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PUBLIC LAW 91-670-JAN. 11, 1971

producers voting in such referendum, and by not less than a majority of the producers voting in such referendum. The ballots and other information or reports which reveal or tend to reveal the vote of any producer or his production of potatoes shall be held strictly confidential and shall not be disclosed. Any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture violating the provisions hereof shall upon conviction be subject to the penalties provided in paragraph 310(c) above.

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Penalty,

SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF PLANS

SEC. 315. (a) The Secretary shall, whenever he finds that a plan or any provision thereof obstructs or does not tend to effectuate the declared policy of this title, terminate or suspend the operation of such plan or such provision thereof. (b) The Secretary may conduct a referendum at any time and shall hold a referendum on request of the board or of 10 per centum or more of the potato producers to determine if potato producers favor the termination or suspension of the plan, and he shall terminate or suspend such plan at the end of the marketing year whenever he deteraiines that such suspension or termination is favored by a majority of those voting in a referendum, and who produce more than 50 per centum of the volume of the potatoes produced by the potato producers voting in the referendum.

Referendum.

AMENDMENT PROCEDURE

SEC. 316. The provisions of this title applicable to plans shall be applicable to amendments to plans. SEPARABILITY

SEC. 317. If any provision of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this title and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. AUTHORIZATION

SEC. 318. There is hereby made available from the funds provided by section 32 of Public Law 320, Seventy-fourth Congress (49 Stat. 774), as amended (7 U.S.C. 612c), such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title: Provided, That no such sum shall be used for the payment of any expenses or expenditures of the board in administering any provision of any plan issued under authority of this title. EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 319. This title shall take effect upon enactment. TITLE IV — RESTRICTIONS OX I M P O R T E D C O M M O D I T I E S SEC. 401. Section 8e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, and as amended by the Agricultural Act of 1961, is amended by inserting in the first sentence thereof between "tomatoes" and "avocadoes," the following: "raisins, olives (other than Spanish-style green olives), prunes"'. Approved January 11, 1971.

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