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 PUBLIC LAW 98-258—APR. 10, 1984 wheat, the producers on a farm must comply with the terms and conditions of the combined acreage limitation program and land diversion program. "(D) For the 1985 crop of wheat the Secretary shall provide for a combination of (i) an acreage limitation program as described under paragraph (2) and (ii) a land diversion program as described under paragraph (5) under which the acreage planted to wheat for harvest on the farm would be limited to the acreage base for the farm reduced by not more than 30 per centum, consisting of a reduction of not more than 20 per centum under the acreage limitation program and a reduction of 10 per centum under the land diversion program. As a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments on the 1985 crop of wheat, the producers on a farm must comply with the terms and conditions of the combined acreage limitation program and land diversion program."; (3) inserting "for the 1983 crop" immediately before the comma in the eighth sentence of paragraph (5); and (4) inserting immediately before the last sentence of paragraph (5) the following: "Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the Secretary shall implement a land diversion program for the 1984 and 1985 crops of wheat under which the Secretary shall make crop retirement and conservation payments to any producer of the 1984 and 1985 crops of wheat whose acreage planted to wheat for harvest on the farm for each such crop is reduced so that it does not exceed the wheat acreage base for the farm less an amount equivalent to 10 per centum of the wheat acreage base in addition to the reduction required under paragraph (2), and who devotes to approved conservation uses an acreage of cropland equivalent to the reduction required from the wheat acreage base under this paragraph. Such payments shall be made in an amount computed by multiplying (i) the diversion payment rate, by (ii) the farm program payment yield for the crop, by (iii) the additional acreage diverted under this paragraph. The diversion payment rate for the 1984 and 1985 crops of wheat shall be established by the Secretary at not less than $2.70 per bushel. The Secretary shall make not less than 50 per centum of any payments under this paragraph to producers of the 1984 and 1985 crops of wheat as soon as practicable after a producer enters into a land diversion contract with the Secretary for each such crop and in advance of any determination of performance.".

STAT. 131

Loans.

Conservation.

HAYING AND GRAZING DIVERTED WHEAT ACREAGE

SEC. 103. Section 107B(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1445b-l(e)) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, in carrying out acreage limitation, cash land diversion, and payment-in-kind land diversion programs for the 1984 crop of wheat, the Secretary shall permit, at the request of the State committee established under section 80t)) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act for a State and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe that are in no event more restrictive than those in effect for producers who participated in the payment-in-kind land diversion program for that part of the 1983 crop of wheat planted before January 11,

16 USC 590h.

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