---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7999"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7999"
heading: "Availability of incentive payments for certain producers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7999"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Commodity Programs"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administration"
---

# §7999. Availability of incentive payments for certain producers

- (a) **Incentive payments required—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall make available a total of $20,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation during the 2003 through 2005 crop years to provide incentive payments to [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) of hard white wheat.
- (b) **Conditions on implementation—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) shall implement [subsection (a)](#a)—
  - (1) only with regard to production that meets minimum quality criteria; and
  - (2) on not more than 2,000,000 acres or the equivalent volume of production.
- (c) **Demand for wheat—** To be eligible to obtain an incentive payment under [subsection (a)](#a), a [producer](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) that buyers and end-users are available for the wheat to be covered by the incentive payment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1616, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 222.)