---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 8001"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "8001"
heading: "Producer retention of erroneously paid loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/8001"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Commodity Programs"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administration"
---

# §8001. Producer retention of erroneously paid loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7901.md?p=13) and the Commodity Credit Corporation shall not require [producers](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) in Erie County, Pennsylvania, to repay loan deficiency payments and marketing loan gains erroneously paid or determined to have been earned by the Commodity Credit Corporation for certain 1998 and 1999 crops under subtitle C of title I of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ([7 U.S.C. 7231](/usc/7/7231.md) et seq.). In the case of a [producer](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) who has already made the repayment on or before May 13, 2002, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall reimburse the [producer](/usc/7/7901.md?p=12) for the full amount of the repayment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title I, § 1618, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 223.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 104–127, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 888. Subtitle C of title I of the Act is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 7231 et seq.) of chapter 100 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7201 of this title and Tables.