---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7231"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7231"
heading: "Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7231"
units:
  - "Chapter 100 — Agricultural Market Transition"
  - "Subchapter III — Nonrecourse Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments"
---

# §7231. Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans

- (a) **Nonrecourse loans available—** For each of the 1996 through 2002 crops of each [loan commodity](/usc/7/7202.md?p=10), the [Secretary](/usc/7/7202.md?p=13) shall make available to [producers](/usc/7/7202.md?p=12) on a farm nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for [loan commodities](/usc/7/7202.md?p=10) produced on the farm. The loans shall be made under terms and conditions that are prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/7202.md?p=13) and at the loan rate established under [section 7232 of this title](/usc/7/7232.md) for the [loan commodity](/usc/7/7202.md?p=10).
- (b) **Eligible production—** The following production shall be eligible for a marketing assistance loan under [subsection (a)](#a):
  - (1) In the case of a marketing assistance loan for a [contract commodity](/usc/7/7202.md?p=5), any production by a [producer](/usc/7/7202.md?p=12) on a farm containing eligible cropland covered by a [production flexibility contract](/usc/7/7202.md?p=3).
  - (2) In the case of a marketing assistance loan for [extra long staple cotton](/usc/7/7202.md?p=8) and [oilseeds](/usc/7/7202.md?p=11), any production.
- (c) **Compliance with conservation and wetlands requirements—** As a condition of the receipt of a marketing assistance loan under [subsection (a)](#a), the [producer](/usc/7/7202.md?p=12) shall comply with applicable conservation requirements under subtitle B of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 ([16 U.S.C. 3811](/usc/16/3811.md) et seq.) and applicable wetland protection requirements under subtitle C of title XII of the Act ([16 U.S.C. 3821](/usc/16/3821.md) et seq.) during the term of the loan.
- (d) **Additional outlays prohibited—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7202.md?p=13) shall carry out this subchapter in such a manner that there are no additional outlays under this subchapter as a result of the reconstitution of a farm that occurs as a result of the combination of another farm that does not contain eligible cropland covered by a [production flexibility contract](/usc/7/7202.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 131, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 905.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Food Security Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 99–198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1354. Subtitles B and C of title XII of the Act are classified generally to subchapters II (§ 3811 et seq.) and III (§ 3821 et seq.), respectively, of chapter 58 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1985 Amendment note set out under section 1281 of this title and Tables.