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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 516-JULY 22, 1942 PARITY PAYMENTS To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make parity payments to producers of wheat, cotton, corn (in the commercial corn-producing area), rice, and tobacco pursuant to the provisions of section 303 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, there are hereby reappro- priated the unobligated balances of the appropriations made under this head by the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942, to remain available until June 30, 1945, and the Secretary is authorized and directed to make such additional commitments or incur such additional obligations as may be neces- sary in order to provide for full parity payments for the crop year 1942: Provided, That of the amounts hereby made available, not to exceed $5,000,000 may be expended for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia (including personal services) and in the several States (exclusive of expenses of county and local committees), includ- ing such part of the total expenses of making acreage allotments, establishing normal yields, checking performance, and related activ- ities in connection with wheat, cotton, corn, rice, and tobacco under the authorized farm program as the Secretary finds necessary to sup- plement the amount provided for in section 392 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended: Provided further, That such payments with respect to any such commodity shall be made with respect to a farm in full amount only in the event that the acreage planted to the commodity for harvest on the farm in 1943 is not in excess of the farm acreage allotment established for the commodity under the agricultural conservation program, and, if such allotment has been exceeded, the parity payment with respect to the commodity shall be reduced by not more than 10 per centum for each 1 per centum, or fraction thereof, by which the acreage planted to the commodity is in excess of such allotment. The Secretary may also provide by regulations for similar deductions for planting in excess of the acreage allotment for the commodity on other farms or for planting in excess of the acreage allotment or limit for any other commodity for which allotments or limits are established under the agricultural conservation program on the same or any other farm. If the sum of the prevailing basic loan rate (if marketing quotas for the commodity have been disapproved, such basic loan rate shall be the basic loan rate which would have prevailed except for such disapproval) or the average farm price, whichever is the higher, for the crop year 1942 and the applicable rate of the payments under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, for the purposes of the 1942 agricultural conservation program and the parity pay- ments herein provided, exceed an amount sufficient to increase the farmers' returns to parity prices, parity payments shall be so adjusted as to provide a return to producers which is equal to but not greater than parity price. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Salaries and administrative expenses: Not to exceed $3,513,498, of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation in carrying out its activities as authorized by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C . 821-833); printing and bind- ing; lawbooks and books of reference; not to exceed $400 for periodi- 62 Stat. 45 . 7U.S.C. 1303. Reappropriations. 54 Stat. 563; 55 Stat. 436. Additional commit- ments, etc. Provisos. Administrative ex- penses. Ante, p. 41. Condition. Deductions for ex- cess acreage. Adjustment of pay- ments. 49 Stat. 1148. 16 U. S. C. H§§blOa 590q; Supp. I, S60h. Ante, p. 53; podt, p. 761. Post, p. 1001. Travel expenses. 44 Stat. 688. Ante, p. 39.

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