Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)

What it does

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) provides funding for the Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP) for fiscal years 2025 through 2031, and, as a result, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this rule to establish OCCSP for 2025 and future program years. The rule specifies the eligibility criteria and payment calculation for OCCSP, which are consistent with how CCC has administered OCCSP in previous years by Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs). Prior NOFAs also established the opportunity for State agencies to enter into agreements to administer OCCSP; these provisions are also included in this rule. The rule also establishes the application process and deadlines for eligible producers and handlers who apply through FSA county offices.

The Commodity Credit Corporation's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

7 CFR 1417

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Commodity Credit Corporation has published 7 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 2 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0560-AI85 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective on July 6, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 7 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register