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 84 STAT. ]

1375

PUBLIC LAW 91-524-NOV. 30, 1970

"(e)(1) The Secretary shall upon presentation of warehouse receipts reflecting accrued storage charges of not more than 60 days make available for the 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops of upland cotton to cooperators nonrecourse loans for a term of ten months from the first day of the month in which the loan is made at such level as will reflect for Middling one-inch upland cotton (micronaire 3.5 through 4.9) at average location in the United States 90 per centum of the acreage world price for such cotton for the two-year period ending July 31 in the year in which the loan level is announced, except that to prevent the establishment of such a loan level as would adversely affect the competitive position of United States upland cotton, following one or more years of excessively high prices, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to keep United States upland cotton competitive and to retain an adequate share of the world market for such cotton. The average world price for such cotton for such preceding two-year period shall be determined by the Secretary annually pursuant to a published regulation which shall specify the procedures and the factors be to used by the Secretary in making the world price determination. The loan level for any crop of upland cotton shall be determined and announced not later than November 1 of the calendar year preceding the marketing year for which such loan is to be effective. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the carryover of upland cotton as of the beginning of the marketing year for the 1972 or 1973 crop exceeds 7.2 million bales, producers on any farm harvesting cotton of such crop from an acreage in excess of the base acreage allotment for such farm shall be entitled to loans and purchases only on an amount of the cotton of such crop produced on such farm determined by multiplying the yield used in computing payments for such farm by the base acreage allotment for such farm. "(2) I n addition, the Secretary shall make available to cooperators payments on the 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops of upland cotton. The payments shall be at such rate per pound as, together with the national average market price for Middling one-inch upland cotton (micronaire 3.5 through 4.9) in the designated spot markets during the first five months of the marketing year for the crop, the Secretary determines will be equal to the greater of (i) 35 cents, or (ii) 65 per centum of the parity price for upland cotton as of the beginning of the marketing year, except that the rate of payment so determined for the 1972 crop and the 1973 crop, respectively, shall be adjusted by multiplying the amount thereof by the ratio of (i) the national base acreage allotment for the 1971 crop to (ii) the national base acreage allotment for the crop for which the rate is being determined: Provided, That the payment rate with respect to any producer who (i) is on a small farm (that is, a farm on which the base acreage allotment is ten acres or less, or on which the yield used in making payments times the farm base acreage allotment is five thousand pounds or less, and for which the base acreage allotment has not been reduced under section 350(f)), (ii) resides on such farm, and (iii) derives his principal income from cotton produced on such farm, shall be increased by 30 per centum; but, notwithstanding paragraph (3), such increase shall be made only with I'espect to his share of cotton actually harvested on such farm within the quantity specified in paragraph (3). 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 15 cents per jwun'd, and the payment so made shall not be reduced if the rate aa finally determined is less than the rate of the preliminary payment. "(3) Such payments shall be made available for a farm on the quantity of upland cotton determined by multiplying the acreage planted

Loans*

Payments.

Small farm, payment bonus.

Ante, p. 1374t,

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