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 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3491 "TITLE V—ACREAGE BASE AND YIELD SYSTEM "SEC. 501. PURPOSE. 7 USC 1461. "The purpose of this title is to prescribe a system for establishing crop acreage beises and program payment jdelds for the wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice programs under this Act that is efficient, equitable, flexible, and predictable. "SEC. 502. DEFINITIONS. 7 USC 1462. "For purposes of this title: "(1) COUNTY COMMITTEE. — The term 'county committee' means the county committee established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) for the county in which the farm is administratively located. "(2) OILSEED.— The term 'oilseed' means a crop of soybeans, sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, or, if designated by the Secretary, other oilseeds. "(3) PROGRAM CROP.— The term 'program crop' means a crop of wheat, corn, grain sorghums, oats, barley, upland cotton, or rice. "SEC. 503. CROP ACREAGE BASES. 7 USC 1463. "(a) E^STABUSHMENT. — "(1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of crop acreage bases for each progrgim crop, including any program crop produced under an established practice of double cropping. "(2) LIMITATION.—The sum of the crop acreage bases on the farm may not exceed the cropland on the farm, except to the extent there is an established practice of double cropping on the farm. "(3) DEFINITION OP DOUBLE CROPPING. —As used in this subsection, the term 'double cropping' means a farming practice, as defined by the Secretary, that has been carried out on a farm during at least 3 of the 5 crop years immediately preceding the crop year for which the crop acreage base for the farm is established. " (b) CALCULATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided in paragraph (2), the crop acreage base for each program crop for a farm for a crop year shall be the number of acres that is equal to the average of the acreage planted and considered planted to the program crop for harvest on the farm in each of the 5 crop years preceding the crop year. "(2) COTTON AND RICE. — "(A) IN GENERAL. — In the case of upland cotton and rice, except as provided in subparagraph (B), the crop acreage base for such crop shall be equal to the average of the acreage planted and considered planted to such crop for harvest on the farm in each of the 3 crop years preceding such crop year. "(B) EXCEPTION. —

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