7 U.S.C. § 1516 — Funding

(a)(1) Congress may appropriate amounts needed for the Corporation’s salaries and expenses in fiscal year 1999 and later fiscal years. (2) For reinsurance year 1999 and later years, Congress may appropriate amounts needed for the Corporation’s agent-commission costs, premium subsidies and related delivery costs, livestock and wild-salmon pilot programs under section 1523 subject to its limit, and research-and-development reimbursement, contracting, and partnership costs under section 1522. (b)(1) In those reinsurance years, the Corporation^* may pay from the insurance fund all expenses other than those covered by (a)(1) and (a)(2)(A), including premium subsidies, indemnities, agent-commission costs, provider reimbursements, the section 1523 pilot programs subject to their limit, and section 1522 research-and-development costs. (2)(A) It may use up to $3,500,000 per fiscal year for considering and implementing policies, plans, and related materials under sections 1508(h), 1522, and 1523, and for contracts reviewing them under section 1505(e) or providing other help. (B) Dairy-options pilot-program amounts do not count toward that limit. (C)(i) For reinsurance year 2014 and later, it may use up to $7,000,000 in each fiscal year 2014–2025 and $10,000,000 in fiscal year 2026 and later for policy operations and reviews, including actuarial information, and for actuarial soundness and financial integrity. (ii) Without another appropriation, the Secretary^* may merge some or all of this money into Risk Management Agency accounts and obligate it. (iii) This money is additional to other available money. (c)(1) An insurance fund is established for premium income, money under (a)(2), and civil fines under section 1515(h), without a fiscal-year limit. (2) If the fund is insufficient for subsection (b), and Commodity Credit Corporation money is available, the Corporation may ask the Secretary to use it, and the Secretary may use it, for subsection (b).