Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 5.djvu/83

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PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3405 "(i) IN GENERAL.— Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, if the Secretary adjusts the level of loans and purchases for feed grains under subsection (a)(3), the Secretary shall provide emergency compensation by increasing the deficiency payments for feed grains by such Eimount as the Secretary determines necessary to provide the same total return to producers as if the adjustment in the level of lo£ms and purchases had not been made. "(ii) CALCULATION. —In determining the payment rate, per bushel, for emergency compensation pay- ments for a crop of feed grains under this subparagraph, the Secretary shall use the national weighted average market price, per bushel of feed grains, received by producers during the marketing year for the crop, as determined by the Secretary. '(E) 0/92 PROGRAM.— "(i) IN GENERAL. — If an acreage limitation program under subsection (e)(2) is in effect for a crop of feed grains and the producers on a farm devote a portion of the maximum payment acres for feed grains as calculated under subparagraph (C)(ii) of the farm equal to more than 8 percent of such feed grain acreage of the farm for the crop, to conservation uses (except as provided in subparagraph (F))— "(I) such portion of the maximum payment acres of the farm in excess of 8 percent of such acreage devoted to conservation uses (except as provided in subparagraph (F)) shall be considered to be planted to feed grains for the purpose of determining the acreage on the farm required to be devoted to conservation uses in accordance with subsection (e)(2)(D); and "(II) the producers shall be eligible for payments under this paragraph with respect to such acreage, "(ii) DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS.— Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any producer who devotes a portion of the maximum payment acres for feed grgdns for the farm to conservation uses (or other uses as provided in subparagraph (F)) under this subparagraph shall receive deficiency payments on the acreage that is considered to be planted to feed grains and eligible for payments under this subpargigraph for the crop at a per-bushel rate established by the Secretary, except that the rate may not be established at less than the projected deficiency payment rate for the crop, as determined by the Secretary. Such projected payment rate for the crop shall be announced by the Secretary prior to the period during which feed grain producers may agree to participate in the program for the crop, "(iii) ADVERSE EFFECT ON AGRIBUSINESS AND OTHER INTERESTS.— The Secretary shall implement this subparagraph in such a manner as to minimize the adverse effect on agribusiness and other agriculturally related economic interests within any county, State, or region. In carrying out this subparagraph, the Secretary is authorized to restrict the total quantity of