PART VII. MISCELLANEOUS LAWS-Continued AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREEMENT ACT OF 1937: Sec. 1. Reenactment of provisions of Agricultural Adjustment Act-- (b) Sec. 2. Declaration of policy. (c) Sec. 8a. (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9). Violations and enforcement_ (2) Commodities to which applicable.. Finding and issuance of order. Orders with marketing agreement.. Orders with or without marketing agreement.. (10) Manner of regulation and applicability. (12) Cooperative association representation___ (13) Retailer and producer exemption.. (15) Petition by handler and review.... FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION. Administrative and operating expenses- Federal crop insurance corporation fund. Reimbursement for net realized losses__ Sec. 502. Employment of aliens--- Sec. 503. Funds available for uniforms or allowances.. Sec. 504. Predicting prices of cotton-. PART I SOIL CONSERVATION AND LAND USE PROGRAMS SUBPART A. SOIL CONSERVATION AND DOMESTIC ALLOTMENT ACT, AS AMENDED EXPLANATORY NOTE Sections 1 to 6, which were enacted April 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 163), vested certain powers in the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to the control and prevention of soil erosion and provided for the Soil Conservation Service to be established as the agency to exercise such powers. Sections 7 to 17 were enacted February 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 1148), to replace, in part, certain provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (of 1933) which were invalidated by the Supreme Court on January 6, 1936. Section 17 provides that the entire Act may be cited as the "Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act." Under the agricultural conservation program formulated pursuant to sections 7 to 17 of the Act, farmers are assisted through payments and grants of aid in carrying out approved soil and water conservation measures. Originally the States were given the opportunity to submit State plans for the administration of the conservation program pursuant to section 7 of the Act. However, only one State submitted a plan, and it was unacceptable. The Congress had on many occasions extended the authority of the Secretary to conduct the conservation program, pursuant to section 7 of the Act so as to provide the States additional time to submit these plans. The Secretary's authority was to expire on December 31, 1962, and the Congress repealed the State Plans provisions of the Act and granted the Secretary continuing authority to carry out the agricultural conservation program on a national basis. (Pub. L. 87-703, 76 Stat. 605.) Section 16(b) was enacted August 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 1115), to provide specifically for a conservation program in the States of the Great Plains area. Beginning with the 1961 crop, feed grain diversion programs have been authorized by the addition of subsections (c), (d), (h), and (i) to section 16. Section 16(e), providing for long-term cropland conversion contracts, was added by Pub. L. 87-703, 76 Stat. 606, approved September 27, 1962. 1 325-700-68 SOIL CONSERVATION AND DOMESTIC ALLOTMENT ACT,1 AS AMENDED AN ACT To provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is hereby recognized that the wastage of soil and moisture resources on farm, grazing, and forest lands of the Nation, resulting from soil erosion, is a menace to the national welfare and that it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to provide permanently for the control and prevention of soil erosion and thereby to preserve natural resources, control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs, and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment, and the Secretary of Agriculture, from now on, shall coordinate and direct all activities with relation to soil erosion and in order to effectuate this policy is hereby authorized, from time to time (1) To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive measures needed, to publish the results of any such surveys, investigations, or research, to disseminate information concerning such methods, and to conduct demonstrational projects in areas subject to erosion by wind or water; (2) To carry out preventive measures, including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation, the growing of vegetation, and changes in use of land; (3) To cooperate or enter into agreements with, or to furnish financial or other aid to, any agency, governmental or otherwise, or any person, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary, for the purposes of this Act; and (4) To acquire lands, or rights or interests therein, by purchase, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, whenever necessary for the purposes of this Act. (16 U.S.C. 590a.) LANDS ON WHICH PREVENTIVE MEASURES MAY BE TAKEN SEC. 2. The acts authorized in section 1 (1) and (2) may be performed (a) On lands owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, with the cooperation of the agency having jurisdiction thereof; and (b) Ón any other lands, upon obtaining proper consent or the necessary rights or interests in such lands. (16 U.S.Č. 590b.) 1 Pub. L. 46, 74th Cong., 49 Stat. 163, approved April 27, 1935. |