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 91 STAT. 250

PUBLIC LAW 95-54—JUNE 25, 1977

Public Law 95- •54 95th Congress An Act June 25, 1977 [H.R. 3416]

Tobacco. Quota transfers.

7 USC 1314b.

To amend section 316(c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of lt)38 to provide that leasing of flue-cured tobacco acreage-poundage marketing quotas after June 15 of any year be permitted only between farms on which at least 80 per centum of the farm acreage allotment was planted for such year. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 316(c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is amended by striking out the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof " Any lease of Fluecured tobacco acreage-poundage marketing quotas from any farm with an acreage-poundage marketing quota in excess of two thousand pounds filed on or after June 15 in any year shall not be effective unless the acreage planted on both the lessor and the lessee farms during the current marketing year was as much as 80 per centum of the farm acreage allotment in effect for such year." Approved June 25, 1977.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 95-126 (Comm. on Agriculture). SENATE REPORT No. 95-240 (Comm. on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 123 (1977): Mar. 29, considered and passed House. June 13, considered and passed Senate.

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