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PUBLIC LAW 85-835-AUG. 28, 1968

the farm operator, such as excessive rain, flood, or drought, prevented the planting of acreage to cotton or having cotton acreage available for harvest on the farm in accordance with the plans of such operator in selecting choice (B). The additional acreage required to be allotted to farms under this section shall be in addition to the county. State, and national acreage allotments and the production from such acreage shall be in addition to the national marketing quota. The additional acreage authorized by this section shall not be taken into account in establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no farm participating in any cotton acreage reserve program established for 1959 under the Soil Bank Act shall receive an increased acreage allotment under the provisions of this section for 1959. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 344(m)(2) any farm cotton acreage allotment increased as the result of the selection of choice (B) may not be released and reapportioned to any other farm. Price support shall be made available under this paragraph only to cooperators and only if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for the crop. " (D) for each of the 1959 and 1960 crops of upland cotton, price support shall be made available to producers who elect choice (A) through a purchase program. Price support shall be made available to producers who elect choice (B) through loans, purchases, or other operations. "(c) the Commodity Credit Corporation is directed, during the period beginning August 1, 1959, and ending July 31, 1961, to offer any upland cotton owned by it for sale for unrestricted use at not less than 10 per centum above the current level of price support prescribed in choice (B). "

70 Stat. 188. 7 USC 1801 note. 68 Stat. 4,904. 7 USC 1344.

PRICE SUPPORT FOR 1901 AND SUBSEQUENT YEARS

SEC. 102. (a) The Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by adding a new section 103 as follows: "SEC. 103. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 101 of this Act, price support to cooperators for each crop of upland cotton, beginning with the 1961 crop, for which producers have not disapproved marketing quotas shall be at such level not more than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor nor less than the minimum level prescribed below as the Secretary determines appropriate after consideration of the factors specified in section 401(b) of this Act. For the 1961 crop the minimum level shall be 70 per centum of the parity price therefor, and for each subsequent crop the minimum level shall be 65 per centum of the parity price therefor. Price support in the case of noncooperators and in case marketing quotas are disapproved shall be as provided in section 101(d)(3) and (5)."

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ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MARKETING QUOTAS

SEC. 103. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows: (1) Section 342 is amended by striking out the third sentence and by changing the period at the end of the second sentence to a colon and adding the following: '•'•Provided, That beginning with the 1961 crop, the national marketing quota shall be not less than a number of bales equal to the estimated domestic consumption and estimated exports (less estimated imports) for the marketing year for which the quota is proclaimed, except that the Secretary shall make such adjustment in the amount of such quota as he determines necessary

7 USC 1342.

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