PUBLIC LAW 98-63—JULY 30, 1983 97 STAT. 301 Public Law 98-63 98th Congress An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, July 30, 1983 and for other purposes. [H.R. 3069] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Supplemental sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not ^ct^'lg'gg^*^^*"^^ otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I CHAPTER I DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS (FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For an additional amount for Scientific Activities Overseas (For- eign Currency Program), $2,000,000. ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For an additional amount for salaries and expenses of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, $3,600,000. AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE PAYMENT-IN-KIND PROGRAM All land rented or leased, and in production for crop year 1982, if now rented or leased by the same individual, partnership, or corpo- ration, and eligible for acreage reduction shall qualify for designa- tion under the payment-in-kind program for crop year 1983, the same as land owned by the producer. Until such time as additional legislation to the contrary may be enacted, it is provided: that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to acquire a sufficient amount of upland cotton to carry out the payment-in-kind program for the 1983 crop of upland cotton, the Secretary of Agriculture shall solicit bids from cotton producers, for sale to the Commodity Credit Corporation of 1980, 1981, and 1982 crop cotton pledged by such producers as security for nonrecourse loans made under section 103(g)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1444(g)(1)). Until sufficient cotton to carry out the payment-in-kind program for the 1983 crop of upland cotton is acquired under this procedure, or until a reasonable bid period
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