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PUBLIC LAW 93-225-DEC. 29, 1973

[87 STAT.

NO IMPAIRMENT

SEC. 17. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as impairing any authority or responsibility of the President or the Secretary of the Treasury under any other provision of law, nor shall anything in this Act affect in any manner any provision of law concerning the right of any Federal agency to sell obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury or the authority or responsibility of the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase such obligations. PROGRAM LIMITATION

SEC. 18. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing an increase in the amounts of obligations issued, sold, or guaranteed by any Federal agency which issues, sells, or guarantees obligations purchased by the Bank. SEPARABILITY

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SEC. 19. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected. EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 20. This Act becomes effective upon the date of its enactment, except that section 7 becomes effective upon the expiration of thirty days after such date. Approved December 29, 1973.

Public Law 93-225 December 29, 1973 AN ACT [H. R. 2303] .JQ continue mandatory price support for tung n u t s only through the 1976 crop.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mandatory "price United Sttttes of America in Congress assembled, That section 201(b) support. of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended to read as 72"ta;!996'!"^

7 USC 1446.

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•' (b) The price of honey shall be supported through loans, purchases, or other operations at a level not in excess of 90 per centum nor less than 60 per centum of the parity price thereof; and the price of tung nuts for each crop of tung nuts through the 1976 crop shall be supported through loans, purchases, or other operations at a level not in excess of 90 per centum nor less than 60 per centum of the parity price therefor: Provided, That in any crop year through the 1976 crop year in which the Secretary determines that the domestic production of tung oil will be less than the anticipated domestic demand for such oil, the price of tun^ nuts shall be supported at not less than 65 per centum of the paritj' price therefor." Approved December 29, 1973.

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