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[CITE: 7USC198a]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 9--PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER II--PACKERS GENERALLY
 
                Part B--Swine Packer Marketing Contracts
 
Sec. 198a. Swine packer marketing contracts offered to producers


(a) In general

    Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this 
section, the Secretary shall establish and maintain a library or catalog 
of each type of contract offered by packers to swine producers for the 
purchase of all or part of the producers' production of swine (including 
swine that are purchased or committed for delivery), including all 
available noncarcass merit premiums.

(b) Availability

    The Secretary shall make available to swine producers and other 
interested persons information on the types of contracts described in 
subsection (a) of this section, including notice (on a real-time basis 
if practicable) of the types of contracts that are being offered by each 
individual packer to, and are open to acceptance by, producers for the 
purchase of swine.

(c) Confidentiality

    The reporting requirements under subsections (a) and (b) of this 
section shall be subject to the confidentiality protections provided 
under section 1636 of this title.

(d) Information collection

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary shall--
            (A) obtain (by a filing or other procedure required of each 
        individual packer) information indicating what types of 
        contracts for the purchase of swine are available from each 
        packer; and
            (B) make the information available in a monthly report to 
        swine producers and other interested persons.

                    (2) Contracted swine numbers

        Each packer shall provide, and the Secretary shall collect and 
    publish in the monthly report required under paragraph (1)(B), 
    information specifying--
            (A) the types of existing contracts for each packer;
            (B) the provisions contained in each contract that provide 
        for expansion in the numbers of swine to be delivered under the 
        contract for the following 6-month and 12-month periods;
            (C) an estimate of the total number of swine committed by 
        contract for delivery to all packers within the 6-month and 12-
        month periods following the date of the report, reported by 
        reporting region and by type of contract; and
            (D) an estimate of the maximum total number of swine that 
        potentially could be delivered within the 6-month and 12-month 
        periods following the date of the report under the provisions 
        described in subparagraph (B) that are included in existing 
        contracts, reported by reporting region and by type of contract.

(e) Violations

    It shall be unlawful and a violation of this subchapter for any 
packer to willfully fail or refuse to provide to the Secretary accurate 
information required under, or to willfully fail or refuse to comply 
with any requirement of, this section.

(f) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary to 
carry out this section.

(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title II, Sec. 222, as added Pub. L. 106-78, 
title IX, Sec. 934(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1208.)

                         Termination of Section

        For termination of section by section 942 of Pub. L. 106-78, see 
    Livestock Mandatory Reporting note set out under section 1635 of 
    this title.
