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 101 STAT. 318

PUBLIC LAW 100-45—MAY 27, 1987

Public Law 100-45 100th Congress

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An Act May 27, 1987 [H.R. 1157]

Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 1987. Agriculture and agricultural commodities. 7 USC 1421 note.

Conservation.

Conservation. Loans.

Conservation.

To provide for an acreage diversion program applicable to producers of the crop of winter wheat harvested in 1987, and otherwise to extend assistance to farmers adversely affected by natural disasters in 1986.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Farm Disaster Assistance Act of 1987". h:r#i as

WHEAT ACREAGE DIVERSION

SEC. 2. Effective only for the 1987 crop of wheat, section 107D(c)(l)(C) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445b3(c)(l)(C)) is amended by— (1) in clause (i)— (A) inserting ", or all of such permitted acreage (as provided in subclauses (II), (III), and (IV) of clause (ii))," after "permitted wheat acreage of the farm for the crop"; and (B) in subclause (I) thereof, inserting "(or all)" after "such portion"; (2) in clause (ii)— i>;. r (A) inserting "(I)" after the clause designation; (B) inserting "subclauses (II), (III), and (IV) of this clause and" before "clauses (iii) and (vii)"; and (C) adding at the end thereof the following: "(II) "Effective for the 1987 crop, producers of winter wheat on a farm shall not be subject to the 50 percent planting requirement, and may devote all or any portion of the farm's 1987 winter wheat permitted acreage to conservation uses (or other uses as provided in subparagraph (K)) under the program under this subparagraph. "(Ill) Effective for the 1987 crop, producers of wheat on a farm shall not be subject to the 50 percent planting requirement, and may devote all or any portion of the farm's 1987 permitted wheat acreage to conservation uses (or other uses as provided in subparagraph (K)) under the program under this subparagraph, if the farm is, during the normal planting season for such crop, subject to flooding on at least 50 percent of the permitted wheat acreage of the farm as the result of damage to a levee from flooding that occurred in 1986 and the farm is located in a county in which producers were eligible to receive disaster emergency loans under section 321 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961) as a result of such disaster. "(IV) Effective for the 1987 crop, producers of wheat on a farm shall not be subject to the 50 percent planting requirement, and may devote all or any portion of the farm's 1987 permitted wheat acreage to conservation uses (or other uses as provided in subparagraph (K)) under the program under this subparagraph, if the producers on the farm are prevented from planting such acreage, if intended for wheat, to wheat for harvest in 1987 because of a natural disaster in JWi£*? IsKrt

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