7 USC § 7201 - Short title and purpose

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title: "7 USC § 7201 - Short title and purpose"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "7201"
section_name: "Short title and purpose"
chapter_number: 100
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "SHORT TITLE, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 101, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 896.)"
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# § 7201. Short title and purpose

**(a)** **Short title** This chapter may be cited as the “Agricultural Market Transition Act”.

**(b)** **Purpose** It is the purpose of this chapter—

**(1)** to authorize the use of binding production flexibility contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection requirements;

**(2)** to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments available for certain crops;

**(3)** to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, and sugar; and

**(4)** to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive review of past and future production agriculture in the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 101, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 896.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of , , , which enacted this chapter and , amended sections 1308, 1308–1, 1308–3, 1358–1, 1358b, 1358c, 1359a, 1373, 1441, 1445j, 1508, 1516, 4504, 6401, 6402, 6413, 6414, and 6932 of this title and sections 713a–14, 714b, 714i, and 714k of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, repealed sections 1426, 1433f, 1441–2, 1444–2, 1444f, 1445b–3a, 1445c–3, 1445h, 1446e to 1446h, and 1519 of this title, enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 1373, 1446e, 1446e–1, and 1508 of this title, and repealed provisions set out as a note under . For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 1998 Amendment

> “This Act [amending
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> ] may be cited as the ‘Emergency Farm Financial Relief Act’.”

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### Short Title

> “This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the ‘Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996’.”

, , , provided that:

### Severability

> “If any provision of this Act [see Short Title note above] or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Act that can be given effect without regard to the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.”

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