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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1977

91 STAT. 950

PUBLIC LAW 95-113—SEPT. 29, 1977 TITLE X—MISCELLANEOUS SET-ASIDE OF NORMALLY PLANTED ACREAGE

7 USC 1309.

SEC. 1001. Notwithstanding- any other provision of law, whenever a set-aside is in effect for one or more of the 1978 through 1981 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, the Secretary of Agriculture may require, as a condition of eligibility for loans, purchases, and 7 USC 1421 note, payments under the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, that the acreage normally planted to crops designated by the Secretary, adjusted as deemed necessary by the Secretary to be fair and equitable among producers, shall be reduced by the acreage of set-aside or diversion. AMERICAN AGRICULTURE PROTECTION PROGRAM

7 USC 1310.

"Commodity."

SEC. 1002. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the President or any other member of the executive branch of the Federal Government causes to be suspended, based upon a determination of short supply, the commercial export sales of any commodity, as defined in subsection (c) of this section, to any country or area with which the United States otherwise continues commercial trade, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, on the day the suspension is initiated, set the loan level for such commodity under the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, if a loan program is in effect for the commodity, at 90 per centum of the parity price for the commodity, as such parity price is determined on the day the suspension is initiated, (b) Any loan level established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall remain in effect as long as the suspension of commercial export sales described in subsection (a) remains in effect. (c) For purposes of this section, the term "commodity" shall include any of the following: wheat, corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, oats, rye, barley, rice, flaxseed, and cotton. BUDGET AMENDMENT

Price supports. 7 USC 1447.

7 USC 1446.

SEC. 1003. (a) Effective only with respect to the 1978 through 1981 crops, section 301 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence as follows: "The Secretary is authorized to make price support available under this title for the 1978 through 1981 crops of flaxseed, dry edible beans, gum naval stores, and in the case of the 1979 through 1981 crops, sugar beets and sugar cane, and for any other nonbasic commodity not designated in title II, except that such authority shall terminate with respect to any commodity, other than those listed in this sentence, at the end of any crop year in which the net outlays for the commodity exceed $50 million.", (b) The amendment made by this section to the Agricultural Act of 1949 shall not be operative in any manner with respect to any price support program in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. SPECIAL GRAZING AND H A Y PROGRAM

7 USC 1445d.

SEC. 1004. Title I of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section 109 as follows: "SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of law— "(a) The Secretary is authorized to administer a special wheat acreage grazing and hay program (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'special program') in each of the crop years 1978 through 1981.