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PUBLIC LAW 91-524-NOV. 30, 1970

adjustments made pursuant to this sentence shall not increase the total State feed grain acreage. The Secretary is authorized to draw upon the acreage pool provided for in subsection (b)(3) in making such adjustments. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, the feed ^rain base for the farm shall be adjusted downward to the extent required by subsection (b)(8). "(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection not to exceed 1 per centum of the estimated total feed grain bases for all farms in a State for any year may be reserved from the feed grain bases established for farms in the State for apportionment to farms on which there were no acreages devoted to feed grains in the crop years 1959 and 1960 on the basis of the following factors: suitability of the land for the production of feed grains, the extent to which the farm operator is dependent on income from farming for his livelihood, the production of feed grains on other farms owned, operated, or controlled by the farm operator, and such other factors as the Secretary determines should be considered for the purpose of establishing fair and equitable feed grain bases. No part of such reserve shall be allocated to a farm to reflect new cropland brought into production after the date of enactment of the set-aside program for feed grains. An acreage equal to the feed grain base so established for each farm shall be deemed to have been devoted to feed grains on the farm in each of the crop years 1959 and 1960 for purposes of this section. "(f) In any case in which the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program formulated under this section precludes the making of loans, purchases, and payments, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such loans, purchases, and payments in such amounts as he determines to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the default. " (g) The Secretary shall make a preliminary payment to producers, as soon as practicable after July 1 of the year in which the crop is harvested, at a rate equal to 32 cents per bushel for corn, with comparable rates for grain sorghiims and, if designated by the Secretary, barley, and the payment so made shall not be reduced if the rate as finally determined is less than the rate of the preliminary payment. If the set-aside in effect under subsection (c) is less than 20 per centum of the feed grain base, the preliminary payment rate under this subsection shall oe reduced proportionately. " (h) The Secretary is authorized to issue such regulations as he determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. " (i) The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation."

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Preliminary payments.

Regulations.

TITLE VI—COTTON SEC. 601. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended effective beginning with the 1971 crop of upland cotton as follows: (1) Sections 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, and 377 of the Act shall not be applicable to upland cotton of the 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops. (2) A new section 342a is added to read as follows: "SEC. 342a. The Secretary shall, not later than November 15, of the calendar years 1970, 1971, and 1972, proclaim a national cotton production goal for the 1971 and subsequent crops of upland cotton. The national cotton production goal for any year shall be the number of bales of upland cotton (standard bales of four hundred and eighty pounds not weight) equal to the estimated domestic consumption and estimated exports for the marketing year beginning in the calendar

52 Stat. 3 1. 7 USC 1281 and note. 7 USC 13421346, 1377.

National cotton production g o a l.

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