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 PUBLIC LAW 94-214—FEB. 16, 1976

90 STAT. 181

Public Law 94-214 94th Congress An Act To establish improved programs for the benefit of producers and consumers of

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rice.

[H.R. 8529]

Be it enacted by the SeTiate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Rice Production Act of 1975. SHORT TITLE SECTION

1. This Act may be cited as the "Rice Production Act of 7 USC 428c note.

1976".

TITLE I—RICE ALLOTMENTS AND PRICE SUPPORT

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NATIONAL ACREAGE ALLOTMENT AND ALLOCATION

SEC. 101. Effective for the 1976 and 1977 crops of rice, section 352 7 USC 1352 note. of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended to read as 7 USC 1352. follows: "SEC. 352. (a) The Secretary shall establish for each of the 1976 and 1977 crops of rice a national acreage allotment in the amount of one million eight hundred thousand acres. "(b) The national acreage allotment for each such crop of rice shall be apportioned by the Secretary to farms, and in producer States and administrative areas, to producers on the basis of the rice allotments established for the 1975 crop as adjusted in accordance with subsection (c) of this section: Provided, That not to exceed 1 per centum of the national acreage allotment apportioned within each State may be reserved by the State committee for (1) apportionment to new rice farms and new rice producers on the basis of the following factors: suitability of the land for the production of rice, the extent to which the farm operator (or produced in the case of a producer allotment) is dependent on income from farming for his livelihood, the production of rice on other farms owned, operated, or controlled by such person, and such other factors as the State committee determines should be considered for the purpose of establishing fair and equitable rice allotments; (2) making adjustments in farm allotments to correct inequities or to prevent hardship; and (3) making corrections in farm or producer allotments. "(c)(1) If for any crop the total acreage planted to rice on a farm is less than the rice allotment for the farm (or in producer administrative areas, the producer allotments allocated to the farm), the farm or producer allotment used as a base for the succeeding crop shall be reduced by the percentage by which such planted acreage was less than the allotment for the farm, but such reduction shall not exceed 20 per centum of the farm or producer allotment for the preceding crop; except that if not less than 90 per centum of the farm acreage allotment is planted to rice, the farm shall be considered to have an acreage planted to rice equal to 100 per centum of such allotment. For purposes of this paragraph, an acreage on the farm which the Secretary determines was not planted to rice because of drought, flood, other natural disaster, or a condition beyond the control of the producer shall be

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