An Act to protect farm and ranch operators making certain land use changes under the Great Plains conservation program against loss of acreage allotments.
PL 86-793 (S.3533), enacted 09/14/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-793-SEPT. 14, 1960 
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Public Law 86-793 
September 14. 1960 
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[S. 3533] 
To protect farm and ranch operators making certain land use changes undei*' 
the Great Plains conservation program against loss of acreage allotments. 
G r e a t 
P l a i n s 
Conservation pro 
52 Stat. 31. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^''^^^ted States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 16 of 
kram,""°""" ^'" the Soil Conservatioii and Domestic Allotment Act of 1938, as 
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• amended, is amended as fOIIOAVS : 
49 Stat. 1151. 
(1) Paragraph (3) of subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: 
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u^g^ insofar as the acreage of cropland on any farm enters into 
the determination of acreage allotments and marketing quotas 
under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the 
cropland acreage on the farm shall not be decreased during the 
period of any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into under 
this subsection by reason of any action taken for the purpose of 
carrying out such contract and, under regulations of the Secre-
tary, shall not be decreased, for such period after the expiration 
of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, by reason 
of the maintenance of any change in land use from cultivated 
cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the contract;" 
(2) Paragraph (4) of subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: 
"(4) the acreage on any farm which is determined under regu-
lations of the Secretary to have been diverted from the produc-
tion of any commodity subject to acreage allotments or market-
ing quotas in order to carry out any contract heretofore or here-
after entered into under the program or in order to maintain, 
for such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal 
to the period of the contract, any change in land use from cul-
tivated cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the 
contract shall be considered acreage devoted to the cx)mmodity 
for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm 
acreage allotments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended." 
^oftat. 195. 
SEC. 2. Section 112 of the Soil Bank Act, as amended, is amended 
as lollows: 
(1) Paragraph (1) is amended to read as follows: 
"(1) insofar as the acreage of cropland on any farm enters into 
the determination of acreage allotments and marketing quotas 
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under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
the cropland acreage on the farm shall not be decreased during 
the period of any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into 
under this subtitle by reason of any action taken for the purpose 
of carrying out such contract and, under regulations of the Secre-
tary, shall not be decreased, for such period after the expiration 
of the contract as is equal to the period of the contract, by rea-
son of the maintenance of any change in land use from cultivated 
cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the con-
tract ;" 
(2) Paragraph (2) is amended to read as follows: 
"(2) the acreage on any farm which is determined under regu-
lations of the Secretary to have been diverted from the produc-
tion of any commodity subject to acreage allotments or market-
ing quotas in order to carry out any contract heretofore or here-
after entered into under this subtitle or in order to maintain, for 
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such period after the expiration of the contract as is equal to 
the period of the contract, any change in land use from cultivated 
cropland to permanent vegetation carried out under the contract 
shall be considered acreage devoted to the commodity for the 
purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm acreage 
allotments under tlie Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
7\j|*c*i2^8i 
amended." 
Approved September 14, 1960. 
Public Law 86-794 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
^ST^Reif 402]° 
Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the States of Virginia and 
Maryland and the District of Columbia to enter into a compact related to the 
regulation of mass transit in the Washington, District of Columbia metropolitan 
area, and for other purposes. 
69 Stat. 33. 
Whereas the re^julation of mass transit service in the metropolitan 
area of Washington, District of Columbia, is divided among the 
public utility regulatory agencies of the States of Virginia, Mary-
land, and tlie District of Columbia and the Interstate Commerce 
Commission; and 
Whereas such divided regulatory responsibility is not conducive to 
the development of an adequate system of mass transit for the entire 
metropolitan area, which is in fact a single integrated, urban 
community; and 
Whereas the Legislatures of Virginia and Maryland and the Board 
of Commissioners of the District of Columbia in 1954 created a Joint 
Commission to study, among other things, whether joint action by 
Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia is necessary or 
desirable in connection with the regulation of passenger carrier 
facilities operating in such areas and the provision of adequate, non-
discriminatory and uniform service therein; and 
"Whereas said Joint Commission has actively participated in the mass 
transit study authorized by the Congress (Public Law 24 and Public 
Law 573, Eighty-fourth Congress), and in furtherance thereof said 
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Joint Commission has negotiated the Washington metropolitan area 
transit regulation compact, set forth in full below, providing for 
the establishment of a single organization as the common agency of 
the signatories to regulate transit and alleviate traffic congestion, 
which compact has been enacted by Virginia (ch. 627, 1958 Act of 
Assembly) and in substantially the same language by Maryland 
(ch. 613, Acts of General Assembly 1959) ; and 
Whereas said compact adequately protects the national interest in 
mass transit service in the metropolitan area of the Nation's Capital 
and properly accommodates the National and State interests in and 
obligations toward mass transit in the metropolitan area: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States 
of America 
in Congress assembled,, That the consent and jnTe'rs'ta'te c'^' 
approval of Congress is hereby given to the States of Virginia and pact**^* 
Maryland and to the District of Columbia to enter into a compact, 
substantially as follows, for the regulation and improvement of mass 
transit in the Washington metropolitan area, which compact, known 
as the Washington metropolitan area transit regulation compact, has 
been negotiated by representatives of the States and the District of