Sec. 1001. Food Supply Chain and Agriculture Pandemic Response

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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out this section. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use the amounts made available pursuant to subsection (a)— to purchase food and agricultural commodities; to purchase and distribute agricultural commodities (including fresh produce, dairy, eggs, and meat) to individuals in need, including through delivery to nonprofit organizations and through restaurants and other food related entities, as determined by the Secretary, that may receive, store, process, and distribute food items; to make grants and loans for small or midsized food processors or distributors, farmers markets, producers, or other organizations to respond to COVID–19, including for measures to protect workers against COVID–19; and to make loans and grants and provide other assistance to maintain and improve food and agricultural supply chain resiliency. 19 animal surveillance The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct monitoring and surveillance of susceptible animals for incidence of SARS–CoV–2.

Activities conducted under paragraph

(1)shall be consistent with guidance provided by the World Organisation for Animal Health. Out of the amounts made available under subsection (a), the Secretary shall use $300,000,000 to carry out this subsection. The terms small establishment and very small establishment have the meaning given those terms in the final rule entitled Pathogen Reduction; Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems published in the Federal Register on July 25, 1996 (61 Fed. Reg. 38806). Notwithstanding section 10703 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 2219a ), the Act of June 5, 1948 ( 21 U.S.C. 695 ), section 25 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 468 ), and section 24 of the Egg Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1053 ), and any regulations promulgated by the Department of Agriculture implementing such provisions of law and subject to the availability of funds under paragraph (3), the Secretary of Agriculture shall reduce the amount of overtime inspection costs borne by federally-inspected small establishments and very small establishments engaged in meat, poultry, or egg products processing and subject to the requirements of the Federal Meat Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.), or the Egg Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.), for inspection activities carried out during the period of fiscal years 2021 through 2030. Out of the amounts made available under subsection (a), the Secretary shall use $100,000,000 to carry out this subsection.

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