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 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 52-FEB. 10, 1942 [CHAPTER 52] AN ACT To extend the time during which orders and marketing agreements under the Ferar.5933] Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, may be applicable to hops. [Public Law 445] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, by including hops as a commodity to which orders under such Act are applicable", approved April 13, 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out "September 1, 1942" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 1, 1945". SEC. 2. Subsection (6) of section 8c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by deleting the comma after the word "hops" in the first paragraph thereof and inserting the words "and their products" and a comma. SEC. 3. Subsection (6) of section 8c of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act, as amended, is further amended by adding thereto the following new paragraph: "(F) In the case of hops and their products, in addition to, or in lieu of, the foregoing terms and conditions, orders may con- tain one or more of the following: "(i! Limiting, or providing methods for the limitation of, the total quantity thereof, or of any grade, type, or variety thereof, produced during any specified period or periods, which all handlers may handle in the current of or so as directly to burden, obstruct, or affect interstate or foreign commerce in hops or any product thereof. "(ii) Apportioning, or providing methods for apportion- ing, the total quantity of hops of the production of the then current calendar year permitted to be handled equitably among all producers in the production area to which the order applies upon the basis of one or more or a combination of the following: The total quantity of hops available or estimated will become available for market by each producer from his production during such period; the normal produc- tion of the acreage of hops operated by each producer during such period upon the basis of the number of acres of hops in production, and the average yield of that acreage during such period as the Secretary determines to be representative, with adjustments determined by the Secretary to be proper for age of plantings or abnormal conditions affecting yield; such normal production or historical record of any acreage for which data as to yield of hops are not available or which had no yield during such period shall be determined by the Secretary on the basis of the yields of other acreage of hops of similar characteristics as to productivity, subject to adjustment as just provided for. "(iii) Allotting, or providing methods for allotting, the quantity of hops which any handler may handle so that the allotment fixed for that handler shall be limited to the quan- tity of hops apportioned under preceding section (ii) to each respective producer of hops; such allotment shall constitute an allotment fixed for that handler within the meaning of subsection (5) of section 8a of this title." Approved, February 10, 1942. AgriculturalAdjust- ment Act of 1933. Orders applicable to hops. 52 Stat. 215; 53 Stat. 782. 7U. S. C. §608c-1. Amendments. 49 Stat. 755; 52 Stat. 215. 7 U.S. C. §608c (6). Terms and condi- tions of orders. Limitation. Apportionment. Allotments. 48 Stat. 674. 7 U.S .C. §608a (5). 56 STAT.]

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