An Act to provide for continued price support for agricultural products to augment the marketing and disposal of such products to provide for greater stability in the products of agriculture and for other purposes
PL 83-690 (H.R.9680), enacted 08/28/1954

68STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 690-AUG. 28, 1954 
897 
Public Law 690 
CHAPTER 1041 
AN ACT 
August 28, 1954 
To provide for greater stability in agriculture; to augment the marketing and 
[H. R. 9680] 
disposal of agricultural products; and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ 
TITLE I—SET ASIDE OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES 
"Agri c u l t u r a l 
Act of 1954." 
SEC. 101. The Commodity Credit Corporation shall, as rapidly as the asi'di°""°**"^ °*** 
Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be practicable, set aside 
within its inventories not more than the following maximum quanti-
ties and not less than the following minimum quantities of agricultural 
commodities or products thereof heretofore or hereafter acquired by it 
from 1964 and prior years' crops and production in connection with its 
price support operations: 
Maximum 
Minimum 
Commodity 
quantity 
quantity 
Wheat (bushels) 
500, 000, 000 
400, 000, 000 
Upland cotton (bales) 
4,000,000 
3,000,000 
Cottonseed oil (pounds) 
500,000,000 
0 
Butter (pounds) 
200,000,000 
0 
Nonfat dry milk solids (pounds) 
300, 000, 000 
0 
Cheese (pounds) 
,._ 150,000,000 
0 
C o m m o d i t y 
Reduction^ 
Such quantities shall be knowni as the "commodity set-aside". 
SEC. 1()2. Quantities of commodities shall not be included in the com- vaVue. 
modity set-aside w^hich have an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,-
000,000. The value of the commodities placed in the commodity 
set-aside, for the purpose of this section, shall be the Corporation's 
investment in such commodities as of the date they are included in the 
commodity set-aside, as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 103. (a) Such commodity set-aside shall be reduced by dis-
posals made in accordance with the directions of the President as 
follows: 
(1) Donation, sale, or other disposition for disaster or other relief 
purposes outside the United States pursuant to and subject to the limi-
tations of title I I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assist-
ance Act of 1954; 
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(2) Sale or barter (including barter for strategic materials) to 
develop new or expanded markets for American agricultural com-
modities, including but not limited to disposition pursuant to and 
subject to the limitations of title I of the Agricultural Trade Develop-
ment and Assistance Act of 1954; 
Ante, p. 455. 
(3) Donation to school-lunch programs; 
(4) Transfer to the national stockpile established pursuant to the 
Act of June 7, 1939, as amended (50 U. S. C. 98-98h), without reim- stat. sgll *^^' ^" 
bursement from funds appropriated for the purposes of that Act; 
(5) Donation, sale, or other disposition for research, experimental, 
or educational purposes; 
(6) Donation, sale, or other disposition for disaster relief purposes 
in the United States or to meet any national emergency declared by 
the President; and 
(7) Sale for unrestricted use to meet a need for increased supplies 
at not less than 105 per centum of the parity price in the case of agri-
cultural commodities and a price reflecting 105 per centum of the 
parity price of the agricultural commodity in the case of products 
of agricultural commodities. 
The President shall prescribe such terms and conditions for the dis-
posal of commodities in the commodity set-aside as he determines will 
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Terms and con-
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50 u s e 98-98h. 
50 u s e 98g. 
Sale of commodi-
ties* 
63 Stat. 1055. 
7 u s e 1427. 
Ante, p. 458. 
Confutations of 
'carry-over. " 
Post, 
p. 899. 
Post, p. 902. 
Records and ac-
counts. 
Appropriation. 
provide adequate safeguards against interference with normal mar-
ketings of the supplies of such commodities outside the commodity 
set-aside. 
Strategic materials acquired by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be trans-
ferred to the national stockpile established pursuant to the Act of 
June 7, 1939, as amended, and the Commodity Credit Corporation 
shall be reimbursed for the value of the commodities bartered for 
such strategic materials from funds appropriated pursuant to section 
8 of such Act of June 7, 1939, as amended. For the purpose of such 
reimbursement, the value of any commodity so bartered shall be the 
lower of the domestic market price or the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion's investment therein as of the date of such barter, as determined 
by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(b) The quantity of any commodity in the commodity set-aside 
shall be reduced to the extent that the Commodity Credit Corporation 
inventory of such commodity is reduced, by natural or other cause 
beyond the control of the Corporation, below the quantity then 
charged to the commodity set-aside. 
SEC. 104. (a) The Corporation shall have authority to sell, without 
regard to section 103 (a) (7) hereof, any commodity covered by the 
commodity set-aside for the purpose of rotating stocks or consolidat-
ing inventories, any such sale to be offset by purchase of the same 
commodity in a substantially equivalent quantity or of a substantially 
equivalent value. 
(b) Dispositions pursuant to this title shall not be subject to the 
pricing limitations of section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, 
as amended. 
SEC. 105. The quantity of any commodity in the commodity set-
aside or transferred from the set-aside to the national stockpile estab-
lished pursuant to the Act of June 7, 1939, as amended (50 U. S. C. 
98-98h) shall be excluded from the computation of "carryover" for 
the purpose of determining the price support level for such com-
modity under the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and related 
legislation, but shall be included in the computation of total supplies 
for purposes of acreage allotments and marketing quotas under the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and related legis-
lation. Until such time as the commodity set-aside has been com-
pleted, such quantity of the commodity as the Secretary shall deter-
mine between the maximum and minimum quantities specified in sec-
tion 101 of this Act shall be excluded from the computations of "carry-
over" for the purpose of determining the price support level, but shall 
be included in the computation oi total supplies for purposes of 
acreage allotments and marketing quotas, for the 1955 crop of the 
commodity, notwithstanding that the quantity so excluded may not 
have been acquired by the Corporation and included in the commodity 
set-aside. 
SEC. 106. The Commodity Credit Corporation shall keep such rec-
ords and accounts as may be necessary to show, for each commodity 
set-aside, the initial and current composition, value (in accordance 
with section 102), current investment, quantity disposed of, method 
of disposition, and amounts received on disposition. 
SEC. 107. In order to make payment to the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration for any commodities transferred to the national stockpile 
pursuant to section 103 (a) (4) of this Act, there are hereby author-
ized to be appropriated amounts equal to the value of any commodities 
so transferred. The value of any commodity so transferred, for the 
purpose of this section, shall be the lower of the domestic market 
price or the Commodity Credit Corporation's investment therein as 
of the date of transfer to the stockpile, as determined by the Secretary 
of Agriculture. 
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PUBLIC LAW 690-AUG. 28, 1954 
899 
63 Stat. 1051. 
7 u s e 1421 note. 
7 u s e 1441(d). 
eooperatorn. 
Wheat. 
Poat, p. 903. 
66 Stat. 759. 
Cotton. 
TITLE II—AMENDMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL ACT OF 
1949, AS AMENDED, AND RELATED LEGISLATION 
SEC. 201. (a) Section 101 (d) (6) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 
is amended to read as follows: 
" (6) Except as provided in subsection (c) and section 402, the level 
of support to cooperators shall be not more than 90 per centum and 
not less than 82% per centum of the parity price for the 1955 crop 
of any basic agricultural commodity with respect to which producers 
have not disapproved marketing quotas; within such limits, the mini-
mum level of support shall be fixed as provided in subsections (a) and 
(b) of this section." 
(b) Section 101 (d) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U. S. C , sec. 
1441 (d)) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
paragraph: 
"(7) Where a State is designated under section 335 (e) of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, as outside the commer-
cial wheat-producing area for any crop of wheat, the level of price 
support for wheat to cooperators in such State for such crop of wheat 
shall be 75 per centum of the level of price support to cooperators in 
the commercial wheat-producing area." 
SEC. 202. Section 101 (f) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as 
amended, is amended by deleting in the first sentence thereof every-
thing following the word "except" and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: "that, notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of 
section 101 of this Act, the level of support to cooperators for the 1955 
and each subsequent crop of extra long staple cotton, if producers have 
not disapproved marketing quotas therefor, shall be the minimum level 
specified in section 101 (b) of this Act for the supply percentage for 
extra long staple cotton as of the beginning of the marketing year 
for the crop." 
SEC. 203. (a) Section 201 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U. S. C. 
1446), as amended, is amended (1) by deleting "Irish potatoes," from 
the first sentence thereof, and (2) by deleting from subsection (b) 
thereof "tung nuts, honey, and early, intermediate and late Irish 
potatoes" and inserting in lieu thereof "tung nuts and honey". 
(b) Section 5 of the Act of March 31, 1950 (7 U. S. C. 1450), as 
amended by section 5 (a) of Public Law 290, Eighty-third Congress, 
is repealed. 
SEC. 204. (a) The production and use of abundant supplies of high 
^^^y products 
quality milk and dairy products are essential to the health and general 
welfare of the Nation; a dependable domestic source of supply of these 
foods in the form of high grade dairy herds and modern, sanitary 
dairy equipment is important to the national defense; and an econom-
ically sound dairy industry affects beneficially the economy of the 
country as a whole. It is the policy of Congress to assure a stabilized 
annual production of adequate supplies of milk and dairy products; 
to promote the increased use of these essential foods; to improve the 
domestic source of supply of milk and butterf at by encouraging dairy 
farmers to develop efficient production units consisting of high-grade, 
dissase-free cattle and modern sanitary equipment; and to stabilize 
the economy of dairy farmers at a level which will provide a fair re-
turn for their labor and investment when compared with the cost of 
things that farmers buy. 
(b) Section 201 (c) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is 
amended to read as follows: 
"(c) The price of whole milk, butter 
fat, and the products of such 
commodities, respectively, shall be supported at such level not in excess 
of 90 per centum nor less than 75 per centum of the parity price there-
63 Stat. 1052. 
Nonbasic 
c o m -
modities. 
Repeal. 
Ante, p. 7. 
P o l i c y of Con-
gress. 
Milk, etc., price 
supports. 
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School consump-
tion of fluid milk. 
D i s p o s a l pro-
grams. 
7 u s e 1281; post, 
p. 902. 
63 Stat. 1052. 
7 u s e 1446. 
Availability of 
d a i r y 
p r o d u c t s 
through ece. 
Veterans 
h o s . 
pitals. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
Armed Services, 
ration. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
Costs of pa c k-
aging. 
Brucellosis. 
T r a n s f e r 
funds. 
for as the Secretary determines necessary in order to assure an ade-
quate supply. 
Such price support shall be provided through loans on, 
or purchases of, milk and the products of milk and butterfat, and for 
the period ending March 31, 1956, surplus stocks of dairy products 
owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation may be disposed of by 
any methods determined necessary by the Secretary. Beginning Sep-
tember 1, 1954, and ending June 30, 1956, not to exceed $50,000,000 
annually of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be used 
to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in non-profit 
schools of high school grade and under." 
(c) In order to prevent the accumulation of excessive inventories of 
dairy products the Secretary of Agriculture shall undertake domestic 
disposal programs under authorities granted in the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
or as otherwise authorized by law. 
(d) Title I I of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"SEC. 202. As a means of increasing the utilization of dairy prod-
ucts, (including for purposes of this section, milk) upon the certifica-
tion by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs or by the Secretary 
of the Army, acting for the military departments under the Depart-
ment of Defense's Single Service Purchase Assignment for Subsist-
ence, or their duly authorized representatives that the usual quantities 
of dairy products have been purchased in the normal channels of 
trade—-
"(a) The Commodity Credit Corporation until December 31, 1956, 
shall make available to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs at ware-
houses where dairy products are stored, such dairy products acquired 
under price-support programs as the Administrator certifies that he 
requires in order to provide butter and cheese and other dairy products 
as a part of the ration in hospitals under his jurisdiction. 
The Admin-
istrator shall report monthly to the Committees on Agriculture of the 
Senate and House of Representatives and the Secretary of Agriculture 
the amount of dairy products used under this subsection. 
"(b) The Commodity Credit Corporation until December 31, 1956, 
shall make available to the Secretary of the Army, at warehouses 
where dairy products are stored, such dairy products acquired under 
price-support programs as the Secretary of the Army or his duly 
authorized representative certifies can be utilized in order to provide 
additional butter and cheese and other dairy products as a part of the 
ration of the Army, Navy, or Air Force, and as a part of the ration in 
hospitals under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense. 
The 
Secretary of the Army shall report every six months to the Committees 
on Agriculture of the Senate and the House of Representatives and the 
Secretary of Agriculture the amount of dairy products used under this 
subsection. 
" (c) Dairy products made available under this section shall be made 
available without charge, except that the Secretary of the Army or the 
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall pay the Commodity Credit 
Corporation the costs of packaging incurred in making such products 
so available. 
-^'(d) The obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make 
dairy products available pursuant to the above shall be limited to dairy 
products acquired by the Corporation through price-support opera-
tions and not disposed of under provisions (1) and (2) of section 416 
of this Act, as amended." 
(e) As a means of stabilizing the dairy industry and further sup-
pressing and eradicating brucellosis in cattle the Secretary is author-
ized to transfer not to exceed $15,000,000 annually for a period of two 
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901 
years from funds available to the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
the appropriation item "Plant and Animal Disease and Pest Control" 
in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1955, for the 
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purpose of accelerating the brucellosis eradication program, for the 
purpose of increasing to not to exceed $50 per head of cattle the 
amount of the indemnities paid by the Federal Government for cattle 
destroyed because of brucellosis in connection with cooperative control 
and eradication programs for such disease in cattle entered into by the 
Secretary under the authority of the Act of May 29,1884, as amended, 
7^ul*c*39iV 
for the purpose of increasing the number of such indemnities, and for 
the purpose of defraying any additional administrative expenses in 
connection therewith. 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
annually such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the Commodity 
Credit Corporation for expenditures pursuant to this section. 
(f) The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to make a study of the ducViOT^c^onJofand 
various methods of production control and of the various methods of price support, 
price support which could be made applicable to milk and butterfat 
and their products, including programs to be operated and financed 
by dairymen; and to submit to Congress on or before the 3d day of 
Report to con-
January, 1955, a detailed report thereof showing among other things ^'^^^' 
the probable costs and effects of each type of operation studied and 
the legislation, if any, needed to put it into effect. 
The purpose of 
the study and report is to develop basic material which can be used 
by Congress in formulating an improved agricultural program for 
milk and butterfat and their products. Alternative programs are to 
be submitted for consideration by Congress and for possible submission 
to a referendum of dairy farmers. The Secretary may conduct such 
hearings and receive such statements and briefs in connection with 
such study as he deems appropriate. 
SEC. 206. Section 401 (c) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended 
(7 U. S. C. 1421), is amended by adding, at the end thereof, the follow- 
63 stat. 1054. 
ing: "In administering any program for diverted acres the Secretary vefte°d'^'^es°' ^^' 
may make his regulations applicable on an appropriate geographical 
basis. Such regulations shall be administered (1) in semiarid or other 
areas where good husbandry requires maintenance of a prudent feed 
reserve in such manner as to permit, to the extent so required by good 
husbandry, the production of forage crops for storage and subsequent 
use either on the farm or in feeding operations of the farm operator, 
and (2) in areas declared to be disaster areas by the President under 
Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, in such manner as will most 
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quickly restore the normal pattern of their agriculture." 
isssg. 
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SEC. 207. Section 401 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
is amended by adding thereto the following new subsection: 
"(e) Whenever any price support or surplus removal operation for 
Processors' as-
any agricultural commodity is carried out through purchases from or 
loans or payments to processors, the Secretary shall, to the extent 
practicable, obtain from the processors such assurances as he deems 
adequate that the producers of the agricultural commodity involved 
have received or will receive maximum benefits from the price support 
or surplus removal operation." 
SEC. 208. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 407 of the 
gl sut'^ioss 
Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, or of any other law, the Com- 
7 use 1427. ' 
modity Credit Corporation is authorized until March 1, 1955, to sell 
at the point of storage any feed grain owned by the Corporation at 10 
per centum above the current support price for the commodity. 
SEC. 209. Section 408 (b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U. S. C , 
sec, 1428 (b)) is amended by inserting "or wheat" after "corn", and 
by inserting "or wheat-producing" after "corn-producing". 
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52 Stat. 31. 
7 u s e 1281. 
62 Stat. 1250. 
Transitional par-
ity price. 
63 Stat. 1057. 
54 Stat. 727. 
Normal yield. 
7USCprec.l321. 
Repeals. 
52 Stat. 49-51. 
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL ADJUST-
MENT ACT OF 1938, AND RELATED LEGISLATION 
SEC. 301. Section 301 (a) (1) (E) of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended (U. S. C , 1952 edition, title 7, sec. 1301 (a) 
(1) (E)), is amended as follows: 
"SEC. 301 (a) (1) (E). Notwithstanding the provisions of subpara-
graph (A), the transitional parity price for any agricultural com-
modity, computed as provided in this subparagraph, shall be used as 
the parity price for such commodity until such date after January 1, 
1950, as such transitional parity price may be lower than the parity 
price, computed as provided in subparagraph (A), for such com-
modity. 
The transitional parity price for any agricultural com-
modity as of any date shall be— 
"(i) its parity price determined in the manner used prior to 
the effective date of the Agricultural Act of 1948, less 
"(ii) 5 per centum of the parity price so determined multiplied 
by the number of full calendar years which, as of such date, have 
elapsed after January 1,1949, in the case of nonbasic agricultural 
commodities, and after January 1, 1955, in the case of the basic 
agricultural commodities." 
SEC. 302. Section 301 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1301 (b)), is amended: 
(a) By striking out in paragraph 10 (A) the language "10 per 
centum in the case of corn" and "15 per centum in the case of wheat" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "15 per centum in the case of corn" and 
"20 per centum in the case of wheat", respectively; 
^b) By amending paragraph (13) (A) to read as follows: 
(A) 'Normal yield' for any county, in the case of corn or wheat, 
shall be the average yield per acre of corn or wheat for the county 
during the ten calendar years in the case of wheat, or the five calendar 
years in the case of corn, immediately preceding the year in which 
such normal yield is determined, adjusted for abnormal weather con-
ditions and, in the case of wheat, for trends in yields. Such normal 
yield per acre for any county need be redetermined only when the 
actual average yield for the ten calendar years in the case of wheat, or 
the five calendar years in the case of corn, immediately preceding the 
calendar year in which such yield is being reconsidered differs by at 
least 5 per centum from the actual average yield for the ten years in 
the case of wheat, or the 5 years in the case of corn, upon which the 
existing normal yield per acre for the county was based."; and 
(c) By amending the first sentence of paragraph (13) (E) to read 
as follows: " 'Normal yield' for any farm, in the case of corn, wheat, 
cotton, or peanuts, shall be the average yield per acre of corn, wheat, 
cotton, or peanuts, as the case may be, for the farm, adjusted for 
abnormal weather conditions and, in the case of wheat, but not in the 
case of corn, cotton, or peanuts, for trends in yields, during the ten 
calendar years in the case of wheat, and five calendar years in the case 
of corn, cotton, or peanuts, immediately preceding the year in which 
such normal yield is determined." 
SEC. 303. Part I I of subtitle B of title I I I of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C , ch. 35, subch. II, subtitle B, 
pt. I I ) , is amended by striking out the designation "MARKETING 
QUOTAS—CORN" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "ACREAGE 
ALLOTMENTS—CORN". 
SEC. 304. Sections 322 to 325, inclusive (7 U. S. C. 1322 to 1325), and 
section 326 (7 U. S. C. 1326), insofar as it is applicable to com, of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, are hereby 
repealed, and section 327 thereof (7 U. S. C. 1327), is hereby amended 
to read as follows: 
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" P R O C L A M A T I O N OF CX>MMERCIAL CORN-PRODUCING AREA 
"SEC. 327. Not later than February 1 of each calendar year, the 
Secretary shall ascertain and proclaim the commercial corn-producing 
area." 
SEC. 305. The first sentence of section 328 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1328), is amended by striking eistllThsi: 
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out the word "ten" and inserting in lieu thereof "five", by striking out 
the language "and trends in yield", and by striking out the word "or" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "and corn". 
SEC. 306. Section 329 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1329), is amended by striking out the 
^^ stat. 52. 
word "ten" and inserting in lieu thereof "five". 
SEC. 307. Section 332 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
^^f^^'i/a^j. 
as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 332. Not later than May 15 of each calendar year the Secre-
tary shall ascertain and proclaim the national acreage allotment for 
the crop of wheat produced in the next succeeding calendar year." 
SEC. 308. Section 334 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
7 use 1334. 
as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection 
as follows: 
"(f) Any part of any 1955 farm wheat acreage allotment on which aik>t*ments.**^'*"** 
wheat will not be planted and which is voluntarily surrendered to the ^^^^J^^^^ ""•' 
county committee shall be deducted from the allotment to such farm 
and may be reapportioned by the county committee to other farms in 
the same county receiving allotments in amounts determined by the 
county committee to be fair and reasonable on the basis of past acreage 
of wheat tillable acres, crop rotation practices, type of soil, and topog-
raphy. If all of the allotted acreage voluntarily surrendered is not 
.. 
needed in the county, the county committee may surrender the excess 
acreage to the State committee to be used for the same purposes as the 
State acreage reserve under subsection (c) of this section. Any allot-
ment transferred under this provision shall be regarded for the pur-
poses of subsection (c) of this section as having been planted on the 
farm from which transferred rather than on the farm to which trans-
ferred, except that this shall not operate to make the farm from which 
' 
the allotment was transferred eligible for an allotment as having 
wheat planted thereon during the three-year base period: 
Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, any part of any 
1955 farm acreage allotment may be permanently released in writing 
to the county committee by the owner and operator of the farm, and 
reapportioned as provided herein. 
Acreage surrendered, reappor-
tioned under this subsection, and planted shall be credited to the State 
and county in determining future acreage allotments." 
SEC. 309. Section 335 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
^ use 1335. 
as amended, is amended— 
(a) by striking out of subsection (a) "July 1" following the 
words "not later than" and inserting in lieu thereof "May 15"; 
and 
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(e) It, for any marketing year, the acreage allotment for wheat 
for any State is twenty-five thousand acres or less, the Secretary, in 
order to promote efficient administration of this Act and the Agricul- 
" 
tural Act of 1949, may designate such State as outside the commer- 
I use i42inote. 
cial wheat-producing area for such marketing year. No farm market-
ing quota or acreage allotment with respect to wheat under this title 
shall be applicable in such marketing year to any farm in any State 
so designated; and no acreage allotment in any other State shall be 
increased by reason of such designation. Notice of any such designa-
tion shall be published in the Federal Register." 
Ante, p. 899. 
Publication 
FR. 
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S T A T . 
Ante, p. 6. 
County acr e a g e 
allotments. 
Cotton land. 
Ante, p. 5. 
63 Stat. 675. 
7 u s e 1348. 
Ineligibility for 
payments. 
49 Stat. 1148. 
16 u s e 59 Oq. 
63 Stat. 676. 
7 u s e 1374. 
52 Stat. 64. 
Adjustment b e-
c a u s e of em e r-
gency or export de-
mand. 
SEC. 310. (a) Section 344 (f) (6) of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by changing the first sentence to 
read as follows: 
"(6) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection 
except paragraph (3), if the county committee recommends such 
action and the Secretary determines that such action will result in a 
more equitable distribution of the county allotment among farms in 
the county, the county acreage allotment, less the acreage reserved 
under paragraph (3) of this subsection, shall be apportioned to farms 
on which cotton has been planted in any one of the three years im-
mediately preceding the year for which such allotment is determined, 
on the basis of the acreage planted to cotton on the farm during such 
three-year period, adjusted as may be necessary for abnormal condi-
tions affecting plantings during such three-year period: Provided^ 
That the county committee may in its discretion (A) apportion such 
county allotment by first establishing minimum allotments in accord-
ance with paragraph (1) of this subsection and by allotting the 
remaining acreage to farms other than those receiving an allotment 
under paragraph (1) (B) in accordance with the foregoing pro-
visions of this paragraph and (B) limit any farm acreage allotment 
established under the provisions of this paragraph for any year to 
an acreage not in excess of 50 per centum of the cropland on the farm, 
as determined pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this 
subsection: Provided furtlier, That any part of the county acreage 
allotment not apportioned under this paragraph by reason of the 
initial application' of such 50 per centum limitation shall be added 
to the county acreage reserve under paragraph (3) of this subsection 
and shall be available for the purposes specified therein. 
(b) Section 344 (m) (2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, is amended by striking out "1954 or 1955" wherever 
they appear therein. 
SEG. 311. (a) Section 348 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, is amended effective with the 1955 crops to read, 
as follows: 
"SEC. 348. (a) Any person who knowingly harvests any basic agri-
cultural commodity on his farm which has been determined by the 
Secretary to be in excess of the farm acreage allotment for such com-
modity for the farm for such year under this title shall not be eligible 
for any payment for such year under the Soil Conservation and 
Domestic Allotment Act, as amended. 
"(b) Persons applying for any payment of money under the Soil 
Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, shall file with 
the application a statement of facts showing eligibility under this 
section." 
(b) Section 374 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, is amended by striking out the last sentence of subsection 
(b) thereof and adding the following new subsection: 
"(c) If the acreage determined to be planted to any basic agricul-
tural commodity on the farm is in excess of the farm acreage allot-
ment, the Secretary shall by appropriate regulations provide for a 
reasonable time prior to harvest within which such planted acreage 
may be adjusted to the farm acreage allotment." 
SEC. 312. Section 371 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended (7 U. S. C. 1371), is hereby amended: 
(a) By amending subsection (b) to read as follows: 
"(b) If the Secretary has reason to believe that, because of a na-
tional emergency or because of a material increase in export demand, 
any national acreage allotment for corn or any national marketing 
quota or acreage allotment for wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, or tobacco 
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should be increased or terminated, he shall cause an immediate in-
vestigation to be made to determine whether the increase or termina-
tion is necessary in order to effect the declared policy of this Act or to 
meet such emergency or increase in export demand. If, on the basis 
of such investigation, the Secretary finds that such increase or termina-
tion is necessary, he shall immediately proclaim such finding (and if 
he finds an increase is necessary, the amount of the increase found 
by him to be necessary) and thereupon such quota or allotment shall 
be increased, or shall terminate, as the case may be." 
(b) By adding in subsection (c) after the words "marketing quota", 
wherever they appear therein, the words "or acreage allotment", and 
(c) By deleting subsection (d) therefrom. 
' 
Repeal. 
SEC. 313. Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress (7 U. S. C. 
ss stat. 203. 
1330,1340), as amended, shall not be applicable to corn. 
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in areas 
wheat, 
where a summer fallow crop rotation of wheat is a common practice 
the 1955 wheat acreage allotment for any farm on which such rota-
tion was practiced with respect to the 1952 and 1953 crops of wheat 
shall not be less than 50 per centum of (1) the average acreage planted 
for the production of wheat for the calendar years 1952 and 1953 
plus (2) the average of the acreage summer fallowed during the cal-
endar year 1951 for the seeding of wheat for 1952 and the acreage sum-
mer fallowed during the calendar year of 1952 for the seeding of 
wheat for 1953, adjusted in the same ratio as the national average 
seedings for the production of wheat during the calendar years 1952 
and 1953 bears to the national acreage allotment for wheat for the 
1955 crop, taking into consideration the adjustments made for crop 
rotation practices pursuant to the regulations pertaining to farm 
acreage allotments for the 1955 crop of wheat issued by the Secre-
tary : Provided^ That, except for farms on which at least 90 per centum 
of the acreage seeded for the production of wheat for the calendar 
years 1952 and 1953 was seeded on land which was summer fallowed 
during the years 1951 and 1952, respectively, and for which a definite 
and regular alternate wheat and summer fallow crop rotation prac-
tice has been determined under the aforesaid regulations, the acreage 
determined under this section to which the national adjustment factor 
is applied shall not exceed 50 per centum of the cropland on the farm 
well suited for the production of wheat: Promded further^ That no 
acreage shall be included under (1) or (2) which the Secretary, by 
appropriate regulations, determines will become an undue erosion 
hazard under continued farming: Provided further, That the acreage 
determined under this section to which the national adjustment factor 
is applied shall not exceed six hundred and forty acres, with the acres 
in excess of six hundred and forty acres, if any, to be adjusted by the 
adjustment factor for the county. To the extent that the allotment 
to any county is insufficient to provide for such minimum farm allot-
ments, the Secretary shall allot such county such additional acreage 
(which shall be in addition to the county. State, and National acreage 
allotments otherwise provided for under the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended) as may be necessary in order to provide 
"ul*c*i2^8i. 
for such minimum farm allotments. 
SEC. 315. The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to make a study 
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of the various two-price systems of price support and marketing 
which could be made applicable to rice and to submit to Congress on „.?„^P°'^ *° ^°"" 
or before March 1, 1955, a detailed report thereon. 
The Secretary """" 
may conduct such hearings and receive such statements and briefs 
in connection with such study as he deems appropriate. 
gress. 
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[68 
S T A T . 
50 Stat. 246. 
7 u s e 674. 
48 Stat. 32. 
Intra. 
Applicability of 
orders. 
Supra. 
S i z e , 
e t c . 
container. 
of 
39 Stat. 
Stat. 685. 673; 45 
M a r k e t i n g re-
8 e a r c h projects, 
etc. 
TITLE IV—AMENDMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL MARKET-
ING AGREEMENT ACT OF 1937 
SEC. 401. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (of 1933), as amended, 
and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agree-
ment Act of 1937, as amended, is further amended as follows: 
(a) Section 2, as amended (7 U. S. C. 602), is amended by adding 
the following new subsection: 
"(4) Through the exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secre-
tary of Agriculture under this title, to establish and maintain such 
orderly marketing conditions for any agricultural commodity enumer-
ated in section 8c (2) as will provide, in the interests of producers and 
consumers, an orderly flow of the supply thereof to market throughout 
its normal marketing season to avoid unreasonable fluctuations in 
supplies and prices." 
(b) Section 8c (2), as amended (7 U. S. C. 608c (2)), is amended to 
read as follows: 
" (2) Orders issued pursuant to this section shall be applicable only 
to the following agricultural comipodities and the products thereof 
(except canned or frozen grapefruit, the products of naval stores, and 
the products of honeybees), or to any regional, or market classification 
of any such commodity or product: Milk, fruits (including filberts, 
almonds, pecans and walnuts but not including apples, other than 
apples produced in the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and 
not including fruits, other than olives and grapefruit, for canning or 
freezing), tobacco, vegetables (not including vegetables, other tnan 
asparagus, for canning or freezing), soybeans, hops, honeybees and 
naval stores as included in the Naval Stores Act and standards estab-
lished thereunder (including refined or partially refined oleoresin): 
Provided, That no order issued pursuant to this section shall be effec-
tive as to any grapefruit for canning or freezing unless the Secretary 
of Agriculture determines, in addition to other findings and determina-
tions required by this Act, that the issuance of such order is approved 
or favored by the processors who, during a representative period 
determined by the Secretary, have been engaged in canning or freezing 
such commodity for market and have canned or frozen for market 
more than 50 per centum of the total volume of such commodity 
canned or frozen for market during such representative period." 
(c) Section 8c (6), as amended (7 U. S. C. 608c (6)), is amended: 
(1) By deleting the provisions immediately preceding paragraph 
(A) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"(6) In the case of the agricultural commodities and the prod-
ucts thereof, other than milk and its products, specified in sub-
section (2) orders issued pursuant to this section shall contain 
one or more of the following terms and conditions, and (except 
as provided in subsection (7)), no others:" 
(2) By adding the following new paragraphs at the end thereof: 
"(H) providing a method for fixing the size, capacity, weight, 
dimensions, or pack of the container, or containers, which may be 
used in the packaging, transportation, sale, shipment, or handling 
of any fresh or dried fruits, vegetables, or tree nuts: Provided, 
however, That no action taken hereunder shall conflict with the 
Standard Containers Act of 1916 (15 U. S. C. 251-256) and the 
Standard Containers Act of 1928 (15 U. S. C. 257-2571) ; 
"(I) establishing or providing for the establishment of mar-
keting research and development projects designed to assist, 
improve, or promote the marketing, distribution, and consump-
tion of any such commodity or product, the expense of such pro-
jects to be paid from funds collected pursuant to the marketing 
order." 
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907 
(d) Section 8c (7) (C), is amended by adding at the end thereof: 
j^iSc^osJ: 
"There shall be included in the membership of any agency selected to 
administer a marketing order applicable to grapefruit for canning 
or freezing one or more representatives of processors of the commodity 
specified in such order." 
(e) Section 8 as amended, is further amended by adding a new sec-
tion 8e reading as follows: 
"8e. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a market- hiwum*""**" ^°' 
ing order issued by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to section 8c 
of this Act contains any terms or conditions regulating the grade, size, 
quality, or maturity of tomatoes, avocados, limes, grapefruit, green 
peppers, Irish potatoes, cucumbers, or eggplants produced in the 
United States the importation into the United States of any such com-
modity during the period of time such order is in effect shall be pro-
hibited unless it complies with the grade, size, quality, and maturity 
provisions of such order or comparable restrictions promulgated here-
under : Provided, That this prohibition shall not apply to such com-
modities when shipped into continental United States from the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico or any Territory or possession of the United 
States where this Act has force and effect: Provided further, 
That 
whenever two or more such marketing orders regulating the same 
agricultural commodity produced in different areas of the United 
States are concurrently in effect, the importation into the United States 
of any such commodity shall be prohibited unless it complies with the 
grade, size, quality, and maturity provisions of the order which, as 
determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, regulates the commodity 
produced in the area with which the imported commodity is in most 
direct competition. 
Such prohibition shall not become effective until 
after the giving of such notice as the Secretary of Agriculture deter-
mines reasonable, which shall not be less than three days. In deter- 
Totnatoe«. 
mining the amount of notice that is reasonable in the case of tomatoes 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall give due consideration to the time 
required for their transportation and entry into the United States 
after picking. Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture finds that the 
application of the restrictions under a marketing order to an imported 
commodity is not practicable because of variations in characteristics 
between the domestic and imported commodity he shall establish with 
respect to the imported commodity such grade, size, quality, and ma-
turity restrictions by varieties, types, or other classifications as he 
finds will be equivalent or comparable to those imposed upon the 
domestic commodity under such order. 
The Secretary of Agriculture 
may promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary, to 
carry out the provisions of this section. Any person who violates any 
provision of this section or of any rule, regulation, or order promul-
gated hereunder shall be subject to a forfeiture in the amount pre-
scribed in section 8a (5) or, upon conviction, a penalty in the amount ^^lf ^y^^- ^^'*' '*^ 
prescribed in section 8c (14) of the Act, or to both such forfeiture and ^jjv s c eo sa, 
penalty." 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
608c. 
TITLE V—AMENDMENTS TO SOIL CONSERVATION AND 
DOMESTIC ALLOTMENT ACT 
SEC. 501. Section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot-
ment Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590h), is amended: 
(a) By striking out of subsection (a) "January 1, 1955" and "De- 
^^ stat. 95. 
cember 31, 1954", wherever they appear therein, and inserting in lieu 
thereof "January 1, 1957" and "December 31,1956", respectively; 
(b) By adding at the end of subsection (a) the following: 
"During the period prior to January 1, 1957, the Secretary shall 
carry out the purposes specified in section 7 (a) through State action 
^^ use 590g. 
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[68 S T A T , 
55 Stat. 257. 
16 u s e 590g. 
Terms of county 
committees. 
as rapidly as adequate State laws are enacted and satisfactory State 
plans are submitted. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of 
this section and section 7, the provisions of this section with respect 
to the State, county, and local committees of farmers shall continue 
in full force and effect for purposes other than the administration of 
State plans."; 
(c) By striking out of the second paragraph of subsection (b) the 
language "at not to exceed a fair price fixed in accordance with regu-
lations to be prescribed by the Secretary" and by adding at the end 
of such paragraph the following new sentence: "The price at which 
purchase orders for any conservation materials or services are filled 
may be limited to a fair price fixed in accordance wdth regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary." 
SEC. 502. Section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot-
ment Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590o), is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following: 
"Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section and the 
provisions of section 7 (g), programs of soil building practices and 
soil- and water-conserving practices shall be based on a distribution 
of the funds available for payments and grants among the several 
States in accordance with their conservation needs, as determined by 
the Secretary, except that the proportion allocated to any State shall 
not be reduced by more than 15 per centum from the distribution of 
such funds for the next preceding program year. In carrying out 
such programs, the Secretary shall give particular consideration to 
conservation problems on farm lands diverted from crops under acre-
age allotment programs and to the maintenance of a proper balance 
between soil conserving and soil depleting crops on the farm." 
SEC. 503. Nothing contained in section 8 (b) of the Soil Conserva-
tion and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, or in any other pro-
vision of law, shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of Agricul-
ture to impose any limitations upon the number of terms for which 
members of county committees established under such section may be 
reelected. 
TITLE VI—AGRICULTURAL ATTACHES 
Foreign markets 
information, etc. 
Personnel. 
Grades 16, 17. 
SEC. 601. For the purpose of encouraging and promoting the mar-
keting of agricultural products of the United States and assisting 
American farmers, processors, distributors, and exporters to adjust 
their operations and practices to meet world conditions, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall acquire information regarding the competition 
and demand for United States agricultural products, the marketing 
and distribution of said products in foreign countries and shall be 
responsible for the interpretation and dissemination of such informa-
tion in the United States and shall make investigations abroad regard-
ing the factors affecting and influencing the export of United States 
agricultural products, and shall conduct abroad any other activities 
including the demonstration of standards of quality for American 
agricultural products for which the Department of Agriculture now 
has or in the future may have such standards, as he deems necessary. 
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the De-
partment of Agriculture from conducting abroad any activity for 
which authority now exists. 
SEC. 602. (a) To effectuate the carrying out of the purposes of this 
title, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to appoint such person-
nel as he determines to be necessary and, with the concurrence of the 
Secretary of State, to assign such personnel to service abroad, and the 
Secretary of Agriculture may place not to exceed eight positions in 
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909 
grade 16 and two in grade 17 of the General Schedule of the Classi-
fication Act of 1949, as amended, in accordance with the standards and 
procedures of that Act and such positions shall be in addition to the 
number authorized in section 505 of that Act. 
(b) Officers or employees assigned or appointed to a post abroad 
pursuant to this title shall have the designation of Agricultural At-
tache or other titles or designations, which shall be jointly agreed to 
by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(c) Upon the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary 
of State shall regularly and officially attach the officers oi employees 
of the United States Department of Agriculture to the diplomatic 
mission of the United States in the country in which such officers or 
employees are to be assigned by the Secretary of Agriculture, and shall 
obtain for them diplomatic privileges and immunities equivalent to 
those enjoyed by Foreign Service personnel of comparable rank and 
salary. 
(d) The President shall prescribe regulations to insure that the 
official activities of persons assigned abroad under this title are carried 
on (1) consonant with United States foreign policy objectives as 
defined by the Secretary of State; (2) in accordance with instructions 
of the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to agricultural matters; 
and (3) in coordination with other representatives of the United 
States Government in each country, under the leadership of the Chief 
of the United States Diplomatic Mission. 
SEC. 603. The Secretary of Agriculture may, under such rules and 
regulations as may be prescribed by the President or his designee, 
provide to personnel appointed or assigned by the Secretary of Agri-
culture under this title or other authority allowances and benefits 
similar to those provided by title I X of the Foreign Service Act of 
1946. Leaves of absence for personnel under this title shall be on the 
same basis as is provided for the Foreign Service of the United States 
by the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 (5 U. S. C. 2061). 
SEC. 604. (a) The reports and dispatches prepared by the officers 
appointed or assigned under this title shall be made available to the 
Department of State, and may be made available to other interested 
agencies of the Government, and the agricultural reports and dis-
patches and related information produced by officers of the Foreign 
Service shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(b) The Secretary of State is authorized upon request of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to provide office space, equipment, facilities, and 
such other administrative and clerical services as may be required for 
the personnel affected by this title. The Secretary of Agriculture is 
authorized to reimburse or advance funds to the Secretary of State 
for such services. 
SEC. 605. Provisions in annual appropriation Acts of the Depart-
ment of State facilitating the w^ork of the Foreign Service of the 
United States shall be applicable under rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the President or his designee to activities pursuant to this 
title. 
SEC. 606. The Secretary of Agriculture may make rules and regu-
lations necessary to carry out the purposes of this title and may coop-
erate with any Department or agency of the United States Govern-
ment, State, Territory, or possession or any organization or person. 
In any foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in 
advance for rent or other service, such payment may be authorized 
by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 607. (a) For the fiscal year 1955 so much of the Department 
of State and Department of Agriculture unexpended balances of 
appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note, 
1105. 
Agricultural At-
tache. 
Attachment 
t o 
diplomatic 
m i s -
sions. 
R e gulations of 
President. 
Allowances 
and 
benefits. 
60 Stat. 1025. 
2 2 u s e 
1 1 3 1 -
1158. 
65 Stat. 679. 
keports and dis-
patches. 
Office facilities, 
etc. 
Foreign Service 
appropriations. 
A d v a n c e 
pay-
ment of rent, etc. 
Unexpended bal-
ances, 1955. 
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[68 ST A T . 
Appropriations. 
Funds for 1955, 
expenditures. 
60 Stat. 1012. 
22 u s e 961. 
available, or to be made available, in connex^tion v^ith tlie functions 
covered by this title as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget or 
the Congress by appropriation or other law shall determine shall be 
transferred to or established in accounts under the control of the 
Department of Agriculture, and there are hereby authorized to be 
established such additional accounts as may be necessary for this 
purpose. 
(b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture such amounts as may be necessary for the pur-
pose of this title. 
(c) For the fiscal year 1955 funds which become available for the 
purposes of this title may be expended under the provisions of law, 
including current appropriation Acts, applicable to the Department 
of State: Provided^ That the provisions of section 571 (d) of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, with respect to the source 
of payment for Foreign Service officers and employees shall not apply 
to personnel employed under this title. Obligations incurred by the 
Department of State prior to September 1,1954, with respect to func-
tions affected by this Act, shall be paid from appropriations available 
to the Department of State. 
SEC. 608. Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect person-
nel employed by or funds available to the Foreign Operations Admin-
istration or programs conducted under its authorities. 
TITLE VII—NATIONAL WOOL ACT OF 1954 
Short title. 
Price supports. 
SEC. 701. This title may be cited as the "National Wool Act of 1954." 
SEC. 702. It is hereby recognized that wool is an essential and strate-
gic commodity which is not produced in quantities and grades in the 
United States to meet the domestic needs and that the desired domestic 
production of wool is impaired by the depressing effects of wide 
fluctuations in the price of wool in the world markets. It is hereby 
declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security 
and in promotion of the general economic welfare, to encourage the 
annual domestic production of approximately three hundred million 
pounds of shorn wool, grease basis, at prices fair to both producers and 
consumers in a manner which will have the least adverse effects upon 
foreign trade. 
SEC. 703. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, through the Com-
modity Credit Corporation, support the prices of wool and mohair, 
respectively, to the producers thereof by means of loans, purchases, 
payments, or other operations. Such price support shall be limited to 
wool and mohair marketed during the period beginning April 1,1955, 
and ending March 31,1959. The support price for shorn wool shall be 
at such incentive level as the Secretary, after consultation with pro-
ducer representatives, and after taking into consideration prices paid 
and other cost conditions affecting sheep production, determines to 
be necessary in order to encourage an annual production consistent 
with the declared policy of this title: Provided^ That the support price 
for shorn wool shall not exceed 110 per centum of the parity price 
therefor. If the support price so determined does not exceed 90 per 
centum of the parity price for shorn wool, the support price for shorn 
wool shall be at such level, not in excess of 90 per centum nor less than 
60 per centum of the parity price therefor, as the Secretary determines 
necessary in order to encourage an annual production of approximately 
three hundred and sixty million pounds of shorn wool. The support 
prices for pulled wool and for mohair shall be established at such 
levels, in relationship to the support price for shorn w^ool, as the 
Secretary determines will maintain normal marketing practices for 
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pulled wool, and as the Secretary shall determine is necessary to 
maintain approximately the same percentage of paritj for mohair as 
for shorn wool. The deviation of mohair support prices shall not be 
calculated so as to cause it to rise or fall more than 15 per centum 
above or below the comparable percentage of parity at which shorn 
wool is supported. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no price support 
shall be made available, other than through payments, at a level in 
excess of 90 per centum of the parity price for the commodity. 
The 
Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, announce the support price 
levels for wool and mohair sufficiently in advance of each marketing 
year as will permit producers to plan their production for such 
marketing year. 
SEC. 704. If payments are utilized as a means of price support, the 
Payments, 
payments shall be such as the Secretary of Agriculture determines to 
be sufficient, when added to the national average price received by pro-
ducers, to give producers a national average return for the commodity 
equal to the support price level therefor: Provided^ That the total of 
all such payments made under this Act shall not at any time exceed 
an amount equal to 70 per centum of the accumulated totals, as of the 
same date, of the gross receipts from specific duties (whether or not 
such specific duties are parts of compound rates) collected on and 
after January 1,1953, on all articles subject to duty under schedule 11 
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. 
The payments shall be made 
46 stat.' 646. 
upon wool and mohair marketed by the producers thereof, but any ^at?\ioi^et^^eq}' 
wool or mohair produced prior to January 1, 1955, shall not be the 
subject of payments. 
The payments shall be at such rates for the 
marketing year or periods thereof as the Secretary determines will 
give producers the support price level as herein provided. 
Payments 
to any producer need not be made if the Secretary determines that the 
amount of the payment to the producer or all producers is too small to 
justify the cost of making such payments. 
The Secretary may make 
the payment to producers through the marketing agency to or through 
whom the producer marketed his wool or mohair: Provided^ That 
such marketing agency agrees to receive and promptly distribute the 
payments on behalf of such producers. 
In case any person who is 
entitled to any such payment dies, becomes incompetent, or disap-
pears before receiving such payment, or is succeeded by another who 
renders or completes the required performance, the payment shall, 
without regard to any other provisions of law, be made as the Secre-
tary may determine to be fair and reasonable in all the circumstances 
and provided by regulation. 
SEC. 705. For the purpose of reimbursing the Commodity Credit ^^t^ reimbtarse-
Corporation for any expenditures made by it in connection with pay-
ments to producers under this title, there is hereby appropriated for 
each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, 
an amount equal to the total of expenditures made by the Corporation 
during the preceding fiscal year and to any amounts expended in prior 
fiscal years not previously reimbursed: Provided^ however^ that such 
amounts appropriated for any fiscal year shall not exceed 70 per cen-
tum of the gross receipts from specific duties (whether or not such 
specific duties are parts of compound rates) collected during the 
period January 1 to December 31, both inclusive, preceding the begin-
ning of each such fiscal year on all articles subject to duty under 
schedule 11 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. For the purposes of ^^ i"o^i^et^e° ^' 
the appraisal under the Act of March 8,1938, as amended (15 U. S. C. ^^' 
* **''' 
713a-l), the Commodity Credit Corporation shall establish on its 
52 stat. io7. 
books an account receivable in an amount equal to any amount 
expended by Commodity Credit Corporation in connection with pay-
ments pursuant to this title which has not been reimbursed from 
appropriations made hereunder. 
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[68 
S T A T . 
Determination of 
s u p p o r t o p e r a -
tions by Secretary." 
• ' M a r k e t i n g 
year." 
Agreements with 
marketing coopera-
tives, etc. 
Referendum. 
63 Stat. 1052. 
SEC, 706. Except as otherwise provided in this title, the amounts, 
terms, and conditions of the price support operations and the extent 
to which such operations are carried out shall be determined or ap-
proved by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
The Secretary may, in 
determining support prices and rates of payment, make adjustments 
in such prices or rates for differences in grade, quality, type, location, 
and other factors to the extent he deems practicable and desirable. 
Determinations by the Secretary under this title shall be final and 
conclusive. The facts constituting the basis for any operation, pay-
ment, or amount thereof when officially determined in conformity 
with applicable regulations prescribed by the Secretary shall be final 
and conclusive and shall not be reviewable by any other officer or 
agency of the Government. 
SEC. TOT. The term "marketing year" as used in this title means the 
twelve-month period beginning April 1 of each calendar year or, for 
either wool or mohair, such other period, or periods for prescribed 
areas, as the Secretary may determine to be desirable to effectuate the 
purpose of this title. 
SEC. T08. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to enter into 
agreements with, or to approve agreements entered into between, 
marketing cooperatives, trade associations, or others engaged or 
whose members are engaged in the handling of wool, mohair, sheep, 
or goats or the products thereof for the purpose of developing and con-
ducting on a National, State, or regional basis advertising and sales 
promotion programs for wool, mohair, sheep, or goats or the products 
thereof. 
Provision may be made in such agreement to obtain the funds 
necessary to defray the expenses incurred thereunder through pro rata 
deductions from the payments made under section T04 of this title to 
producers within the production area he determines w411 be benefited 
by the agreement and for the assignment and transfer of the amounts 
so deducted to the person or agency designated in the agreement to 
receive such amounts for expenditure in accordance with the terms and 
conditions of the agreement. 
No agreement containing such a provi-
sion for defraying expenses through deductions shall become effective 
until the Secretary determines that at least two-thirds of the producers 
who, during a representative period determined by the Secretary, have 
been engaged, within the production area he determines will be bene-
fited by the agreement, in the production for market of the commodity 
specified therein approve or favor such agreement or that producers 
who, during such representative period have produced at least two-
thirds of the volume of such commodity produced within the area 
which will be benefited by such agreement, approve or favor such 
agreement. 
Approval or disapproval by cooperative associations shall 
be considered as approval or disapproval by the producers who are 
members of, stockholders in, or under contract with such cooperative 
association of producers. 
The Secretary may conduct a referendum 
among producers to ascertain their approval or favor. 
The require-
ments of approval or favor shall be held to be complied with if two-
thirds of the total number of producers, or two-thirds of the total 
volume of production, as the case may be, represented in such refer-
endum, indicate their approval or favor. 
SEC. T09. Section 201 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (T U. S. C , 
sec. 1446) is amended effective April 1, 1955, (i) by deleting from the 
first sentence thereof the phrase "wool (including mohair)," and (ii) 
by deleting subsection (a) thereof relating to the support of wool and 
mohair. 
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SEC. 710. (a) The third sentence of section 2 (a) of the Commodity 
Exchange Act, as amended, is amended by inserting "wool," after the 
comma following "(Irish potatoes)". 
(b) The amendment made by this section shall become effective sixty 
days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 28, 1954. 
49 Stat. 1491. 
7 use 2. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 691 
CHAPTER 1042 
AN ACT 
August 28, 1954 
[H. R. 8205] 
To authorize the conveyance by the Seci*etary of the Interior to Virginia Electric 
and Power Company of a perpetual easement of right-of-way for electric trans-
mission line purposes across lands of the Richmond National Battlefield Park, 
Virginia, such easement to be granted in exchange for, and in consideration of, 
the conveyance for park purposes of approximately six acres of land adjoining 
the Park. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetnbled, That the Secre- ti^af'^s'au'ie'fi^id 
tary of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant and convey to Vir- P^'^, va, 
ginia Electric and Power Company a perpetual easement of right-
of-way for electric transmission line purposes over, npon, and across 
fifty-five one-hundredths of an acre of land on the western side of 
Parker's battery site in the Richmond National Battlefield Park, Vir-
ginia, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may deem 
desirable, and to accept in exchange therefor the conveyance of six 
and fifty-seven one-hundredths acres of land adjoining the Parker's 
battery area, Richmond National Battlefield Park. 
Approved August 28, 1954. 
Public Law 692 
CHAPTER 1043 
AN ACT 
To convey the reversionary interest of the United States in certain lands to the 
city of Pawnee, Oklahoma. 
August 28, 1954 
[H. R. 8859] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
to the city of Pawnee, Oklahoma, all of the right, title, and interest of 
the United States in and to the tract of land in Pawnee County, Okla-
homa, known as "Mission Park", and more particularly described as 
follows: Lot 1 of section 32, in township 22 north of range 5 east of 
the Indian meridian, Oklahoma, containing eighty-eight and forty-
three one-hundredths acres, according to the official plat of the survey 
of the said lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor 
General. 
Approved August 28, 1954. 
Pawnee, Okla. 
Conveyance. 
Public Law 693 
CHAPTER 1044 
AN ACT 
To reclassify dictophones in the Tariff Act of 1930. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 
372 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U. S. C, sec. 1001, par. 372) is hereby 
amended by inserting after "cash registers, 25 per centum ad valo-
August 28, 1954 
[H. R, 8932] 
Dictophones. 
46 Stat. 625. 
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