Sec. 1434. Calculation and collection of reduced dairy producer payments
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During any month in which payment reductions are in effect under the stabilization program, each handler shall reduce payments to each participating dairy producer from whom the handler receives milk. Unless the reduction required by paragraph
(2)or
(3)applies, when the actual dairy producer margin has been $6.00 or less per hundredweight of milk for two consecutive months, the handler shall make payments to a participating dairy producer for a month based on the greater of the following: 98 percent of the stabilization program base of the dairy producer. 94 percent of the marketings of milk for the month by the producer. Unless the reduction required by paragraph
(3)applies, when the actual dairy producer margin has been $5.00 or less per hundredweight of milk for two consecutive months, the handler shall make payments to a participating dairy producer for a month based on the greater of the following: 97 percent of the stabilization program base of the dairy producer. 93 percent of the marketings of milk for the month by the producer. When the actual dairy producer margin has been $4.00 or less for any one month, the handler shall make payments to a participating dairy producer for a month based on the greater of the following: 96 percent of the stabilization program base of the dairy producer. 92 percent of the marketings of milk for the month by the producer. The largest level of payment reduction required under paragraph (1), (2), or
(3)of subsection
(b)shall be continued for each month until the Secretary suspends the stabilization program and terminates payment reductions in accordance with section 1436. Notwithstanding any preceding subsection of this section, a handler shall make no payment reductions for a dairy producer for a month if the producer’s milk marketings for the month are equal to or less than the percentage of the stabilization program base applicable to the producer under paragraph (1), (2), or
(3)of subsection (b).