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 PUBLIC LAW 94-445—OCT. 1, 1976

90 STAT. 14S9

Public Law 94-445 94th Congress An Act To provide for emergency allotment lease and transfer of tobacco allotments or quotas for 1976 in certain disaster areas in South Carolina and Georgia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 316 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection (i): " (i) Notwithstanding any provision of this section, when as a result of drought, flood, damage due to excessive rain, hail, wind, tornado, or other natural disaster, the Secretary determines (1) that one of the counties in South Carolina or Georgia has suffered a loss of 10 per centum or more in the number of acres of tobacco planted (or expected production from the planted acreage), and (2) that a lease of such tobacco allotment or quota will not impair the effective operation of the tobacco marketing quota or price support program, he may permit the owner and operator of any farm within a designated county which has suffered a loss of 10 per centum or more in the number of acres of tobacco planted (or expected production from the planted acreage) of such crop to lease all or any part of such allotment or quota to any other owners or operators in the same county, or other counties within the same State, for use in such counties for the year 1976 on a farm or farms having a current tobacco allotment or quota of the same kind. In the case of a lease and transfer to an owner or operator in another county pursuant to this subsection, the lease and transfer shall not be effective until a copy of the lease is filed with and determined by the county committee of the county to which the transfer is made to be in compliance with the provisions of the subsection.". Approved October 1, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1430 (Comm. on Agriculture). SENATE REPORT No. 94^1228 (Comm. on Agriculture and Forestry). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): Aug. 24, considered and passed House. Sept. 22, considered and passed Senate, amended. Sept. 23, House concurred in Senate amendment.

Oct. 1. 1976 [H.R. 15068]

Tobacco. Acreage allotments or quotas, S.C.-Ga.. lease and transfer.

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