78 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 88-297-APR. 11, 1964
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(8) Subsection (f)(8) of section 344 of the Act is amended by l^^sc'JH' inserting after the language "75 per centum of the farm allotment for such year" the following: "or, in the case of a farm which qualified for price support on the crop produced in such year under section 108(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 75 per centum A"te, P- 174. of the farm domestic allotment established under section 850 for such year, whichever is smaller". (4) Section 877 of the Act is amended by inserting in the first 5^u|*c*i3^7"* proviso after the language "75 per centum or more of the farm acreage allotment for such year" the following: "or, in the case of upland cotton on a farm which qualified for price support on the crop produced in any such year under section 108(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 75 per centum of the farm domestic allotment established under section 850 for any such year, whichever is smaller". 728. (5) Subsection (b) ( 1 8)(B) of section 801 of the Act is amended 54uStat. 130!. 7 se by deleting the words "cotton or". " (6) Subsection (b) (18)(G) of section 801 of the Act is amended by deleting ", cotton," wherever it appears. (7) Subsection (b)(13) of section 301 of the Act is amended by adding after subparagraph (G) new subparagraphs as follows: " (H) 'Normal yield' for any county, for any crop of cotton, formal yieid. shall be the average yield per acre of cotton for the county, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions and any significant changes in production practices during the five calendar years immediately preceding the year in which the national marketing quota for such crop is proclaimed. If for any such year the data are not available, or there is no actual yield, an appraised yield for such year, determined in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, shall be used as the actual yield for such year. " (I) 'Normal yield' for any farm, for any crop of cotton, shall be the average yield per acre of cotton for the farm, adjusted for abnormal weather conditions and any significant changes in production practices during the three calendar years immediately preceding the year in which such normal yield is determined. I f for any such year the data are not available, or there is no actual yield, then the normal yield for the farm shall be appraised in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, taking into consideration abnormal weather conditions, the normal yield for the county, changes in production practices, and the yield in years for which data are available." (8) Subsection (n) of section 844 of the Act is amended— ^ ^*^'- ^^^ (A) by striking out the first sentence of such subsection and ^^7 USC \344. inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines for any year that because of a natural disaster a portion of the farm cotton acreage allotments in a county cannot be timely planted or replanted in such year, he may authorize for such year the transfer of all or a part of the cotton acreage allotment for any farm in the county so affected to another farm in the county or in an adjoining county on which one or more of the producers on the farm from which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in the production of cotton and will share in the proceeds thereof, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe."; and (B) by striking out in the proviso in the second sentence of such subsection "1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "any year".
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