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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1411

devoted to conservation uses in accordance with subsection (f)(2)(D); and "(11) the producers shall be eligible for payments under this paragraph on such acreage, subject to the compliance of the producers with clause (ii). "(ii) To be eligible for payments under clause (i), except as provided in clause (iii), the producers on the farm must actually plant upland cotton for harvest on at least 50 percent of the permitted upland cotton acreage of the farm. "(iii) If a State or local agency has imposed in an area of a State or county a quarantine on the planting of upland cotton for harvest on farms in such area, the State committee established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) may recommend to the Secretary that payments be made under this paragraph, without regard to the requirement imposed under clause (ii), to producers in such area who were required to forgo the planting of upland cotton for harvest on acreage to alleviate or eliminate the condition requiring such quarantine. If the Secretary determines that such condition exists, the Secretary may make payments under this paragraph to such producers. To be eligible for payments under this clause, such producers may not plant wheat, feed grains, rice, cotton, or soybeans on such acreage. "(iv) The upland cotton crop acreage base and upland cotton farm program payment yield of the farm shall not be reduced due to the fact that such portion of the permitted acreage of the farm was devoted to conserving uses or nonprogram crops. "(v) Other than as provided in clauses (i) through (iv), payments may not be made under this subsection for any crop on a greater acreage than the acreage actually planted to upland cotton. "(vi) Any acreage considered to be planted to upland cotton in accordance with clause (i) may not also be designated as conservation use acreage for the purpose of fulfilling any provisions under any acreage limitation or land diversion program requiring that the producers devote a specified acreage to conservation uses. "(C) The payment rate for upland cotton shall be the amount by which the established price for the crop of upland cotton exceeds the higher of— "(i) the national average market price received by producers during the calendar year that includes the first 5 months of the marketing year for such crop, as determined by the Secretary; or "(ii) the loan level determined for such crop. "(D) The established price for upland cotton shall not be less than $0.81 per pound for the 1986 crop, $0,794 per pound for the 1987 crop, $0.77 per pound for the 1988 crop, $0,745 per pound for the 1989 crop, and $0,729 per pound for the 1990 crop. "(E) The total quantity of upland cotton on which payments would otherwise be payable to a producer on a farm for any crop under this subsection shall be reduced by the quantity on which any disaster payment is made to the producer for the crop under paragraph (2). '(F) The Secretary may pay not more than 5 percent of the total amount of a payment made under this paragraph in the form of upland cotton. The use of upland cotton in making payments to producers shall be subject to a determination by the Secretary of the effect that such in-kind payments will have on market prices for any commodity. The Secretary shall report such determination to the

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