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[CITE: 7USC1359aa]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
                        Part B--Marketing Quotas
 
      subpart vii--marketing quotas--sugar and crystalline fructose
 
Sec. 1359aa. Information reporting


(a) Duty of processors, refiners and manufacturers to report

                     (1) Processors and refiners

        All sugarcane processors, cane sugar refiners, and sugar beet 
    processors shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such 
    information as the Secretary may require to administer sugar 
    programs, including the quantity of purchases of sugarcane, sugar 
    beets, and sugar, and production, importation, distribution, and 
    stock levels of sugar.

              (2) Manufacturers of crystalline fructose

        All manufacturers of crystalline fructose from corn (hereafter 
    in this subpart referred to as ``crystalline fructose'') shall 
    furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, such information as the 
    Secretary may require with respect to the manufacturer's 
    distribution of crystalline fructose.

(b) Duty of producers to report

    The Secretary may require a producer of sugarcane or sugar beets to 
report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary, the producer's 
sugarcane or sugar beet yields and acres planted to sugarcane or sugar 
beets, respectively.

(c) Penalty

    Any person willfully failing or refusing to furnish the information, 
or furnishing willfully any false information, shall be subject to a 
civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each such violation.

(d) Monthly reports

    Taking into consideration the information received under subsection 
(a) of this section, the Secretary shall publish on a monthly basis 
composite data on production, imports, distribution, and stock levels of 
sugar and composite data on distributions of crystalline fructose.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 359a, as added Pub. L. 101-624, 
title IX, Sec. 902, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3479; amended Pub. L. 102-
237, title I, Sec. 111(c), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1830.)

                          Codification

    Another section 359a of act Feb. 16, 1938, was renumbered section 
359e and is classified to section 1359a of this title.


                               Amendments

    1991--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 111(c)(1), added subsec. 
(a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: ``All cane 
sugar refiners and sugar beet processors and all manufacturers of 
crystalline fructose from corn (hereafter in this subpart referred to as 
`crystalline fructose') shall furnish the Secretary, on a monthly basis, 
such information as the Secretary may require with respect to the 
person's importation, distribution, and stock levels of sugar or 
crystalline fructose, respectively.''
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 111(c)(2), (3), added 
subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d), 
respectively.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 111(c)(2), (4), redesignated 
subsec. (c) as (d), substituted ``data on production, imports,'' for 
``data on imports,'' and inserted ``composite data on distributions of'' 
after ``sugar and''.


                             Effective Date

    Subpart effective beginning with the 1991 crop of an agricultural 
commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 
101-624, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under 
section 1421 of this title.


                       Inapplicability of Section

    Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, 
peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 
4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(a)(1)(E) of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1359jj of this title.
