H.R. 5241 — RTCP Revitalization Act

This section revises the geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers transportation reimbursement program (i.e., direct payments to eligible producers in Alaska, Hawaii, and insular areas to offset costs of transporting agricultural commodities or inputs more than 30 miles, calculated as actual costs times the federal cost-of-living allowance percentage for those locations). Specifically, it (1) makes the Secretary's authority to provide reimbursements mandatory by removing the prior condition of funding availability under subsection (d); (2) replaces the prior $15 million annual cap on total payments with a prohibition on the Secretary imposing any payment limitations on individual recipients in fiscal years when available funding equals or exceeds total eligible applications received; and (3) replaces the prior authorization of "such sums as necessary" with mandatory Commodity Credit Corporation funding of $10 million for FY2026, increasing to $11 million for FY2027, $12 million for FY2028, $13 million for FY2029, $14 million for FY2030, and $15 million for FY2031 and each fiscal year thereafter (while retaining an authorization of appropriations).