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[CITE: 7USC7504]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                 CHAPTER 102--EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 7504. Initial processing costs

    The Secretary may use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
pay costs of initial processing and packaging of commodities to be 
distributed under the program established under this chapter into forms, 
and in quantities, suitable, as determined by the Secretary, for use in 
individual households when such commodities are to be consumed by 
individual households or for institutional use, as applicable. The 
Secretary may pay such costs in the form of Corporation-owned 
commodities equal in value to such costs. The Secretary shall ensure 
that any such payments in kind will not displace commercial sales of 
such commodities.

(Pub. L. 98-8, title II, Sec. 203A, as added Pub. L. 98-92, Sec. 2(5), 
Sept. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 609; amended Pub. L. 99-198, title XV, 
Sec. 1565(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1591.)


                               Amendments

    1985--Pub. L. 99-198 struck out ``, except that wheat from the Food 
Security Wheat Reserve may not be used to pay such costs'' after ``equal 
in value to such costs''.


                             Effective Date

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 98-92 provided in part that this section is 
effective Oct. 1, 1983.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7505, 7509 of this title.
