Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1306

 95 STAT. 1280

PUBLIC LAW 97-98—DEC. 22, 1981 Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (relating to subsidies and countervailing measures), if applicable. INCREASED USAGE OF PROTEIN BYPRODUCTS DERIVED FROM ALCOHOL FUEL PRODUCTION

7 USC I736n.

SEC. 1208. (a) Congress finds that the use of the protein byproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricultural commodities may make it possible for the United States to make available significantly increased amounts of protein to meet the food needs of developing countries without any increase in handling, storage, and transportation facilities. It is the sense of Congress that serious consideration should be given to the potential of this protein byproduct and that, if found to be feasible, this protein byproduct should be included in the Department of Agriculture's commodity export and donation programs. OJ) Accordingly, the Secretary of Agriculture shall continue to investigate the potential for using the protein byproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricultural commodities in meeting the food needs of developing countries through food for peace programs carried out under the Agricultural Trade Development and 7 USC 1691 note. Assistance Act of 1954 and through the export credit sales program 7 USC 1707a. carried out under section 4 of the Food for Peace Act of 1966 and 15 USC 714c. section 5(f) of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. (c) The Secretary shall also continue to investigate the potential for using the protein b5rproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricidtural commodities in the distribution of food products under the commodity donation program carried out under 7 USC 1431. clause (3) of section 416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 and under 7 USC 1859. section 210 of the Agricultured Act of 1956. Report to (d)(1) Not later than twelve months after enactment of this Act, the Congress. Secretary shall include the results of the investigations referred to in subsections (b) and (c) of this section in an appropriate report to Congress. (2) The Secretary shall thereafter provide to Congress each year a description of the efforts being made by the Department to make available, as part of the programs referred to in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the protein byproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricultural commodities. The information for all such programs shall be included in the report submitted pursuant to section 408(a) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance 7 USC 1736b. Act of 1954, or in any other appropriate annual report to Congress. EXEMPTION FOR PROTEIN BYPRODUCTS

SEC. 1209. The Act entitled "An Act authorizing Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase flour and cornmeal and donating same for certain domestic and foreign purposes", approved August 19, 1958 (7 U.S.C. 1431 note), is amended in the proviso by inserting "(except that this limitation does not apply in the case of the protein byproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricultural commodities)" immediately after "processed".

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