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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1363

subsection (less sales under section 407 for unrestricted use), as 7 USC 1427. estimated by the Secretary on January 1 of such calendar year, will not exceed 2,500,000,000 pounds (milk equivalent), the Secretary shall increase by 50 cents the rate of price support for milk in effect on such date. "(F) The price of milk shall be supported through the purchase of milk and the products of milk. "(2)(A) During the period beginning on April 1, 1986, and ending on September 30, 1987, the Secretary shall provide for a reduction to be made in the price received by producers for all milk produced in the United States and marketed by producers for commercial use. "(B) The amount of the reduction under subparagraph (A) in the price received by producers shall be— "(i) the period beginning on April 1, 1986, and ending on December 31, 1986, 40 cents per hundredweight of milk marketed; and "(ii) during the first 9 months of 1987, 25 cents per hundredweight of milk marketed. "(C) The funds represented by the reduction in price, required under subparagraph (A) to be applied to the marketings of milk by a producer, shall be collected and remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation, at such time and in such manner as prescribed by the Secretary, by each person making payment to a producer for milk purchased from such producer, except that in the case of a producer who markets milk of the producer's own production directly to consumers, such funds shall be remitted directly to the Corporation by such producer. "(D) The funds remitted to the (>)rporation under this paragraph shall be considered as included in the payments to a producer of milk for purposes of the minimum price provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.". 7 USC 674. (b) Paragraph (3) of section 201(d) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 Animals. Exports. (7 U.S.C. 1446(d)) is amended by— (1) striking out subparagraphs (A) through (G), and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(A)(i) The Secretary shall establish and carry out under this paragraph a milk production termination program for the 18month period beginning April 1, 1986. "(ii) Under the milk production termination program re- Contracts. quired under this subparagraph, the Secretary, at the request of any producer of milk in the United States who submits to the Secretary a bid, may offer to enter into a contract with the producer for the purpose of terminating the production of milk by the producer in return for a payment to be made by the Secretary. "(iii) For the 18-month period for which the milk production termination program under this subparagraph is in effect, the Secretary shall— "(I) as soon as practicable, determine the total number of dairy cattle the Secretary estimates will be marketed for slaughter as a result of such program; and "(II) by regulation specify marketing procedures to Regulation. ensure that greater numbers of dairy cattle slaughtered as a result of the production termination program provided for

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