An Act to amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide for a Great Plains conservation program
PL 84-1021 (H.R.11833), enacted 08/07/1956

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"CONTRIBUTIONS 
"SEC. 512. In connection with loans made pursuant to section 503, 
the Secretary is authorized to make commitments for contributions 
aggregating not to exceed $10,000,000 during the period beginning 
July 1,1956, and ending June 30,1961." 
(c) Clause (b) of section 513 of such Act is amended to read as 
follows: "(b) not to exceed $50,000,000 for grants pursuant to section 
504 (a) and loans pursuant to section 504 (b) during the period begin-
ning July 1,1956, and ending June 30,1961; and^'. 
(d) This section shall take effect as of July 1,1956. 
SERVICEMEN'S READJUSTMENT ACT OF 
1944 
SEC. 607. Paragraph (C) of subsection (b) of section 512 of the 
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 is amended by striking out 
"1957" and inserting in lieu thereof "1958". 
Approved August 7, 1956. 
63 Stat. 434. 
42 u s e 1473. 
63 Stat. 438. 
42 u s e 1483. 
Effective dat<i. 
69 Stat. 168. 
38 u s e 6941. 
Public Law 1021 
CHAPTER 1030 
AN ACT 
To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act and the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide for a Great Plains conservation 
program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 16 of 
the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is 
amended (a) by inserting " ( a ) " after the period following "SEC. 16," 
and (b) by adding the following subsection: 
"(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— 
"(1) the Secretary is authorized, within the amounts of such 
appropriations as may be provided therefor, to enter into con-
tracts of not to exceed ten years with producers in the Great Plains 
area determined by him to have control for the contract period 
of the farms or ranclies covered thereby. Such contracts shall be 
designed to assist farm and ranch operators to make, in orderly 
progression over a period of years, changes in their cropping 
systems and land uses which are needed to conserve the soil and 
water resources of their farms and ranches and to install the soil 
and water conservation measures needed under such changed sys-
tems and uses. Such contracts shall be in effect during the period 
ending not later than December 31, 1971, on farms and ranches 
in counties in the Great Plains area of the States of Colorado, 
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla-
homa, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, designated by the 
Secretary as susceptible to serious wind erosion by reason of their 
soil types, terrain, and climatic and other factors. The producer 
shall furnish to the Secretary a plan of farming operations which 
incorporates such soil and water conservation practices and prin-
ciples as may be determined by him to be practicable for maximum 
mitigation of climatic hazards of the area in which the farm is 
located, and which outlines a schedule of proposed changes in 
cropping systems and land use and of the conservation measures 
which are to be carried out on the farm or ranch during the con-
tract period to protect the farm or ranch from erosion and deteri-
oration by natural causes. Under the contract the producer shall 
agree— 
August 7, 1956 
[H. R. 11833] 
S o i l 
eonserva-
tlon and Domestic 
A l l o t m e n t 
Act, 
amendments. 
4 9 Stat. IISI. 
16 u s e 590p. 
Gre at P l a i n s 
conservation pro-
gram. 
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Cost sharing. 
Termination of 
contract. 
52 Stat. 31. 
7 u s e 1281. 
55 Stat. 203. 
"(i) to effectuate the plan for his farm or ranch substan-
tially in accordance with the schedule outlined therein unless 
any requirement thereof is waived or modified by the Secre-
tary pursuant to paragraph (3) of this subsection; 
"(ii) to forfeit all rights to further payments or grants 
under the contract and refund to the United States all pay-
ments or grants received thereunder upon his violation of the 
contract at any stage during the time he has control of the 
farm if the Secretary determines that such violation is of 
such a nature as to warrant termination of the contract, or 
to make refunds or accept such payment adjustments as the 
Secretary may deem appropriate if he determines that the 
producer's violation does not warrant termination of the con-
tract ; 
"(iii) upon transfer of his right and interest in the farm 
or ranch during the contract period to forfeit all rights to 
further payments or grants under the contract and refund 
to the United States all payments or grants received there-
under unless the transferee of the farm or ranch agrees with 
the Secretary to assume all obligations of the contract; 
"(iv) not to adopt any practice specified by the Secretary 
in the contract as a practice which would tend to defeat the 
purposes of the contract; 
"(v) to such additional provisions as the Secretary deter-
mines are desirable and includes in the contract to effectuate 
the purposes of the program or to facilitate the practical 
administration of the program. 
In return for such agreement by the producer the Secretary shall 
agree to share the cost of carrying out those conservation prac-
tices set forth in the contract for which he determines that cost-
sharing is appropriate and in the public interest. 
The portion 
of such cost (including labor) to be shared shall be that part 
which the Secretary determines is necessary and appropriate to 
effectuate the physical installation of the conservation measures 
under the contract; 
"(2) the Secretary may terminate any contract with a producer 
by mutual agreement with the producer if the Secretary deter-
mines that such termination would be in the public interest, and 
may agree to such modification of contracts previously entered 
into as he may determine to be desirable to carry out the purposes 
of the program or facilitate the practical administration thereof; 
"(3) insofar as the acreage of cropland on any farm enter 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 entered into under this subsection by reason 
of any action taken for the purpose of carrying out such contract; 
"(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 marketing 
quotas in order to carry out the contract entered into under the 
program shall be considered acreage devoted to the commodity 
for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and farm 
acreage allotments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended; 
"(5) in applying the provisions of paragraph (6) of Public 
Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress (7 U. S. C. 1340 (6)), relating 
to the reduction of storage amount of wheat, any acreage diverted 
from the production of wheat under the program carried out 
under this subsection shall be regarded as wheat acreage; 
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" (6) the Secretary shall utilize the technical services of agencies 
of the Department of Agriculture in determining the scope and 
provisions of any plan and the acceptability of the plan for effec-
tuating the purposes of the program. 
In addition the Secretary 
shall take into consideration programs of State and local agen-
cies, including soil conservation districts, having for their pur-
poses the objectives of maximum soil and vrater conservation; 
"(7) there is hereby authorized to be appropriated without 
fiscal year limitations, such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out this subsection: Provided^ That the total cost of the program 
(excluding administrative costs) shall not exceed $150,000,000, 
and for any program year payments shall not exceed $25,000,000. 
The funds made available for the program under this subsection 
may be expended without regard to the maximum payment limita-
tion and small payment increases required under section 8 (e) of 
this Act, and may be distributed among States without regard 
to distribution of funds formulas of section 15 of this Act. 
The 
program authorized under this subsection shall be in addition to, 
and not in substitution of, other programs in such area author-
ized by this or any other Act." 
SEC. 2. Section 834 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1988, as 
amended, is amended, effective beginning with the 1957 crop of wheat, 
by adding a new subsection as follows: 
"(g) If the county committee determines that any producer is pre-
vented from seeding wheat for harvest as grain in his usual planting 
season because of unfavorable weather conditions, and the operator 
of the farm notifies the county committee not later than December 1 
in any area where only winter wheat is grown, or June 1 in the spring 
wheat area (including an area where both spring and winter wheat are 
grown), that he does not intend to seed his full wheat allotment for 
the crop year because of the unfavorable weather conditions, the en-
tire farm wheat allotment for such year shall be regarded as wheat 
acreage for the purposes of establishing future State, county, and 
farm acreage allotments: Provided^ That if any producer on a farm 
obtains a reduction in the storage amount of any previous crop of 
wheat by reason of underplanting the farm wheat acreage allotment 
pursuant to paragraph (6) of Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Con-
gress (7 U. S. C. 1840 (6)), or by reason of producing less than the 
normal production of the farm wheat acreage allotment pursuant to 
section 826 (b) of this Act, this provision may not be made applicable 
to such farm with respect to the crop of wheat for which the farm 
acreage allotment was established." 
Approved August 7, 1956. 
Appropriations. 
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590o. 
5 9 0 h. 
7 u s e 1334. 
55 Stat. 203. 
7 u s e 1326. 
Public Law 1022 
CHAPTER 1031 
AN ACT 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the allowance, as 
deductions, of contributions to medical research organizations. 
August 7, 1956 
[H. R. 12152] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 170 (b) 
contributions for 
(1) (A) (iii) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to char- '"^g'sA^ta^^^sY**' 
itable contributions and gifts) is amended by inserting immediately 
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after "section 508 (b) (5)," the following: "or to a medical research 
organization (referred to in section 508 (b) (5)) directly engaged in 
the continuous active conduct of medical research in conjunction with 
a hospital, if during the calendar year in which the contribution is 
68A Stat. 166., 
26 u s e 503.