An Act to amend sections 3 and 4 of she act approved September 22, 1964 (78 Stet. 990), providing for an investigation and study to determine a site or the construction of a sea-level canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
PL 90-244 (S.1566), enacted 01/02/1968

81 STAT. J 
PUBLIC LAW 90-244-J 
AN. 2, 1968 
781 
Public Law 90-243 
AN A C T 
January 2, 1968 
To amend the wheat acreage allotment provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment ^__[S^j72|2] 
Act of 1938, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetnbled. That the second 
wheat. 
sentence of section 3S4(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of ments!^fdjust° 
ment. 
79 Stat. 1199. 
1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1334(a)), be amended by inserting the 
language "(1)" between the words "used" and "to", and by striking 
out the period at the end of the sentence and inserting in lieu thereof 
a comma and the following language: "or (2) to increase the allotment 
for any county, in which wheat is the principal grain crop produced, 
on the basis of its relative need for such increase if the average ratio 
of wheat acreage allotment to cropland on old wheat farms in such 
county is less by at least 20 per centum than such average ratio on old 
wheat farms in an adjoining county or counties in which wheat is the 
principal grain crop produced or if there is a definable contiguous 
area consisting of at least 10 per centum of the cropland acreage in 
such county in which the average ratio of wheat acreage allotment to 
cropland on old wheat farms is less by at least 20 per centum than 
such average ratio on the remaining old wheat farms in such county, 
provided that such low ratio of wheat acreage allotment to cropland 
is due to the shift prior to 1951 from wheat to one or more alternative 
income-producing crops which, because of plant disease or sustained 
loss of markets, may no longer be produced at a fair profit and there 
is no other alternative income-producing crop suitable for production 
in the area or county. The increase in the county allotment under clause 
(2) of the preceding sentence shall be used to increase allotments for 
old wheat farms in the affected area to make such allotments com-
parable with those on similar farms in adjoining areas or counties but 
the average ratio of increased allotments to cropland on such farms 
shall not exceed the average ratio of wheat acreage allotment to crop-
land on old wheat farms in the adjoinijig areas or counties." 
Approved January 2, 1968. 
Public Law 90-244 
AN A C T 
January 2, 1968 
To amend sections 3 and 4 of the Act approved September 22, 1964 (78 Stat. ___[s^_i56i5] 
990), providing for an investigation and study to determine a site for the 
construction of a sea-level canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
limited States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act ap- 
interoceamc 
proved September 22, 1964 (Public Law 88-609, 78 Stat. 990), as "°"' 
amended, is hereby further amended by striking out "June 30, 1968" 
in section 3 and inserting in lieu thereof "December 1,1969". 
Approved January 2, 1968. 
canal site.