ground and surface water conservation by providing cost-share payments, incentive payments, and loans to producers to: (1) improve irrigation systems; (2) convert to less water-intensive agricultural commodities, or to dryland farming; (3) improve water storage through measures such as water banking and groundwater recharge; and (4) mitigate the effects of drought. Obligates specified amounts for FY 2002 through 2007 for the environmental quality incentives program, with a specified set-aside for water conservation activities in Klamath Basin, California and Oregon. Subtitle E: Grassland Reserve - (Sec. 2401) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a grassland reserve program for land that is or has historically been natural grass or shrubland, and has significant potential for animal or plant restoration. Provides for: (1) a maximum enrollment of two million acres; and (2) enrollment through a 10-year, 15-year, or 20-year rental agreement, a 30-year rental agreement or permanent or 30-year easement; or in a State that imposes a maximum duration for easements, an easement for the maximum duration allowed under State law. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate an easement to a private conservation or land trust organization, or a State agency. Subtitle F: Other Conservation Programs - (Sec. 2501) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act with respect to the agricultural management assistance program to: (1) limit the program to Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming; and (2) increase FY 2003 through 2007 funding. (Sec. 2502) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations through FY 2007 for: (1) the conservation of private grazing land program, including establishment of two grazing management demonstration districts; and (2) the wildlife habitat incentive. Directs the Secretary to establish the national grassroots water protection program to more effectively use onsite technical assistance capabilities of State rural water associations that operate wellhead or groundwater protection programs. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) carry out the Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and sediment control; and (2) provide related grants, technical assistance, and education programs. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 2503) Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations for the farmland protection program (to be carried out through the Natural Resources Conservation Service). Eliminates acreage limitations. Includes within the program: (1) land containing historic or archaeological resources; and (2) certain forest land. Expands participating entity eligibility. Authorizes the Secretary to use specified funds to provide matching market viability grants and technical assistance. (Transfers program authority from FAIRA to the Food Security Act of 1985.) (Sec. 2504) Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to revise the resource conservation and development program. Provides technical and financial assistance through councils for conservation and development projects. Makes the authorization of appropriations permanent. Renames the Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board as the Resource Conservation and Development Policy Advisory Board. (Sec. 2505) Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act respecting rehabilitation of water project structural measures to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY 2007; (2) increase FY 2003 through 2005 authorizations; and (3) make specified CCC funds available through FY 2007. (Sec. 2506) Amends FAIRA to authorize the Secretary to: (1) use, license, or transfer National Natural Resources Conservation Foundation symbols, slogans, and logos; and (2) use the revenues for conservation purposes. (Sec. 2507) Directs the Secretary to transfer specified CCC funds to the Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Account to provide water to at-risk natural desert terminal lakes. Subtitle G: Conservation Corridor Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to carry out the Conservation Corridor Demonstration Program under which Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, a local entity with jurisdiction over Delmarva Peninsula land, or any combination of such State and local entities may submit a conservation corridor plan to integrate Department and State or local agriculture and forestry conservation programs. Provides for 50 percent cost-sharing, unless the Secretary authorizes a greater Federal share. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Subtitle H: Funding and Administration - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise certain funding provisions to: (1) provide CCC funding through FY 2007 for the conservation reserve, wetlands reserve, and conservation security programs; (2) use specified FY 2002 through 2007 CCC amounts for the farmland protection, grassland reserve, environmental quality incentives, and wildlife habitat incentives programs; and (3) eliminate the livestock production set-aside. Eliminates certain provisions respecting the use of other agencies and State and local agricultural committees. Title III: Trade - Subtitle A: Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and Related Statutes - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) respecting the food for peace program to: (1) extend the program through 2007; (2) make the amount of funds available for eligible organizations on a percent rather than fixed amount basis; (3) permit commodity sale proceeds to be denominated in other than the local currency; (4) extend through FY 2007 and increase maximum assistance tonnage levels; (5) extend the Food Aid Consultative Group through 2007; (6) eliminate the maximum annual expenditure level; (7) extend funding authority for certain commodity prepositioning through FY 2007; (8) extend authorization of appropriations through FY 2007 for stockpiling, delivery, and distribution of shelf-stable pre-packaged goods; (9) extend the micronutrient fortification program through FY 2007 (ends the program's pilot status); and (10) extend the John Ogonowski farmer-to-farmer program through FY 2007 (increases minimum funding provisions and includes Caribbean Basin and Sub-Saharan countries within the program framework). Subtitle B: Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 - (Sec. 3101) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to develop an agricultural exporter website. (Sec. 3102) Extends the export credit guarantee program, including required guarantees for processed and high-value products, through FY 2007. Authorizes appropriations to cover the costs of loan guarantees exceeding 180 days. (Extends the guarantee period to 360 days, subject to authorization of such appropriations.) (Sec. 3103) Extends market access program funding through FY 2007. (Sec. 3104) Extends the export enhancement program through FY 2007. Expands the definition of "unfair trade practices" to include certain: (1) agricultural pricing practices by state trading enterprises; (2) trade or sanitary restrictions; (3) subsidies; and (4) restrictions on U.S. imports. (Sec. 3105) Extends funding for the foreign market development cooperator program through FY 2007. (Sec. 3106) Extends the food for progress program through 2007 Defines an "eligible entity" as: (1) the government of an emerging agricultural country; (2) an intergovernmental organization; (3) a private voluntary organization; (4) a nonprofit agricultural organization; (5) a nongovernmental organization; or (6) any other private entity. Defines "eligible commodity." Prohibits program distributions that will reduce domestic commodity amounts below levels traditionally available for domestic feeding programs. States that CCC funds in excess of $40 million may be used in FY 2002 through 2007 only if authorized in advance by appropriations. Establishes minimum commodity tonnages (400,000 metric tons) for each of FY 2002 through 2007. Increases administrative expense amounts. Authorizes program fund use for humanitarian or development purposes. (Sec. 3107) Authorizes the President to establish the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program to provide agricultural commodities and financial and technical assistance for: (1) school-based food programs; and (2) maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs. Encourages the President to seek multinational and private sector involvement. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2003, and authorizes FY 2004 through 2007 appropriations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 3201) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 respecting foreign currency use in the surplus commodities for developing or friendly countries program. Encourages the Secretary to finalize program agreements by December 31 of each fiscal year. (Sec. 3202) Amends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to extend the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (food security commodity trust) through FY 2007. (Sec. 3203) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend funds through FY 2007 for the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program. (Sec. 3204) Establishes in the Department of Agriculture (Department) the biotechnology and agricultural trade program, which shall seek to remove significant nontariff trade barriers to U.S. agricultural exports. Authorizes such activities to be carried under: (1) this section; (2) the emerging markets program; and (3) the Cochran Fellowship Program. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec.3205) Directs the Secretary to establish a specialty crops technical assistance program to mitigate or remove sanitary or phytosanitary trade barriers. Makes funding or commodities of equal value available through FY 2007. (Sec. 3206) Directs the Secretary to consult with specified committees on implementation of a global market strategy for the Department that: (1) identifies export opportunities; (2) ensures Department coordination with other agencies; and (3) removes overseas trade barriers. (Sec. 3207) Directs the Secretary to report on U.S. international food aid programs that evaluate: (1) the implications of storage and transportation capacity and funding for the use of perishable agricultural commodities and semiperishable agricultural commodities; and (2) the feasibility of the transport of lambs and other live animals. (Sec. 3208) Directs the Secretary to report on the feasibility of instituting a fee program to cover Department costs incurred in providing commercial services abroad.. (Sec. 3209) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. foreign assistance programs should play an increased role in the fight against terrorism; (2) the United States should lead international efforts to provide increased financial assistance to countries with impoverished and disadvantaged populations that are the breeding grounds for terrorism; and (3) the United States Agency for International Development and the Department should substantially increase humanitarian, economic development, and agricultural assistance to foster international peace and stability and the promotion of human rights. (Sec. 3210) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the principal U.S. negotiating objective with respect to agricultural trade in all multilateral, regional, and bilateral negotiations is to obtain competitive opportunities for U.S. agricultural exports substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities afforded foreign exports in U.S. markets, and to achieve fairer and more open conditions of agricultural trade in bulk and value-added commodities; (2) reaching a successful agreement on agriculture should be the top U.S. priority in World Trade Organization talks; (3) if primary export competitors of the United States fail to reduce their domestic supports and eliminate export subsidies the United States should take steps to increase its negotiating leverage; and (4) the United States Trade Representative should consult closely with the House and Senate agricultural committees. Title IV: Nutrition Programs - Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002 - Subtitle A: Food Stamp Program - (Sec. 4101) Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 exclude from income for food stamp program (program) purposes legally obligated child support payments made by a household member on behalf of a person not a member of such household. Allows a State to continue to provide a child support deduction, rather than such exclusion. Requires determination of such deduction before computing the excess shelter expense deduction. Allows a State to use information from child support enforcement agencies to determine the amount of child support paid for program purposes. (Sec. 4102) Excludes from income for program purposes deferred educational and veterans' educational assistance, State complementary assistance payments, and certain medical assistance not included as income under specified provisions of titles IV and XIX of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 4103) Establishes the standard deduction at 8.31 percent of the inflation-indexed Federal poverty income guideline used for program eligibility. Includes comparable provisions for Guam and the Virgin Islands. (Sec. 4104) Revises provisions respecting: (1) utility allowances; (2) resources; (3) deduction determinations; and (4) housing. (Sec. 4108) Authorizes the Secretary to select alternative methods to issue emergency food stamps to disaster victims. (Sec. 4109) Authorizes a State to reduce household reporting requirements. (Sec. 4110) Eliminates the requirement that electronic benefit transfer systems not cost the Federal Government more than paper issuance systems. (Sec. 4111) Requires an annual report on electronic benefit transfer systems. (Sec. 4112) Authorizes a State, subject to prior pilot program determination of feasibility, to provide a standardized monthly benefit to residents of group homes and substance abuse centers, which shall be issued to the facility as representative of the residents. (Sec. 4113) Authorizes program benefit redemptions through group living arrangements under specified circumstances. (Sec. 4114) Requires a State that has a program website to make on-line applications available in each language in which printed applications are available. (Sec. 4115) Authorizes a State agency to provide up to five months of transitional program benefits to households moving from the temporary assistance for needy families program (TANF). (Sec. 4116) Directs the Secretary to use specified FY 2002 through 2007amounts for grants to eligible entities to develop and implement: (1) program application and eligibility determination systems; or (2) measures to improve program access. (Sec. 4117) States that retailer notices of adverse action shall be delivered as the Secretary determines will provide evidence of delivery. (Sec. 4118) Revises program quality control provisions. (Sec. 4119) Revises provisions respecting: (1) State performance calculations; and (2) State high performance bonuses for FY 2003 and 2004, and FY 2005 and subsequent fiscal years. (Sec. 4221) Extends employment and training program funding allocations through FY 2007. Allocates additional FY 2002 through 2007 amounts to States that ensure availability of specified work opportunities. Repeals the: (1) 80 percent set-aside for able-bodied adults without dependents; (2) maintenance-of-effort requirement to access new unmatched funds; (3) limits on the amount States are reimbursed for each work slot offered; and (4) $25 monthly cap on the amount States may reimburse participants for transportation and other work expenses. (Sec. 4222) Extends: (1) reductions in program administrative payment provisions through FY 2007; (2) cash payment pilot programs through October 1, 2007; and (3) program authorization of appropriations through FY 2007. (Sec. 4123) Authorizes the Secretary to grant waivers to nongovernmental entities for program research. (Sec. 4124) Consolidates, and extends through FY 2007, the block grant funding structure for nutrition assistance in American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Provides for inflation adjustments. Authorizes Puerto Rico to use specified FY 2002 and 2003 grant amounts for data processing and benefit transfer modernization. (Sec. 4125) Extends and increases community food project funding through FY 2007. Directs the Secretary to contract with, or make a grant to, one nongovernmental organization to coordinate with Federal, State, and local entities, and nongovernmental organizations to gather information, and recommend programs to address common community problems, including: (1) loss of farms and ranches; (2) rural poverty; (3) welfare dependency; and (4) hunger. Obligates specified funds through FY 2007. (Sec. 4126) Extends commodity purchase funding for the emergency food assistance program through FY 2007. Subtitle B: Commodity Distribution - (Sec. 4201) Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to: (1) extend the Secretary's authority to provide commodities for nutrition assistance programs though FY 2007; and (2) extend the commodity supplemental food program through FY 2007, and redistribute administrative and program funds to provide an inflation-indexed grant per assigned caseload slot for administrative costs. Makes additional funds available for certain States for the commodity supplemental food program. (Sec. 4202) Amends the Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments Act of 1987 to permit commodity donations to other specified programs. (Sec. 4203) Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects authority through September 30, 2007. (Sec. 4204) Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for emergency food assistance through FY 2007. Makes: (1) administrative expenses ineligible for reimbursement; (2) storage costs eligible for reimbursement; and (3) gleaning an eligible commodity source. Subtitle C: Child Nutrition and Related Programs - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to: (1) revise from October1, 2001, to October 1, 2003, the beginning period for which commodities other than those under a direct commodity expenditure provision may be used to meet a minimum 12 percent commodity assistance school lunch program requirement; (2) exclude from FY 2002 and 2003 income calculations certain military housing allowances in determining eligibility for free and reduced-price meals school meals; and (3) extend Buy American preference to items grown or produced in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 4303) Directs the Secretary to encourage institutions participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs to purchase locally produced foods. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 4305) Directs the Secretary to carry out a fresh fruit and vegetable distribution program during the 2002 school year in each of four States (25 primary or secondary schools in each State) and on one Indian reservation. Directs: (1) participating schools to publicize the program; and (2) the Secretary, through the Economic Research Service, to evaluate the program. Obligates specified funds for the program. (Sec. 4306) Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to exclude certain military housing allowances from income eligibility calculations for the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). (Sec. 4307) Directs the Secretary to make specified CCC funds available for the WIC farmers' market nutrition program within 30 days of enactment of the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 4401) Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to: (1) eliminate the seven-year eligibility limit for supplemental security income (SSI) benefits for blind or disabled aliens who were lawfully residing in the United States on August 22, 1996; (2) make all legal immigrant children under 18 years old, regardless of U.S. entry date, eligible for the SSI and food stamp programs, beginning in FY 2004, and (3) as of April 1, 2003, makes aliens eligible for the food stamp program who have resided in the United States as a"qualified alien" for at least five years from the date of U.S. entry. (Sec. 4402) Directs the Secretary to carry out a senior farmers' market nutrition program. Obligates specified CCC funds for the program through FY 2007. (Sec. 4403) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a nutrition information and awareness pilot program in up to five States to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and convey related health promotion messages. Authorizes specified FY2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 4404) Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002 - Establishes the Congressional Hunger Fellows Program and the Congressional Hunger Fellows Trust Fund in order to establish Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, respectively, to address hunger and other humanitarian needs in the United States and abroad. Authorizes specified appropriations. Title V: Credit: Subtitle A: Farm Ownership Loans - (Sec. 5001) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make direct farm ownership loans available to a farmer or rancher who has participated (currently, operates) in the business operations of a farm or ranch for at least three years. (Sec. 5002) Authorizes the use of a direct farm ownership loan to refinance a "bridge loan'' made by a commercial lender to a beginning farmer or rancher who has been approved for, but has not yet received, a farm ownership loan. (Sec. 5003) Provides certain Indian farmers or ranchers on Indian reservation land with 95 percent operating loan guarantees. (Sec. 5004) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans made under State beginning farmer or rancher programs. (Sec. 5005) Increases the loan term to 15 years and Department financing to 40 percent as part of the down payment program for beginning farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 5006) Directs the Secretary, upon determination that guarantees of contract land sales present a comparable risk to commercial lender risks, to carry out a FY 2003 through 2007 pilot program in at least five States to guarantee up to five loans in each State made by a private land seller to a beginning farmer or rancher on a contract land sale basis if the loan meets underwriting criteria and a commercial lending institution serves as escrow agent. Subtitle B: Operating Loans - (Sec. 5101) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to eliminate the prohibition on direct operating loans for farmers who have operated a farm or ranch for more than five years. Directs the Secretary to waive certain limitations for a direct loan to a farmer or rancher whose farm or ranch is subject to the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe and whose loan is secured by one or more security instruments that are subject to the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe if the Secretary determines that commercial credit is not generally otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary to grant a borrower a one-time, two-year waiver for a direct operating loan if the borrower: (1) has a viable farm or ranch operation; (2) applied for credit from at least two commercial lenders and was unable to obtain a commercial loan (including a loan guaranteed by the Secretary); and (3) successfully has completed, or will complete within one year, borrower training. (Sec. 5102) Suspends the limitation on the period for which borrowers are eligible for loan guarantee assistance through December 31, 2006. Subtitle C: Emergency Loans - (Sec. 5201) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize emergency loans for animal- or plant-caused quarantines. Subtitle D: Administrative Provisions - (Sec. 5301) Directs the Secretary to conduct studies of the direct and guaranteed loan programs under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, each of which shall include an examination of the number, average principal amount, and delinquency and default rates of loans provided or guaranteed during two specified periods. (Sec. 5302) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development to make limited liability companies eligible to receive farm ownership loans, farm operating loans, and natural disaster emergency loans. (Sec. 5304) Eliminates: (1) the requirement that county committees certify that certain loan reviews have been conducted; and (2) authority to contract for private loan service and debt collection. (Sec. 5305) Includes among interest options on a direct loan that is being rewritten the interest rate in effect on the date that a borrower applies for servicing. (Sec. 5306) Eliminates the requirement that county committees certify that certain annual reviews of borrower credit histories have been conducted. (Sec. 5307) Increases the loan amount for which a simplified loan guarantee application may be used to $125,000. (Sec. 5308) Increases to 135 days the preference period for a beginning farmer or rancher to purchase Department inventory farmland. Directs the Secretary to: (1) combine or divide property parcels to maximize such purchases; and (2) offer to sell or grant farmland preservation easements on inventory land. (Sec. 5309) Authorizes the Secretary to administer the certified lender and preferred certified lender programs through central offices established in States or multi-State areas. (Sec. 5310) Increases to 30 percent the amount of land that an applicant may own under the definition of a "qualified beginning farmer or rancher." Excludes from the definition of` "debt forgiveness'' any write-down as part of a discrimination complaint resolution against the Secretary. (Sec. 5311) Increases FY 2003 through 2007 loan authorization levels for the direct and the guaranteed loan programs. (Sec. 5312) Extends the obligation of funds for direct operating loans to beginning farmers and ranchers through FY 2007. (Sec. 5313) Makes the interest rate reduction program permanent. Replaces the current aggregate funding limit with a specified fiscal year limit. Obligates at least 15 percent of program funds for beginning farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 5314) Authorizes the Secretary to modify the amortization (25-year maximum) of a recapture payment on which a payment has become delinquent if: (1) the default is due to circumstances beyond the control of the borrower; and (2) the borrower made good faith repayment attempts. (Sec. 5315) Allocates specified unused State funds for disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. (Sec. 5316) Authorizes the Secretary to waive borrower training certification requirements. (Sec. 5318) Requires annual (currently biannual) borrower review. (Sec. 5319) Permits loan eligibility for a borrower who has received debt forgiveness on not more than one occasion from a major disaster or emergency designated by the President on or after April 4, 1996, under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Sec. 5320) Directs the Secretary to use trained State, county, or area agricultural committee personnel to make and service loans. Makes such personnel and Department personnel eligible for loans and loan guarantees. Subtitle E: Farm Credit - (Sec. 5401) Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to eliminate certain prior approval requirements for multi-lender Farm Credit System institutions. (Sec. 5402) Authorizes cooperative banks to finance the export of "agricultural supplies." (Current law is limited to farm supplies.) (Sec. 5403) Authorizes the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation to reduce premiums for Government Sponsored Enterprise-guaranteed loans (as defined by this Act). Subtitle F: General Provisions - (Sec. 5501) Makes specified technical amendments to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Title VI: Rural Development - Subtitle A: Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act - (Sec. 6001) Authorizes the Secretary to make or insure loans to communities that have been designated as rural empowerment zones or rural enterprise communities, or as rural enterprise communities: (1) for the installation or improvement of essential community facilities including necessary related equipment; and (2) to furnish financial assistance or other planning aid. (Sec. 6002) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to eliminate the fiscal year cap on authorization of appropriations for water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility grants.. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to private entities to capitalize revolving funds for water and wastewater projects. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6003) Authorizes appropriations for rural business opportunity grants through FY 2007. (Sec. 6004) Obligates funds for children's day care facilities. (Sec. 6005) Directs the Secretary to establish a national rural water and wastewater circuit rider program modeled after the national rural water association rural water circuit rider program. Authorizes specified appropriations beginning in FY 2003. (Sec. 6006) Directs the Secretary to make grants to multijurisdictional regional planning and development entities for grants (75 percent maximum Federal share) to local governments to improve their infrastructure, services, and development capabilities. Gives priority to an organization that: (1) serves a rural area that is undergoing out-migration, or has a median household income that is less than the nonmetropolitan household income of the applicable State; and (2) has a history of providing substantive assistance to local governments and economic development organizations. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6007) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee, and sets forth requirements for, loan guarantees for water, wastewater, and essential community facilities loans, including loans financed by bonds issued respecting tribal college and university essential community facilities. (Sec. 6008) Authorizes the Secretary to make cost-share grants to tribal colleges and universities for essential community facilities in rural areas. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6009) Expands the scope of the emergency community water assistance grant program to include situations of imminent decline. Increases grant caps for water shortage-related repair projects. Obligates specified amounts for rural water and waste facility grants. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations, in addition to such obligations. (Sec. 6010) Authorizes appropriations for water and waste facility grants for Indian tribes. (Sec. 6011) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2007 for water systems for rural and Native villages in Alaska. (Sec. 6012) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to private nonprofit organizations for loans to eligible limited-income individuals for the construction, refurbishing, and servicing of individual household water well systems in rural areas. Authorizes specified FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6013) Makes renewable energy systems, including wind energy systems and anaerobic digestors, eligible for loans and loan guarantees. (Sec. 6014) Makes a nonprofit or other tax exempt entity whose principal office is located on an existing or former Indian reservation, or in a city or town of fewer than 5,000 people eligible for rural business grants. (Sec. 6015) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2007 for: (1) rural cooperative development grants (limits 1994 institution matching requirements); and (2) broadcasting system grants. (Sec. 6017) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make business and industry loan guarantees for the purchase of start-up capital stock for a venture that will process agricultural commodities or otherwise process value-added agricultural products; and (2) make or guarantee such loans to a metropolitan-based cooperative if used for a rural project. Permits refinancing use of such loans under specified circumstances. (Sec. 6018) Allows the use of rural development loans and grants for other purposes if the Secretary determines that the original project no longer appropriate. (Sec. 6019) Directs the Secretary to provide simplified guarantee applications for specified loan circumstances. (Sec. 6020) Defines "rural' and "rural area" for purposes of: (1) water and waste disposal grants and direct and guaranteed loans; (2) community facility loans and grants; (3) multijurisdictional regional planning organizations and national rural development partnership; and (4) the rural business investment program. (Sec. 6021) Establishes the National Rural Development Partnership composed of the National Rural Development Coordinating Committee (established by this Act) and State development councils (authorized by this Act). Includes among Partnership purposes: (1) enhancement of State and local rural development capacities; and (2) engagement of Federal, State, local, tribal, and private and nonprofit sectors in such efforts. Authorizes specified appropriations through FY 2007. Provides for State rural development council matching requirements. Terminates the Partnership five years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 6022) Directs the Secretary to make grants (70 percent Federal share through year three, 50 percent for years four and five) to establish and operate a regional rural telework institute which shall: (1) serve as a clearinghouse for telework research and development and information-sharing; (2) conduct outreach activities; (3) develop and share best practices within the region and throughout the United States; (4) develop telework projects and joint ventures with the private sector; (5) support private sector businesses that are transitioning to telework; and (6) assist telework projects and individuals at the State and local level. Directs the Secretary to make grants for equipment and facilities to expand and operate rural telework locations. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations, with a specified obligation for the rural telework institute. (Sec. 6023) Directs the Secretary to establish a historic barn preservation program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, or enter into contracts with State departments of agriculture or certain nonprofit organizations for historic barn preservation. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6024) Directs the Secretary, through the Rural Utilities Service, to make grants to public and nonprofit entities, and to Service loan borrowers for the Federal share of the cost of acquiring radio transmitters to increase rural coverage by the all hazards weather radio broadcast system of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6025) Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible organizations to train farm workers in agricultural technology and higher value crop skills. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6026) Revises objectives for the rural community advancement program. Repeals the rural venture capital demonstration program. (Sec. 6027) Extends and authorizes appropriations through FY 2007 for the Delta Regional Authority. Revises provisions respecting: (1) voting procedures; and (2) supplements for Federal grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for state-of-the-art technology in animal nutrition and value-added manufacturing to promote economic development in the Lower Mississippi Delta region. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Includes within such region the Alabama counties of Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, and Monroe. (Sec. 6028) Establishes the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority which shall develop programs and approve grants for the economic development of the region encompassing Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Allows the Authority to: (1) approve grants to States, local governments, Indian tribes, and public and nonprofit entities for approved economic development projects (such as transportation, job training, and public services); (2) use funds to supplement Federal grant requirements under specified circumstances; and (3) make grants to local development districts (as defined by this Act). States that Northern Great Plains Inc., a Minnesota nonprofit entity, shall serve as a primary regional resource for the Authority. Directs the Authority to designate annually, and obligate funds for, distressed counties and areas. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Establishes a minimum State allotment. Terminates the Authority as of October 1, 2007. (Sec. 6029) Directs the Secretary to establish a Rural Business Investment Program under which the Secretary may: (1) enter into participation agreements with rural business investment companies to promote rural economic development and to establish venture capital programs; and (2) make grants to and guarantee debentures of rural business investment companies. Sets forth Program provisions. (Sec. 6030) Establishes a rural strategic investment program which shall: (1) provide rural communities with flexible resources to develop comprehensive, collaborative, and locally-based strategic planning processes; and (2) implement innovative community and economic development strategies that optimize regional competitive advantages. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Board on Rural America which shall carry out the program through grants to Regional Boards for: (1) regional strategic investment planning; and (2) innovative programs. Provides for program funding through CCC fund transfers. Subtitle B: Rural Electrification Act of 1936 - (Sec.6101) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Secretary to guarantee bonds or notes issued by non-profit cooperative or other lender if the proceeds of the bonds or notes are used for electrification or telephone projects eligible for assistance under this Act (including the refinancing of bonds or notes issued for such projects). Prohibits a guarantee on a bond or note whose proceeds are to be used for electricity generation. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates program authority as of September 30, 2007. (Sec. 6102) Authorizes the Secretary to make telephone loans to State or local governments, Indian tribes, or other public entities for expansion of rural 911 access and integrated emergency communications in rural areas. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 6103) Directs the Secretary to make or guarantee loans to eligible entities (including State and local governments) for the construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in eligible rural communities (nonmetropolitan statistical areas with populations of not more than 20,000). Gives priority to rural communities without residential broadband service. Permits loan proceeds to be used to refinance loans for broadband service deployment. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2002 through 2007. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations in addition to such obligated amounts. Authorizes the use of specified television funds for such broadband service. Terminates program authority after September 30, 2007. Subtitle C: Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 - (Sec. 6201) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act of 1990. (Terminates the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation, related grants, and the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund, and transfers assets to the Secretary.) (Sec. 6202) Directs the Secretary to establish a rural electronic commerce extension program to expand and enhance electronic commerce practices and technology for small businesses and microenterprises in rural areas through grants to development centers and land-grant colleges and universities. Requires 50 percent matching funds, which may be reduced if the recipient serves low-income or minority-owned businesses. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations, with set-asides for development center grants. (Sec. 6203) Authorizes appropriations for rural area telemedicine and distance learning services through FY 2007. Subtitle D: SEARCH Grants for Small Communities - Establishes the SEARCH Grant Program under which the Secretary shall, upon State request and through the State Rural Development Directors, award environmental grants to qualifying States for communities of not more than 2,500 persons. Authorizes specified FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 6401) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to define ``value-added agricultural product'' as any agricultural commodity or product that: (1) has undergone a change in physical state, or was produced in a manner that enhances its value, as demonstrated through a business plan; and (2) as a result of such change the customer base has been expanded, and a greater portion of the revenue derived from the processing of the agricultural commodity or product is available to the producer of such commodity or product. Directs the Secretary, for each year beginning on October 1, 2002 through 2006, to use specified CCC funds for grants ($500,000 maximum per recipient) to an independent producer, agricultural producer group, farmer or rancher cooperative, or majority-controlled producer-based business venture to develop business plans and marketing strategies for value-added agricultural products. Revises funding limits for the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center from $5 million under current law to five percent of the funding made available under this section. (Sec. 6402) Directs the Secretary to establish the agriculture innovation center demonstration program to provide grants to eligible entities for assistance to agricultural producers in order to establish and enhance businesses to produce value-added agricultural commodities or products. Obligates specified funds through FY 2004 for such program, including an annual amount for university research on value-added projects' effects on producers and commodity markets. (Sec. 6403) Amends FAIRA to eliminate the Fund for Rural America. (Sec. 6404) Amends the Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act to make specified CCC funds available through December 31, 2006, for rural local television broadcast signal loan guarantees. (Sec. 6405) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local governments and Indian tribes to train rural firefighters and emergency medical personnel in firefighting, emergency medical practices, and hazardous material and bioagent response. Permits fund use for training center improvement and construction. Obligates specified amounts for training scholarships. Provides CCC funding for FY 2003 through 2007. (Sec. 6406) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) appoint a Special Assistant to the President for Rural Policy; (2) designate within each Federal agency with jurisdiction over rural programs or activities one or more senior officers or employees to provide rural policy leadership; and (3) create an intergovernmental rural policy working group comprised of the Special Assistant to the President for Rural Policy and senior officers and employees. Title VII: Research and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Extensions - (Sec. 7101) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend through FY 2007: (1) the national rural information center clearinghouse; (2) the national genetics resources program; (3) high-priority research and extension initiatives; (4) the nutriment management research and extension initiative; (6) the agricultural telecommunications program; and (7) the assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities. (Sec. 7102) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations for grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education through FY 2007. Includes rural economic, community, and business development degrees within the program. (Sec. 7103) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2007 for: (1) policy research centers; (2) the human nutrition intervention and health promotion research program; (3) the pilot research program to combine medical and agricultural research; (4) the nutrition education program; (5) animal health and disease research programs; (6) research on national and regional animal health or disease problems; (7) grants to upgrade agricultural and food sciences facilities at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University (increases FY2002 funding); (8) national research and training virtual centers (as redesignated by this Act); (9) education grant programs for Hispanic-serving institutions; (10) competitive grants for international agricultural science and education programs; (11) agricultural research programs; (12) extension education; (13) aquaculture; (14) rangeland research; and (15) grants for research on the production and marketing of alcohols and industrial hydrocarbons from agricultural commodities and forest products. (Sec. 7115) Extends: (1) supplemental and alternative crop research project authority through FY 2007; and (2) the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board through September 30, 2007. (Sec. 7123) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to extend through FY 2007: (1) partnerships for high-value agricultural product quality research; (2) the biobased products pilot program (authorizes appropriations through FY 2017); (3) the integrated research, education, and extension competitive grants program (five-year grant maximum); (4) authorization of appropriations for precision agriculture; (5) authorization of appropriations for the Thomas Jefferson Initiative for Crop Diversification; (6) authorization of appropriations for support for research regarding certain wheat and barley diseases; and (7) authorization of appropriations for the Office of Pest Management Policy. (Sec. 7126) Amends the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Ac t of 1994 to extend through FY 2007: (1) institutional capacity building grants and authorization of appropriations for such grants; (2) institution research grants; and (3) authorization of appropriations (uncapped) for "1994 Institutions." (Sec. 7135) Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize appropriations for agricultural experiment stations research facilities through FY 2007. (Sec. 7136) Amends the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Grant Act authorize appropriations for competitive, special, and facilities research grants through FY 2007. (Sec. 7137) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to authorize appropriations for Federal agricultural research facilities through FY 2007. (Sec. 7138) Amends the Critical Agricultural Materials Act to authorize appropriations for critical agricultural materials research through FY 2007. (Sec. 7139) Amend s the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations through FY 2007 for aquaculture activities of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior. Subtitle B: Modifications - (Sec. 7201) Amends the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 with respect to such Institutions to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for institutional payments; (2) revise the list of Institutions; (3) require accreditation in order to receive research grants; and (4) revise the full-time Indian student count formula. (Sec. 7202) Amends the Hatch Act of 1887 to provide for the carryover and redistribution to another State of unused experiment station funds. (Sec. 7203) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 with respect to1890 Institutions to revise the authorization of appropriations formulas for extension and research activities. (Sec. 7204) Allows unexpended fiscal year funds provided to an Institution to be carried over for the following fiscal year. States that if any of such carried-over amounts are not expended by the end of the second fiscal year an equal amount shall be deducted from the Institution's next annual allotment, and redistributed to another Institution. (Sec. 7205) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to provide permanent CCC funding for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems. Adds minority-serving institutions to the program. (Sec. 7206) Makes 1994 Institutions eligible for the integrated grant program. (Sec. 7207) Includes horticulture within the precision agriculture program. Provides research grants to consortia of land-grant institutions for Karnal bunt disease control in wheat, barley, and triticale. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a bovine Johne's disease control program. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 7208) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include plant pathogens within the agricultural genome initiative. Includes the following subjects within high-priority research and extension initiatives: (1) genetically modified agricultural products; (2) wind erosion; (3) crop loss; (4) land use management; (5) water and air quality; (6) revenue and insurance; (7) agrotourism; (8) fruit and vegetable productivity; (9) plant nitrogen fixation; (10) agricultural marketing; (11) environment and private lands; (12) livestock diseases and animal infectious diseases; (13) plant gene expression; (14) childhood obesity; (15) integrated pest management; (16) beef cattle genetics; (17) dairy pipeline cleaner; (18) development of publicly held plants and animals; and (19) sugarcane genetics. Provides for first-time entity consideration within the assistive technology for farmers with disabilities program. (Sec. 7209) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to: (1) add a non-land grant institution member to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economic Advisory Board; (2) provide for an Foreign Agricultural Service overseas intern program; (3) include industrial oilseed crops within the program of grants for research on production and marketing of alcohols and industrial hydrocarbons from agricultural and forest products; and (4) authorize rangeland research grants for the Joe Skeen Institute for Rangeland Restoration. (Sec. 7210) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to increase the set-aside from biotechnology outlays for biotechnology risk assessment research. (Sec. 7212) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to provide a phased-in matching grant requirement for 1890 land grant institutions (with waiver authority). (Sec. 7213) Amends the Hatch Act to provide for a 50 percent matching requirement for land grant institutions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands (with waiver authority). (Sec. 7214) Amends the Research Facilities Act to redefine"food and agricultural sciences." (Sec. 7215) Amends the Smith-Lever Act to eliminate the funding limit on additional agricultural extension-related funding for "1994 Institutions." (Sec. 7217) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to provide that funds for a competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant under this or any other Act shall be available for a two-year obligation period. (Sec. 7218) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to provide funds for the organic agriculture research and extension initiative through FY 2007. (Sec. 7219) Establishes in the Department the Senior Scientific Research Service. (Sec. 7220) Directs the Secretary to terminate by January 31, 2003, certain Federal Schedule A civil service appointments for extension workers at land-grant institutions who hold dual government appointments. Provides continued eligibility for specified Federal health, life insurance, retirement, employment credit, and thrift savings benefits, subject to specified limitations. (Sec. 7221) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations for biosecurity planning and response for FY 2002 through 2007. States that such grants shall be used to: (1) reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. food and agricultural system to chemical or biological attack; (2) continue partnerships with institutions of higher education and other institutions to help form stable, long-term programs to enhance U.S. biosecurity; (3) make grants to universities and qualified research institutions for research on counterbioterrorism; and (4) counter or otherwise respond to chemical or biological attack. Directs the Secretary to make grants to colleges or universities to expand or upgrade security at their agricultural research facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for the Agricultural Research Service, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and other Department agencies with biosecurity responsibilities should be increased to improve the agencies' capacities to conduct research and analysis of, and respond to, bioterrorism and animal and plant diseases. (Sec.7223) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, as amended by this Act, to authorize appropriations for carbon cycle research through FY 2007. Subtitle C: Repeal of Certain Activities and Authorities - (Sec. 7301) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to repeal provisions respecting: (1) the food safety national conference and related reports; and (2) reimbursement of certain sheep promotion expenses. (Sec. 7303) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the market expansion research program. (Sec. 7304) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal provisions respecting the national advisory board on agricultural weather. (Sec. 7305) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to repeal provisions respecting the agricultural information exchange with Ireland. and (2) the pesticide resistance and expansion of education studies. (Sec. 7308) Amends the Research Facilities Act to repeal the provision respecting the agricultural research facilities task force. Subtitle D: New Authorities - (Sec. 7402) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for the acquisition of special purpose scientific research equipment for the food and agricultural sciences programs of eligible colleges or universities; or State cooperative institutions. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 7403) Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out agricultural research, education, or extension activities, to cooperate with one or more other Federal agencies (including the National Science Foundation) in issuing joint requests for proposals, or awarding grants, for similar or related projects or activities. Authorizes joint peer review panels for grant evaluations. (Sec. 7404) Requires the Secretary to establish a task force to evaluate the purpose and impact of the Agricultural Research Service on agricultural research. Obligates specified FY 2003 Service funds for such evaluation. (Sec. 7405) Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to foster training, education, outreach, and technical assistance for beginning farmers or ranchers. States that such grants shall: (1) be made to a collaborative State, local tribal, or regionally-based network or partnership of public or private entities; (2) not exceed a three-year term; (3) have a 25 percent matching requirement; and (4) obligate not less than 25 percent of funds for farm workers, and limited resource and socially disadvantaged beginning farmers or ranchers. Directs the Secretary to establish beginning farmer and rancher education teams to conduct educational programs in diverse geographical areas of the United States. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 7406) Expresses the sense of Congress that Federal investments in food and agricultural research should at least double over the next five years. (Sec. 7407) Directs the Secretary to ensure that segregated data on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products is included in the ongoing baseline of agricultural production and marketing data. (Sec. 7408) Directs the Secretary, through the Agricultural Research Service (including the National Agricultural Library) and the Economic Research Service, to facilitate access by research and extension professionals, farmers, and other interested persons in the United States, to organic research conducted abroad. (Sec. 7409) Directs the Secretary to report on the extent to which producers and handlers of organic agricultural products are contributing to Department research and promotion programs. (Sec. 7410) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should review and report on certain recommendations concerning food safety, ecological research, monitoring needs for transgenic crops with plant incorporated protectants, and the environmental effects of transgenic plants. (Sec. 7411) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a study to evaluate nutrient banking for the purpose of enhancing the health and viability of watersheds in areas with large concentrations of animal producing units. (Sec. 7412) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to make grants to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the Boy Scouts of America, the National 4-H Council, and the National FFA Organization for pilot projects to expand their programs in rural areas and small towns. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - (Sec.7503) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions in insular areas (the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau), to strengthen the capacity of such institutions to carry out distance food and agricultural education programs using digital network technologies. Directs the Secretary to make related resident instruction grants. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 7504) Amends the Plant Protection Act to direct the Secretary, upon request of State, local, or tribal authorities, to: (1) determine whether methyl bromide treatments or applications required by State, local, or tribal authorities to prevent the introduction, establishment, or spread of plant pests (including diseases) or noxious weeds should be authorized as an official control or official requirement (prohibits such treatments unless the Secretary finds there is no other registered, feasible alternative); and (2) establish a program to identify alternatives to methyl bromide. (Sec. 7505) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary, through the Foreign Agricultural Service, to establish a grant program to develop agricultural biotechnology for developing countries. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 7506) States that the limitation on the authority of the Agricultural Research Service to purchase land using certain funds appropriated under the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 shall not apply to the purchase of land for a research farm for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Georgia. Title VIII: Forestry - Subtitle A: Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 - (Sec. 8001) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to repeal the forestry incentives and stewardship incentive programs. (Sec. 8002) Directs the Secretary, in coordination with State authorities, to establish a forest land enhancement program, which shall provide: (1) financial assistance to State foresters; and (2) cost-share assistance to nonindustrial private forest landowners who agree to develop a management plan and implement approved activities for at least ten years. Includes among approved objectives and activities: (1) timber production; (2) water quality protection; (3) enhancement of forest habitats, wetlands, and riparian areas; (4) energy conservation; (5) hazardous fuels reduction; and (6) invasive species control. Obligates specified CCC funds for the program through September 30, 2007. (Sec. 8003) Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State authorities respecting forest management fire protection. Directs the Secretary to establish a community and private land fire assistance program (which shall be federally administered and State implemented) to augment and focus Federal firefighting activities on Federal, State, and local levels. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Amendments to Other Laws - (Sec. 8101) Amends the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 to: (1) direct the Secretary to establish a sustainable forestry outreach initiative; and (2) authorize FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations for renewable resources extension activities. (Sec.8102) Amends the Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1990 to extend authorization of appropriations for the Office of International Forestry through FY 2007. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Expresses congressional reaffirmation of the importance of the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act. Title IX: Energy - (Sec. 9002) Requires, with cost-based, Solid Waste Disposal Act, and flexibility exemptions, Federal agencies to comply with biobased product procurement guidelines developed under this Act. Requires: (1) the Secretary to prepare such guidelines; (2) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to implement such policies; and (3) each Federal agency to develop a biobased procurement policy. Authorizes appropriations. Obligates specified FY 2002 through 2007 CCC funds for biobased product testing, with discretionary preference for products for which private firms share testing costs. (Sec. 9003) Directs the Secretary to make cost-share grants to eligible entities to develop and construct biorefineries for projects that demonstrate the commercial viability of biomass conversion to fuels or chemicals. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 9004) Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities for a biodiesel fuel education program. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2003 through 2007. (Sec. 9005) Directs the Secretary to make cost-share grants to eligible entities to assist farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to become more energy efficient, and in using renewable energy technology and resources, including provision of farm and ranch energy audits. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 9006) Directs the Secretary to make additional loans, loan guarantees, and cost-share grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to purchase renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2003 through 2007. (Sec. 9007) Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Energy to enter into a memorandum of cooperation in the application of hydrogen and fuel cell technology programs for rural communities and agricultural producers. (Sec. 9008) Amends the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 to: (1) revise funding provisions to provide CCC funding through FY2007, and authorize additional specified appropriations for FY 2002 through 2007; and (2) extend authority through September 30, 2007. (Sec. 9009) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary, in cooperation with departments and agencies participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program and with eligible entities, to carry out research to promote understanding of: (1) the flux of carbon in soils and plants (including trees); and (2) the exchange of other greenhouse gases from agriculture. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with departments and agencies participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program, local extension agents, agricultural experts from institutions of higher education, and other local agricultural or conservation organizations, to implement extension projects (including on-farm projects with direct involvement of agricultural producers) to monitor the carbon sequestering benefits of conservation practices and the exchange of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture which demonstrate methods of measuring and monitoring: (1) changes in carbon content and other carbon pools in soils and plants (including trees); and (2) the exchange of other greenhouse gases. Authorizes FY 2002 through 20087 appropriations. (Sec. 9010) Directs the Secretary to continue the bioenergy (biodiesel and fuel grade ethanol) program of payments to eligible producers to encourage increased purchases of eligible commodities for the purpose of expanding bioenergy production. Obligates specified CCC funds for FY 2003 through 2006. Title X: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: Crop Insurance - (Sec. 10001) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide crop insurance for sweet potatoes. (Sec. 10002) Removes the time limit on the prohibition of continuous coverage. (Sec. 10003) Requires that certain quality loss adjustment procedures be made by the 2004 reinsurance year. Directs the Secretary to accept evidence of the quality of agricultural commodities delivered to: (1) U.S. licensed warehouse operators; (2) State licensed warehouse operators who have entered into a CCC storage agreement; and (3) warehouse operators who are not State licensed but are in compliance with State warehouse law, and who have entered into a CCC storage agreement. (Sec. 10004) Directs CCC to carry out the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program in effect for the 2002 reinsurance year through at least the 2004 reinsurance year. Expands the program to include at least eight counties in each of California and Pennsylvania. (Sec. 10005) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation should address producer needs through pilot program expansion and coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, including: (1) crop revenue insurance for pecan producers in Georgia; and (2) continuous wheat crop coverage in Kansas. (Sec. 10006) Directs the Secretary to report on specialty crop insurance. Subtitle B: Disaster Assistance - (Sec. 10101) Amends FAIRA to include sea grass and sea oats within the noninsured crop disaster assistance program. (Sec. 10102) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to eliminate the annual cap for emergency grants to assist low-income migrant and seasonal farm workers. (Sec. 10103) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 regarding loans to seed producers who were unsecured creditors of a seed company that filed for bankruptcy in 2000 to lengthen such loans from 18 months to 36 months. (Sec. 10104) Authorizes the Secretary to provide dairy and other livestock producers who have suffered economic losses with assistance, including feed assistance and indemnity payments. (Prohibits CCC fund use for such assistance.) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 10105) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds for FY 2002 to make payments to apple producers for the loss of markets during the 2000 crop year. (Sec. 10106) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds to make a grant to New York State for onion producers in Orange County, New York, who have suffered crop losses during one or more of the 1996 through 2000 crop years. (Sec. 10107) Directs the Secretary to provide emergency disaster assistance for the commercial fishery failure with respect to Northeast multispecies fisheries. Directs such funds' use to support a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program in the Northeast multispecies fishery that: (1) is certified by the Secretary of Commerce; and (2) permanently revokes multispecies limited access permits so as to obtain expedited fishing capacity reduction and prevent capacity replacement. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the program one year after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 10108) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility of expanding crop insurance and noninsured crop assistance eligibility to agricultural producers experiencing disaster conditions caused primarily by Federal action restricting irrigation water access, including lack of water access caused by the Secretary of the Interior's failure to fulfill a contract in accordance with the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. Subtitle C: Tree Assistance Program - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance (replanting assistance and/or seedlings) to eligible commercial orchardists who have suffered qualifying tree losses (greater than 15 percent mortality rate) caused by a natural disaster. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Animal Welfare - (Sec. 10301) Amends the Animal Welfare Act to exclude birds, rats, and mice bred for research from coverage under such Act. (Sec. 10302) Makes it unlawful, with respect to live bird fighting ventures in a State where such ventures would not be in violation of State law, for a person to sponsor or exhibit a bird in a fighting venture only if the person knew that any bird in the fighting venture was knowingly bought, sold, delivered, transported, or received in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of such participation. (Sec. 10303) Increases monetary penalties for animal welfare violations. Includes within "intrastate or foreign commerce" movement from a State into a foreign country. (Sec. 10304) Directs the National Research Council to report on the implications of including rats, mice, and birds within the definition of "animal" under Animal Welfare Act regulations. (Sec. 10305) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should continue violation tracking and reporting under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958, fully enforce such Act to ensure humane livestock slaughter and worker safety, and bring about improvement of products and economies in slaughtering operations. States that U.S. policy should be that livestock handling and slaughter should be carried out only by humane methods. Subtitle E: Animal Health Protection - Animal Health Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary, with notice to the Secretary of the Treasury, to restrict the importation, entry, or further movement in the United States, or order the destruction or removal, of animals (including livestock) and related conveyances and facilities for reasons of: (1) livestock pest or disease control; or (2) humane treatment. Authorizes related activities respecting exportation, interstate movement, cooperative agreements, enforcement and penalties, seizure, and quarantine and disease and pest eradication. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish a veterinary accreditation program; (2) produce and sell sterile screwworms to foreign countries and international organizations; and (3) enter into reimbursable fee agreements for preclearance abroad of animals or articles for movement into the United States. Sets forth enforcement and criminal and civil penalties with respect to violations of such provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer necessary funds in a livestock pest or disease related emergency. Subtitle F: Livestock - (Sec. 10501) Amends Federal law to make permanent the provision allowing the Postal Service to require air carriers to accept day-old poultry as mail if the air carrier allows the shipment of any live animals as cargo. Extends coverage to honeybees. (Sec. 10502) Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to include "swine contractor" as a covered entity under such Act. (Sec. 10503) Provides that notwithstanding any provision in a contract or marketing agreement between a livestock or poultry producer and a processor for a term of one year or more that provides for information confidentiality, a party to the contract shall not be prohibited from discussing the contract with Federal, State, or specified contract-related parties. (Sec. 10504) Authorizes the Secretary to develop a program to maintain in all U.S. regions a sufficient number of Federal and State veterinarians who are well trained in recognition and diagnosis of exotic and endemic animal diseases. (Sec. 10505) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend the pseudorabies eradication program through FY 2007. Subtitle G: Specialty Crops - (Sec. 10601) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to authorize the Secretary to issue marketing orders for caneberries (including raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries). (Sec. 10602) Amends Federal law to increase the amount of certain funds (section 32) available for agricultural exports without specified limitations. (Sec. 10603) Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to purchase fruits, vegetables, and other specialty food crops. Obligates specified amounts for the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools and service institutions in accordance with the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. Directs the Secretary to provide for the Secretary of Defense to serve as the related servicing agency. (Sec. 10604) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise specified protection provisions for purchasers of farm products. (Sec. 10605) Amends the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to carry out a farmers' market promotion program of grants to eligible entities for projects to establish, expand, and promote farmers' markets. Authorizes FY 2002 through 2007 appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) work with State Governors to develop programs to train farmers' market managers; (2) establish a program to train cooperative extension service employees in direct marketing techniques; and (3) work with producers to develop farmers' markets. (Sec. 10606) Directs the Secretary, through the Agricultural Marketing Service, to use specified FY 2002 CCC funds to establish a national organic certification cost-share program. (Sec. 10607) Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to exempt certified organic products from commodity promotion assessments. (Sec. 10608) Directs the Secretary to establish a cranberry reserve program to purchase wetlands or buffer strips adjacent to a wetland that: (1) is used, and has a history of being used, for cranberry cultivation, or is an integral component of a cranberry operation; and (2) is located in an environmentally sensitive area. Authorizes specified appropriations. Subtitle H: Administration - (Sec. 107901) Amends Federal law with respect to the initial rate of basic pay for county committee employees. (Sec. 10702) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act with respect to Commodity Futures Trading Commission employee pay comparability. (Sec. 10703) Sets forth provisions with respect to Department overtime and holiday pay. (Sec. 10704) Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish within the Department the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights. (Sec. 10705) Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make the Graduate School's financial records available to the Comptroller General for audit purposes. (Sec. 10706) Directs the Secretary to: (1) use specified CCC funds to cover commodity program administrative costs (obligates funds for the information management system); and (2) develop an information management system for common use by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Farm Service Agency, which shall be available for use by other agencies and approved insurance providers. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2008 appropriations for the information management system. (Sec. 10707) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to carry out an outreach and technical assistance program to assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in: (1) owning and operating farms and ranches; and (2) participating in Department programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, eligible entities to provide related information and technical assistance. Authorizes specified appropriations for each of FY 2002 through 2007. (Sec. 10708) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to ensure compilation and disclosure of data to assess and hold the Department accountable for the nondiscriminatory participation of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in Department programs. Subtitle I: General Provisions - (Sec. 10801) Amends the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act to extend cotton classification services through FY 2007. (Sec. 10802) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a public education program respecting the use of biotechnology in producing food for human consumption. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2007 (Sec. 10803) Authorizes the Secretary, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to provide financial and technical assistance to the Chino Dairy Preserve Project, San Bernadino County, California. (Sec. 10804) Prohibits the Grasslands Research Laboratory, El Reno, Oklahoma, from being transferred or declared surplus before December 31, 2007. (Sec. 10805) Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute for independent research on the effects of alternative domestic, foreign, and trade policies on the agricultural sector, including effects on: (1) commodity prices; (2) supply and demand conditions for similar products; (3) Federal costs; (4) farm income; (5) food costs; and (6) trade volume. Authorizes FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 10806) Requires for purposes of the misbranded food and import and export provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that: (1) fish be classified within the family Ictaluridae to be considered "catfish" (thereby excluding the fish Pangasius bocourti from such consideration); and (2) ``ginseng'' or any name that includes the word ``ginseng'' shall be used in reference to an herb or herbal ingredient that is part of the plant of one of the species of the genus Panax. (Sec. 10807) Establishes the Food Safety Commission, which shall make recommendations to enhance U.S. food system safety. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of certain required reports. (Sec. 10808) Directs the Secretary to conduct an education program regarding the availability and safety of processes and treatments that eliminate or reduce pathogen levels in meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food that is pasteurized as misbranded unless: (1) such food has been subjected to a safe process or treatment that is: (1) prescribed by regulation as pasteurization for such food; and (2) reasonably certain to eliminate most resistant microorganisms of public health significance for at least the shelf live of the food, and is the subject of a notification to the Secretary. (Sec. 10809) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate a proposed and a final rule governing the labeling of irradiated food. Provides that pending completion of such process any person may seek FDA approval of an irradiation labeling claim. (Sec. 10810) Revises criminal penalties for violations of the Plant Protection Act. (Sec. 10811) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to require that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service conduct airport preclearance quarantine inspections of persons, baggage, cargo and other items destined from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Directs that such provision shall not be implemented unless the Service's appropriation for inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities is increased by $3 million in a FY 2003 appropriations Act. (Sec. 10812) Amends Federal law to extend congressional consent to the interstate compact respecting restoration of Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River Basin and creation of the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission for an additional 20 years. (Sec. 10813) Amends the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to treat as timely filed an application for a FY 2000 payment (currently FY 2002) from Pine Point School, School District 25, Minnesota. (Sec. 10814) Amends Federal law to extend certain family farm bankruptcy provisions for seven months. (Sec. 10815) Directs the Secretary to report on: (1) the scope and causes of nonambulatory livestock; (2) humane treatment of nonambulatory livestock; and (3) the extent to which nonambulatory livestock may present handling and disposition problems for stockyards, market agencies, and dealers. States that if necessary, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock. (Sec. 10816) Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require a retailer of a covered commodity (beef, lamb, pork, wild or farm-raised fish, perishable agricultural commodities or peanuts, but not processed items containing such commodities) to inform consumers at the final point of sale of a commodity's country of origin. States that U.S. designation of origin may be used only if the article is exclusively from an animal, fish, peanut, or perishable commodity that is, as appropriate, born, hatched, produced, raised, harvested, and slaughtered, or processed in the United States. Exempts food service establishments from such requirements. Prohibits the Secretary from using a mandatory country of origin identification system, but permits use of certain current certification programs. Provides for violation warnings and fines. Subtitle J: Miscellaneous Studies and Reports - (Sec. 10901) Directs the Secretary to conduct studies or make reports respecting: (1) specialty crop purchases; (2) the promotion, marketing, and purchasing of U.S. poached and canned salmon under Department food and nutrition programs; (3) the effects of farm program payments on farmers and farm infrastructure, including a Texas-based rice production study; (4) geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; and (5) the operation of agricultural and natural resource programs on tribal lands. (Sec. 10903) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct studies of: (1) the effects on producers of updating agricultural yield bases; and (2) State actions taken under the tobacco settlement agreement. (Sec. 10905) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the feasibility of providing adequate fish passage at the Chiloquin Dam on the Sprague River, Oregon. (Sec. 10907) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct studies respecting: (1) the transmission of spongiform encephalopathy in deer, elk, and moose; (2) chronic wasting disease (including the risks that chronic wasting disease poses to livestock); and (3) the number of doses of livestock disease vaccines that should be available, are currently available, and necessary acquisition actions to protect against livestock diseases that could be introduced into the United States. (Sec. 10909) Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report on the electronic commerce sale and use of agricultural pesticides.
Farm Security Act of 2001 - Title I: Commodity Programs - Subtitle A: Fixed Decoupled Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, beginning in crop year 2002, to: (1) make fixed, decoupled payments and counter-cyclical payments to eligible producers of covered commodities (wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds); and (2) provide tenant and sharecropper protections. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of a payment yield for each farm for each covered commodity. Provides that: (1) the payment yield for each of the 2002 through 2011 crops of a covered commodity shall be the yield in effect for the 2002 crop of the covered commodity; (2) the Secretary shall establish a yield based upon similar farms for a farm without a payment yield; and (3) the Secretary shall establish a soybean and oilseed yield based upon a specified four-year average yield. (Sec. 103) Gives producers a one-time election between specified base acreage determination methods. (Sec. 104) Sets forth covered crop payment rates for 2002 through 2011. States that the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of payment rate, acreage, and yield. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary to make counter-cyclical payments for a commodity whenever such commodity's effective price is below its target price. States that the effective price shall be the higher of a specified national average market price or national average loan rate. Sets forth commodity target prices. States that the annual payment amount for a crop shall be the product of payment rate, acreage, and yield. Sets forth special rules for: (1) barley used for feed purposes; and (2) additional (currently undesignated) oilseeds. (Sec. 106) Requires producers, in order to qualify for fixed, decoupled or counter-cyclical payments, to comply with appropriate conservation, wetland, planting flexibility, and agricultural use provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to forgive repayment in the event of foreclosure. Terminates payments upon transfer of base acres unless the transferee agrees to assume such payments. (Sec. 107) Permits planting flexibility on base acres, with exceptions for fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice. (Sec. 108) Prohibits FY 2002 production flexibility contract payments after enactment of this Act, and provides for reductions in fixed, decoupled payments for such contract payments received prior to such enactment. (Sec. 109) Subjects fixed, decoupled payments and counter-cyclical payments to specified limitations under the Food Security Act of 1985. (Sec. 110) Make the provisions of this subtitle effective through crop year 2011. Subtitle B: Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments - Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse loans available to producers of covered commodities (including extra long staple cotton) through crop year 2011. Requires producers, in order to qualify for such loans, to comply with appropriate conservation and wetland provisions. Terminates FY 2002 marketing loan assistance under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. (Sec. 122) Sets forth loan rates for: (1) wheat at not more than $2.58 per bushel; (2) corn and grain sorghum at not more than $1.89 per bushel; (3) barley at not more than $1.65 per bushel, and barley used for feed purposes at not more than $1.70 per bushel; (4) oats at not more than $1.21 per bushel; (5) upland cotton at not less than $0.50 per pound and not more than $0.5192 per pound; (6) extra long staple cotton at not more than $0.7965 per pound; (7) rice at $6.50 per hundredweight; (8) soybeans at not more than $4.92 per bushel; and (9) other oilseeds at not more than $0.087 per pound. (Sec. 123) Provides a nine-month (ten-month for cotton) loan term for covered commodities. (Sec. 124) Sets forth loan repayment rates for: (1) wheat, feed grains, and oilseeds; (2) upland cotton and rice; and (3) extra long staple cotton. (Sec. 125) Authorizes the Secretary to make loan deficiency payments available to producers, other than producers of extra long staple cotton, who are eligible for but forgo marketing assistance loans in favor of such payments. States that the loan deficiency payment rate for a commodity shall be the product of the loan payment rate and the quantity of the produced commodity (excluding any loan-covered quantity of the commodity). Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to extend to crop year 2001 loan deficiency payment availability to producers who, although not eligible for marketing assistance loans, produce a contract commodity. (Sec. 126) Directs the Secretary to make payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments through crop year 2011to producers who: (1) elect to use wheat, barley, or oats acreage for grazing; and (2) agree to forgo any other harvesting of such crops on such acreage. States that: (1) such payment shall be the product of the loan deficiency payment rate and the payment quantity; and (2) such acreage shall be ineligible for Federal crop insurance. (Sec. 127) Sets forth special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton through July 31, 2012. Directs the President to carry out, under specified cotton price related circumstances: (1) a special import quota through July 31, 2012; and (2) a limited global import quota for upland cotton. (Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary, through July 31, 2012, to carry out a program of payments to producers and exporters of U.S.-produced extra long staple cotton in order to maintain and expand such cotton's domestic and export use. (Sec. 129) Directs the Secretary to make recourse loans available to producers of high moisture feed grains (corn and grain sorghum) and seed cotton through crop year 2011. (Sec. 130) Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for wool and mohair producers through marketing year 2011. Sets maximum loan rates at: (1) $1.00 per pound for graded wool; (2) $0.40 per pound for nongraded wool; and (3) $4.20 per pound for mohair. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for producers who are eligible for but forgo such loans. (Sec. 131) Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans available to honey producers through crop year 2011. Sets the loan rate at $0.60 per pound. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for producers who are eligible for but forgo such loans. (Sec. 132) Prohibits the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) from requiring producers in Erie County, Pennsylvania, to repay certain erroneously paid loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains. Provides for reimbursement of such repaid amounts. Subtitle C: Other Commodities - Chapter 1: Dairy - Extends the dairy price support program through December 31, 2011, at $9.90 per hundredweight for milk containing 3.67 percent butterfat. (Sec. 142) Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the recourse loan program for processors. (Sec. 143) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the dairy export incentive program through 2011. Amends Federal law to extend the dairy indemnity program through 2011. (Sec. 144) Amends the Fluid Milk Promotion Act to: (1) repeal the December 31, 2002, milk order termination date; and (2) revise the definitions of "fluid milk product" and "fluid milk producer." (Sec. 146) Amends the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 respecting dairy importers to provide for: (1) National Dairy Promotion and Research Board representation, (2) referenda voting eligibility; and (3) assessments at rates equal to domestic producers. (Sec. 147) Provides for a national; dairy policy study. Chapter 2: Sugar - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to extend the sugar program through 2011. Terminates marketing assessment authority. Makes certain: (1) loan rate reduction provisions discretionary (currently mandatory); and (2) CCC interest rate provisions inapplicable to sugarcane, sugar beets, and in-process sugar. Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse loans available (at 80 percent of raw sugarcane or refined sugar beet rates) to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets for in-process sugars and syrups. (Sec. 152) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to revise sugar marketing allotment provisions. (Sec. 153) Directs the CCC to establish a sugar facility loan program for processors of domestically produced sugarcane and sugar beets to build or upgrade storage and handling facilities for raw and refined sugar. Chapter 3: Peanuts - Sets forth payment yield and payment acre provisions for peanuts. Directs the Secretary, through crop year 2011, to make: (1) fixed, decoupled payments to peanut producers at a rate of $36 per ton; and (2) counter-cyclical payments available when the effective price is less than the target price. Requires producers, in order to qualify for such assistance, to comply with specified conservation, wetland, planting flexibility, and agricultural use provisions. (Sec. 166) Permits planting flexibility on peanut acres, with exceptions for fruits, most vegetables, and wild rice. (Sec. 167) Directs the Secretary to make nonrecourse marketing loans available to peanut producers through crop year 2011 at $350 per ton. Authorizes loan deficiency payments for producers who are eligible for but forgo such loans. (Sec. 168) Stares that peanuts: (1) under a marketing assistance loan shall be federally or State inspected; and (2) not under such a loan may be inspected at the producer's option. Terminates the Peanut Administrative Committee. Directs the Secretary to establish a Peanut Standards Board to assist in establishing peanut standards. (Sec. 170) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to terminate the peanut marketing quota program. Directs the Secretary to offer eligible peanut quota holders a compensation contract through FY 2006, which shall be the product of the 2001 actual farm poundage quota and $0.10. Subtitle D: Administration - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to extend through 2011: (1) specified suspensions of permanent price support authority respecting loan commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Agricultural Act of 1949; and (2) a specified suspension of wheat and corn marketing quota provisions. (Sec. 183) Sets forth counter-cyclical and fixed, decoupled payment limitations. (Sec. 188) Directs the Secretary to report on certain farm program payments' effects on agricultural producers and infrastructure, including a related case study of rice production in Texas. Title II: Conservation - Subtitle A: Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the environmental conservation acreage reserve program through 2011. Subtitle B: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through 2011. Includes wildlife resources within the program. (Sec. 212) Expands marginal pastureland eligibility. Increases maximum program acreage enrollment. Eliminates conservation priority provisions. Provides for expired contract re-enrollment. (Sec. 213) Revises haying and grazing provisions. Permits wind turbine and biomass activities. (Sec. 215) Extends through 2011, and makes available to all States, the pilot program for program enrollment of wetland and buffer acreage. Subtitle C: Wetlands Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend through 2011, and provide for additional acreage enrollment in, the wetlands reserve program. Revises easement provisions. Eliminates easement priority provisions. Subtitle D: Environmental Quality Incentives Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the environmental quality incentives program through FY 2011. Reduces minimum program contracts to one year. Increases participant fiscal year and multiyear payment limitations. Revises provisions respecting: (1) cost-share payment eligibility; (2) evaluation of offers and payments; and (3) duties of the Secretary. (Sec. 238) Directs the Secretary to provide cost-share payments and low-interest loans for ground and surface water conservation. Obligates specifies funds through FY 2011. Subtitle E: Funding and Administration - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend CCC funding through FY 2011 for: (1) the conservation reserve program; (2) the wetlands reserve program; and (3) the environmental quality incentives program, including set-asides for livestock production and other specified activities. Subtitle F: Other Programs - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to extend CCC funding for the wildlife habitat incentives program through FY 2011. (Sec. 253) Extends CCC funding for the farmland protection program through FY 2011. Eliminates acreage limitations. Includes land containing historic or archaeological resources within the program. Expands participating entity eligibility. (Sec. 254) Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 revise the resource conservation and development program. Makes the authorization of appropriations permanent. (Sec. 255) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary, through the Farm Service Agency, to establish a grassland reserve program for land that is or has historically been natural grass or shrubland and has significant potential for animal or plant restoration. Obligates specified CCC funds through FY 2011 for the program. Sets forth provisions respecting enrollment contracts and easements, and Federal payments. (Sec. 256) Directs the Secretary to establish a farmland stewardship program to target existing conservation programs to the specific needs of individual land parcels through stewardship agreements with the owners and operators, and in partnership with other Federal, State, and local agencies whose programs are incorporated into the stewardship program. (Sec. 257) Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act respecting rehabilitation of water project structural measures to: (1) make authorization of appropriations permanent; (2) increase FY 2002 authorizations; and (3) decrease FY 2004 and 2005 authorizations. (Sec. 258) Directs the Secretary, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to provide assistance for the Repaupo Creek Tide Gate and Dike Restoration Project, New Jersey. Subtitle G: Repeals - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal: (1) the wetlands mitigation banking program; (2) base history provisions; (3) wetland reserve payment limitation provisions; (4) the environmental easement program; (5) the conservation farm option; and (6) the tree planting initiative. (Sec. 262) Amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to eliminate the National Natural Resources Conservation Foundation. Title III: Trade - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend market access program funding through FY 2011. (Sec. 302) Amends the food for progress program to: (1) extend the program through FY 2011; (2) extend administrative cost funding through FY 2011; (3) exclude from tonnage limitations commodities furnished on a grant or credit basis under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development Act of 1954; (4) increase transportation cost funding; and (5) increase fiscal year commodity tonnage. (Sec. 303) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 respecting the use of foreign currencies in the surplus commodities for developing or friendly countries program. (Sec. 304) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend the export enhancement program through FY 2011. (Sec. 305) Amends the foreign market development cooperator program to: (1) authorize appropriations through FY 2011; (2) provide specified CCC funds or commodities in addition to any other appropriations; and (3) include value-added U.S. products in the program. (Sec. 306) Extends the export credit guarantee program, including required guarantees for processed and high-value products, through FY 2011. (Sec. 307) Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) respecting the food for peace program to: (1) extend the program through 2011; (2) extend the Food Aid Consultative Group through 2011; (3) eliminate the maximum level of expenditure provision; (4) make the amount of funds available for eligible organizations on a percent rather than fixed amount basis; (5) extend funding authority for certain commodities prepositioning through FY 2011; and (6) authorize the payment of certain non-emergency storage- and distribution-related transportation costs. Authorizes appropriations for emergency and private assistance programs through FY 2011. (Sec. 308) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend funds through FY 2011 for the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program. Revises the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship Program to: (1) increase fiscal year funding levels; and (2) limit funding availability through FY 2011. (Current funding levels are without fiscal year limitation.) (Sec. 309) Amends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to extend the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (food security commodity trust) through FY 2011. (Sec. 310) Directs the Secretary to establish a specialty crops technical assistance program to mitigate or remove sanitary or phytosanitary trade barriers. Makes funding or commodities of equal value available through FY 2011. (Sec. 311) Directs the Secretary to establish the Farmers for Africa and Caribbean Basin Program to provide grants for exchange programs with African-American and other American farmers and other agricultural specialists and (sub-Saharan) African, Caribbean Basin, and other developing-nation farmers. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2011. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the President to provide eligible commodities and financial and technical assistance to establish and expand overseas preschool and school feeding programs, and maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs (George McGovern-Robert Dole international food for education and child nutrition program). Urges the President to engage multilateral and private sector involvement. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2011. (Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary to report on: (1) fees for foreign agricultural services; and (2) a national export strategy. Title IV: Nutrition Programs - Subtitle A: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude from income for food stamp program purposes deferred educational and veterans' educational assistance, State complementary assistance payments, and certain medical assistance not included as income under specified provisions of titles IV and XIX of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 402) Increases FY 2002 standard deduction determinations (Sec. 403) Authorizes a State to provide transitional food stamp benefits (six month maximum) for families leaving the temporary assistance for needy families program. (Sec. 404) Revises quality control provisions. Provides bonus payments for high performing States. (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary to pay specified State costs to develop simple application and eligibility determination systems. (Sec. 406) Authorizes food stamp program appropriations through FY 2011. Extends authority through FY 2011 for: (1) employment and training programs; (2) administrative cost payment reductions; (3) cash payment pilot programs; (4) outreach grants; (5) assistance for community food projects; (6) availability of commodities for emergency food assistance; (7) funds for Puerto Rico block grants, including FY 2002 amounts for data processing modernization; (8) funds for the Territory of American Samoa; and (9) fund use for related program costs. Subtitle B: Commodity Distribution - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects through FY 2011. (Sec. 442) Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend the commodity supplemental food program through FY 2011. (Sec. 443) Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations through FY 2011 for State costs in processing, transporting, storing, and distributing emergency food assistance. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2001 - Establishes the Congressional Hunger Fellows Program and the Congressional Hunger Fellows Trust Fund in order to establish Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships, respectively, which shall address hunger and other humanitarian needs in the United States and abroad. Authorizes specified appropriations. Title V: Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make limited liability companies eligible for farm ownership, operating, and emergency loans. (Sec. 502) Extends the suspension of the provision respecting the graduation of borrowers of operating loans or guarantees to commercial lenders through December 31, 2006. (Sec. 503) Authorizes the Secretary to administer the certified lender loan guarantee program through central offices established in State or multi-State areas. (Sec. 504) Increases the loan amount for which a simplified loan guarantee application may be used. (Sec. 505) Eliminates the requirement that county committees certify in writing that certain loan reviews have been conducted. (Sec. 506) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee less than 80 percent of a loan if the borrower's income does not meet specifies debt servicing requirements. (Sec. 508) Directs the Secretary to use trained State, county, or area agricultural committee personnel to make and service loans. Makes such personnel and Department of Agriculture personnel eligible for loans and loan guarantees. (Sec. 510) Makes emergency loans available for agricultural operations substantially affected by: (1) a plant or animal quarantine; or (2) qualifying high energy costs. (Sec. 511) Extends authority to contract with a financial institution for farmer program loan servicing through September 30, 2011. (Sec. 512) Eliminates fiscal year loan limits on agricultural real estate and operating loans. (Sec. 513) Extends operating loan set-asides for beginning farmers and ranchers through FY 2011. (Sec. 514) Extends the loan guarantee interest rate reduction program through FY 2011. (Sec. 515) Increases the loan duration to 15 years under the down payment loan program. (Sec. 516) Directs the Secretary to make loans ($500,000 maximum) to eligible horse breeders for losses resulting from mare reproductive loss syndrome. Terminates such program on September 30, 2003. (Sec. 517) Provides for two specified studies of the direct and guaranteed loan programs. (Sec. 518) States that "debt forgiveness" dos not include: (1) consolidation, rescheduling, reamortization, or loan deferral; or (2) any write-down provided as part of a discrimination complaint resolution. (Sec. 519) Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) making a loan to a borrower who on more than two occasions has received debt forgiveness; and (2) guaranteeing a loan to a borrower who on more than three occasions has received loan forgiveness. (Sec. 520) Allocates the use of certain unused State funds for socially disadvantaged farmers in any other State. (Sec. 521) Includes horses within the term "livestock." (Sec. 522) Directs the Secretary to suspend, through December 31, 2002, foreclosure on certain real property owned by, and payments from, borrowers with shared appreciation arrangements. (Sec. 523) Authorizes business and industry guaranteed loans for farmer-owned projects that add value to or process agricultural products. Title VI: Rural Development - Amends the Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act to make specified CCC funds available through FY 2006 for rural local television broadcast signal loan guarantees. (Sec. 602) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to expand eligibility for, and obligate specified amounts through FY 2011, for value-added agricultural product market development grants. (Sec. 603) Directs the Secretary to carry out an agricultural innovation center demonstration program of grants and assistance to eligible producers in order to increase the growth and marketing of value-added agricultural enterprises. Obligates specified funds through FY 2004 for such program, including an annual amount for university research on value-added projects' effects on producers and commodity markets. (Sec. 604) Extends, and obligates CCC funds for, the community water assistance program through FY 2011. (Sec. 605) Amends the Rural Electrification Act to authorize the Secretary to provide farmers, ranchers, or rural small businesses with loan guarantees for renewable energy system purchases, including wind energy systems and anaerobic digestors. (Sec. 606) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make renewable energy systems, including wind energy systems and anaerobic digestors, eligible for loans and loan guarantees. (Sec. 607) Extends through FY 2011: (1) rural business opportunity grants; (2) grants for water systems for rural and Native villages in Alaska; (3) rural cooperative development grants; (4) the National Reserve Account of the Rural Development Trust Fund; and (5) the rural venture capital demonstration program. (Sec. 612) Increases certain rural industrialization loan limits. (Sec. 613) Directs the Secretary to make matching grants to entities within States selected to participate in a strategic regional development pilot program. Gives priority to entities representing a regional coalition of community-based planning, development, governmental, and business organizations. (Sec. 614) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit organizations for construction and servicing of rural household water well systems for individuals with limited incomes. (Sec. 615) Establishes the National Rural Development Partnership composed of the National Rural Development Coordinating Committee and State development councils. Terminates the Partnership five years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 616) Authorizes the Secretary to make or insure loans to communities designated as rural empowerment zones, rural enterprise communities, or as champion communities to install or improve essential community facilities. (Sec. 617) Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit organizations to train farm workers to use new technologies and develop specialized skills for agricultural development; and (2) specified appropriations through FY 2011. (Sec. 618) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide loan guarantees for farmers to purchase stock of a farmer cooperative established for an agricultural purpose. (Sec. 619) Authorizes the Secretary to consider intangible assets and subordinated unsecured debt in determining a farmer-owned cooperative's eligibility for business and industry loan guarantees. Prohibits the use of population-based eligibility criteria. (Sec. 621) Eliminates water and waste facility aggregate loan limits. (Sec. 622) Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a national rural water and wastewater circuit rider program modeled after the national rural water association rural water circuit rider program; and (2) a national grassroots source water protection program. Authorizes specified appropriations. Title VII: Research and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Extensions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend agricultural market expansion research through FY 2011. (Sec. 701) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend through FY 2011: (1) the national rural information center clearinghouse; (2) the national genetics resources program; (3) high-priority research and extension initiatives; (4) the nutriment management research and extension initiative; (6) the agricultural telecommunications program; (7) the assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities; and (8) authorization of appropriations for the alternative agricultural research and commercialization revolving fund. (Sec. 724) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to extend through FY 2011: (1) partnerships for high-value agricultural product quality research; (2) the biobased products pilot program (authorizes appropriations through FY 2011); (3) the integrated research, education, and extension competitive grants program; (4) authorization of appropriations for precision agriculture; (5) authorization of appropriations for the Thomas Jefferson Initiative for Crop Diversification; (7) authorization of appropriations for support for research regarding certain wheat and barley diseases; and (8) authorization of appropriations for the Office of Pest Management Policy. (Sec. 727) Amends the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Ac t of 1994 to extend through FY 2011: (1) institutional capacity building grants and authorization of appropriations for such grants; (2) institution research grants; and (3) authorization of appropriations (uncapped) for "1994 Institutions." (Sec. 734) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Policy Act of 1977 to extend through FY 2011: (1) the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board; and (2) authorization of appropriations for grants for research on production and marketing of alcohols and industrial hydrocarbons from agricultural commodities and forest products. (Sec. 736) Amends the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 (Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000) to extend: (1) additional authorization of appropriations for biomass research and development through FY 2011; and (2) biomass research and development authority through December 31, 2011. (Sec. 737) Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize appropriations for agricultural experiment stations research facilities through FY 2011. (Sec. 738) Amends the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Grant Act authorize appropriations for competitive, special, and facilities research grants through FY 2011. (Sec. 739) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to authorize appropriations for Federal agricultural research facilities through FY 2011. (Sec. 740) Amends the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act to extend cotton classification services through FY 2011. (Sec. 740A) Amends the Critical Agricultural Materials Act to authorize appropriations for critical agricultural materials research through FY 2011. Subtitle B: Modifications - Amends the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for "1994 Institutions"; and (2) revise the names of certain Institutions. (Sec. 742) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to make "1994 Institutions" eligible participants under such Act. (Sec. 743) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary to: (1) make research grants to consortia of land-grant institutions for Karnal bunt disease control of wheat, barley, and triticale; and (2) establish a program to control Johne's disease in livestock (authorizes appropriations through FY 2011). (Sec. 744) Amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include plant pathogens within the agricultural genome initiative. Includes within the scope of high priority research and extension initiatives: (1) protection of U.S. agriculture and food supply from bioterrorism; (2) wind erosion; (3) crop loss; (4) land use management; (5) water and air quality; (6) revenue and insurance tools; (7) agroterrorism; (8) fruit and vegetable harvest productivity; (9) nitrogen fixation by plants; (10) agricultural marketing; (11) environment and private lands; (12) livestock diseases; and (13) plant gene expression. Revises biotechnology risk assessment research provisions. (Sec. 745) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to: (1) add a non-land grant institution member to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economic Advisory Board; (2) provide for an Foreign Agricultural Service overseas intern program; and (3) provide a phased-in FY2003 through 2011 matching grant requirement for 1890 land grant institutions (with waiver authority). (Sec. 746) Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to: (1) include animal byproducts in the definition "biomass"; and (2) authorize appropriations for carbon cycle research through FY 2011. (Sec. 749A) Amends the Hatch Act to provide for a 50 percent matching requirement for FY 2003 through 2011 for land grant institutions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands (with waiver authority). (Sec. 750) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to provide specified funding through FY 2011 for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems. (Sec. 753) Amends the Smith-Lever Act to eliminate the funding limit on additional agricultural extension-related funding for "1994 Institutions." Subtitle C: Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible land grant institutions in specified United States Territories for the teaching of food and agricultural sciences. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2011. (Sec. 762) Amends the Plant Protection Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) determine, upon State, local, or tribal request, whether methyl bromide treatments required by State, local, or tribal authorities to control plant pests or noxious weeds should be authorized as an official control; and (2) maintain a related registry of authorized controls. (Sec. 763) Directs the Secretary to provide grants to eligible entities, including institutions of higher education that are historically black or land grant institutions, Hispanic-serving institutions, or tribal institutions, for the development of biotechnology research and development with respect to the developing world. Obligates specified funds through FY 2008 for such activities. Subtitle D: Repeal of Certain Activities and Authorities - Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to repeal provisions respecting: (1) the food safety national conference and related reports; and (2) reimbursement of certain sheep promotion expenses. (Sec. 773) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to repeal provisions respecting: (1) the national genetics resources program advisory board; and (2) the national advisory board on agricultural weather. (Sec. 775) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 to repeal provisions respecting: (1) the agricultural information exchange with Ireland; and (2) the pesticide resistance and expansion of education studies. (Sec. 778) Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to repeal the provision respecting staff support for the advisory board of the National Agricultural Library. (Sec. 779) Amends the Research Facilities Act to repeal the provision respecting the agricultural research facilities task force. Subtitle E: Agricultural Facility Protection - Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary to investigate and impose civil penalties (recovery of economic damages to the enterprise and Department of Agriculture costs) upon persons in cases of intentional or reckless destruction of animal or agricultural enterprises. Establishes a related Treasury fund to assist affected enterprises. Title VIII: Forestry Initiatives - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act to repeal the forestry incentives and stewardship incentive programs. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary, in coordination with State authorities, to establish a forest land enhancement program, to be administered through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which shall provide cost-share assistance to nonindustrial private forest landowners who agree to develop a management plan and implement approved activities for at least ten years. Includes among approved objectives and activities: (1) timber production; (2) water quality protection; (3) enhancement of forest habitats, wetlands, and riparian areas; (4) energy conservation; (5) hazardous fuels reduction; and (6) invasive species control. Obligates specified CCC funds for the program through FY 2011. (Sec. 803) Amends the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for renewable resources extension activities through FY 2011. Directs the Secretary to establish the sustainable forestry outreach initiative to educate landowners respecting the value of practicing sustainable forestry, and the related resources available to them. (Sec. 804) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to cooperate with State authorities respecting forest management fire protection. Directs the Secretary to establish a community and private land fire assistance program (which shall be federally administered and State implemented) to augment and focus Federal firefighting activities on Federal, State, and local levels. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 805) Amends the Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for the Office of International Forestry through FY 2011. (Sec. 806) Authorizes the Secretary, through September 30, 2007, to enter into stewardship end result contracts to implement the national fire plan. Directs the Secretary, for each of FY 2002 through 2006, to submit to Congress an assessment of the number of National Forest System acres to be treated under the plan. (Sec. 807) Expresses the sense of Congress reaffirming the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Tree Assistance Program - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance (tree seedlings or replanting cost reimbursement) to eligible commercial orchardists who suffered qualifying tree mortality as a result of a natural disaster. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to persons who operate a biomass-to-energy facility to offset costs incurred in purchasing hazardous fuels from forests for use in the production of electric energy, useful heat, or transportation fuels. Authorizes specified appropriations. (Sec. 922) Directs the CCC to designate animal fats, agricultural byproducts, and oils as eligible bioenergy program commodities. (Sec. 923) Amends Federal law to increase the amount of certain funds (section 32) available for agricultural exports without specified limitations. (Sec. 924) Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds through FY 2011 for a senior farmers' market nutrition program. (Sec. 925) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to authorize the Secretary to issue marketing orders for caneberries (including raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries). (Sec. 926) Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to provide that if an appellant prevails at the regional level in an administrative appeal, the agency may not pursue an administrative appeal of such decision to the national level. (Sec. 927) Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to provide outreach and technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. Authorizes specified appropriations. (Sec. 928) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to extend coverage to sweet potatoes. (Sec. 929) Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to include sea grass and sea oats within the noninsured crop disaster assistance program. (Sec. 930) Requires the Graduate School of the Department of Agriculture to use competitive contracting practices for educational, training, and professional development activities. (Sec. 931) Authorizes the Secretary to provide dairy and other livestock producers who have suffered economic losses with assistance, including feed assistance and indemnity payments. (Prohibits CCC fund use for such assistance.) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 932) Requires Buy American Act compliance. Expresses the sense of Congress that producers and other recipients of funds under this Act should purchase only American-made equipment, supplies, or services. (Sec. 933) Directs the Secretary, through the National Academy of Sciences, to complete and transmit to Congress a report on genetically engineered foods. Authorizes specified appropriations. (Sec. 934) Requires fish to be classified within the family Ictalariidae to be considered catfish for purposes of the misbranded food and imports and exports provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (thereby excluding the fish Pangasius bocourti from consideration as a catfish). (Sec. 935) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a public education program respecting the use of biotechnology in producing food for human consumption. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2011. (Sec. 936) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the effects on producers of updating agricultural yield bases. (Sec. 937) Directs the Secretary to establish the Interagency Task Force on Agricultural Competition, which shall hold hearings on the lessening of competition among purchasers of livestock, poultry, and unprocessed agricultural commodities. (Sec. 938) Authorizes appropriations to enhance the capability of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration to monitor and pursue the competitive implications of structural changes in the meat packing industry. (Sec. 939) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should fully enforce the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure humane livestock slaughter and worker safety. States United States policy to be that livestock handling and slaughter should be carried out only by humane methods, as provided for by such Act. (Sec. 940) Amends the Animal Welfare Act respecting animal fighting prohibitions to: (1) increase monetary and prison penalties for such violations; (2) include State to foreign country movement within the definition of "interstate or foreign commerce"; and (3) replace the State-law based prohibition on live bird fighting ventures with a prohibition on the sale, purchase, transport, or delivery in interstate or foreign commerce of any animal for fighting purposes. (Sec. 942) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, to provide assistance to farmers and ranchers for renewable energy resource marketing and development. (Sec. 943) Directs the Secretary, in each of FY 2002 through 2011, to reduce specified amounts provided for fixed, decoupled payments, and use such amounts for certain: (1) community water assistance programs; (2) strategic regional development plans; and (3) value-added product market development. (Sec. 944) Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 to require retailers to provide consumers with country of origin labeling for domestic and imported perishable agricultural commodities. Exempts food service establishments from such requirement. Authorizes fines for violations of such provision. (Sec. 945) Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to buy, sell, give, receive, transfer, market, hold, or drag any nonambulatory livestock unless such livestock has been humanely euthanized. Exempts from such provision: (1) any farm not subject to the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; and (2) veterinary care intended to make the livestock ambulatory.
Agricultural Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through crop year 2011, to: (1) make fixed decoupled payments and counter-cyclical payments to eligible producers; (2) make marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments to covered commodity producers; and (3) extend programs for milk and dairy products, sugar, and peanuts. Amends specified agricultural Acts to extend the: (1) suspension of permanent price support authority; (2) farmland protection program; (3) conservation reserve program; (4) environmental quality incentives program; (5) food for progress program; (6) market access program; (7) export enhancement program; (8) foreign market development cooperator program; (9) export credit guarantee program; (10) P.L. 480 programs; (11) food stamp and related nutrition programs; (12) emergency food assistance program; (13) commodity supplemental food program; (14) surplus commodities to special nutrition project program; and (15) wildlife habitat incentives program. Establishes the: (1) congressional hunger fellows program; and (2) forest land enhancement program; and (3) sustainable forestry outreach initiative; (4) community and private land fire assistance program; (5) tree assistance program; (6) hazardous fuels to energy grant program; (7) senior farmers' market nutrition program; (8) grassland reserve program; and (9) farmland stewardship program. Revises and extends specified agricultural credit programs, rural development programs, and agricultural research programs. Revises land-grant institution provisions and other specified educational, extension, and research program provisions. Repeals certain agricultural activities and authorities.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 107-171.
Became Public Law No: 107-171.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S3979-4052)
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 64 - 35. Record Vote Number: 103.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 64 - 35. Record Vote Number: 103.
Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S3903-3904, S3904-3937)
Rule H. Res. 403 passed House.
Mr. Combest brought up conference report H. Rept. 107-424 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 403. (consideration: CR H2031-2057)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report on H.R. 2646.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Mr. Kind (WI) moved to recommit with instructions to the conference committee. (consideration: CR H2056-2057)
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit with instructions to conference committee Failed by recorded vote: 172 - 251 (Roll no. 122). (text: CR H2056)
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 280 - 141 (Roll no. 123).
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 280 - 141 (Roll no. 123).
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 107-424 filed.(text of conference report: CR H1795-1978)
Conference report H. Rept. 107-424 filed. (text of conference report: CR H1795-1978)
Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement held at the desk in Senate.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 403 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2646. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read.
NOTIFICATION OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Ackerman notified the House of his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on the provisions contained in section 945 of the House bill, relating to unlawful stockyard practices involving nonambulatory livestock.
NOTIFICATION OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Blumenauer notified the House of his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to leave intact provisions of the House and Senate bills which amend Section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act, subsection (e), to strike "$5,000" and insert "$15,000"; and to strike "1 year" and insert "2 years"; and which provide that the amendments to Section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act take effect 30 days after the date of the enactment of the Act.
Ms. Hooley moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H1537-1540)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Hooley motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 1001 of the Senate amendment and section 944 of the House bill, relating to country of origin labeling requirements for agricultural commodities, but to insist on the 6-month implementation deadline contained in the House bill.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1537)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair put the question on the adoption of the Dooley motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 335 of the Senate amendment, relating to agricultural trade with Cuba.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 273 - 143 (Roll no. 105). (consideration: CR H1514-1515)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair put the question on the adoption of the Baca motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to provisions contained in section 452 of the Senate amendment, relating to restoration of benefits to children, legal immigrants who work, refugees and the disabled.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 244 - 171 (Roll no. 106). (consideration: CR H1515-1516)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Ms. Hooley notified the House of her intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 1001 of the Senate amendment and section 944 of the House bill, relating to country of origin labeling requirements for agricultural commodities, but to insist on the 6-month implementation deadline contained in the House bill.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of the Smith (MI) motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646 which had been debated on Wednesday, April 17, 2002, and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 265 - 158 (Roll no. 100).
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Dooley moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H1453-1462; text: CR H1453)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Dooley motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 335 of the Senate amendment, relating to agricultural trade with Cuba.
Mr. Baca moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H1462-1470; text: CR H1462)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Baca motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to provisions contained in section 452 of the Senate amendment, relating to restoration of benefits to children, legal immigrants who work, refugees and the disabled. (consideration: CR H1418)
The previous question was ordered without objection.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Dooley notified the House of his intent to offer on Thursday, April 18, 2002, a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 335 of the Senate amendment, relating to agricultural trade with Cuba.
ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Osborne asked unanimous consent that, during consideration of the motion to instruct offered by Mr. Smith of Michigan, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the motion to a time designated by the Speaker. Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Smith (MI) moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H1373-1382; text: CR H1373)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Smith (MI) motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to: 1) agree to the provisions contained in section 169(a) of the Senate amendment, relating to payment limitations for commodity programs; and 2) insist upon an increase in funding for--(A) conservation programs, in effect as of January 1, 2002, that are extended by title II of the House bill or title II of the Senate amendment; and (B) research programs that are amended or established by title VII of the House bill or title VII of the Senate amendment.
POSTPONED CONSIDERATION - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Chair announced that proceedings on the Smith (MI) motion to instruct conferees would be postponed until a time to be determined by the Speaker.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Baca notified the House of his intent to offer on Thursday, April 18, 2002, a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to provisions contained in section 452 of the Senate amendment, relating to restoration of benefits to children, legal immigrants who work, refugees and the disabled.
DEBATE (UNFINISHED BUSINESS) - The House continued with debate on the Smith (MI) motion to instruct conferees which had been considered earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to: 1) agree to the provisions contained in section 169(a) of the Senate amendment, relating to payment limitations for commodity programs; and 2) insist upon an increase in funding for--(A) conservation programs, in effect as of January 1, 2002, that are extended by title II of the House bill or title II of the Senate amendment; and (B) research programs that are amended or established by title VII of the House bill or title VII of the Senate amendment.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Smith of Michigan notified the House of his intent to offer, on Wednesday, April 17, 2002, a motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to: 1) agree to the provisions contained in section 169(a) of the Senate amendment, relating to payment limitations for commodity programs; and 2) insist upon an increase in funding for--(A) conservation programs, in effect as of January 1, 2002, that are extended by title II of the House bill or title II of the Senate amendment; and (B) research programs that are amended or established by title VII of the House bill or title VII of the Senate amendment.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Tancredo notified the House of his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2646. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to disagree to the provisions contained in section 452 of the Senate amendment, relating to partial restoration of benefits to legal immigrants.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Mr. Phelps moved that the House instruct conferees.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Phelps motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 1071 of the Senate amendment, relating to reenactment of the family farmer bankruptcy provisions contained in chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 424 - 3 (Roll no. 86). (consideration: CR H1183-1188; text: CR H1183)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Phelps of Illinois notified the House of his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 2646 on Wednesday, April 10, 2002, to the extent that the managers on the part of the House be instructed to agree to the provisions contained in section 1071 of the Senate amendment, relating to reenactment of the family farmer bankruptcy provisions contained in chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code.
NOTICE OF MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES - Mr. Flake of Arizona notified the House of his intention to offer a motion to instruct conferees at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 2646 on Wednesday, April 10, 2002, to the extent that the managers on the part of the House be instructed to agree to section 1244(g)(1)(C) of the Food Security Act of 1985, as added by section 204 of the Senate amendment.
CHANGE OF CONFEREES - By unamious consent the Chair removed Mr. Ballenger as a conferee and appointed Mr. Bartlett (MD) to fill the vacancy thereon.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Budget for consideration of sec. 197 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Nussle, Sununu, and Spratt.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and the Workforce for consideration of secs. 453-5, 457-9, 460-1, and 464 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Castle, Osborne, and Kildee.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Energy and Commerce for consideration of secs. 213, 605, 627, 648, 652, 902, 1041, and 1079E of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Tauzin, Barton, and Dingell.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Financial Services for consideration of secs. 335 and 601 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Oxley, Bachus, and LaFalce.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on International Relations for consideration of title III of the House bill and title III of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hyde, Smith (NJ), and Lantos.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Judiciary for consideration of secs. 940-1 of the House bill and secs. 602, 1028-9, 1033-5, 1046, 1049, 1052-3, 1058, 1068-9, 1070-1, 1098, and 1098A of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Sensenbrenner, Green (WI), and Baldwin.
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Resources for consideration of secs. 201, 203, 211, 213, 215-7, 262, 721, 786, 806, 810, 817-8, 1069, 1070, and 1076 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hansen, Young (AK), and Kind (WI).
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Science for consideration of secs. 808, 811, 902-3, and 1079 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Boehlert, Ballenger, and Hall (TX).
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Ways and Means for consideration of secs. 127 and 146 of the House bill and secs. 144, 1024, 1038, and 1070 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Thomas, Herger, and Rangel.
Mr. Combest asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H640)
The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Agriculture for consideration of the House bill and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Combest, Boehner, Goodlatte, Pombo, Everett, Lucas (OK), Chambliss, Moran (KS), Stenholm, Condit, Peterson (MN), Dooley, Clayton, and Holden.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate appointed conferee(s) Harkin; Leahy; Conrad; Daschle; Lugar; Helms; Cochran.
Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S699)
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1731 as amended.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1731 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 40. Record Vote Number: 30.(text: CR 2/25/2002 S1006-1135)
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1731 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 40. Record Vote Number: 30. (text: CR 2/25/2002 S1006-1135)
Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 199.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Received in the Senate.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6407-6411)
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2646.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
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