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 101 STAT. 728

PUBLIC LAW 100-108—AUG. 20, 1987

Public Law 100-108 100th Congress

'\.:':. ^ An Act

Aug. 20, 1987 [H.R. 2971]

To provide continuing authority to the Secretary of Agriculture for recovering costs associated with cotton classing services, and for other purposes.

Uniform Cotton

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

Classing Fees Act of 1987.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

ffrSt^urai ^'"^ commodities. 7 USC 471 note.

That this Act may be cited as the "Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act 01 1987. SEC. 2. COTTON CLASSIFICATION SERVICES AND FEES.

Effective date.

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Effective for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending September 30, 1992, section 3a of the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act (7 U.S.C. 473a) is amended— (1) by amending the first sentence to read as follows: „g "Effective for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1987, " September 30, 1988, September 30, 1989, September 30, 1990, September 30, 1991, and September 30, 1992, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make cotton classification services available to producers of cotton and shall provide for the collection of classification fees from participating producers, or agents who voluntarily agree to collect and remit the fees on behalf of producers."; (2) in the second sentence by striking out the proviso and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Provided, That (1) the uniform per bale classification fee to be collected from producers, or their agents, for such classification service in any year shall be the uniform fee collected in the previous year, exclusive of adjustments to such fee made in the previous year under clauses (2), (3), and (4) of this proviso, and as may be adjusted by the percentage change in the Implicit Price Deflator for Gross National Product as indexed during the most recent twelvemonth period for which statistics are available; (2) the fee calculated in accordance with clause (1) for a crop year may be increased by an amount not to exceed 1 per centum for every 100,000 running bales, or portion thereof, that the Secretary estimates will be produced in such crop year below the level of 12,500,000 running bales, or decreased by an amount not to exceed 1 per centum for every 100,000 running bales, or portion thereof, that the Secretary estimates will be produced in such crop year above the level of 12,500,000 running bales; (3) adjustments made under clause (2) shall not exceed 15 per centum, except when the Secretary estimates that income generated by fees, surcharges, and other sources of income will not provide an ending accumulated operating reserve for a fiscal year of at least 10 per centum of the estimated cost of operating the program; (4) if the Secretary projects an accumulated operating '. reserve at the end of a fiscal year of less than 25 per centum of "' the estimated cost of operating the program, the Secretary may

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