An Act to authorize the sale at current support prices of agricultural commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide feed for livestock in areas determined to be emergency areas, and for other purposes.
PL 86-299 (S.2504), enacted 09/21/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-299-SEPT. 21, 1959 
[73 ST A T 
Public Law 86-299 
September 21. 1959 
[S. 2504J 
AN ACT 
To authorize the sale at current support prices of agricultural coumiodities owned 
by the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide feed for livestock in areas 
determined to be emergency areas, and for other purposes. 
Agriculture. 
Livestock feed. 
63 Stat, 1055. 
7 u s e 1427. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Revresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstand-
ing the provisions of section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell, at current support 
prices, any wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, or grain sorghums (hereafter 
referred to as feed grains), owned by the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion, to provide feed for livestock in any area determined by him to 
be an emergency area under section 2. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary may, after certification by the Governor of 
the State in which such area is situated of the need therefor, designate 
any area as an emergency area for the purposes of this Act if he 
determines that, as a result of flood, drought, hurricane, tornado, earth-
quake, or other catastrophe including disease or insect infestation, 
there is a shortage of feed for livestock in such area. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary shall not sell feed grains under this Act to 
any person unless he is satisfied that such person does not have, and 
is unable to obtain through normal channels of trade without undue 
financial hardship, sufficient feed for livestock owned by him, and 
unless such person agrees to use the feed grains only for feed for 
such livestock. 
SEC. 4. Any person who fails to carry out an agreement entered into 
under section 3 with respect to any feed grains purchased under this 
Act, or who disposes of any such feed grains other than by feeding 
to livestock owned by him, shall be subject to a penalty equal to but 
not in excess of the market value of the feed grains involved, to be 
recovered by the Secretary in a civil suit brought for that purpose, 
and in addition shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 
thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprison-
ment for not more than one year. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
September 21, 1959 
[S. 2569] 
Public Law 86-300 
AN ACT 
To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection 161 
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m. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended by 
striking out "Section 103 or 104" and inserting in lieu thereof "Sec-
tion 103,104,53 a. (4), or 63 a. (4)". 
SEC. 2. Section 163 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
is amended by inserting after the words "from receiving compensa-
tion" the following words "from a source other than a nonprofit 
educational institution". 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
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amendments 
68 Stat. 950. 
42 u s e 2201. 
68 Stat. 951. 
42 u s e 2203.