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 PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1461

wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice programs under this Act that is efficient, equitable, flexible, and predictable. "SEC. 502. For purposes of this title— "(1) the term 'program crop' means any crop of wheat, feed iy grains, upland cotton, or rice; and "(2) the term 'county committee' means the county committee fi established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and I Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) for the county in which the farm is administratively located. "SEC. 503. (a)(1) Except as provided in p a r c ^ a p h (2), the Secretary shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of farm acreage bases for the 1986 and subsequent crop years. "(2) With respect to the 1986 crop year, the Secretary may forgo the establishment of farm acreage bases under this title. "(b)(1) The county committee, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, shall determine the farm acreage base for a farm for a crop year. Such farm acreage base shall include the number of acres equal to the sum of the crop acreage bases for the farm. "(2) In the case of farm acreage bases established for the 1987 and subsequent crop years, the determination of the farm acreage base shall also include (in addition to the crop acreage bases for the farm) the sum of (A) the average of the acreage on the farm planted to soybeans in the 1986 and subsequent crop years, and (B) the average of the acreage on the farm devoted by the producer to a conserving use in the normal course of farming operations in the 1986 and subsequent crop years. "SEC. 504. (a)(1) The Secretary shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of crop acreage bases for each program crop, including any progrsun crop produced under an established practice of double cropping. The sum of the crop acreage bases for all program crops produced on any farm for any crop year shall not exceed the farm acreage base for such farm for such crop year, except to the extent that the excess is due to an established practice of double cropping. "(2) The term 'double cropping' means a farming practice, as defined by the Secretary, which has been carried out on a farm in at least 3 of the 5 crop years immediately preceding the crop year for which the crop acreage base for the farm is established. "(b)(l)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the crop acreage base for a program crop for any farm for the 1986 and subsequent crop years shall be the number of acres that is equal to the average of the acreage planted and considered planted to such program crop for harvest on the farm in each of the five crop years preceding such crop year. "(B)(i) In the case of upland cotton and rice, except as provided in clause (ii), if no planted and considered planted acreage has been established for a farm for each of the five crop years preceding such crop year, the crop acreage base for such crop shall be equal to the average of the acreage planted and considered planted to such crop for harvest on the farm in each of the five crop years preceding such crop year, excluding all crop years in which planted and considered planted acreage was not established for the farm. "(ii) Any crop acreage base established in accordance with paragraph (I)(A) and paragraph (IXBXi) shall not exceed a number of acres equal to the average of the acreage planted and considered

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