[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1427.19]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1427_COTTON--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart A_Nonrecourse Cotton Loan and Loan Deficiency Payments
 
Sec.  1427.19  Repayment of loans.

    (a) Warehouse receipts will not be released except as provided in 
this section.
    (b) A producer, an authorized agent or anyone subsequently 
designated by the producer in the manner prescribed by CCC may redeem 
one or more bales of cotton pledged as collateral for a loan by payment 
to CCC of an amount applicable to the bales of cotton being redeemed 
determined under this section. CCC, upon proper payment for the amount 
due, shall release the warehouse receipts applicable to such cotton.
    (c) A producer or agent or subsequent agent authorized in writing in 
a manner prescribed by CCC may repay the loan amount for one or more 
bales of cotton pledged as collateral for a marketing assistance loan:
    (1) For upland cotton, at a level that is the lesser of:
    (i) The loan level and charges, plus interest determined for such 
bales; or
    (ii) The adjusted world price, as determined by CCC under Sec.  
1427.25, in effect on the day the repayment is received by the county 
office, loan servicing agent, or cotton commercial bank that disbursed 
the loan.
    (2) For ELS cotton, by repaying the loan amount and charges, plus 
interest determined for such bales.
    (d) CCC shall determine and publicly announce the adjusted world 
price for each crop of upland cotton on a weekly basis.
    (e) The difference between the loan level, excluding charges and 
interest, and the loan repayment level is the market gain. The total 
amount of any market gain realized by a person is subject to part 1400 
of this chapter.
    (f) Repayment of loans will not be accepted after CCC acquires title 
to the cotton under Sec.  1427.7.
    (g) In the event that Thursday is a non-workday, such loan 
repayments will not be accepted beginning at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard 
time the next workday until an announcement of the adjusted world price 
for the succeeding weekly period has been made under Sec.  1427.25(e).
    (h) If the upland cotton pledged as collateral is eligible to be 
redeemed at a rate less than the loan level and charges, plus interest, 
and the adjusted world price determined under Sec.  1427.25:
    (1) Below the national average loan rate for upland cotton, CCC will 
pay at the time of loan repayment to the producer, agent, or subsequent 
agent authorized by the producer in the manner prescribed by CCC for the 
period the cotton was pledged as collateral for such loan:
    (i) The warehouse storage charges which have accrued, and
    (ii) With respect to the 2006 and subsequent-crops of upland cotton, 
for each bale of the loan stored inside an approved cotton warehouse 
during the entire period of the loan, storage charges based on paragraph 
(j) of this section, except that CCC shall not credit the loan repayment 
amount for a bale for any accrued storage charges for any period that 
the cotton bale was stored outside exceeding a continuous 15-day period 
beginning on the day the warehouse was notified that the bale is under 
loan.
    (2) Above the national average loan rate by less than the sum of the 
accrued interest and warehouse storage charges that accrued during the 
period the cotton was pledged for loan, CCC will pay at the time of loan 
repayment

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to the producer, agent, or subsequent agent authorized by the producer 
in the manner prescribed by CCC, without regard to any warehouse charges 
that accrued before the cotton was pledged for loan:
    (i) That portion of the warehouse storage charges that accrued 
during the period the cotton was pledged for loan that are determined to 
be necessary to permit the loan to be repaid at the adjusted world 
price; and
    (ii) With respect to the 2006 and subsequent crops of upland cotton 
stored inside an approved cotton warehouse during the entire period of 
the loan, storage charges based on the rates in paragraph (j) of this 
section, except that CCC shall not credit the loan repayment amount for 
a bale for any accrued storage charges for any period that the cotton 
bale was stored outside exceeding a continuous 15-day period beginning 
on the day the warehouse was notified that the bale is under loan; or
    (3) Above the national average loan rate by as much as or more than 
the sum of the accrued interest and warehouse storage charges that 
accrued during the period the cotton was pledged for loan, CCC shall not 
pay any of the accrued warehouse storage charges.
    (i) Repayment of loans will not be accepted after CCC acquires title 
to the cotton in accordance with Sec.  1427.7.
    (j) For the purpose of calculating storage credits that may be 
applicable under paragraph (h) of this section to the 2006 and 
subsequent crops of upland cotton, the warehouse storage rates to be 
used shall be the lower of;
    (1) The tariff storage rate for the warehouse for the 2005-crop, or 
for any warehouse not in existence in 2005, a CCC-assigned average 2005-
crop tariff rate for the county or area; or
    (2) For warehouses located in Arizona and California, $4.37 per bale 
per month; and for warehouses located in all States other than Arizona 
and California, $2.66 per bale per month.

[67 FR 64459, Oct. 18, 2002, as amended at 71 FR 51428, Aug. 30, 2006]