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 74TH C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 249 . APRIL 25, 1936. 1241 SEC. 6 . The Secretary is hereby authorized, upon the request of t compacting avail able States . the commission of any compacting State, or at the request of any association referred to in section 5, to make available to the coin- mission of any State or to any such association such records and inform ation, whether pu blished or unpubl ished, and such f acilities of the United States Department of Agriculture as the Secretary deems appropriate in aiding such commission or association. SEC. 7. (a) For the purpose of administering this Act there is thorppropriation au . authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture the Post, p .1617. sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose. (b) Any advances or loans which are repaid to the Secretary tfoneof. yments,disposi- by any commission or association pursuant to sections 3 and 5 of this Act shall revert to the general fund of the Treasury of the Un ited Stat es. SEC. 8 . All funds available for carrying out this Act shall be Allotment and trans- ferof funds to Govern- available for allotment to the bureaus and offices of the Department ment agencies. of Agriculture and for transfer to such other agencies of the Federal or Stat e Gov ernm ents as the S ecre tary may requ est to c ooper ate or assist in carrying out this Act. SEC. 9. If, pursuant to this Act, any compact entered into among fl Puerto bRica n ore ggar- three or more of the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Massa- t.ion of commerce m, chus etts, Flor ida, and Co nnect icut, becom es ef fecti ve, or if a ny as so- if designated compacts become effective. ciation or associations are formed, the membership of which includes at least two-thirds of the producers of cigar-filler tobacco and cigar- binder tobacco in three or more of said States, com merce in cigar-f iller tobacco pro duced in Puerto R ico shall be regu lated during the period in which any such compact remains effective or such asso ciati ons c ontinu e to opera te, as foll ows (a) The Secretary shall determine for eac h crop year, by c alcu- Determina tion of p ro- lat ions from ava ilab le s tatis tics of the U nite d St ates Depa rtme nt yam' •n for each crop of Agriculture, the quantity of cigar-filler tobacco produced in the continental United States and Puerto Rico which is likely to be con- sumed in all countries of the world during such crop year, increased or decreas ed, as the case m ay be, by the amo unt by which the world stocks of cigar-filler toba cco (produced in the continental U nited States and Puerto Rico) at the beginning of such crop year are less than or greater than the normal stocks of such cigar-filler tobacco, as determined by the Secretary. For the purposes of this section, "Crop year" defined. the Secretary shall specify as a "crop year" suc h period of twelv e months as he deems will facilitate the administration of this section. (b) The Secretary shall determine a marketing quota for Puerto E taiblish m ent of Rico for cigar-filler tobacco for each crop year in which the provi- sions of this section are operative. Such quota shall be that quan- tity of cigar-filler tobacco which bears the same proportion (subject to such adjustment, which may be cumulative from one crop year to another, not exceeding 5 per centum of said proportion in any one year as the Secretary determines is necessary to correct for any abnormal conditions of production during any* three normal crop years during the last ten years for trends in production during such c rop years and for trends in consum ption since such crop years) to t he to tal q uantit y of cigar -fille r tob acco produ ced in the conti nental United States and Puerto Rico and required for world consumption (as determined pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section) as the average production of cigar-filler tobacco in Puerto Rico in such c rop y ears bore t o the aver age of the total prod uction of c igar- filler tobacco in the continental United States and Puerto Rico in such crop years.