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 100 STAT. 48

State and local governments. Ante, p. 36.

7 USC 1441-1 note.

PUBLIC LAW 99-260—MAR. 20, 1986 "(G)(i) The Secretary may permit, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, all or any part of acreage otherwise required to be devoted to conservation uses as a condition of qualifying for payments under subparagraph (B) to be devoted to sweet sorghum or the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, flaxseed, triticale, rye, commodities for which no substantial domestic production or market exists but that could yield industrial raw material being imported, or likely to be imported, into the United States, or commodities grown for experimental purposes (including kenaf), subject to the following sentence. The Secretary may permit such acreage to be devoted to such production only if the Secretary determines that— "(I) the production is not likely to increase the cost of the price support program and will not affect farm income adversely; and "(II) the production is needed to provide an adequate supply of the commodity, or, in the case of commodities for which no substantial domestic production or market exists but that could yield industrial raw materials, the production is needed to encourage domestic manufacture of such raw material and could lead to increased industrial use of such raw material to the long-term benefit of United States industry. "(ii)(I) Except as provided in subclause (II), the Secretary shall permit, at the request of the State committee established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) for a State and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, all or any part of acreage otherwise required to be devoted to conservation uses as a condition of qualifying for payments under subparagraph (B) in such State to be devoted to haying and grazing. "(II) Haying and grazing shall not be permitted for any crop under subclause (I) if the Secretary determines that haying and grazing would have an adverse economic effect.". (e) APPLICATION.—In the case of the 1986 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, the amendments made by this section shall not apply to any producer who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Agriculture that the producer, before February 26, 1986, planted or contracted to plant for the 1986 crop year a portion of the permitted acreage of the producer to any agricultural commodity other than wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, rice, or soybeans. SEC. 3. FARM PROGRAM PAYMENT YIELDS. (a)

99 Stat. 1463. 7 USC 1466.

ESTABLISHED PRICE PAYMENTS FOR 1986

AND

1987

CROP

YEARS.—Section 506(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (as added by section 1031 of the Food Security Act of 1985) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking out "paragraph (2)" and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs (2) and (3)"; (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (4) as paragraphs (3) through (5), respectively; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: "(2)(A) In the case of the 1986 crop year for a commodity, if the farm program payment yield for a farm is reduced more than 3 percent below the farm program payment yield for the 1985 crop year, the Secretary shall make available to producers established

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