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 104 STAT. 3456 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 "(2) FORM.—The payments may be made in the form of marketing certificates. "(3) PAYMENTS. — "(A) IN GENERAL. —Payments under this subsection shall be determined in the same mgmner as provided in subsection (b). "(B) QUANTITY OF RICE MADE AVAILABLE. — The quantity of rice to be made available to a producer under this subsection shall be equal in value to the payments so determined under this subsection. "(4) EuGiBiLiTY.—A producer shall be eligible to receive a pa5anent under this subsection for a crop if the producer— "(A) agrees to forgo obtaining a loan or purchase agreement under subsection (a); "(B) agrees to forgo receiving payments under subsection (0; "(C) does not plant rice for harvest in excess of the crop acreage base reduced by one-half of any acreage required to be diverted from production under subsection (e); and "(D) otherwise complies with this section. " (g) EQUITABLE RELIEF.— "(1) LOANS AND PAYMENTS.— If the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program conducted under this section precludes the making of loans, purchases, and payments, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such loans, purchases, and payments in such amounts as the Secretary determines are equitable in relation to the seriousness of the failure. The Secretary may consider whether the producer made a good faith effort to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program in determining whether equitable relief is warranted under this paragraph. "(2) DEADUNES AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. — The Secretary may authorize the county and State committees established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) to waive or modify deadlines and other program requirements in cases in which lateness or failure to meet the other requirements does not affect adversely the operation of the program. "(h) REGULATIONS. —The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out this section. "(i) COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION. — The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(j) ASSIGNMENT OF PAYMENTS.—The provisions of section 8(g) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(g)) (relating to assignment of payments) shall apply to pay- ments under this section. "(k) SHARING OF PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of pa3mients made under this section for any farm among the producers on the farm on a fair and equitable basis. "(1) TENANTS AND SHARECROPPERS.— The Secretary shall provide adequate safeguards to protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers. 'Xm) CROSS-COMPLIANCE.— "(1) IN GENERAL.—Compliance on a farm with the terms and conditions of any other commodity program, or compliance with crop acreage base requirements for any other commodity, may

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