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Timestamp: 2019-07-19 21:56:09
Document Index: 138878798

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 7211', '§111', '§3811', '§3821', '§111', '§726']

[USC02] 7 USC 7211: Authorization for use of production flexibility contracts
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7 USC 7211: Authorization for use of production flexibility contracts Text contains those laws in effect on July 18, 2019
The Secretary shall offer to enter into a production flexibility contract with an eligible owner or producer described in subsection (b) on a farm containing eligible cropland. Under the terms of a contract, the owner or producer shall agree, in exchange for annual contract payments, to-
Land shall be considered to be cropland eligible for coverage under a contract only if the land has contract acreage attributable to the land and-
( Pub. L. 104–127, title I, §111, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 898 .)
The Food Security Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), (2), is Pub. L. 99–198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1354 , as amended. Subtitles B and C of title XII of the Act are classified generally to subchapters II (§3811 et seq.) and III (§3821 et seq.), respectively, of chapter 58 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1985 Amendment note set out under section 1281 of this title and Tables.
This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original "this subtitle", meaning subtitle B (§§111–118) of title I of Pub. L. 104–127, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 898 , which enacted this subchapter and amended sections 1308, 1308–1, and 1308–3 of this title. For complete classification of subtitle B to the Code, see Tables.
Pub. L. 104–180, title VII, §726, Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1600 , provided that: "None of the funds made available in this Act [see Tables for classification] may be used to pay the salaries of employees of the Department of Agriculture who make payments pursuant to a production flexibility contract entered into under section 111 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–127; 7 U.S.C. 7211) when it is made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the land covered by that production flexibility contract is not being used for the production of an agricultural commodity or is not devoted to a conserving use, unless it is also made known to that Federal official that the lack of agricultural production or the lack of a conserving use is a consequence of drought, flood, or other natural disaster."