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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3451 "(D) ACREAGE DEVOTED TO CONSERVATION USES.—A Regulations. number of acres on the farm shall be devoted to conservation uses, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. Such number shall be determined by multiplying the rice crop acreage base by the percentage reduction required by the Secretary. The number of acres so determined is hereafter in this subsection referred to as 'reduced acreage'. The remaining acreage is hereafter in this subsection referred to as 'permitted acreage'. Permitted acreage may be adjusted by the Secretary as provided in paragraph (3) and in section 504. " (E) INDIVIDUAL FARM PROGRAM ACREAGE. — Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), the individual farm program acreage shall be the acreage planted on the farm to rice for harvest within the permitted rice acreage for the farm as established under this paragraph. " (F) PLANTING DESIGNATED CROPS ON REDUCED ACREAGE.— "(i) DEFINITION OF DESIGNATED CROP.— As used in this subparagraph, the term 'designated crop' means a crop defined in section 504(b)(l), excluding any program crop as defined in section 502(3). "(ii) IN GENERAL. —Subject to clause (iii), the Secretary may permit producers on a farm to plant a designated crop on no more than one-half of the reduced acreage on the farm. "(iii) LIMITATIONS.— If the producers on a farm elect to plant a designated crop on reduced acreage under this subparagraph— "(I) the amount of the deficiency payment that the producers are otherwise eligible to receive under subsection (c) shall be reduced, for each acre (or portion thereof) that is planted to the designated crop, by Em amount equal to the deficiency payment that would be made with respect to a number of acres of the crop that the Secretary considers appropriate, except that if the producers on the farm are participating in a program established for more than one program crop, the amount of the reduction shall be determined by prorating the reduction based on the acreage planted or considered planted on the farm to all of such program crops; and "(II) the Secretary shall ensure that reductions in deficiency payments under subclause (I) are sufficient to ensure that this subparagraph will result in no additional cost to the Commodity Credit Corporation. ' (3) TARGETED OPTION PAYMENTS.— "(A) IN GENERAL. —Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if the Secretary implements an acreage limitation program with respect to any of the 1991 through 1995 crops of rice and announces an acreage limitation percentage of 20 percent or less, the Secretary may make available to producers on a farm who do not receive pay- ments under subsection (c)(l)(D) for such crop on the farm, adjustments in the level of deficiency payments that would otherwise be made available to the producers if the produc- 39-194O-91-5:QL3Part5

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