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[CITE: 7USC1433a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 35A--PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1433a. Forgiveness of violations; determinations

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a producer 
samples, turns, moves, or replaces grain or any other commodity which is 
security for a Commodity Credit Corporation producer loan or is held 
under a producer reserve program, and does so in violation of law or 
regulation, the appropriate county committee established under section 
590h(b) of title 16 may forgive some or all of the penalties and 
requirements that would normally be imposed on the producer by reason of 
the violation, if such committee determines that (1) the violation 
occurred inadvertently or accidentally, because of lack of knowledge or 
understanding of the law or regulation, or because the producer or the 
producer's agent acted to prevent spoilage of the commodity, and (2) the 
violation did not result in harm or damage to the rights or interests of 
any person. The county committee shall furnish a copy of its 
determination to the Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and 
Conservation Service and the appropriate State committee established 
under section 590h(b) of title 16. The determination may be disapproved 
by either the Administrator or the State committee within sixty days 
after receipt of a copy of the determination. Any determination not 
disapproved by the Administrator or such State committee within such 
sixty-day period shall be considered approved.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title IV, Sec. 422, as added Pub. L. 97-98, 
title X, Sec. 1002, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1260.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97-98, 
set out as a note under section 4301 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(b)(1)(J) of this 
title.
