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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

99 STAT. 1434

PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985 '-

7 USC 1359.

"(1) The term 'additional peanuts' means, for any marketing year— "(A) any peanuts that are marketed from a farm for which a farm poundage quota has been established and that are in excess of the marketings of quota peanuts from such farm for such year; and "(B) all peanuts marketed from a farm for which no farm • poundage quota has been established in accordance with subsection (s). "(2) The term 'crushing' means the processing of peanuts to extract oil for food uses and meal for feed uses, or the processing of peanuts by crushing or otherwise when authorized by the Secretary. "(3) The term 'domestic edible use' means use for milling to produce domestic food peanuts (other than those described in paragraph (2)) and seed and use on a farm, except that the Secretary may exempt from this definition seeds of peanuts that are used to produce peanuts excluded under section 359(c), are ' unique strains, and are not commercially available. "(4) The term 'quota peanuts' means, for any marketing year, any peanuts produced on a farm having a farm poundage quota, , as determined in subsection (s), that— ^ "(A) are eligible for domestic edible use as determined by J the Secretary; ^' "(B) are marketed or considered marketed from a farm; ,;;; -^ and \,. i' "(C) do not exceed the farm poundage quota of such farm for such year.". -;

SALE, LEASE, OR TRANSFER OF FARM POUNDAGE QUOTA

SEC. 703. Effective only for the 1986 through 1990 crops of peanuts, section 358a of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1358a) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(k)(1) Subject to such terms, conditions, or limitations as the Secretary may prescribe, the owner, or the operator with permission of the owner, of any farm for which a farm poundage quota has been established under this Act may sell or lease all or any part of such •r>iij4y-< poundage quota to any other owner or operator of a farm within the same county for transfer to such farm, except that any such lease of poundage quota may be entered into in the fsdl or after the normal planting season but only— "(A) if the quota has been planted on the farm from which the g?i' quota is to be leased; and Regulations. "(B) under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe. "(2) The owner or operator of a farm may transfer all or any part of the farm poundage quota for such farm to any other farm owned or controlled by such owner or operator that is in the same county or in a county contiguous to such county in the same State and that had a farm poundage quota for the preceding year's crop. "(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), in the case of any State for which the poundage quota allocated to the State wgus less than 10,000 tons for the preceding year's crop, all or any part of a farm poundage quota may be transferred by sale or lease or otherwise from a farm in one county to a farm in another county in the >; '!tj same State.