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 114 STAT. 1549A-64 PUBLIC LAW 106-387 —APPENDIX That the Secretary shall make a payment to an eligible person described in this section in the same amount as is payable to an eligible person under section 204 of that Act: Provided further. That the entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to the extent an official budget request that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further. That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act. SEC. 842. Payments made from amounts appropriated pursuant to this title shall not be subject to administrative offset, including administrative offset under chapter 37 of title 31, United States Code. SEC. 843. The Secretary of Agriculture shall use not more than $20,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments to producers of tomatoes, pears, peaches, and apricots that were unable to market the crops of the producers because of the insolvency of an agriculture cooperative in the State of California: Provided, That the amount of a payment made to a producer under this subsection shall not exceed 50 percent of the contract value of the unmarketed crop referred to in this section: Provided further. That the entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall be available only to the extent an official budget request that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further. That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act. SEC. 844. LOAN FORFEITURES OF BURLEY TOBACCO. (a) IN GENERAL. —Notwithstanding sections 106 through 106B of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445 through 1445- 2)— (1) a producer-owned cooperative marketing association may fully settle a loan made for the 1999 crop of Burley tobacco by forfeiting to the Commodity Credit Corporation the Burley tobacco covered by the loan regardless of the condition of the tobacco; (2) any losses to the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of paragraph (1)— (A) shall not be charged to the No Net Cost Tobacco Account; and (B) shall not affect the amount of any assessment imposed against Burley or any other kind of tobacco under sections 106 through 106B of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445 through 1445-2); and (3) any tobacco forfeited pursuant to this section shall not be— (A) counted for the purpose of determining the Burley tobacco quota for any year pursuant to section 319 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314e); or (B) sold for use in the United States. (b) EMERGENCY REQUIREMENT. —

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