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PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1413

"(III) crop insurance indemnity payments under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) and other forms of assistance made available by the Federal Government to such producers for such losses is insufficient to alleviate such economic emergency; and "(IV) additional assistance must be made available to such producers to alleviate such economic emergency. "(ii) The Secretary may make such adjustments in the amount of payments made available under this paragraph with respect to an individual farm so as to assure the equitable allotment of such payments among producers, taking into account other forms of Federal disaster assistance provided to the producers for the crop involved. "(d)(1)(A) Except for a crop with respect to which there is an acreage limitation program in effect under subsection (f), the Secretary shall proclaim a national program acreage for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops of upland cotton. The proclamation shall be made not later than November 1 of the calendar year preceding the year for which such acreage is established, except that in the case of the 1986 crop, such announcement shall be made as soon as practicable after the enactment of the Food Security Act of 1985. "(B) The Secretary may revise the national program acreajge first proclaimed for any crop year for the purpose of determining the allocation factor under paragraph (2) if the Secretary determines it necessary based on the latest information. The Secretary shall proclaim such revised national program acreage as soon as it is made. "(C) The national program acreage for upland cotton shall be the number of harvested acres the Secretary determines (on the basis of the weighted national average of the farm program payment yields for the crop for which the determination is made) will produce the quantity (less imports) that the Secretary estimates will be utilized domestically and for export during the marketing year for such crop. "(D) The national program acreage shall be subject to such adjustment as the Secretary determines necessary, taking into consideration the estimated carryover supply, so as to provide for an adequate but not excessive total supply of upland cotton for the marketing year for the crop for which such national program acreage is established. In no event shall the national program acreage be less than 10 million acres. "(2) The Secretary shall determine a program allocation factor for each crop of upland cotton. The allocation factor (not to exceed 100 percent) shall be determined by dividing the national program acreage for the crop by the number of acres that the Secretary estimates will be harvested for such crop. "(3)(A) The individual farm program acreage for each crop of upland cotton shall be determined by multiplying the allocation factor by the acreage of upland cotton planted for harvest on the farms for which individual farm program acreages are required to be determined. "(B) The individual farm program acreage may not be further reduced by application of the allocation factor if the producers reduce the acreage of upland cotton planted for harvest on the farm from the crop acreage base established for the farm under title V by at least the percentage recommended by the Secretary in the proclamation of the national program acreage.

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Prohibition.

7 USC 1461.

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