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Marketing cei^ tificates. 7 USC 1379c.

76 Stat. 622. 7 USC 1339.

Storage conditions.

PUBLIC LAW 88-297-APR. 11, 1964

[78 STAT.

Each faiTTi shall receive a wheat marketing allocation for such marketing year equal to the number of bushels obtained by multiplying the number of acres in the farm acreage allotment for wheat by the normal yield of wheat for the farm as determined by the Secretary, and multiplying the resulting number of bushels by the national allocation percentage." (11) The second sentence of section 879b, effective with respect to the crops planted for harvest in the calendar year 1966 and any subsequent year, is amended by striking out "human consumption in the United States, as food, food products, and beverages, composed wholly or partly of wheat"' and substituting "food products for consumption in the United States". (12) Section -379c(a) is amended by inserting "under section 379c(b) or" after "stored" in the second sentence; by changing the period at the end of the second sentence to a comma and adding the following: "and if this limitation operates to reduce the amount of wheat marketing certificates which would otherwise be issued with respect to the farm, such reduction shall be made first from the amount of export certificates which would otherwise be issued."; and by adding at the end of the section the following: "The Secretary shall, in accordance with such regulation as he may prescribe, provide for the issuance of domestic marketing certificates for the portion of the wheat marketing allocation representing wheat used for food products for consumption in the United States and for the issuance of export marketing certificates for the portion of the wheat iparketing allocation used for exports." (13) Section 379c(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended, effective only with respect to the crop planted for harvest in the calendar year 1965, by adding at the end thereof the following: "For purposes of this section, but not for purposes of diversion payments under subsection (b) of section 339, a producer shall be deemed not to have exceeded the farm acreage allotment for wheat if the acreage in excess of the farm acreage allotment does not exceed 50 per centum of the farm acreage allotment and the amount of wheat produced on the acreage in excess of the farm acreage allotment is stored in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. The amount of wheat required to be stored hereunder shall be an amount equal to twice the normal yield of wheat per acre established for the farm multiplied by the number of acres of such crop of wheat on the farm in excess of the farm acreage allotment for such crop unless the producer, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and within the time prescribed therein, establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary the actual production of such crop of wheat on the farm. If such actual production is so established, the amount of wheat required to be stored shall be such actual production less the actual production of the farm wheat acreage allotment based upon the average yield per acre for the entire wheat acreage on the farm: Provided howecer^ That the amount of wheat required to be stored shall not be larger than the amount by which the actual production so established exceeds the normal production of the farm wheat acreage allotment. A t the time and to the extent of any depletion in the amount of wheat so stored, except depletion resulting from the release of wheat from storage on account of underplanting or underproduction, as provided below or depletion resulting from some cause beyond the control of the producer, the producer shall pay an amount to the Secretary equal to one and one-half times the value of the wheat marketing certificates issued with respect to the farm for the year in which the wheat on the acreage in excess of the allotment was pro-

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