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 99 STAT. 1374

PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

shall be the same after the amendments made by this title take effect as it was before the effective date of such amendments. Subtitle D—National Commission on Dairy Policy FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY

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SEC. 141. (a) Congress finds that— (1) the Federal program established to support the price of milk marketed by producers in the United States was created to provide price and income protection for milk producers as well as to assure consumers of an adequate supply of milk and dairy products at reasonable prices; (2) the milk production industry in the United States is composed primarily of small- and medium-sized family farm operations; (3) consumers in the United States benefit financially from a milk price support program that prohibits large fluctuations in the price and supply of milk and dairy products; (4) consumers in the United States also benefit financiedly from the current structure of the domestic milk production industry; and (5) the Office of Technology Assessment, in its report entitled "Technology, Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture", found that larger milk production operations already enjoy a major advantage in the production of milk and that, under current Federal policy, the development and use of new technologies will permit a continued trend toward fewer and larger milk production operations throughout the country. (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to respond to the development of new technologies in the domestic milk production industry by reviewing the present milk price support program and its alternatives, and by adopting such policies as are needed to prevent significant surplus production in the future while ensuring that the current small- and medium-sized family farm structure of such industry will be preserved for new generations of producers and consumers alike. '*

7 USC 1446 note.

ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION

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S E C 142. (a) There is hereby established a National Commission on Daily Policy, which shall study and make recommendations concerning the future operation of the Federal program established to support the price of milk marketed by producers in the United States. (b) The Commission shall be composed of eighteen members who are engaged in the commercial production of milk in the United States, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Not fewer than twelve members shall be appointed from nominations submitted to the Secretary by the following Members of Congress, after consultation with the other Members of Congress who sit on the specified committee of the respective House of Congress: (1) The Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the '; House of Representatives. •« (2) The ranking minority member of the Committee on Agriy culture of the House of Representatives.

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