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PUBLIC LAW 86-172-AUG. 18, 1959

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Public Law 86-172 AN ACT August 18, 1959 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect '•^' ^'*'^^, to the preservation of acreage history and the reallocation of unused cotton acreage allotments.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 377 ^°**°^-e aiiotof the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended *"*«*-gj^^.^^g to read as follows: 7 USC i377.* "SEC. 377. I n any case in which, during any year beginning with 1956, the acreage planted to a commodity on any farm is less than the acreage allotment for such farm, the entire acreage allotment for such farm (excluding any allotment released from the farm or reapportioned to the farm and any allotment provided for the farm pursuant to subsection (f)(7)(A) of section 344) shall, except as provided Putc*i3^4^^.' herein, be considered for the purpose of establishing future State, county and farm acreage allotments to have been plstnted to such commodity in such year on such farm, but the 1956 acreage allotment of any commodity shall be regarded as planted under this section only if the owner or operator on such farm notified the county committee prior to the sixtieth day preceding the beginning of the marketing year for such commodity of his desire to preserve such allotment: Provided, That beginning with the 1960 crop, except for federally owned land, the current farm acreage allotment established for a commodity shall not be preserved as history acreage pursuant to the provisions of this section unless for the current year or either of the two preceding years an acreage equal to 75 per centum or more of the farm acreage allotment for such year was actually planted or devoted to the commodity on the farm (or was regarded as planted under provisions of the Soil Bank Act or the Great Plains program): Pro- 70 Stat. iss. vided further, That this section shall not be applicable in any case, 7 USC i«oi note. within the period 1956 to 1959, in which the amount of the commodity required to be stored to postpone or avoid payment of penalty has been reduced because the allotment was not fully planted. Acreage history credits for released or reapportioned acreage shall be governed by the applicable provisions of this title pertaining to the release and reapportionment of acreage allotments." SEC. 2. Section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 7 USC i344. as amended, is amended as follows: (1) Subsection (f) is amended by changing paragraph (8) thereof to read as follows: "(8) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of paragraphs (2) and (6) of this subsection, the Secretary shall, if allotments were in effect the preceding year, provide for the county acreage allotment for the 1959 and succeeding crops of cotton, less the acreage reserved under paragraph (3) of this subsection, 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: Provided, That, beginning with allotments established for the 1961 crop of cotton, if the acreage actually planted

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