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 PUBLIC LAW 98-258—APR. 10, 1984

98 STAT. 135

advance immediately and, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, pay interest on the advance.". TITLE IV—RICE TARGET PRICES

SEC. 401. Section 101(i)(2)(C) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1441(i)(2)(C)) is amended by striking out "$11.90 per hundredweight for the 1984 crop, and $12.40 per hundredweight for the 1985 crop" and inserting in lieu thereof "and $11.90 per hundredweight for the 1984 and 1985 crops". ACREAGE LIMITATION AND PAID DIVERSION PROGRAM FOR RICE

SEC. 402. Section 101(i)(5) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1441(i)(5)) is amended by— (1) striking out in the first sentence of subparagraph (A) "third and fourth" and inserting in lieu thereof "third, fourth, and fifth"; (2) inserting immediately after the third sentence of subparagraph (A) the following new sentence: "For the 1985 crop of rice, if the Secretary estimates that the quantity of rice on hand in the United States on July 31, 1985 (not including any quantity of rice produced in the United States during calendar year 1985), will exceed twenty-five million hundredweight, the Secretary shall provide for a combination of an acreage limitation program as described under this subparagraph and a land diversion program as described under subparagraph (B) under which the acreage planted to rice for harvest on the farm would be limited to the acreage base for the farm reduced by a total of not less than 25 per centum, consisting of a reduction of 20 per centum under the acreage limitation program and a reduction under the land diversion program equal to the difference between the total reduction for the farm and the 20 per centum reduction under the acreage limitation program."; (3) striking out "1983 crop" in the fifth sentence of subparagraph (A) (as redesignated under paragraph (2) of this section) and inserting in lieu thereof "1983 and 1985 crops"; (4) inserting immediately after the sixth sentence of subparagraph (B) the following new sentence: "Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph, if the Secretary implements a land diversion program for the 1985 crop of rice under the provisions of subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall make crop retirement and conservation payments to any producer of the 1985 crop of rice whose acreage planted to rice for harvest on the farm is reduced so that it does not exceed the rice acreage base for the farm less an amount equivalent to the percentage of the acreage base specified by the Secretary, but not less than 5 per centum, in addition to the reduction required under the acreage limitation program under subparagraph (A), and who devotes to approved conservation uses an acreage of cropland equivalent to the reduction required from the rice acreage base under this subparagraph."; (5) striking out "Such payments" in the eighth sentence of subparagraph (B) (as redesignated under paragraph (4) of this

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