Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 5.djvu/84

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104 STAT. 3406 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 feed grain acreage that may be taken out of production under this subparagraph, taking into consideration the total quantity of acreage that has or will be removed from production under other price support, production adjustment, or conservation program activities. No restrictions on the quantity of acreage that may be taken out of production in accordance with this subparagraph in a crop year shall be imposed in the case of a county in which producers were eligible to receive disaster emergency loans under section 321 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961) as a result of a disaster that occurred during the crop year. "(iv) CROP ACREAGE AND PAYMENT YIELD. —The feed grain crop acreage base and feed grain farm program payment yield of the farm shall not be reduced due to the fact that a portion of the permitted feed grain acreage of the farm was devoted to conserving uses (except as provided in subparagraph (F)) under this subparagraph. "(v) LIMITATION.— Other than as provided in clauses (i) through (iv), payments may not be made under this paragraph for any crop on a greater acreage than the acreage actually planted to feed grains. " (vi) CONSERVATION USE ACREAGE UNDER OTHER PRO- GRAMS. —Any acreage considered to be planted to feed grains in accordance with clauses (i) and (iv) may not also be designated as conservation use acreage for the purpose of fulfilling any provisions under any acreage limitation or land diversion program requiring that the producers devote a specified acreage to conservation uses. "(F) ALTERNATIVE CROPS.— "(i) INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER CROPS. —The Secretary may permit, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, all or any part of acreage otherwise required to be devoted to conservation uses as a condition of qualif5ring for pa3anents under subparagraph (E) to be devoted to sweet sorghum, guar, sesame, castor beans, crambe, plantago ovato, triticale, rye, mung beans, commodities for which no substantial domestic production or market exists but that could yield industrial raw material being imported, or likely to be imported, into the United States, or commodities grown for experimental purposes (including kenaf and milkweed), subject to the following sentence. The Secretary may permit the acreage to be devoted to the production only if the Secretary determines that— "(I) the production is not likely to increase the cost of the price support program and will not affect farm income adversely; and "(II) the production is needed to provide an adequate supply of the commodity, or, in the case of commodities for which no substantial domestic production or market exists but that could yield industrial raw materials, the production is needed to encourage domestic manufacture of the raw