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PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1471

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"(TV) discourage local production and marketing of agricultural commodities in the countries in which commodities and products are distributed under this subsection; and "(viii) the Secretary's recommendations, if any, for changes to improve the conduct of sales, barter, or use activities under paragraph (7). "(lOXA) Subject to the limitations established under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall make available for disposition under this subsection in each of the fiscal years 1986 through 1990 not less than the minimum quantities of eligible commodities specified in subparagraph (B). "(B) The minimum quantity of eligible commodities that shall be made available for disposition under this subsection in each fiscal year shall be— "(i) 500,000 metric tons of grains and oilseeds from the Corporation's uncommitted stocl^, or an amount equal to 10 percent of the Corporation's uncommitted stocks of grains and oilseeds as of the end of such fiscal year (as estimated by the Secretary), whichever is less; and "(ii) 10 percent of the Corporation's uncommitted stocks of dairy products, but not less than 150,000 metric tons of such products to the extent that uncommitted stocks are available. The Secretary shall make such estimation of expected year-end levels of the Corporation's uncommitted stocks prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. The Secretary's determination as to the amount of the Corporation's stocks that shall be made available for disposition under this subsection for such fiscal year shall be published in the Federal Register, along with a breakdown by kind of commodity and the quantity of each kind of commodity that shall be made available, before the beginning of such fiscal year. "(C) Of the aggregate amounts made available each fiscal year pursuant to both clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (B), not less than 75,000 metric tons shall be made available to carry out the Food for Progress Act of 1985. "(D)(i) The Secretary— "(I) may waive the minimum quantity requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) for a fiscal year to the extent that the Secretary determines and reports to Congress that there are not sufficient requests for eligible commodities under this subsection for such fiscal year, except that the waiver authority of this subclause may not be used to waive the minimum quantity requirement of subparagraph (C); subparagraph (C) in accordance with subsection (f)(2) of the Food for Progress Act of 1985; and "(III) may waive the minimum quantity requirements of subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) for a fiscal year, if the Secretary determines that the restrictions on the furnishing of commodities under paragraph (3) prevent the meiking available of commodities in such quantities, "(ii) For any fiscal year in which the minimum levels of uncommitted Commodity Credit Corporation stocks specified in subparagraph (B) are not made available and during which any requests for commodities under this subsection are rejected, the Secretary shall provide a detailed, written explanation to Congress, at the end of such fiscal year, of the reasons for the rejections of such requests.
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