Volume 72
Public Law 85–413
To provide equitable treatment for producers participating in the soil bank program on the basis of Incorrect information furnished by the Government.
Approved May 16, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide equitable treatment for producers participating in the soil bank program on the basis of Incorrect information furnished by the Government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Soil Bank Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 127. “compensation for incorrect information furnished under 1956 program
In any case under the 1956 program in which a producer, in reliance, in good faith, on incorrect or incomplete information furnished to him by an authorized representative of the Secretary, entered into an acreage reserve or conservation reserve contract, or took action with the intention of entering into such a contract, and the producer is not entitled to receive under the provisions of the program the payment which was stipulated in the contract, or which would have been stipulated if a contract had been entered into, the Secretary is hereby authorized, whenever he deems it desirable in order to provide fair and equitable treatment to such a producer, to compensate such producer for any loss suffered by him as a result of action taken for the purpose of participating in the program.”
Approved May 16, 1958.