[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: 7CFR1435.103]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1435_SUGAR PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart B_Loan Program
 
Sec.  1435.103  Availability, disbursement, and maturity of loans.

    (a) Before obtaining a loan, a processor must:
    (1) File a loan application, as CCC prescribes, no earlier than 
October 1 and no later than September 30 of the applicable crop year, 
with the State committee of the State where such processor is 
headquartered, or with a county committee designated by the State 
committee.
    (2) Execute a note and security agreement, and storage agreement 
with CCC;
    (3) Provide quantity and quality information as prescribed by CCC of 
the commodity to be pledged as collateral;
    (4) Pay CCC a loan service fee, as determined by CCC, for the 
disbursement of each loan.
    (5) If there are any liens or encumbrances on sugar or in-process 
sugar pledged as loan collateral, obtain waivers that fully protect 
CCC's interest even though the liens or encumbrances are satisfied from 
the loan proceeds. No additional liens or encumbrances shall be placed 
on the sugar after loan approval; and
    (6) Agree to reimburse CCC for any costs incurred as a result of the 
failure of the processor to obtain the waivers specified in subparagraph 
(5).
    (b) No loan proceeds may be disbursed until the sugar and in-process 
sugar have actually been produced and are otherwise established as being 
eligible to be pledged as loan collateral.
    (c)(1) A processor may, within the loan availability period, 
repledge as collateral sugar that previously served

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as loan collateral for a repaid loan. In making application for such a 
loan, the processor shall:
    (i) Specify that the loan collateral should be treated as a quantity 
of eligible sugar that previously served as loan collateral for a repaid 
loan; and
    (ii) Designate the loan to which the reoffered loan collateral was 
originally pledged.
    (2) The subsequent loan shall have the same maturity date as the 
original loan.
    (3) Loan collateral repledged that was previously redeemed from CCC 
is not included in determining the total quantity of sugar on which 
loans have been obtained for purposes of Sec.  1435.102.
    (d) Raw cane sugar loan disbursements shall be made without regard 
to the actual polarity or quality factors of the sugar pledged as loan 
collateral but shall be made on the assumption that the polarity of such 
sugar is 96 degrees by the polariscope.
    (e)(1) Loans will mature at the earlier of:
    (i) the end of the 9-month period beginning on the 1st day of the 
first month after the month in which the loan is made; or
    (ii) September 30 following disbursement of the loan.
    (2) CCC may accelerate loan maturity dates under Sec.  1435.105(h).
    (f) Processors receiving loans in July, August, or September may 
repledge the sugar as collateral for a supplemental loan. Such 
supplemental loan shall:
    (1) Be requested by the processor during the following October;
    (2) Be made at the loan rate in effect at the time the supplemental 
loan is made; and
    (3) Mature in 9 months minus the number of whole months that the 
initial loan was in effect.