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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3447 "(II) the producers shall be eligible for payments under this paragraph with respect to such acreage, subject to the compliance of the producers with clause (ii). "(ii) MINIMUM PLANTING REQUIREMENT.— To be eligible for payments under clause (i), except as provided in clauses (iv) and (v), the producers on a farm must actually plant rice for harvest on at least 50 percent of the maximum payment acres for rice for the farm. " (iii) DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS. —Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any producer who devotes a portion of the maximum payment acres for rice for the farm to conservation uses (or other uses as provided in subparagraph (E)) under this subparagraph shall receive deficiency payments on the acreage that is considered to be planted to rice and eligible for pay- ments under this subparagraph for the crop at a perhundredweight rate established by the Secretary, except that the rate may not be established at less than the projected deficiency payment rate for the crop, as determined by the Secretary. Such projected payment rate for the crop shall be announced by the Secretary prior to the period during which rice producers may agree to participate in the program for the crop. "(iv) QUARANTINES. — If a State or local agency has imposed in an area of a State or county a quarantine on the planting of rice for harvest on farms in the area, the State committee established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) may recommend to the Secretary that payments be made under this p£u*agraph, without regard to the requirement imposed under clause (ii), to producers in the area who were required to forgo the planting of rice for harvest on acreage to alleviate or eliminate the condition requiring the quarantine. If the Secretary determines that the condition exists, the Secretary may make payments under this paragraph to the producers. To be eligible for payments under this clause, the producers must devote the acreage to conservation uses (except as provided in subparagraph (E)). "(v) PREVENTED PLANTING. — If an acreage limitation program under subsection (e) is in effect for any crop of rice and if the Secretary determines that producers on a farm are prevented from planting the acreage intended for rice to rice because of drought, fiood, or other natural disaster, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, the Secretary shall make available to such producers payments 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 rice. "(vi) CROP ACREAGE AND PAYMENT YIELD. —The rice crop acreage base and rice farm program payment jdeld of the farm shall not be reduced due to the fact

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