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PUBLIC LAW 85-835-AUG. 28, 1958

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acreage req^uired to be allotted to farms under this paragraph 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. " (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— " (i) the acreage by which any farm acreage allotment for 1959 or any subsequent crop established under paragraph (1) exceeds the acreage which would have been allotted to such farm if its allotment had been computed on the basis of the same percentage factor applied to other farms in the county under paragraph (2), (6), or (8) shall not be taken into account in establishing the acreage allotment for such farm for any crop for which acreage is allotted to such farm under paragraph (2), (6), or (8); and acreage shall be allotted under paragraph (2), (6), or (8) to farms which did not receive 1958 crop allotments in excess of ten acres if and only if the Secretary determines (after considering the allotments to other farms in the county for such crop compared with their 1958 allotments and other relevant factors) that equity and justice require the allotment of additional acreage to such farm under paragraph (2), (6), or (8), "(ii) the acreage by which any county acreage allotment for 1959 or any subsequent crop is increased from the national or State reserve on the basis of its needs for additional acreage for establishing minimum farm allotments shall not be taken into account in establishing future county acreage allotments, and " (iii) the additional acreage allotted pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph (7) shall not be taken into account in establishing future State, county, or farm acreage allotments." M E T H O D OF DETERMINING F A R M ALLOTMENTS

7 USC 1344.

SEC. 106. Section 344(f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: ''(8) ^otwithstanding the foregoing provisions of paragraphs (2) and (6) of this subsection, the Secretary may, if he determines that such action will facilitate the effective administration of the provisions of the Act, provide for the county acreage allotment for the 1959 and succeeding crops of cotton, less the acreage reserved under paragraph (3) of this suDsection, to be apportioned to farms on which cotton has been planted in any one of the three years immediately preceding the year for which such allotment is determined, on the basis of the farm acreage allotment for the year immediately preceding the year for which such apportionment is made, adjusted as may be necessary (i) for any change in the acreage of cropland available for the production of cotton, or (ii) to meet the requirements of any provision (other than those contained in paragraphs (2) and (6)) with respect to the counting of acreage for history purposes." R E T E N T I O N OF SURRENDERED ACREAGE I N

7 USC 1344.

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SEC. 107 Paragraph (2) of section 344(m) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out the period at the end of the second sentence of such paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "; but no such acreage shall be surrendered to the State committee so long as any farmer receiving a cotton acreage allotment in such county desires additional cotton acreage."

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