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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1425

"(D) The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable,
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carry out an acreage limitation program described in paragraph (2) for a crop of rice in a manner that will result in a carryover of 30 million hundredweight of rice. "(2)(A) If a rice acreage limitation program is announced under pargigraph (1), such limitation shall be achieved by appljang a uniform percentage reduction (not to exceed 35 percent) to the rice crop acreage base for the crop for each rice-producing farm. "(B) Except as provided in subsection (g), producers who knowingly produce rice in excess of the permitted rice acreage for the farm, as established in accordance with subparagraph (A), shall be ineligible for rice loans, purchases, and payments with respect to that farm. "(C) Rice crop acreage bases for each crop of rice shall be determined under title V. 7 USC 1461. "(D)(i) A number of acres on the farm shall be devoted to conserva- Conservation. tion uses, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary. Regulations. Such number shall be determined by dividing— "(I) the product obtained by multiplying the number of acres required to be withdrawn from the production of rice times the number of acres planted to such commodity; by "(II) the number of acres authorized to be planted to such commodity under the limitation established by the Secretary. "(ii) The number of acres determined under clause (i) is hereafter in this subsection referred to as 'reduced acreage'. "(E) If an acreage limitation program is announced under para- Prohibition. graph (1) for a crop of rice, subsection (d) shall not be applicable to such crop, including any prior announcement that may have been made under such subsection with respect to such crop. Except as provided in subsection (c)(l)(B), the individual farm program acreage shall be the acreage planted on the farm to rice for harvest within the permitted rice acreage for the farm as established under this paragraph. "(3)(A) The regulations issued by the Secretary under paragraph Regulations. (2) with respect to acreage required to be devoted to conservation Conservation. uses shall assure protection of such acreage from weeds and wind and water erosion. "(B) Subject to subparagraph (C), the Secretary may permit, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, all or any part of such acreage to be devoted to sweet sorghum, hay and grazing, or the production of guar, sesame, safflower, sunflower, castor beans, mustard seed, crambe, plantago ovato, flaxseed, triticale, rye, or other commodity, if the Secretary determines that such production is needed to provide an adequate supply of such commodities, is not likely to increase the cost of the price support program, and will not affect farm income adversely. "(C)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), the Secretary shall permit, at the request of the State committee established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) for a State and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, all or any part of such acreage diverted from production by participating producers in such State to be devoted to— "(I) hay and grazing, in the case of the 1986 crop of rice; and "(II) grazing, in the case of each of the 1987 through 1990 crops of rice.

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