Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 2.djvu/881

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PUBLIC LAW 102-237—DEC. 13, 1991 105 STAT. 1833 "(B) establish marketing allotments for the fiscal year or any portion of such fiscal year; or "(C) suspend the allotments, as the Secretary determines appropriate, to reflect changes in estimated sugar consumption, stocks, production, or imports.". (B) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following new paragraph: "(8) REDUCTIONS.— Whenever a marketing allotment for a fiscal year is required to be reduced during the fiscal year under this subsection, if the quantity of sugar marketed, including sugar pledged as collateral for a price support loan under section 206 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446g), for the fiscal year at the time of the reduction by any individual processor covered by the allotment exceeds the processor's reduced allocation, the allocation of an allotment, if any, next established for the processor shall be reduced by the quantity of the excess sugar marketed."; and (5) by striking subsection (h) and inserting the following new subsection: "(h) FILLING CANE SUGAR AND BEET SUGAR ALLOTMENTS. —Each marketing allotment for cane sugar established under this section may only be filled with sugar processed from domestically grown sugarcane, and each marketing allotment for beet sugar established under this section may only be filled with sugar processed from domestically grown sugar beets.". (f) ALLOCATION OF MARKETING ALLOTMENTS. —Section 359d of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359dd) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(2) by striking "after such hearing" both places it appears and inserting "after a hearing, if requested by interested parties,"; and (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following new subsection: "(b) FILLING CANE SUGAR ALLOTMENTS.— Except as otherwise provided in section 359e, a State cane sugar allotment established under section 359c(f) for a fiscal year may be filled only with sugar processed from sugarcane grown in the State covered by the allotment.". (g) REASSIGNMENTS OF DEFICITS.— Section 359e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359ee) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 359e. REASSIGNMENT OF DEFICITS. "(a) ESTIMATES OF DEFICITS.—At any time allotments are in effect under this part, the Secretary, from time to time, shall determine whether (in view of then-current inventories of sugar, the estimated production of sugar and expected marketings, and other pertinent factors) any processor of sugarcane will be unable to market the sugar covered by the portion of the State cane sugar allotment allocated to the processor and whether any processor of sugar beets will be unable to market sugar covered by the portion of the beet sugar allotment allocated to the processor. "(b) REASSIGNMENT OF DEFICITS. — "(1) CANE SUGAR.— If the Secretary determines that any sugarcane processor who has been allocated a share of a State cane sugar allotment will be unable to market the processor's allocation of the State's allotment for the fiscal year—