Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/295

 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1405

"(7)(A) An operator of a farm desiring to participate in the program conducted under this subsection shall execute an agreement with the Secretary providing for such participation not later than such date as the Secretary may prescribe. "(B) The Secretary may, by mutual agreement with producers on a farm, terminate or modify any such agreement if the Secretary determines such action necessary because of an emergency created by drought or other disaster or to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the supply of agricultural commodities. "(8) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, in carrying out the program conducted under this subsection, the Secretary may prescribe production targets for participating farms expressed in bushels of production so that all participating farms achieve the same pro rata reduction in production as prescribed by the national production targets. "(g)(1) The Secretary may, for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops of corn, grain sorghums, oats, and, if designated by the Secretary, barley, make payments available to producers who meet the requirements of this subsection. "(2) Such payments shall be— "(A) made in the form of such feed grains, respectively, owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation; and "(B) subject to the availability of such feed grains. "(3)(A) Payments under this subsection shall be determined in the same manner as provided in subsection (b). "(B) The quantity of feed grains to be made available to a producer under this subsection shall be equal in value to the payments so determined under such subsection. "(4) A producer shall be eligible to receive a payment under this subsection for a crop if the producer— "(A) agrees to forgo obtaining a loan or purchase agreement under subsection (a); "(B) agrees to forgo receiving payments under subsection (c); "(C) does not plant feed grains for harvest in excess of the crop acreage base reduced by one-half of any acreage required to be diverted from production under subsection (f); and "(D) otherwise complies with this section. "(h)(1) If the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program conducted under this section precludes the making of loans, purchases, and pa3nnents, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such loans, purchases, and payments in such amounts as the Secretary determines are equitable in relation to the seriousness of the failure. "(2) The Secretary may authorize the county and State committees established under section 80)) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590hOt))) to waive or modify deadlines and other program requirements in cases in which lateness or failure to meet such other requirements does not affect adversely the operation of the program. "(i) The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary Regulations. determines necessary to carry out this section. "0') The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(k) The provisions of section 8(g) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(g)) (relating to assignment of payments) shall apply to payments under this section.

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