Volume 74 · 1030
Public Law 86–793
To protect farm and ranch operators making certain land use changes under the Great Plains conservation program against loss of acreage allotments.
Approved September 14, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To protect farm and ranch operators making certain land use changes under the Great Plains conservation program against loss of acreage allotments.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows:
Paragraph (3) of subsection (b) is amended to read as follows:
“(3) insofar as the acreage of cropland on any farm enters into the determination of acreage allotments and marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the cropland acreage on the farm shall not be decreased during the period of any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into under this subsection by reason of any action taken for the purpose of carrying out such contract and, under regulations of the Secretary, shall not be decreased, for such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, by reason of the maintenance of any change in land use from cultivated cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the contract;”
Paragraph (4) of subsection (b) is amended to read as follows:
“(4) the acreage on any farm which is determined under regulations of the Secretary to have been diverted from the production of any commodity subject to acreage allotments or marketing quotas in order to carry out any contract heretofore or here-after entered into under the program or in order to maintain, for such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, any change in land use from cultivated cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the contract shall be considered acreage devoted to the commodity for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.”
Sec. 2.
Section 112 of the Soil Bank Act, as amended, is amended as follows:
Paragraph (1) is amended to read as follows:
“(1) insofar as the acreage of cropland on any farm enters into the determination of acreage allotments and marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the cropland acreage on the farm shall not be decreased during the period of any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into under this subtitle by reason of any action taken for the purpose of carrying out such contract and, under regulations of the Secretary, shall not be decreased, for such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, by reason of the maintenance of any change in land use from cultivated cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the con-tract;”
Paragraph (2) is amended to read as follows:
“(2) the acreage on any farm which is determined under regulations of the Secretary to have been diverted from the production of any commodity subject to acreage allotments or marketing quotas in order to carry out any contract heretofore or here-after entered into under this subtitle or in order to maintain, for such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, any change in land use from cultivated cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the contract shall be considered acreage devoted to the commodity for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938, as amended.”
Approved September 14, 1960.