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PUBLIC LAW 86-443-JTJNE 4, 1968

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Public Law 85-443 AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect to rice acreage allotments.

June 4. 195* [H. R. 84901

Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives of the Rice. United States of America ^n Congress assembled, That section 353(b) A c r e a g e allotments. of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, be amended 61. (1) by inserting in the first sentence thereof the words "in the State" 52uStat. 1353. 7 se immediately following the words "persons who have produced rice", (2) by inserting in the second sentence thereof the words "in the State" immediately following the words "persons who will produce rice" and immediately following the words "but who have not produced rice", and (3) by adding at the end of subsection (b) a new sentence reading as follow s: "In determining the eligibility of any producer or farm Ellgibliity,. for an allotment as an old producer or farm under the first sentence of this subsection or as a new producer or farm under the second sentence of this subsection, such producer or farm shall not be considered to have produced rice on any acreage which under subsection (c)(2) is either not to be taken into account in establishing acreage allotments or is not to be credited to such producer." The amendment made by this section shall be applicable to the planting of rice in 1958 and subsequent years. SEC. 2. (a) Section 353(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is further amended— (1) by inserting in the first proviso contained therein, before the words "the State acreage allotment", the following: "part or all of"; (2) by inserting at the end of such first proviso a colon and the Adm following: ^''Provided further, That if the Secretary determines areas. i n istrative that part of the State acreage allotment shall be apportioned on the basis of past production of rice by the producer on the farm and part on the basis of the past production of rice on the f arnji, he shall divide the State into two administrative areas, to be designated 'producer administrative area' and 'farm administrative area', respectively, which areas shall be separated by a natural barrier which would prevent each area from being readily accessible to rice producers in one area for producing rice in the other area, and each such area shall be composed of whole counties"; and "State (3) by adding at the end of such subsection (b) (as it would be allotment".acreage amended by the first section of this Act) the following: "For purposes of this section in States which have been divided into administrative areas pursuant to this subsection the term 'State acreage allotment' shall be deemed to mean that part of the State acreage allotment apportioned to each administrative area and the word 'State' shall be deemed to mean 'administrative area', wherever applicable." Count (b) Section 353(c)(1) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, tionment. y as amended, is amended by inserting immediately following the colon, the following: '"'Provided, That if the State is divided into administrative areas pursuant to subsection (b) of this section the allotment for each administrative area shall be determined by apportioning the State acreage allotment among counties as provided in this subsection and totaling the allotments for the counties in such area:". (c) This section shall become effective for the 1958 and subsequent Effectivity. crojDS of rice: Provided, That if any State is divided into administrative areas for 1968 pursuant to section 353(b) of the Act, as amended, acreage allotments heretofore established for farms in such areas shall be redetermined to the extent required as a result of such 98395-59-PT. 1-12

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