Compilation of Statutes Relating to Soil Conservation, Marketing Quotas and Allotments, Soil Bank, Commodity Credit Corporation, Price Support, Export and Surplus Removal, Crop Insurance, Sugar Payments and Quotas, Marketing Agreements and Orders, and Related Statutes

tion, to United States export controls should be subjected to review by and consultation with representatives of appropriate United States Government agencies and qualified experts from private industry.

(7) *** (50 U.S.C. App. 2402.)

SEC. 4. (a) ***

AUTHORITY

(b)(1) To effectuate the policies set forth in section 3 of this Act, the President may prohibit or curtail the exportation from the United States, its territories and possessions, of any articles, materials, or supplies, including technical data or any other information, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. To the extent necessary to achieve effective enforcement of this Act, these rules and regulations may apply to the financing, transporting, and other servicing of exports and the participation therein by any person. Rules and regulations may provide for denial of any request or application for authority to export articles, materials, or supplies, including technical data, or any other information, from the United States, its territories and possessions, to any nation or combination of nations threatening the national security of the United States if the President determines that their export would prove detrimental to the national security of the United States, regardless of their availability from nations other than nation or combination of nations threatening the national security of the United States, but whenever export licenses are required on the ground that considerations of national security override considerations of foreign availability, the reasons for so doing shall be reported to the Congress in the quarterly report following the decision to require such licenses on that ground to the extent considerations of national security and foreign policy permit. The rules and regulations shall implement the provisions of section 3(5) of this Act and shall require that all domestic concerns receiving requests for the furnishing of information or the signing of agreements as specified in that section must report this fact to the Secretary of Commerce for such actions as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of that section. In curtailing the exportation of any articles, materials, or supplies to effectuate the policy set forth in section 3(2) (A) of this Act, the President is authorized and directed to allocate a portion of export licenses on the basis of factors other than a prior history of exportation."b

(f) The authority conferred by this section shall not be exercised th respect to any agricultural commodity, including fats and oils animal hides or skins, without the approval of the Secretary of riculture. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not approve the ercise of such authority with respect to any such commodity durany period for which the supply of such commodity is deterned by him to be in excess of the requirements of the domestic

The last sentence of subsection 4 (b) (1) was added by Sec. 12 of P.L. 93-500, 88 1557, Oct. 29, 1974.

Subsection 4 (e) was redesignated 4 (f) by P.L. 93-500, 88 Stat. 1552, Oct. 29, 1974.

economy, except to the extent the President determines that such exercise of authority is required to effectuate the policies set forth in clause (B) or (C) of paragraph (2) of section 3 of this Act. (50) U.S.C. App. 2403.)

[Pub. L. 92-412. SEC. 104 (b) (2), 86 Stat. 645, approved August 29, 1972-Any rule, regulation, proclamation, or order issued after July 1, 1972, under section 4 of the Export Administration Act of 1969, exercising any authority conferred by such section with respect to any agricultural commodity, including fats and oils or animal hides or skins, shall cease to be effective upon the date of enactment of this Act.]

CONSULTATION AND STANDARDS

SEC. 5. (a) In determining what shall be controlled or monitored under this Act, and in determining the extent to which exports shall be limited, any department, agency, or official making these determinations shall seek information and advice from the several executive departments and independent agencies concerned with aspects of our domestic and foreign policies and operations having an important bearing on exports. Consistent with considerations of national security, the President shall from time to time seek information and advice from various segments of private industry in connection with the making of these determinations. *** (50 U.S.C. App. 2404.)

DECLARATIONS OF POLICY

Agricultural Act of 1961-SEC. 2. In order more fully and effectively to improve, maintain, and protect the prices and incomes of farmers, to enlarge rural purchasing power, to achieve a better balance between supplies of agricultural commodities and the requirements of consumers therefor, to preserve and strengthen the structure of agriculture, and to revitalize and stabilize the overall economy at reasonable costs to the Government, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to

(a) afford farmers the opportunity to achieve parity of income with other economic groups by providing them with the means to develop and strengthen their bargaining power in the Nation's

economy;

(b) encourage a commodity-by-commodity approach in the solution of farms problems and provide the means for meeting varied and changing conditions peculiar to each commodity;

(c) expand foreign trade in agricultural commodities with friendly nations, as defined in section 107 of Public Law 480, 83d Congress, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1707), and in no manner either subsidze the export, sell, or make available any subsidized agricultural commodity to any nations other than such friendly nations and thus make full use of our agricultural abundance;

(d) utilize more effectively our agricultural productive capacity to improve the diets of the Nation's needy persons;

(e) recognize the importance of the family farm as an efficient unit of production and as an economic base for towns and cities in rural areas and encourage, promote, and strengthen this form of farm enterprise;

7 P.L. 93-500, 88 Stat. 1552, Oct. 29, 1974, substituted "or monitored under this Act" for "hereunder" and added the omitted portion.

›orted in interstate commerce for commercial purposes. The Secretary s also authorized and directed to conduct, in connection with such tudy and investigation, an intensive research program for the purose of developing measures that can be taken to reduce materially he number of animals lost, through injury and disease during transortation for commercial purposes.

(b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Congress not nore than four years after the date of enactment of this section a final eport on the results of his study and investigation and research ogether with such recommendations for administrative and legislaive action as he deems appropriate. He shall submit such interim reorts to the Congress as he deems advisable, but at least one at the nd of each twelve month period following the date of enactment of his section.

(c) There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be ecessary to carry out the provisions of this section, but not more than 500,000 in any fiscal year. (45 U.S.C. 71 note.)

WHEAT AND FEED GRAINS RESEARCH

SEC. 810. In order to reduce fertilizer and herbicide usage in excess f production needs, to develop wheat and feed grain varieties more usceptible to complete fertilizer utilization, to improve the resistance f wheat and feed grain plants to disease and to enhance their conseration and environmental qualities, the Secretary of Agriculture is uthorized and directed to carry out regional and national research rograms.

In carrying out such research, the Secretary shall utilize the techical and related services of the appropriate Federal, State, and rivate agencies.

There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necesry to carry out the provisions of this section, but not more than 1,000,000 in any fiscal year. (7 U.S.C. 428b.)

IMPORTED COMMODITIES

SEC. 814. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the ecretary shall encourage the production of any crop of which the nited States is a net importer and for which a price support proam is not in effect by permitting the planting of such crop on setide acreage and with no reduction in the rate of payment for the mmodity. (7 U.S.C. 1434.)

EMERGENCY SUPPLY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

SEC. 815. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cretary of Agriculture shall assist farmers, processors, and distribors in obtaining such prices for agricultural products that an derly, adequate and steady supply of such products will exist for e consumers of this nation.

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(b) The President shall make appropriate adjustments in the maximum price which may be charged under the provisions of Executive Order 11723 (dated June 13, 1973) or any subsequent Executive Order for any agricultural products (at any point in the distribution chain) as to which the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to the President that the supply of the product will be reduced to unacceptably low levels as a result of any price control or freeze order or regulation and that alternative means for increasing the supply are not available.

(c) Under this section, the term "agricultural products" shall include meat, poultry, vegetables, fruits and all other agricultural commodities in raw or processed form, except forestry products or fish or fishery products.

(d) The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to implement policies under this Act which are designed to encourage American farmers to produce to their full capabilities during periods of short supply to assure American consumers with an adequate supply of food and fiber at fair and reasonable prices. (7 U.S.C. 1282a.)

SEC. 818. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Commerce shall conduct a census of agriculture in 1974 as required by section 142 of title 13, United States Code, and shall submit to the Congress, within thirty days after the date of enactment of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, an estimate of the funds needed to conduct such census. (13 U.S.C. 142 note.)

§ 142. Agriculture, Irrigation, and Drainage

(a) The Secretary shall in 1979, in 1983, and in every fifth year beginning after 1983, take a census of agriculture.

(b) In conjunction with the census to be taken under subsection (a) of this section in 1979, in 1988, and every tenth year beginning after 1988, the Secretary shall take a census of irrigation and drainage.

(c) The data collected in each of the census taken under this section shall relate to the year immediately preceding the year in which such census is taken.

SEC. 2. The statistical classification of farms in effect on January 1, 1975, with respect to censuses taken under section 142 of title 13, United States Code, shall be effective through June 30, 1976, and any statistical report issued on or before June 30, 1976, with respect to any such census shall reflect such classification, but may also include additional classifications as deemed appropriate by the Secretary.

3 As amended by P.L. 94-229, 90 Stat. 210, March 15, 1976.

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Acreage allotments. See Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Rice, Tobacco, Wheat.
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Acreage poundage quotas

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