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PUBLIC LAW 89-12-APR. 16, 1965

D.C, Notice of withdrawal by Commissioners.

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authorized by this title, be inapplicable to the taxation and registration of buses in the District of Columbia during such time as the District is a party to such agreement. SEC. 205. Unless otherwise provided in any statute withdrawing the District of Columbia from participation in the agreement, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall be the officer to give notice of withdrawal therefrom. SEC. 206. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this title is expressly reserved. Approved April 14, 1965.

Public Law 89-12 April 16, 1965 [H. R. 5721]

Tobacco. Marketing quotas. 52 Stat. 3 1. 7 USC 1281.

AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to provide for acreage-poundage marketing quotas for tobacco, to amend the tobacco price support provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, hereinafter referred to as the "Act"', is amended by adding immediately following section 316 a section 317 to read as follows: ACREAGE-POUNDAGE QUOTAS

Definitions.

"SEC. 317. (a) For purposes of this section— "(1) 'National marketing quota' for any kind of tobacco for a marketing year means the amount of the kind of tobacco produced in the United States which the Secretary estimates will be utilized during the marketing year in the United States and will be exported during the marketing year, adjusted upward or downward in such amount as the Secretary, in his discretion, determines is desirable for the purpose of maintaining an adequate supply or for effecting an orderly reduction of supplies to the reserve supply level. Any such downward adjustment shall not exceed 15 per centum of such estimated utilization and exports. "(2) 'National average yield goal' for any kind of tobacco means the yield per acre which on a national average basis the Secretary determines will improve or insure the usability of the tobacco and increase the net return per pound to the growers. In making this determination the Secretary shall give consideration to such Federal-State production research data as he deems relevant. "(3) 'National acreage allotment' means the acreage determined by dividing the national marketing quota by the national average yield goal. "(4) 'Farm acreage allotment' for a tobacco farm, other than a new tobacco farm, means the acreage allotment determined by adjusting uniformly the acreage allotment established for such farm for the immediately preceding year, prior to any increase or decrease in such allotment due to undermarketings or overinarketings and prior to any reduction under subsection (f), so that the total of all allotments is equal to the national acreage allotment less the reserve provided in subsection (e) of this section with a further downward or upward adjustment to reflect any adjustment in the farm marketing quota for overmarketing or nnderniarketing and to reflect any reduction required under subsection (f) of this section, and including any adjustment for

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