RTCP Revitalization Act
This bill amends the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Reimbursement Transportation Cost Payment Program (RTCP) to provide specified funds for the RTCP through FY2029 and each fiscal year thereafter. The RTCP provides reimbursement payments for geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers (e.g., those in Hawaii and Alaska) for a portion of the cost to transport agricultural commodities or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity.
The bill also removes a $15 million payment cap for any given fiscal year. Further, USDA may not impose a limitation on the amount of producer payments for any fiscal year that the program funds are equal to or exceed demand.
[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3657 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3657
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide
mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for
reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and
ranchers, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 24, 2023
Ms. Tokuda (for herself, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Sablan, Mrs. Radewagen, and
Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide
mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation for
reimbursement payments to geographically disadvantaged farmers and
ranchers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``RTCP Revitalization Act''.
SEC. 2. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUNDING FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY
DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS.
Section 1621 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7
U.S.C. 8792) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ``Subject to the
availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary'' and
inserting ``The Secretary'';
(2) in subsection (c)(3), by striking subparagraph (B) and
inserting the following:
``(B) Payment limitations.--The Secretary may not
impose a limitation on the amount of payments received
by a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher
under this section for any fiscal year in which the
amount made available for payments under this section
is equal to or greater than the amount that may be
provided in accordance with this section with respect
to applications received by the Secretary for that
fiscal year.''; and
(3) in subsection (d), by striking the subsection
designation and heading and all that follows through ``There
are'' and inserting the following:
``(d) Funding.--
``(1) Mandatory funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use to carry out this
section--
``(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
``(B) $11,000,000 for fiscal year 2025;
``(C) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
``(D) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2027;
``(E) $14,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; and
``(F) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2029 and each
fiscal year thereafter.
``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
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