7 U.S.C. § 87f–2 — Reporting requirements

(a) Every December 1, the Secretary of Agriculture must send a report to the House Agriculture Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee about how well the official grain inspection and weighing system worked during the prior fiscal year. The report must recommend any legal changes needed to meet the goals set out in section 74 of this title. (b) The Secretary must tell those same two committees about certain problems as they happen. First, within 30 days after deciding there is reasonable cause to believe a grain delivery was actually faulty, the Secretary must report any complaint a foreign buyer of U.S. grain made about a faulty delivery. Second, within 30 days after learning that a contract to export more than 100,000 metric tons of grain has been canceled, the Secretary must report that too, regardless of section 612c–3 of this title. (c) Every December 1, the Secretary must also send the same two committees a yearly summary of all other complaints the Department of Agriculture received that fiscal year from foreign buyers and prospective buyers of U.S. grain. The summary only has to include a complaint if the Secretary believes there is reasonable cause to think it is valid. (d) The Secretary must expand its regular reporting. (1) Starting no later than one year after December 11, 2020, the Secretary must publish quarterly reports with data from quality and food-safety tests and inspections — such as protein, oil, and starch testing — covering fiscal years 2014 through 2018, matching the tables already published in the Federal Grain Inspection Service's 2016–2018 annual reports. This data must show separately whether the Secretary, or a State agency or official agency working under section 79 or 79a, requested or performed each test. (2) Starting on that same one-year deadline, the Secretary must also publish quarterly reports on how many exceptions were requested and granted under section 79(f)(2)(B), and how many waivers were requested and granted under section 77(a)(1). (e) The Secretary may, if appropriate and after consulting with State agencies, official agencies, and the grain industries described in section 87j(a), publish more data — about other quality or food-safety testing, or about other inspection and weighing activities under this chapter. (f) Any trade secret or other confidential business information described in section 552(b)(4) of title 5 that the Secretary collects while carrying out subsection (d) or (e) may not be included in any report or otherwise disclosed to the public.