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PUBLIC LAW 1022-AUG. 7, 1956

" (6) the Secretary shall utilize the technical services of agencies of the Department of Agriculture in determining the scope and provisions of any plan and the acceptability of the plan for effectuating the purposes of the program. In addition the Secretary shall take into consideration programs of State and local agencies, including soil conservation districts, having for their purposes the objectives of maximum soil and vrater conservation; "(7) there is hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitations, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subsection: Provided, That the total cost of the program (excluding administrative costs) shall not exceed $150,000,000, and for any program year payments shall not exceed $25,000,000. The funds made available for the program under this subsection may be expended without regard to the maximum payment limitation and small payment increases required under section 8(e) of this Act, and may be distributed among States without regard to distribution of funds formulas of section 15 of this Act. The program authorized under this subsection shall be in addition to, and not in substitution of, other programs in such area authorized by this or any other Act." SEC. 2. Section 834 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1988, as amended, is amended, effective beginning with the 1957 crop of wheat, by adding a new subsection as follows: " (g) If the county committee determines that any producer is prevented from seeding wheat for harvest as grain in his usual planting season because of unfavorable weather conditions, and the operator of the farm notifies the county committee not later than December 1 in any area where only winter wheat is grown, or June 1 in the spring wheat area (including an area where both spring and winter wheat are grown), that he does not intend to seed his full wheat allotment for the crop year because of the unfavorable weather conditions, the entire farm wheat allotment for such year shall be regarded as wheat acreage for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments: Provided, That if any producer on a farm obtains a reduction in the storage amount of any previous crop of wheat by reason of underplanting the farm wheat acreage allotment pursuant to paragraph (6) of Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress (7 U.S.C. 1840 (6)), or by reason of producing less than the normal production of the farm wheat acreage allotment pursuant to section 826(b) of this Act, this provision may not be made applicable to such farm with respect to the crop of wheat for which the farm acreage allotment was established." Approved August 7, 1956. Public Law 1022

Appropriations.

16 USC

590o.

5 9 0 h.

7 USC 1334.

55 Stat. 203. 7 USC 1326.

CHAPTER 1031 AN ACT

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the allowance, as deductions, of contributions to medical research organizations.

August 7, 1956 [H. R. 12152]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 170(b) contributions for (1)(A) (iii) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to char- '"^g'sA^ta^^^sY**' itable contributions and gifts) is amended by inserting immediately 26 USC?*i7o.' 68A after "section 508(b)(5)," the following: "or to a medical research 26 u Stat. 166., s e 503. organization (referred to in section 508(b)(5)) directly engaged in the continuous active conduct of medical research in conjunction with a hospital, if during the calendar year in which the contribution is

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