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 104 STAT. 3450 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 "(ii) ADJUSTMENTS.— The Secretary may make such adjustments in the amount of payments made available under this paragraph with respect to an individual farm as necessary to ensure the equitable allotment of the payments among producers, taking into account other forms of Federal disaster assistance provided to the producers for the crop involved. "(d) PAYMENT YIELDS.— The farm program pa3anent yields for farms for each crop of rice shall be determined under title V. "(e) ACREAGE REDUCTION PROGRAMS. — "(1) IN GENERAL. — "(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines that the total supply of rice, in the absence of an acreage limitation program, will be excessive taking into account the need for an adequate carry-over to maintain reasonable and stable supplies and prices and to meet a national emergency, the Secretary may provide for any crop of rice an acreage limitation program as described in paragraph (2). "(B) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROGRAM. — In making a determination under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall take into consideration the number of acres placed in the agricultural resources conservation program established under subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.). "(C) ANNOUNCEMENTS. — If the Secretary elects to implement an acreage limitation program for any crop year, the Secretary shall announce any such program not later than January 31 of the calendar year in which the crop is harvested, except that in the case of the 1991 crop, the Secretary shall announce the program as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this section. Securities. "(D) CARRY-OVER. — The Secretary shall carry out an acreage limitation program described in paragraph (2) for a crop of rice in a manner that will result in carry-over stocks equal to 16.5 to 20 percent of the simple average of the total disappearance of rice for each of the 3 marketing years preceding the year for which the announcement is made. For the purpose of this subparagraph, the term 'total disappearance' means all rice utilization, including total domestic, total export, and total residual disappearance. "(2) ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAM. — "(A) PERCENTAGE REDUCTIONS. —Except as provided in paragraph (3), if a rice acreage limitation program is announced under paragraph (1), such limitation shall be achieved by applying a uniform percentage reduction (from 0 to 35 percent) to the rice crop acreage base for the crop for each rice-producing farm. "(B) COMPUANCE.— Except as provided in section 504, producers who knowingly produce rice in excess of the permitted rice acreage for the farm, as established in accordance with subparagraph (A), shall be ineligible for rice loans, purchases, and payments with respect to that farm. "(C) CROP ACREAGE BASES. —Rice crop acreage bases for each crop of rice shall be determined under title V.

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