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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV, 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3429 upland cotton and if the Secretary determines that producers on a farm are prevented from planting the acreage intended for upland cotton to upland cotton because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, the Secretary shall make available to such producers pay- ments under this subparagraph without regard to the requirement imposed under clause (ii). To be eligible for payments under this clause, the producers must devote the acreage to conservation uses (except as provided in subparagraph (E)). Any such acreage shall be considered to be planted to upland cotton. "(vi) CROP ACREAGE AND PAYMENT YIELD. —The upland cotton crop acreage base and upland cotton farm program payment jdeld of the farm shall not be reduced due to the fact that a portion of the permitted cotton acreage of the farm was devoted to conserving uses (except as provided in subparagraph (E)) under this subparagraph. "(vii) LIMITATION. —Other than as provided in clauses (i) through (vi), payments may not be made under this paragraph for any crop on a greater acreage than the acreage actually planted to upland cotton. "(viii) CONSERVATION USE ACREAGE UNDER OTHER PRO- GRAMS. —Any acreage considered to be planted to upland cotton in accordance with clauses (i) and (vi) may not also be designated as conservation use acreage for the purpose of fulfilling any provisions under any acreage limitation or land diversion program requiring that the producers devote a specified acreage to conservation uses. "(E) ALTERNATIVE CROPS. —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 (D) to be devoted to sweet sorghum, guar, sesame, castor beans, crambe, plantago ovato, triticale, rye, mung beans, 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 and milkweed), subject to the following sentence. The Secretary may permit the acreage to be devoted to the 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 the raw material and could lead to increased industrial use of the raw material to the long-term benefit of United States industry.

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