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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Eat Healthy America Act debuts

Here is the title and table of contents for the Eat Healthy America Act. The PDF of the bill is 119 pages long:

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act’’
or the ‘‘EAT Healthy America Act’’. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I—COMMODITY-RELATED PROVISIONS
Sec. 101. Flexible payment limitations for disaster payments to reflect variations in cost of production and crop value. Sec. 102. Adjusted gross income limitations on receipt of disaster assistance by
first handlers of specialty crops.
Sec. 103. Equitable treatment of specialty crop producers in distribution of disaster
assistance.
Sec. 104. Tree assistance program.

TITLE II—CONSERVATION
Sec. 201. Findings regarding Conservation Security Program.
Sec. 202. Conservation reserve program.
Sec. 203. Wetlands reserve program.
Sec. 204. Funding for Farmland Protection Program.
Sec. 205. Grassland reserve program.
Sec. 206. Wildlife habitat incentive program.
Sec. 207. Environmental quality incentives program.
Sec. 208. Cooperative conservation partnership initiative.
Sec. 209. Regional equity in funding of certain Department of Agriculture conservation
programs.
Sec. 210. Integrated pest management initiative.
Sec. 211. Technical assistance under Department of Agriculture conservation
programs.
Sec. 212. Conservation loan guarantee program.
Sec. 213. Emergency Conservation Program.
Sec. 214. Exclusion of payments under Department of Agriculture conservation
programs from adjusted gross income limitation.
Sec. 215. Encouragement of voluntary sustainability practices guidelines.
Sec. 216. Assistance to address long-term climate change.
TITLE III—TRADE
Sec. 301. Technical assistance for specialty crops.
Sec. 302. Coordination of trade objectives between key agencies.
Sec. 303. Market access program.
Sec. 304. Grant program for market analysis related to anti-dumping and countervailing
duty cases involving specialty crops.
Sec. 305. Sense of Congress regarding certain antitrust laws applicable to agriculture.
TITLE IV—INVASIVE PESTS AND DISEASES
Sec. 401. Threat identification and mitigation program.
Sec. 402. Emergency control, prevention, and eradication programs.
Sec. 403. Agricultural quarantine inspection activities at ports of entry.
Sec. 404. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Export Division.
Sec. 405. Consultations on sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions for fruits
and vegetables.
Sec. 406. Multi-species fruit fly research and sterile fly production.
Sec. 407. Audit-based approach to specialty crop phytosanitary regulation.
TITLE V—NUTRITION
Sec. 501. Findings.
Sec. 502. Expansion of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program.
Sec. 503. Fruit and vegetable nutrition promotion program.
Sec. 504. Use of ‘‘Dietary Guidelines for Americans’’ in special nutrition programs
and school lunch programs.
Sec. 505. Section 32 specialty crop purchases.
Sec. 506. School preference study.
Sec. 507. Independent evaluation of Department of Agriculture commodity purchase
process.
Sec. 508. Amendments to the Food Stamp Program.
Sec. 509. Sense of the Congress regarding nutritional supplements.
Sec. 510. Food stamp fruit and vegetable EBT pilot project.
Sec. 511. Decennial evaluations of WIC food packages.
Sec. 512. Extension of WIC farmer’s market nutrition program.
Sec. 513. Senior farmers’ market nutrition program.
TITLE VI—AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Sec. 601. Specialty Crops Economic and Policy Research Institute.
Sec. 602. Development of specialty crop priority for the National Research Initiative.
Sec. 603. Establishment of specialty crop research grants program for producers
to improve efficiency and competitiveness.
Sec. 604. National Clean Plant Network.
Sec. 605. Prioritizing current Federal research activities for specialty crops.
TITLE VII—RENEWABLE ENERGY
Sec. 701. Inventory of specialty crop biomass waste as part of annual assessment
of renewable energy resources.
Sec. 702. Department of Agriculture bioenergy program.
Sec. 703. Grants for development of specialty crop bioenergy projects.
TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. Specialty crop block grants.
Sec. 802. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; requests by
State agencies for exemptions.
Sec. 803. Protection of intellectual property rights in plants and plant-derived
material.
Sec. 804. Grant program to improve transportation infrastructure to reduce
cost of transportation of specialty crops.
Sec. 805. Additional funds for Agricultural Marketing Service specialty crop
market news activities.
Sec. 806. Value-added grants to promote creation, expansion, or operation of
value-added processing of specialty crops.
Sec. 807. Eligibility of laborers admitted for temporary residence for Rural
Housing Service farm labor housing.
Sec. 808. Food safety initiatives.
Sec. 809. Implementation of food safety programs under marketing orders.
Sec. 810. Census of specialty crops; dissemination of information.
Sec. 811. Office of pesticide programs.
Sec. 812. Early pest detection and surveillance improvement program.

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