Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1266

 95 STAT. 1240

PUBLIC LAW 97-98—DEC. 22, 1981

Secretary may provide for an additional payment on such acreage in an amount determined by the Secretary to be appropriate in relation to the benefit to the general public if the producer agrees to permit, without other compensation, access to all or such portion of the farm, as the Secretary may prescribe, by the general public, for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking, subject to applicable State and Federal regulations. '(10) An operator of a farm desiring to participate in the program conducted under paragraph (9) of this subsection shall execute an agreement with the Secretary providing for such participation not later than such date as the Secretary may prescribe. The Secretary may, by mutual agreement with the producers on the farm, terminate or modify any such agreement if the Secretary determines such action necessary because of an emergency created by drought or other disaster or to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of agricultural commodities. "(11) The Secretary shall provide for the sharing of payments made under this subsection for any farm among the praiucers on the farm on a fair and equitable basis. "(12) The Secretary shall provide adequate safeguards to protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers. "(13) If the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program formulated under this subsection precludes the making of loans and payments, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such loans and payments in such amounts as the Secretary determines to be equitable in relation to the seriousness of the failure. The Secretary may authorize the county and State committees established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and 16 USC 590h. Domestic Allotment Act to waive or modify deadlines and other program requirements in cases in which lateness or failure to meet such other requirements does not affect adversely the operation of the program. "(14) The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection. "(15) The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this subsection through the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(16) The provisions of subsection 8(g) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (relating to assignment of payments) shall apply to payments under this subsection. (17) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, compliance on a farm with the terms and conditions of any other commodity program may not be required as a condition of eligibility for loans or payments under this subsection. "(18) In order to encoureige and assist producers in the orderly ginning and marketing of their cotton production, the Secretary shall make recourse loans available to such producers on seed cotton in accordance with authority vested in the Secretary under the Com15 USC 714 note, modity Credit Corporation Charter Act.". COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION SALES PRICE RESTRICTIONS

7 USC 1427.

SEC. 503. Effective only with respect to the period beginning August 1, 1978, and ending July 31, 1986, the tenth sentence of section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is amended by striking out all of that sentence through the words "110 per centum of the loan rate, and (2)" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, (1) the Commodity Credit Corporation shall sell upland cotton for unrestricted use at the same prices as it sells

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