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[CITE: 7USC7255]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
               CHAPTER 100--AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--OTHER COMMODITIES
 
                              Part A--Dairy
 
Sec. 7255. Milk manufacturing marketing adjustment


(a) Maximum allowances established

    No State shall provide for a manufacturing allowance for the 
processing of milk in excess of--
        (1) $1.65 per hundredweight of milk for milk manufactured into 
    butter and nonfat dry milk; and
        (2) $1.80 per hundredweight of milk for milk manufactured into 
    cheese.

(b) ``Manufacturing allowance'' defined

    In this section, the term ``manufacturing allowance'' means--
        (1) the amount by which the product price value of butter and 
    nonfat dry milk manufactured from a hundred pounds of milk 
    containing 3.5 pounds of butterfat and 8.7 pounds of milk solids not 
    fat resulting from a State's yield and product price formulas 
    exceeds the class price for the milk used to produce those products; 
    or
        (2) the amount by which the product price value of cheese 
    manufactured from a hundred pounds of milk containing 3.5 pounds of 
    butterfat and 8.7 pounds of milk solids not fat resulting from a 
    State's yield and product price formulas exceeds the class price for 
    the milk used to produce cheese.

(c) Effect of violation

    If the Secretary determines following a hearing that a State has in 
effect a manufacturing allowance that exceeds the manufacturing 
allowance authorized in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary 
shall suspend purchases of cheddar cheese, butter, and nonfat dry milk 
produced in that State until such time as the State complies with such 
subsection.

(d) Effective date; implementation

    This section (other than subsection (e) \1\ of this section) shall 
be effective during the period beginning on the first day of the first 
month beginning after April 4, 1996, and ending on December 31, 1999. 
During that period, the Secretary may exercise the authority provided to 
the Secretary under this section without regard to the issuance of 
regulations intended to carry out this section.
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    \1\ See Codification note below.
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(Pub. L. 104-127, title I, Sec. 145, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 917.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of section 145 of Pub. L. 104-127. Subsec. (e) 
of section 145 of Pub. L. 104-127 repealed section 1446e-1 of this title 
and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 1446e-1 of this 
title.
