An Act to encourage increased consumption of cotton, to maintain the income of cotton producers, to provide a special research program designed to lower costs of production, and for other purposes
PL 88-297 (H.R.6196), enacted 04/11/1964

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Public Law 88-296 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
April 7, i964 
Making a .supplemental appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. 
[H. j . Res. 976] 
for disaster relief, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Setiate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the following sum is 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1964, namely: 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THK PRESIDENT 
DISASTER RELIEF 
For an additional amount for "Disaster relief"', $50,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 3 per 
centum of the foregoing amount shall be available for administrative 
expen.ses. 
Approved April 7, 1964. 
Disaster relief. 
Funds. 
Public Law 88-297 
AN ACT 
To encourage increased consumption of cotton, to maintain the income of cotton 
and wheat producers, to provide a voluntary marketing certificate program 
for the 1964 and 1965 crop of wheat, and for other purposes. 
April 11, 1964 
[H. R. 6196] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
States of America in Congress assi " ' 
be cited as the "Agricultural Act of 1964". 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may of^il'^4""'"^^^ ^
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TITLE I - COTTON 
SEC. 101. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
is amended by adding the following new section : 
"SEC. 348. In order to maintain and expand domestic consumption 
of upland cotton produced in the United States and to prevent dis-
crimination against the domestic users of such cotton, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Commodity Credit Corporation, under 
such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, is author-
ized and directed for the period beginning with the date of enactment 
of this section and ending July 31,1966, to make payments through the 
issuance of payment-in-kind certificates to persons other than pro-
ducers in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as 
the Secretary determines will eliminate inequities due to differences 
in the cost of raw cotton between domestic and foreign users of such 
cotton, including such payments as may be necessary to make raw 
cotton in inventory on the date of enactment of this section available 
for consumption at prices consistent with the purposes of this section: 
Provided^ That for the period beginning August 1 of the marketing 
year for the first crop for which price support is made available under 
section 103(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and ending 
July 31, 1966, such payments shall be made in an amount which will 
make upland cotton produced in the United States available for domes-
tic use at a price w^hich is not in excess of the price at which such cotton 
is made available for export." 
52 Stat. 31. 
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Payment-in-
kind certifi-
cates, issuance. 
Post, p . 174. 
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7 2 Stat. 993. 
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note. 
Research pro-
gram. 
Report to con-
gressional com-
mittees. 
Price support 
levels. 
72 Stat. 989. 
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Post, p. 175. 
Loan assist-
ance, etc. 
Ante, p. 173. 
SEC. 102. Section 385 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"This section also shall be applicable to payments provided for under 
section 348 of this title." 
SEC. 103. (a) Section 104 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as 
amended, is amended by adding the following new subsection: 
"(c) The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and 
directed to conduct a special cotton research program designed to 
reduce the cost of producing upland cotton in the United States at 
the earliest practicable date. There are hereby authorized to be 
appropriated such sums, not to exceed $10,000,000 annually, as may 
be necessary for the Secretary to carry out this special research pro-
gram. 
The Secretary shall report annually to the Committee on 
Agriculture of the House of Representatives and to the Committee 
on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate with respect to the results 
of such research." 
(b) Section 103 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is 
amended (1) by inserting " ( a ) " before the first sentence thereof; 
(2) by changing the period at the end of the second sentence thereof 
to a colon and adding the following: ^''Provided, That the price sup-
port for the 1964 crop shall be a national average support price which 
reflects 30 cents per pound for Middling one-inch cotton."; and (3) by 
adding at the end of such section the following new subsections: 
" (b) If producers have not disapproved marketing quotas, the Sec-
retary shall provide additional price support on the 1964 and 1965 
crops of upland cotton to cooperators on whose farms the acreage 
planted to upland cotton for harvest does not exceed the farm domestic 
allotment established under section 350 of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended. Such additional support shall be at a level 
up to 15 per centum in excess of the basic level of support established 
under subsection (a) and shall be provided on the normal yield of the 
acreage planted for harvest within the farm domestic allotment. 
"(c) In order to keep upland cotton to the maximum extent practi-
cable in the normal channels of trade, any additional price support 
under subsection (b) of this section may be carried out through the 
simultaneous purchase of cotton at the support price therefor under 
subsection (b) and the sale of such cotton at the support price therefor 
under subsection (a) or similar operations, including loans under 
which the cotton would be redeemable by payment of the amount for 
which the cotton would be redeemable if the loan thereon had been 
made at the support price for such cotton under subsection (a), or 
payments-in-kind through the issuance of certificates which the Com-
modity Credit Corporation shall redeem for cotton under regulations 
issued by the Secretary. 
If such additional support is provided 
through the issuance of payment-in-kind certificates, such certificates 
shall have a value per pound of cotton equal to the difference between 
the level of support established under subsection (a) and the level of 
support established under subsection (b). 
The corporation may, 
under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, assist the producers 
and persons receiving payment-in-kind certificates under this section 
and section 348 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, in the marketing of such certificates at such time and in 
such manner as the Secretary determines will best effectuate the pur-
poses of the program authorized by this section and such section 348. 
In the case of any certificate not presented for redemption within thirty 
days of the date of its issuance, reasonable costs of storage and other 
carrying charges as determined by the Secretary for the period begin-
63 Stat. 10 54. 
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Sale of commod-
ities. 
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ning thirty days after its issuance and ending with the date of its 
presentation for redemption shall be deducted from the value of the 
certificate." 
(c) Section 401(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
is amended by striking in the second sentence thereof before "(8)" the 
word "and", changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and 
adding the following: "and (9), in the case of upland cotton, changes 
in the cost of producing such cotton". 
SEC. 104. Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
is amended by inserting after the first proviso in the third sentence "V^stat. 993 
thereof the following: '•'• 
Provided further^ That beginning August 1, 
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1964, the Commodity Credit Corporation may sell upland cotton for 
unrestricted use at not less than 105 per centum of the current loan 
rate for such cotton under section 103(a) plus reasonable carrying 
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charges:". 
SEC. 105. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
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is amended by adding a new section as follows: 
"SEC. 350. In order to provide producers with a choice program of 
Acreage aiiot-
reduced acreage and higher price support, the Secretary shall estab- "'^^ * 
lish for each farm for the 1964 and 1965 crops of upland cotton a 
farm domestic allotment in acres. The farm domestic allotment shall 
be the percentage which the national domestic allotment is of the 
national acreage allotment established under section 344(a) applied 
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as a percentage of the smaller of (1) the farm acreage allotment 
established under section 344, or (2) the higher acreage actually 
planted or regarded as planted on the farm (excluding acreage 
regarded as planted under sections 344(m) (2) and 377) in the two ^^^ ^'^*- 394, 
years preceding the year for which such allotment is established: 
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Provided, That any farm planting 90 per centum or more of the 13^7. 
allotment shall, for the purpose of (2) above, be considered as having 
planted the entire farm allotment: Provided further, That, except for 
farms the acreage allotments of which are reduced under section 
344(m), the farm domestic allotment shall not be less than the smaller 
of 15 acres or the farm acreage allotment established under section 
344, but this proviso shall be applicable to the 1964 crop without 
regard to the exception stated herein. The national domestic acreage 
allotment for any crop shall be that acreage, based upon the national 
average yield per acre of cotton for the four years immediately pre-
ceding the calendar year in w%ich the national acreage allotment is 
proclaimed, required to make available from such crop an amount 
of upland cotton equal to the estimated domestic consumption for the 
marketing year for such crop. 
The Secretary shall proclaim the 
national domestic acreage allotment for the 1964 crop not later than 
April 1,1964, and for each subsequent crop not later than December 15 
of the calendar year preceding the year in which the crop is to be 
produced." 
SEC. 106. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is 
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amended as loilows: 
(1) The following new section is added to the Act: 
"SEC. 349. (a) The acreage allotment established under the pro- ac^e'^rge! ""^^^^ 
visions of section 344 of this Act for each farm for the 1964 crop may 
be supplemented by the Secretary by an acreage equal to such per-
centage, but not more than 10 per centum, of such acreage allotment as 
he determines will not increase the carryover of upland cotton at the 
beginning of the marketing year for the next succeeding crop above 
one million bales less than the carryover on the same date one year 
earlier, if the carryover on such earlier date exceeds eight million bales. 
For the 1965 crop, the Secretary may, after such hearing and investiga-
tion as he finds necessary, announce an export market acreage which 
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he finds will not increase the carryover of upland cotton at the 
beginning of the marketing year for the next succeeding crop above one 
million bales less than the carryover on the same date one year earlier, 
if the carryover on such earlier date exceeds eight million bales. Such 
export market acreage shall be apportioned to the States on the basis 
of the State acreage allotments established under section 344 and 
apportioned by the States to farms receiving allotments under section 
344, pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary, after considering 
applications for such acreage filed with the county committee of the 
county in which the farm is located. The 'export market acreage' on 
any farm shall be the number of acres, not exceeding the maximum 
export market acreage for the farm established pursuant to this sub-
section, by which the acreage planted to cotton on the farm exceeds 
the farm acreage allotment. For purposes of sections 345 and 374 of 
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provisions of any law requiring compliance with a 
52 Stat. 65;' 
farm acreage allotment as a condition of eligibility for price support 
AS Q!^1* Q^^' 
^^ payments under any farm program, the farm acreage allotment for 
farms with export market acreage shall be the sum oi the farm acre-
age allotment established under section 344 and the maximum export 
market acreage. Export market acreage shall be in addition to the 
county, State, and National acreage allotments and shall not be taken 
into account in establishing future State, county, and farm acreage 
allotments. The provisions of this section shall not apply to extra-
long-staple cotton or to any farm which receives price support under 
Ante, p. 174. 
sectioH 103(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended. 
"(b) The producers on any farm on which there is export market 
acreage or the purchasers of cotton produced thereon shall, under reg-
ulations issued by the Secretary, furnish a bond or other undertaking 
prescribed by the Secretary providing for the exportation, without 
benefit of any Government cotton export subsidy and within such 
period of time as the Secretary may specify, of a quantity of cotton 
X>roduced on the farm equal to the average yield for the farm multi-
plied by the export market acreage as determined pursuant to regula-
tions issued by the Secretary. The bond or other undertaking given 
pursuant to this section shall provide that, upon failure to comply with 
the terms and conditions thereof, the person furnishing such bond or 
other undertaking shall be liable for liquidated damages in an amount 
which the Secretary determines and specifies in such undertaking will 
approximate the amount payable on excess cotton under section 346(a). 
The Secretarj^ may, in lieu of the furnishing of a bond or other under-
taking, provide for the payment of an amount equal to that which 
would be payable as liquidated damages under such bond or other un-
dertaking. If such bond or other undertaking is not furnished, or if 
payment in lieu thereof is not made as provided herein, at such time 
and in the manner required by regulations of the Secretary, or if the 
acreage planted to cotton on the farm exceeds the farm acreage allot-
52 Stat. 57,203. jjient established under the provisions of section 344 by more than the 
maximum export market acreage, the farm acreage allotment shall be 
the acreage so established under section 344. Amounts collected by 
the Secretary under this section shall be remitted to the Commodity 
Credit Corporation and used by the Corporation to defray costs of 
encouraging export sales of cotton under section 203 of the Agricul-
rulc'"i853' 
tural Act of 1956, as amended." 
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(2) Section 376 of the Act is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following: "This section also shall be applicable to liquidated 
^3 Stat. 670, 
damages provided for pursuant to section 349 of this title." 
54 Stat. 728. 
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(8) Subsection (f) (8) of section 344 of the Act is amended by 
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inserting after the language "75 per centum of the farm allotment 
for such year" the following: "or, in the case of a farm which qualified 
for price support on the crop produced in such year under section 
108(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 75 per centum 
A"te, P- 174. 
of the farm domestic allotment established under section 850 for such 
vear, whichever is smaller". 
(4) Section 877 of the Act is amended by inserting in the first 5^u|*c*i3^7"* 
])roviso after the language "75 per centum or more of the farm acreage 
allotment for such year" the following: "or, in the case of upland 
cotton on a farm which qualified for price support on the crop pro-
duced in any such year under section 108(b) of the Agricultural Act 
of 1949, as amended, 75 per centum of the farm domestic allotment 
established under section 850 for any such year, whichever is smaller". 
(5) Subsection (b)(18)(B) of section 801 of the Act is amended 
bv deleting the words "cotton or". 
" (6) Subsection (b) (18) (G) of section 801 of the Act is amended 
by deleting ", cotton," wherever it appears. 
(7) Subsection (b)(13) of section 301 of the Act is amended by 
adding after subparagraph (G) new subparagraphs as follows: 
"(H) 'Normal yield' for any county, for any crop of cotton, 
formal yieid. 
shall be the average yield per acre of cotton for the county, 
adjusted for abnormal weather conditions and any significant 
changes in production practices during the five calendar years 
immediately preceding the year in which the national marketing 
quota for such crop is proclaimed. If for any such year the data 
are not available, or there is no actual yield, an appraised yield 
for such year, determined in accordance with regulations issued 
by the Secretary, shall be used as the actual yield for such year. 
"(I) 'Normal yield' for any farm, for any crop of cotton, shall 
be the average yield per acre of cotton for the farm, adjusted for 
abnormal weather conditions and any significant changes in pro-
duction practices during the three calendar years immediately 
preceding the year in which such normal yield is determined. 
If for any such year the data are not available, or there is no 
actual yield, then the normal yield for the farm shall be appraised 
in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, taking into con-
sideration abnormal weather conditions, the normal yield for the 
county, changes in production practices, and the yield in years 
for which data are available." 
(8) Subsection (n) of section 844 of the Act is amended— 
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(A) by striking out the first sentence of such subsection and ^^7 use \344. 
inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any 
other provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines for any 
year that because of a natural disaster a portion of the farm 
cotton acreage allotments in a county cannot be timely planted or 
replanted in such year, he may authorize for such year the transfer 
of all or a part of the cotton acreage allotment for any farm in 
the county so affected to another farm in the county or in an 
adjoining county on which one or more of the producers on the 
farm from which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in 
the production of cotton and will share in the proceeds thereof, 
in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe."; and 
(B) by striking out in the proviso in the second sentence of 
such subsection "1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "any year". 
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TITLE II—WHEAT 
SEC. 201. Notwithstanding any other provision of law— 
(1) the Secretary shall not proclaim a national marketing 
quota for the 1965 crop of wheat and farm marketing quotas 
shall not be in effect for such crop of wheat; 
(2) the Secretary shall proclaim a national acreage allotment 
for the 1965 crop of wheat w^hich shall be the number of acres 
w^hich the Secretary determines will make available an adequate 
supply of wheat, but shall not be less than forty-nine million five 
hundred thousand acres. 
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^^^^- 202. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is 
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amended as follows: 
Special acre- 
^ ^ gectiou 334(a) is amended by inserting; "and less the special 
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acreage reserve provided for m this subsection" in the first sentence 
after "in this subsection"; by changing the period at the end of the 
first sentence to a colon and adding the following: ^''Provided further^ 
That in establishing State acreage allotments, the acreage seeded for 
the production of wheat plus the acreage diverted for 1965 for any 
farm shall be the base acreage of wheat determined for the farm 
imder the regulations issued by the Secretary for determining farm 
wheat acreage allotments for such year."; and by adding at the end 
of the section the following: 
"There shall also be made available, beginning with the 1965 crop, a 
special acreage reserve of not in excess of one million acres as deter-
mined by the Secretary to be desirable for the purposes hereof which 
shall be in addition to the national acreage reserve provided for in this 
subsection. Such special acreage reserve shall be used to make addi-
tional allotments to counties on the basis of the relative needs of coun-
ties, as determined by the Secretary, for additional allotment to make 
adjustments in the alloments on old wheat farms (i.e., farms on which 
wheat has been seeded or regarded as seeded to one or more of the 
three crops immediately preceding the crop for which the allotment 
is established) on which the ratio of wheat acreage allotment to crop-
land on the farm is less than one-half the average ratio of wheat acre-
age allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in the county. 
Such 
adjustments shall not provide an allotment for any farm which would 
result in an allotment-cropland ratio for the farm in excess of one-half 
of such county average ratio and the total of such adjustments in any 
county shall not exceed the acreage made available therefor in the 
county. Such apportionment from the special acreage reserve shall 
be made only to counties where wheat is a major income-producing 
crop, only to farms on which there is limited opportunity for the pro-
duction of an alternative income-producing crop, and only if an 
efficient farming operation on the farm requires the allotment of addi-
tional acreage from the special acreage reserve. For the purposes of 
making adjustments hereunder the cropland on the farm shall not 
include any land developed as cropland subsequent to the 1963 crop 
year." 
52 Stat. 53; 
(2) Sectioii 334(b) is amended by changing the period at the end 
^\^us*c\^334. 
thereof to a colon and adding the following: '•'• 
Provided further^ That 
in establishing county acreage allotments, the acreage seeded for the 
production of wheat plus the acreage diverted for 1965 for any farm 
shall be the base acreage of wheat determined for the farm under the 
regulations issued by the Secretary for determining farm wheat 
acreage allotments for such year." 
75 Stat. 296. 
(3) Scctiou 334(c) (1) is amended by inserting "or 1965" in the third 
sentence, clauses (i) and (ii), after "1958" wherever it appears, and 
by inserting "except 1965" in the third sentence, clause (iii), after the 
language "any subsequent year". 
Natural disas-
ters. 
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(4) Section 334(g) is amended by inserting "except 1965"- in the 
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first sentence after the language "in 1958 or thereafter"'. 
(5) Section 334 is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
"(k) Notwithstanding any other pix)vision of this Act, if the Secre 
tary determines that because of a natural disaster a portion of the ^Transfers 
farm wheat acreage allotments in a county cannot be timely planted 
or replanted, he may authorize the transfer of all or a part of the 
wheat acreage allotment for any farm in the county so affected to 
another farm in the county or in an adjoining county on which one 
or more of the producers on the farm from which the transfer is to 
be made will be engaged in the production of wheat and will share in 
the proceeds thereof, in accordance with such regulations as the Sec-
retary may prescribe. Any farm allotment transferred under this sub-
section shall be deemed to be planted on the farm from which it was 
transferred for the purposes of acreage history credits under this Act." 
(6) Section 336 is amended by striking out "not later than sixty 
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days after such proclamation is published m the i^ederal Kegister' note. 
and substituting "not later than August 1 of the calendar year in 
which such national marketing quota is proclaimed". 
(7) Section 339(a)(1) is amended, effective only with respect to 
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the crops planted for harvest in 1964 and 1965, to read as follows: 
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"(a) (1) As a condition of eligibility for wheat marketing certifi-
cates with respect to any farm, the producers on such farm shall be 
required to divert from the production of wheat to an approved con-
servation use an acreage of cropland on the farm equal to the num-
ber of acres determined by multii)lying the farm acreage allotment 
by the diversion factor, and to participate in any program formulated 
under subsection (b) to the extent prescribed by the Secretary. Such 
diversion factor shall be determined by dividing the number of acres 
by which the national acreage allotment is reduced below fifty-five 
million acres by the number of acres in the national acreage allotment." 
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sentence the following: "Any producer who complies with his 1964 
farm acreage allotment for wheat and with the other requirements 
of the program shall be eligible to receive payments under the pro-
gram for the 1964 crop of wheat."; and (2) by inserting in the first 
sentence "for wheat not accompanied by marketing certificates" after 
"basic county support rate". 
(9) Section 339(h) is amended by striking out "June 30,1963" and 
substituting "June 30,1965". 
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planted for harvest in 1964 and 1965 to read as follows: 
"SEC. 379b. A wheat marketing allocation program as provided in in^'^lfoJ^tTo^n*' 
this subtitle shall be in effect for the marketing years for the 1964 and 
1965 crops. Whenever a wheat marketing allocation program is in 
effect for any marketing year the Secretar;^ shall determine (1) the 
Avheat marketing allocation for such year which shall be the amount of 
wheat he estimates will be used during such year for food products 
for consumption in the United States and that portion of the amount 
of wheat which he estimates will be exported in the form of wheat 
or products thereof during the marketing year on which the Secretary 
determines that marketing certificates shall be issued to producers in 
order to achieve, insofar as practicable, the price and income objectives 
of this subtitle, and (2) the national allocation percentage for such 
year which shall be the percentage which the national marketing allo-
cation is of the national mai-keting quota proclaimed for the 1964 
crop, less the expected production on the acreage allotments for farms 
which will not be in compliance with the requirements of the program. 
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Marketing cei^ 
tificates. 
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76 Stat. 622. 
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Storage condi-
tions. 
Each faiTTi shall receive a wheat marketing allocation for such market-
ing year equal to the number of bushels obtained by multiplying the 
number of acres in the farm acreage allotment for wheat by the normal 
yield of wheat for the farm as determined by the Secretary, and multi-
plying the resulting number of bushels by the national allocation 
percentage." 
(11) The second sentence of section 879b, effective with respect to 
the crops planted for harvest in the calendar year 1966 and any subse-
quent year, is amended by striking out "human consumption in the 
United States, as food, food products, and beverages, composed wholly 
or partly of wheat"' and substituting "food products for consumption 
in the L'nited States". 
(12) Section -379c(a) is amended by inserting "under section 379c(b) 
or" after "stored" in the second sentence; by changing the period at 
the end of the second sentence to a comma and adding the following: 
"and if this limitation operates to reduce the amount of wheat mar-
keting certificates which would otherwise be issued with respect to the 
farm, such reduction shall be made first from the amount of export 
certificates which would otherwise be issued."; and by adding at the 
end of the section the following: "The Secretary shall, in accordance 
with such regulation as he may prescribe, provide for the issuance 
of domestic marketing certificates for the portion of the wheat mar-
keting allocation representing wheat used for food products for con-
sumption in the L^nited States and for the issuance of export market-
ing certificates for the portion of the wheat iparketing allocation used 
for exports." 
(13) Section 379c(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended, effective only with respect to the crop planted 
for harvest in the calendar year 1965, by adding at the end thereof the 
following: "For purposes of this section, but not for purposes of 
diversion payments under subsection (b) of section 339, a producer 
shall be deemed not to have exceeded the farm acreage allotment for 
wheat if the acreage in excess of the farm acreage allotment does not 
exceed 50 per centum of the farm acreage allotment and the amount 
of wheat produced on the acreage in excess of the farm acreage 
allotment is stored in accordance with regulations issued by the Secre-
tary. The amount of wheat required to be stored hereunder shall be 
an amount equal to twice the normal yield of wheat per acre estab-
lished for the farm multiplied by the number of acres of such crop of 
wheat on the farm in excess of the farm acreage allotment for such 
crop unless the producer, in accordance with regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary and within tlie time prescribed therein, establishes to 
the satisfaction of the Secretary the actual production of such crop 
of wheat on the farm. If such actual production is so established, the 
amount of wheat required to be stored shall be such actual production 
less the actual production of the farm wheat acreage allotment based 
upon the average yield per acre for the entire wheat acreage on the 
farm: Provided howecer^ That the amount of wheat required to be 
stored shall not be larger than the amount by which the actual produc-
tion so established exceeds the normal production of the farm wheat 
acreage allotment. At the time and to the extent of any depletion in 
the amount of wheat so stored, except depletion resulting from the 
release of wheat from storage on account of underplanting or under-
production, as provided below or depletion resulting from some cause 
beyond the control of the producer, the producer shall pay an amount 
to the Secretary equal to one and one-half times the value of the wheat 
marketing certificates issued with respect to the farm for the year in 
which the wheat on the acreage in excess of the allotment was pro-
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(luced. Wlienever the planted acreage of the then current crop of 
wheat on the farm is less than the farm acreage allotment, the total 
amount of wheat from any previous crops stored hereunder or stored 
in order to avoid or postpone a marketing quota penalty shall be 
reduced by that amount which is equal to the normal production of 
Ihe number of acres by which the farm acreage allotment exceeds the 
planted acreage, and whenever the actual production of the acreage of 
wheat is less than the normal production of the farm acreage allotment, 
the total amount of wheat from any previous crops stored hereunder 
or in order to avoid a marketing quota penalty shall be reduced by that 
amount which together wnth the actual production of the then current 
crop will equal the normal production of the farm acreage allotment."" 
(14) Section 379c(c) is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) The Secretai-y shall determine and proclaim for each mar-
keting year the face value per bushel of wheat marketing certificates. 
The face value per bushel of domestic certificates shall be the amount 
by which the level of price support for wheat accompanied by domes-
tic certificates exceeds the level of price support for wheat not accom-
panied by certificates (noncertificate wiieat) ; and the face value per 
bushel of export certificates shall be the amount by which the level of 
price support for wheat accompanied by export certificates exceeds the 
level of price support for noncertificate wheat."' 
(15) Section 379d(a) is amended (1) by striking the first and last 
sentences therefrom, and (2) by striking from the second sentence 
remaining "by persons other than the producer to whom such certifi-
cates are issued" and substituting "by any person". 
(16) Section 379d(b) is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) During any marketing year for which a wheat marketing allo-
cation program is in effect, (i) all pei-sons engaged in the processing of 
wheat into food products shall, prior to marketing any such food 
product or removing such food product for sale or consumption, 
acquire domestic marketing certificates equivalent to the number of 
bushels of wheat contained in such product and (ii) all persons export-
ing wheat shall, prior to such export, acquire export marketing certifi-
cates equivalent to the number of bushels so exported. In order to 
expand international trade in wheat and wheat flour and promote 
equitable and stable prices therefor the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion shall, upon the exportation from the United States of any wheat 
or wheat flour, make a refund to the exporter or allow him a credit 
against the amount payable by him for marketing certificates, in such 
amount as the Secretary determines will make United States wheat 
and wheat flour generally competitive in the world market, avoid dis-
ruption of world market prices, and fulfill the international obliga-
tions of the United States. The Secretary may exempt wheat exported 
for donation abroad and other noncommercial exports of wheat and 
wheat processed for use on the farm where grown from the require-
ments of this subsection. Marketing certificates shall be valid to cover 
only sales or removals for sale or consumption or exportations made 
during the marketing year with respect to which they are issued, and 
after being once used to cover a sale or removal for sale or consump-
tion or export of a food product or an export of wheat shall be void 
and shall be disposed of in accordance with regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions hereof, the 
Secretary may require marketing certificates issued for any marketing 
year to be acquired to cover sales, i-emovals, or exportations made on 
or after the date during the calendar year in which wheat harvested in 
such calendar year begins to be marketed as determined by the Secre-
Certificates, 
face value. 
76 Stat. 627. 
7 u s e 13790. 
7 u s e 1379d. 
Wheat. 
International 
trade, expansion. 
Refunds or 
credits for cer-
tificates. 
Exemptions 
from require-
ments. 
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[78 STAT. 
"Food prod-
ucts." 
76 Stat. 628. 
7 u s e 1379d. 
Price support 
levels. 
76 Stat. 630. 
7 u s e 1445a. 
63 Stat. 1051. 
7 u s e 1441. 
7 u s e 1421. 
63 Stat. 10 51. 
7 u s e 1441. 
"eooperator.** 
76 Stat. 622. 
7 u s e 1339. 
tary even though such wheat is marketed prior to the beginning of the 
marketing year, and marketing certificates for such marketing year 
shall be valid to cover sales, removals, or exportations made on or after 
the date so determined by the Secretary." 
(17) Section 379d(d) is amended to read as follows: 
"(d) As used in this subtitle, the term 'food products' means flour, 
semolina, farina, bulgur, beverage, and any other product composed 
wholly or partly of wheat which the Secretary may determine to be a 
food product." 
SEC. 208. Section 107 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 107. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 101 of this 
Act, beginning with the 1964 crop— 
"(1) Price support for wlieat accompanied by domestic certifi-
cates shall be at such level not less than 65 per centum or more 
than 90 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary 
determines appropriate, taking into consideration the factors 
specified in section 401(b). 
" (2) Price support for wheat accompanied by export certificates 
shall be at such level not more than 90 per centum of the parity 
price therefor as the Secretary determmes appropriate, taking 
into consideration the factors specified in section 401(b). 
"(3) Price support for wheat not accompanied by marketing 
certificates shall be at such level, not in excess of 90 per centum 
of the parity price therefor, as the Secretary determines appropri-
ate, taking into consideration competitive world prices of wheat, 
the feeding value of wheat in relation to feed grains, and the 
level at which price support is made available for feed grains. 
"(4) Price support shall be made available only to cooperators: 
and, if a commercial wheat-producing area is established for such 
crop, price support shall be made available only in the commer-
cial wheat-producing area. 
"(5) Effective with respect to crops planted for harvest in the 
calendar year 1966 and any subsequent year, the level of price sup-
port for any crop of wheat for which a national marketing; quota 
is not proclaimed or for which marketing quotas have been dis-
approved by producers shall be as provided in section 101. 
(6) A 'eooperator' with respect to any crop of wheat produced 
on a farm shall be a producer who (i) does not knowingly exceed 
(A) the farm acreage allotment for wheat on the farm or (B) 
except as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe, the farm 
acreage allotment for wheat on any other farm on which the 
producer shares in the production of wheat, and (ii) complies 
with the land-use requirements of section 339 of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to the extent prescribed by 
the Secretary. 
Effective with respect to crops planted for harvest 
in the calendar year 1966 and any subsequent year, if marketing 
quotas are not in effect for the crop of wlieat, a 'eooperator' with 
respect to any crop of wheat produced on a farm shall be a pro-
ducer who does not knowingly exceed the farm acreage allotment 
for wheat. 
No producer shall be deemed to have exceeded a farm 
acreage allotment for wheat if the entire amount of the farm 
marketing excess is delivered to the Secretary or stored in accord-
ance with applicable regulations to avoid or postpone payment 
of the penalty, but the producer shall not be eligible to receive 
price support on such marketing excess. No producer shall be 
deemed to have exceeded the farm acreage allotment for wheat 
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76 Stat. 621. 
7 u s e 1335. 
on any other farm, if such farm is exempt from the farm market-
ing quota for such crop under section 335. No producer shall be 
deemed to have exceeded a farm acreage allotment for wheat if 
tlie production on the acreage in excess of the farm acreage allot-
ment is stored pursuant to the provisions of section 379c(b), but 
^ ^^^ i379c. 
the producer shall not be eligible to receive price support on the 
wheat so stored." 
SEC. 204. Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, 
7\fsc*"ii27?' 
is amended, effective only with respect to the marketing years begin-
ning in the calendar years 1964 and 1965, and by striking the second 
proviso from the third sentence, and substituting: ^'Provided 
further. 
That if a wheat marketing allocation program is in effect, the current 
support price for wheat shall be the support price for wheat not accom-
panied by marketing certificates." 
Approved April 11, 1964, 12:30 p.m. 
Public Law 88-298 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
April i7, i964 
I'roviding for the recojniition and endorsement of the Seventeenth International 
—^^ 
^ 
Publishers Congress. 
A^liereas the United States has, for the first time, been accorded the 
honor of receiving several hundred delegates from more than twenty 
countries throughout the world in May and June 1965 to participate 
in deliberations on the challenges and opportunities of international 
book and music publishing: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate arid House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Confess hereby 
extends its official welcome to the book and music publishers from irshers congress 
abroad who will attend the Seventeenth Congress of the International 
Publishers Association in Washington, District of Columbia, May 30-
June 5, 1965, under the sponsorship of the American Book Publishers 
Council, Inc., and the Music Publishers Association, Inc. The Presi-
dent is authorized and requested to grant recognition, in such ways 
as he may deem proper, to the International Publishers Congress, 
calling upon officials and agencies of the Government to provide such 
assistance, facilities, and cooperation as the occasion may Avarrant. 
Approved April 17, 1964. 
Public Law 88-299 
AN A C T 
April 27, 1964 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to organize and microfilm the papers of 
[H. R. 8465] 
Presidents of the United States in the collections of the library of Congress." 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress aMsemhled, That the Act entitled 
Presidential 
"An Act to organize and microfilm the papers of the Presidents of the ^ISfcrofiiming, 
United States in the collections of the Library of Congress" (71 Stat. 
368) is hereby amended by striking out section 2 by which there was 
^ "^^ isinote. 
authorized the appropriation of a sum of $720,000 to remain available 
until expended and by substituting the following: 
"SEC, 2. There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as 
Appropriation. 
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act." 
Approved April 27, 1964. 
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ternational Pub-