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Volume 75 · 79

Public Law 87–33

To authorize the temporary release and reapportionment of pooled acreage allotments.

Approved May 16, 1961

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the temporary release and reapportionment of pooled acreage allotments.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 378(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “During any year of the 3-year period the allotment from a farm may remain in the allotment pool, the displaced owner may, in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, release for one year at a time any part or all of such farm allotment to the county committee for reapportionment to other farms in the county having allotments for such commodity on the basis of the past acreage of the commodity, land, labor, equipment available for the production of the commodity, crop rotation practices, and soil and other physical facilities affecting the production of the commodity; and the allotment reapportioned shall, for purposes of establishing future farm allotments, not be regarded as planted on the farm to which the allotment was transferred.”

Approved May 16, 1961.

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