B. If the credit for any producer calculated under paragraph A against redistribution exceeds the pool payment due that the producer, that producer shall pay an amount equal to the difference into the Maine Milk Pool not an amount equal to exceed the excess or that producer's share of the cost of promotion, whichever is less. The commissioner may provide by rule that these amounts shall must be deducted from future base minimum price pool payments made under this subsection to that producer or from over-order premium pool payments due to that producer, or that these amounts shall be deducted by that producer's dealer under subsection 5, or from future payments for that producer's due to that producer for milk and paid over to the Maine Milk Pool by the dealer; and

C. If the commissioner determines that payments from the pool will be made to dairies, cooperatives or some other entity as a representative of producers, then the dairy, cooperative or other representative shall pay to the producer the amount owed to that producer within such time period as shall be is determined by the procedures established by rule under this subsection.

Sec. F-32. 7 MRSA §3153, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1987, c. 874, §§3 and 4, is further amended to read:

5. Redistribution of pool; over-order premium. Redistribution of payments into the pool and the following over-order premiums apply under subsection 2, paragraph C is governed by this subsection.

A. Subject to paragraph C, for For any month in which subsection 2, paragraph C is in effect, the commissioner shall pay those Maine market producers whose over-order premium was paid into the Maine Milk Pool a an initial redistribution on their milk under this paragraph. In calculating the rate of this redistribution and the timing of its payment, the commissioner shall attempt to achieve, insofar as practicable, an initial redistribution of the over-order premium which that ensures that Maine producers who are not members of eligible marketing cooperatives