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PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

with standards established by the Secretary in consultation with wildlife agencies. "(B) The Secretary may pay an appropriate share of the cost of practices designed to carry out the purposes of subparagraph (A). "(C) The Secretary may provide for an additional payment on such acreage in an amount determined by the Secretary to be appropriate in relation to the benefit to the general public if the producer agrees to permit, without other compensation, access to all or such portion of the farm, as the Secretary may prescribe, by the general public, for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking, subject to applicable State and Federal regulations. "(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. "(g)(l) The Secretary may, for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops of upland cotton, make payments available to producers who meet the requirements of this subsection. "(2) Such pa3mients shall be— "(A) made in the form of upland cotton owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation; and "(B) subject to the availability of such upland cotton. "(3)(A) Pajmients under this subsection shall be determined in the same manner as provided in subsection (b). "(B) The quantity of upland cotton 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 under subsection (a); "(B) agrees to forgo receiving payments under subsection (c); "(C) does not plant upland cotton 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)(l) If the failure of a producer to comply fully with the terms and conditions of the program formulated under this section precludes the making of loans and pa3mients, the Secretary may, nevertheless, make such loans 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 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) 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 determines necessary to carry out this section. "(j) The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation.

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