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Ante, p. 380.

\Z^VT ^'''°' r'gStat. 1275. 7 USC 1114. 7 USC 1121. 7 USC 1113.

Quota allot^^i"^ s'tat, 160, 7 USC 1115.

Post, p. 386. Post, p. 387.

Tusc^'i/S^'

PUBLIC LAW 92-138-OCT. 14, 1971

[85 STAT.

thereafter as the facts are ascertainable by him but in any event not less frequently than each sixty days after the beginning of each calendar year, determine whether, in view of the current inventories of sugar, the estimated production from the acreage of sugarcane or sugar beets planted, the normal marketings within a calendar year of new-crop sugar, and other pertinent factors, any area or country will not market the quota for such area or countrv."; (2) by striking out "If" in the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "Whenever" and by striking out "will be unable to" in such sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "will not"; (3) by amending the first proviso in the second sentence to read as follows: '•''Provided, That any deficit resulting from the inability of a country which is a member of the Central American Common Market to fill its quota or its share of any deficit determined under the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall first be allocated to the other member countries on the basis of the quotas determined pursuant to section 202 for such countries:"; (4) by striking out "will be unable to" in the third, fifth, sixth, and eighth sentences and inserting in lieu thereof "will not"; (5) by striking out the tenth and eleventh sentences and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " I n determining and allocating deficits the Secretary shall act to provide at all times throughout the calendar year the full distribution of the amount of sugar which he has determined to be needed under section 201 of this Act to meet the requirements of consumers."; (6) by striking out "quotas then in effect" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "quotas determined pursuant to section 202"; and (7) by striking out "47.22" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "30.08". ^^ Section 204 of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section and section 211(c), if the Secretary determines that Hawaii or Puerto Rico will be unable to fill its quota established under section 203 for marketing for local consumption on a day-to-day basis, he shall allocate a total amount of sugar not in excess of such deficit to the domestic beet sugar area or the mainland cane sugar area, or both, to be filled by direct consumption or raw sugar, as he determines to be required for local consumption." gj;c. 6. Section 205(a) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is amended by striking out the third sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The Secretary is authorized in making such allotments, whenever there is involved any allotment that pertains to a new or substantially enlarged existing sugar beet processing facility serving a locality or localities which have received an acreage allotment under section 302(b)(3) or that pertains to a sugar beet processing facility described in section 302(b)(9), to take into consideration in lieu of or in addition to the foregoing factors of processing, past marketings and ability to market, the need for establishing an allotment which will permit such marketing of sugar as is necessary for reasonably efficient operation of any such sugar beet processing facility during each of the first three years of its operation." ^^^- '^' Section 206 of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is amended— (1) by striking out subsections (a) and (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

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