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 PUBLIC LAW 98-88 —AUG. 26, 1983 97 STAT. 499 and Domestic Allotment Act to waive or modify deadlines and other 16 USC 590h. program requirements in cases in which lateness or failure to meet such other requirements does not affect adversely the operation of the program. "(13) The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection. "(14) The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this subsection through the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(15) The provisions of subsection 8(g) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (relating to assignment of payments) shall 16 USC 590h. apply to payments made under this subsection. "(16) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, compliance on a farm with the terms and conditions of any other commodity pro- gram may not be required as a condition of eligibility for loans or payments under this subsection. "(17) In order to encourage and assist producers in the orderly ginning and marketing of their extra long staple 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 Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. 15 USC 714 note. "(18) References made in sections 402, 403, 406, 407, and 416 to the 7 USC 1422, terms 'support price', 'level of support', and 'level of price support' 1^23, 1426, shall be considered to apply as well to the level of loans for extra ' long staple cotton under this subsection; and references to the terms 'price support', 'price support operations', and 'price support pro- gram' in such sections and in section 401(a) shall be considered as 7 USC 1421. applying as well to the loan operations for extra long staple cotton under this subsection.". SEC. 5. Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is 7 USC 1427. amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstand- ing any other provision of law, beginning upon the enactment of the Extra Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983, the Commodity Credit Corpo- Ante, p. 494. ration may sell extra long staple cotton for unrestricted use at such price levels as the Secretary determines appropriate to maintain and expand export and domestic markets for such cotton.". SEC. 6. Section 1101(1) of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 is 7 USC 1308. amended by deleting "and rice" and inserting in lieu thereof "extra long staple cotton, and rice". Approved August 26, 1983. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3190: HOUSE REPORT No. 98 -256 (Comm. on Agriculture). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 129 (1983): June 27, considered and passed House. Aug. 4, considered and passed Senate.

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