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 Missouri. PUBLIC LAW 107-76—NOV. 28, 2001 115 STAT. 737 chapter 4, subtitle D, title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, for technical assistance to implement the Conservation Reserve Program authorized by subchapter B, chapter 1, title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, with funds to remain available until expended. SEC. 737. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Grants. City of St. Joseph, Missouri, shall be eligible for grants and logins If^^;^ administered by the rural development mission area of the Department of Agriculture relating to an application submitted to the Department by a farmer-owned cooperative, a majority of whose members reside in a rural area, as determined by the Secretary, and for the purchase and operation of a facility beneficial to the purpose of the cooperative. SEC. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall consider the City of HoUister, California, as meeting the requirements of a rural area for the purposes of housing programs in the rural development mission areas of the Department of Agriculture. SEC. 739. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to maintain, modify, or implement any assessment against agricultural producers as part of a commodity promotion, research, and consumer information order, known as a check-off program, that has not been approved by the affected producers in accordance with the statutory requirements applicable to the order. SEC. 740. None of the funds made available to the Food and Drug Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate, or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration Division of Drug Analysis (recently renamed the Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis) in St. Louis, Missouri, except that funds could be used to plan a possible relocation of this Division within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri. SEC. 741. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE FOR APPLE PRODUCERS (a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE. — The Secretary of Agriculture shall use $75,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this Act to apple producers to provide relief for the loss of markets for their 2000 crop. (b) PAYMENT BASIS.— The amount of the payment to a producer under subsection (a) shall be made on a per pound basis equal to each qualifying producer's 2000 production of apples, except that the Secretary shall not make pa3anents for that amount of a particular farm's apple production that is in excess of 20,000,000 pounds. (c) DUPLICATIVE PAYMENTS. —^A producer shall be ineligible for payments under this section with respect to a market loss for apples to the extent of that amount that the producer received as compensation or assistance for the same loss under any other Federal program, other than under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). (d) OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS. — The Secretary shall not establish any terms or conditions for producer eligibility, such as limits based upon gross income, other than those specified in this section. (e) APPLICABILITY. — This section applies only with respect to the 2000 crop of apples and producers of that crop.

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