PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985
99 STAT. 1423
"(HI) a payment rate equal to 33 Vz percent of the established price for the crop, "(ii) Payments made by the Secretary under this subparagraph may be made in the form of cash or from stocks of rice held by the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(B) Except as provided in subparagraph (C), if the Secretary determines that because of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, the total quantity of rice that the producers are able to harvest on any farm is less than the result of multiplying 75 percent of the farm program payment yield established for the farm for such crop by the acreage planted for harvest for such crop, the Secretary shall make a reduced yield disaster payment to the producers at a rate equal to 33 V percent of the established price for the crop for the deficiency a in production below 75 percent for the crop. "(C) Producers on a farm shall not be eligible for— Prohibition, "(i) prevented planting disaster payments under subparagraph (A), if prevented planting crop insurance is available to the producers under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) with respect to the rice acreage of the producers; or "(ii) reduced yield disaster pa3anents under subparagraph (B), if reduced yield crop insurance is available to the producers under such Act with respect to the rice acreage of the producers. "(D)(i) Notwithstanding subparagraph (C), the Secretary may make a disaster payment to producers on a farm under this subsection if the Secretary determines that— "(I) as the result of drought, flood, or other natural diseister, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, the producers have suffered substantial losses of production either from being prevented from planting rice or other nonconserving crops or from reduced yields; "(II) such losses have created an economic emergency for the producers; "(III) crop insurance indemnity pa3niients under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) and other forms of assistance made available by the Federal Government to such producers for such losses is insufficient to alleviate such economic emergency; and "(IV) additional assistance must be made available to such producers to alleviate such economic emergency, "(ii) The Secretary may make such adjustments in the amount of payments made available under this paragraph with respect to an individual farm so as to assure the equitable allotment of such payments among producers, taking into account other forms of Federal disaster assistance provided to the producers for the crop involved. "(d)(l)(A) Except for a crop with respect to which there is an acreage limitation program in effect under subsection (f), the Secretary shall proclaim a national program acreage for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops of rice. The proclamation shall be made not later than January 31 of each calendar year for the crop harvested in that calendar year. "(B) The Secretary may revise the national progrsim acreage first proclaimed for any crop year for the purpose of determining the allocation factor under paragraph (2) if the S e c r e t a ^ determines it necessary based on the latest information. The Secretary shall
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