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 81 STAT. J

PUBLIC LAW 90-244-J AN. 2, 1968

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Public Law 90-243 AN ACT

January 2, 1968

To amend the wheat acreage allotment provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment ^__[S^j72|2] Act of 1938, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the second wheat. sentence of section 3S4(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of ments!^fdjust° 1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1334(a)), be amended by inserting the ment. 79 Stat. 1199. language " (1) " between the words "used" and "to", and by striking out the period at the end of the sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following language: "or (2) to increase the allotment for any county, in which wheat is the principal grain crop produced, on the basis of its relative need for such increase if the average ratio of wheat acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in such county is less by at least 20 per centum than such average ratio on old wheat farms in an adjoining county or counties in which wheat is the principal grain crop produced or if there is a definable contiguous area consisting of at least 10 per centum of the cropland acreage in such county in which the average ratio of wheat acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms is less by at least 20 per centum than such average ratio on the remaining old wheat farms in such county, provided that such low ratio of wheat acreage allotment to cropland is due to the shift prior to 1951 from wheat to one or more alternative income-producing crops which, because of plant disease or sustained loss of markets, may no longer be produced at a fair profit and there is no other alternative income-producing crop suitable for production in the area or county. The increase in the county allotment under clause (2) of the preceding sentence shall be used to increase allotments for old wheat farms in the affected area to make such allotments comparable with those on similar farms in adjoining areas or counties but the average ratio of increased allotments to cropland on such farms shall not exceed the average ratio of wheat acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in the adjoinijig areas or counties." Approved January 2, 1968.

Public Law 90-244 AN ACT

January 2, 1968

To amend sections 3 and 4 of the Act approved September 22, 1964 (78 Stat. ___[s^_i56i5] 990), providing for an investigation and study to determine a site for the construction of a sea-level canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the limited States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act ap- interoceamc proved September 22, 1964 (Public Law 88-609, 78 Stat. 990), as canal site. "°"' amended, is hereby further amended by striking out "June 30, 1968" in section 3 and inserting in lieu thereof "December 1, 1969". Approved January 2, 1968.

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