Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 5.djvu/642

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104 STAT. 3964 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 enactment of this Act) whether to receive such advance deficiency payments. (4) DATE OF REFUND FOR PAYMENTS. — Effective only for the 1990 crops of wheat, feed grgdns, upland cotton, and rice, if the Secretary determines that any portion of the advance deficiency pa3niient made to producers for the crop under section 107C of the Agricultural Act of 1949 must be refunded, such refund shall not be required prior to July 31, 1991, for that portion of the crop for which a disaster payment is made under subsection (a). SEC. 2242. PAYMENTS TO PROGRAM NONPARTICIPANTS FOR TARGET PRICE COMMODITIES. (a) DISASTER PAYMENTS.— (1) IN GENERAL. — Effective only for producers on a farm who elected not to participate in the production adjustment program established under the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) for the 1990 crop of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, or rice, if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that because of damaging weather or related condition in 1989 or 1990, the total quantity of the 1990 crop of the commodity that such producers are able to harvest on the farm is less than the result of multiplying 40 percent (or in the case of producers who obtained crop insurance, 35 percent) of the county average yield established by the Secretary for such crop by the sum of acreage planted for harvest and the acreeige for which prevented planted credit is approved by the Secretary for such crop under subsection (h), the Secretary shall make a disaster payment available to such producers. (2) PAYMENT RATE.—The payment shall be made to the producers at a rate equal to 65 percent of the basic county loan rate (or a comparable price if there is no current basic county loan rate) for the crop, as determined by the Secretary, for any deficiency in production greater than 40 percent for the crop (or in the case of producers who obtained crop insurance, 35 percent). (b) PREVENTED PLANTING CREDIT. — (1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary shall provide prevented planting credit under subsection (a) with respect to acreage that producers on a farm were prevented from planting to the 1990 crop of the commodity for harvest because of damaging weather or related condition in 1989 or 1990, as determined by the Secretary. (2) MAXIMUM ACREAGE. —Such acreage may not exceed the greater of— (A) a quantity equal to the acreage on the farm planted (or prevented from being planted due to a natural disaster or other condition beyond the control of the producers) to the commodity for harvest in 1989 minus acreage actually planted to the commodity for harvest in 1990; or (B) a quantity equal to the average of the acreage on the farm planted (or prevented from being planted due to a natural disaster or other condition beyond the control of the producers) to the commodity for harvest in 1987, 1988, and 1989 minus acreage actually planted to the commodity for harvest in 1990.