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PUBLIC LAW 94-445—OCT. 1, 1976 90 STAT. 14S9
Public Law 94-445
94th Congress
An Act
To provide for emergency allotment lease and transfer of tobacco allotments Oct. 1. 1976
or quotas for 1976 in certain disaster areas in South Carolina and Georgia. [H.R. 15068]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 316 of Tobacco.
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314b) is amended Acreage
by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection (i) : allotments or
quotas, S.C.-Ga..
" (i) Notwithstanding any provision of this section, when as a result lease and
of drought, flood, damage due to excessive rain, hail, wind, tornado, or transfer.
other natural disaster, the Secretary determines (1) that one of the
counties in South Carolina or Georgia has suffered a loss of 10 per
centum or more in the number of acres of tobacco planted (or expected
production from the planted acreage), and (2) that a lease of such
tobacco allotment or quota will not impair the effective operation of the
tobacco marketing quota or price support program, he may permit the
owner and operator of any farm within a designated county which has
suffered a loss of 10 per centum or more in the number of acres of
tobacco planted (or expected production from the planted acreage)
of such crop to lease all or any part of such allotment or quota to any
other owners or operators in the same county, or other counties within
the same State, for use in such counties for the year 1976 on a farm or
farms having a current tobacco allotment or quota of the same kind.
In the case of a lease and transfer to an owner or operator in another
county pureuant to this subsection, the lease and transfer shall not be
effective until a copy of the lease is filed with and determined by the
county committee of the county to which the transfer is made to be
in compliance with the provisions of the subsection.".
Approved October 1, 1976.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1430 (Comm. on Agriculture).
SENATE REPORT No. 94^1228 (Comm. on Agriculture and Forestry).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976):
Aug. 24, considered and passed House.
Sept. 22, considered and passed Senate, amended.
Sept. 23, House concurred in Senate amendment.
