Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 101 Part 2.djvu/811

 PUBLIC LAW 100-203—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1330-17

"(E) The Secretary may not approve (for purposes of the application of the limitations under this section) any change in a farming operation that otherwise will increase the number of persons to which the limitations under this section are applied unless the Secretary determines that the change is bona fide and substantive. In the implementation of the preceding sentence, the addition of a family member to a farming operation under the criteria set out in section 1001A(b)(l)(B) shall be considered a bona fide and substantive change in the farming operation.". (b) LANDS OWNED BY STATES, POUTICAL SUBDIVISIONS, AND PUBLIC

SCHOOLS.—Paragraph (6) of section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(6)) is amended to read as follows: "(6) The provisions of this section that limit payments to any person shall not be applicable to land owned by a public school district or land owned by a State that is used to maintain a public school.". SEC. 1304. MORE EFFECTIVE AND UNIFORM APPLICATION OF PAYMENT LIMITATIONS. (a) EDUCATION PROGRAM. 7 USC 1308 note. (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall implement a payment provisions education program for appropriate personnel of the Department of Agriculture and members and other personnel of local, county, and State committees established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)), for the purpose of fostering more effective and uniform application of the payment limitations and restrictions under sections 1001 through lOOlC of the Food Security Act of 1985. (2) TRAINING.—The education program shall provide training to such personnel in the fair, accurate, and uniform application to individual farming operations of the provisions of law and regulation relating to the payment provisions of sections 1001 through lOOlC of the Food Security Act of 1985. Particular emphasis shall be given to the changes in the law made by sections 1301, 1302, and 1303 of this Act. (3) IMPLEMENTATION.—The education program shall be fully implemented, and the training completed, not later than 30 days after the date final regulations are issued to carry out the amendments made by this subtitle. (4) COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION.—The Secretary shall carry out the program provided under this subsection through the Commodity Credit (Corporation. (b) SCHEMES OR DEVICES.—Effective beginning with the 1989 crops, the Food Security Act of 1985 is amended by inserting after section lOOlA, as added by sections 1301 and 1302 of this Act, the following new section: "SEC. lOOlB. SCHEMES OR DEVICES.

"If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that any person has adopted a scheme or device to evade, or that has the purpose of evading, section 1001, lOOlA, or lOOlC, such person shall be ineligible to receive farm program pa3mients (as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1001 as being subject to limitation) applicable to the crop year for which such scheme or device was adopted and the succeeding crop year.".

7 USC 1308-2.

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