---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2209k"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2209k"
heading: "Prohibition on payments to fossil fuel refiners and importers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2209k"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2209k. Prohibition on payments to fossil fuel refiners and importers

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture may not use any funds, facilities, or authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation or the Department of Agriculture—
  - (1) to provide a payment to a refiner or importer (as those terms are defined in section 80.2 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)); or
  - (2) to otherwise support, directly or indirectly, a refiner or importer (as so defined) in meeting any requirements under—
    - (A) the renewable fuel program under [section 7545(o)](/usc/42/7545.md?p=o) of title 42; or
    - (B) any other provision of law that requires the blending of fossil fuel with renewable fuel.
- (b) The exclusion in (a) shall not apply to any payments or support to producers, refiners, or importers of biofuel (as defined in [section 8101 of this title](/usc/7/8101.md)).
- (c) **Moratorium on Authorities Relating to Exchanges of Agricultural Products for Petroleum Products.—** The authorities under the ninth and tenth sentences of [section 714b(h) of title 15](/usc/15/714b.md?p=h) (relating to the availability of agricultural products for the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Energy to exchange for petroleum products and the terms and conditions of those exchanges, respectively) shall not be used during the 180-day period beginning on October 1, 2020.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–159, div. D, title VI, § 4604, Oct. 1, 2020, 134 Stat. 747.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 8101 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “7 U.S.C. 8101” but probably should have been a reference to section 9001 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–171, which is classified to section 8101 of this title.