114 STAT. 402 PUBLIC LAW 106-224—JUNE 20, 2000 Effective date. Deadline. (2) PAYMENTS.— Effective beginning October 1, 2000, the Secretary shall use $340,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments to eligible persons. (3) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS AMONG STATES.— The funds made available for eligible persons under paragraph (2) shall be allocated among States in the following dollar amounts: Alabama $100,000 Arkansas $1,000 Florida $2,500,000 Georgia $13,000,000 Indiana $5,400,000 Kansas $23,000 Kentucky $140,000,000 Missouri $2,000,000 North Carolina $100,000,000 Ohio $6,000,000 Oklahoma $1,000 South Carolina $15,000,000 Tennessee $35,000,000 Virginia $19,000,000 Wisconsin $675,000 West Virginia $1,300,000. (4) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS AMONG FARMS IN A STATE.— The Secretary shall divide the amount allocated to a State under psiragraph (3) among farms in the State based on the quota of eligible tobacco avedlable to each farm of an eligible person for the 2000 crop year. (5) DIVISION OF FARM PAYMENTS AMONG ELIGIBLE PERSONS IN A STATE.—Not later than October 20, 2000, the Secretary shall divide amounts made available to farms in a State under paragraph (4) among eligible persons who are quota owners, quota lessees, and tobacco producers on farms in the State, and make payments to the eligible persons, on the basis of— (A) in the case of a State that is a party to the National Tobacco Grower Settlement Trust, the formula in the Trust used to allocate funds among quota owners, quota lessees, and tobacco producers on farms in the State, with such adjustments as the Secretary determines are necessary to enable the payments to be made by October 20, 2000; or (B) in the case of a State that is not a party to the National Tobacco Grower Settlement Trust, a formula established by the Secretary. (6) PAYMENTS TO ELIGIBLE PERSONS IN GEORGIA,—The Secretary shall use the amount allocated to the State of Georgia under paragraph (3) to make payments to eligible persons in Georgia only if the State of Georgia agrees to use an equal amount (not to exceed $13,000,000) to make payments at the same time, or subsequently, to the same eligible persons in the same manner as provided for the Federal payment under paragraphs (4) and (5). (7) USE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—None of the funds made available under paragraphs (1) through (7) may be used to pay administrative costs inciured in carrying out those paragraphs. (8) TRANSFER OF ALLOTMENTS.—Section 318 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314d) is amended by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:
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