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United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
Food Stamp Program Transfer Act of 1980 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to transfer the administration of the food stamp program from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Makes necessary conforming changes in such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
Designates March 19, 1981, as "National Agriculture Day."
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release the condition requiring that a specified parcel of land in Allegany County conveyed to New York State be used for public purposes and to convey the United States mineral interests in such parcel to the State.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1980
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing rural transportation cooperatives in areas not adequately served by the private sector. Specifies topics to be considered in such study, including: (1) which Federal agencies would assist in the formation of the cooperative organizations; (2) an estimate of personnel and funding requirements; and (3) the ability of the cooperative to provide both passenger and freight services. Authorizes appropriations for such study and report.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1980
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture an Office of Transportation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint an Administrator of such Office and to delegate to the Administrator all functions of the Secretary with respect to the transportation concerns of rural and agricultural interests. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress an annual report which: (1) describes the activities of the office; (2) assesses transportation services in the rural areas of the United States; and (3) includes recommendations for improving such services.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1980
Appropriates an additional $2,556,174,000 for the food stamp program for fiscal year 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1980
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.J. Res. 545 (food stamp program appropriations, fiscal year 1980).
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish price supports under the producer storage program for the 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat and feed grains at not less than $3.30 per bushel for wheat, $2.40 for corn, and appropriate levels for other feed grains. States that such levels are not to be used to determine the level of repayment of storage loans for such crops prior to the maturity date or the levels at which the Secretary may call for such repayment. Requires the producer storage program to provide for: (1) conditions designed to induce producers to redeem and market such wheat and feed grains at not less than $4.00 per bushel for wheat and not less than $3.00 per bushel for corn; and (2) conditions prescribed by the Secretary under which the Secretary may require the repayment of storage loans, interest, and refund amounts paid for storage. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling any of its stock of wheat or feed grains at less than 105 percent of the then current level at which the Secretary may call for repayment of producer storage loans prior to the maturity dates.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the level of price support loans for the producer storage program for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of wheat and feed grains.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 - Title I: Reduction in Food Stamp Error and Fraud and Revision of Deductions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to extend coverage under the food stamp program to shelters that prepare and serve meals for battered women and/or children. Excludes from household income, for the purpose of determining eligibility for the food stamp program, payments or allowances made under any Federal, State, or local laws for the purpose of providing energy assistance. States that the Consumer Price Index referred to in the computation of household income is the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers. Permits a dependent care deduction from household income up to a maximum of $160 per month under specified conditions. Expands medical deductions for the elderly. Includes medical deductions for the blind and disabled in specified areas. Directs participating State agencies to elect and utilize, in calculating income for most households applying for food stamps, either of the following two methods: (1) taking into account the income reasonably anticipated to be received in the certification period and the income received during the 30 days preceding application, so as to ascertain the income actually available to the household for the certification period; or (2) using income received in a previous month as the basis in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture (retrospective accounting). Excludes from household assets automobiles necessary for transportation of a disabled household member. Grants State agencies the opportunity to proceed against alleged fraudulent activity by specified means. Prescribes general standards for State periodic household income reporting requirements. Prohibits a household from qualifying for the food stamp program as a result of a member of such household going out on strike. Provides that the income and financial resources of an alien ineligible to participate in the food stamp program shall be considered in determining the eligibility of the household of which such alien is a member. Requires the person certifying such household to immediately report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service that a member of such household is present in the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Requires each State agency to determine the eligibility of applicant households by verifying includable income by specified means. Permits such agency to verify, prior to certification, the size of any applicant household and factors of eligibility for households falling within error-prone household profiles. Directs each State agency to require the use of photo identification for the receipt of coupons in specified project areas. Makes cost-sharing funds of 75 percent available to the State agencies for the establishment and operation of an automatic data processing and information retrieval system to provide efficient and effective administration of the food stamp program. Sets forth the methods the Secretary of Agriculture may use to determine when a State agency has failed to comply with: (1) the provisions of this Act; or (2) the Secretary's standards for the efficient and effective administration of such program. Permits the Secretary to withhold from such State such funds as he deems appropriate. Requires a financial audit review of project areas within a State when the ratio of such State's average food stamp participation in a quarter to the State's total population exceeds 60 percent. Requires the forfeiture of anything of value furnished or intended to be furnished in exchange for coupons or authorization cards in any manner not authorized by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to assume specified percentages of the administrative costs of State agencies whose rates of error and/or error reduction are at specified levels. Directs the Secretary to institute an error liability program under which each State agency shall pay to the Secretary the amount by which the dollar equivalent of the agency's payment error rate exceeds the dollar value equivalent of the national standard payment error rate, or an amount determined by a specified formula, whichever is higher. Requires the Secretary to change the method of calculating each State agency's payment error rate if, after study, the Secretary determines that it is feasible to include in such calculation invalid decisions denying eligibility to households which are in fact eligible. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to disclose to the Secretary and such agencies specified information about employment earnings and benefit payments contained in Social Security Administration records, and also any tax return information previously disclosed to him from the master files of the Internal Revenue Service, which is necessary for determining or auditing a household's eligibility. Requires similar disclosure regarding unemployment compensation and any refused offers of employment from State unemployment compensation agencies. Requires the continuation of cash-out pilot projects through October 1, 1981, under specified conditions. Requires reports describing the results of workfare projects through fiscal year 1981. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay 50 percent of the administrative costs of such projects. Directs the Congressional Budget Office, in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, to review the Consumer Price Index and other cost-of-living indices to determine which is the most accurate indexation base for the food stamp program. Requires the Office to make a report to the appropriate committees of Congress by February 1, 1981. Prohibits the use of any authorized funds to impede or interfere with any provision of this Act. Title II: Food Stamp Funding - Increases the appropriations ceiling for the food stamp program for fiscal years 1980 and 1981. Permits the further increase of such ceiling by a specified percent when unanticipated increases in the cost-of- living or unemployment occur.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1980
Swine Health Protection Act - Prohibits the feeding, or the permission to feed, of garbage to swine unless such garbage has been treated to kill disease organisms, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, at a facility holding a valid permit issued by the Secretary (or the chief agricultural or animal health official of a State with an agreement with the Secretary). Exempts waste from ordinary household operations which is fed directly to swine on the same premises as the household from coverage as "garbage" under this Act. Requires persons operating a garbage-treatment facility who know such garbage is to be fed to swine to hold a valid permit issued under this Act. Provides for the issuance, suspension, and revocation of such permits. Requires that such facilities, to be issued such permits: (1) meet requirements prescribed by the Secretary to prevent the introduction or dissemination of any infectious or communicable disease of animals or poultry; and (2) be so constructed that swine are unable to enter the premises or have access to untreated garbage or material coming in contact with such garbage. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Provides for general enforcement of this Act by the Attorney General, upon the request of the Secretary, in U.S. district courts. Provides for cooperative agreements with State agencies for coordination of enforcement, administration, and regulation under this Act and under State law. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or supercede any State law prohibiting the feeding of garbage to swine. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1980
Requires loans and purchases of the 1979 crop of soybeans to be made by the Secretary of Agriculture without regard to compliance with the reduction of acreage requirements of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 and the set-aside requirements of the Agricultural Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1980
Agricultural Subterminal Storage Facilities Act of 1980 - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make financial assistance (in the form of grants) available to States to assist in the development of subterminal facilities plans for such States. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary to insure and guarantee loans to public, private, or cooperative organizations organized for profit or nonprofit or to individuals to finance the construction or improvement of subterminal facilities. Provides that such assistance may be furnished only if: (1) the construction or improvement of the subterminal facilities is consistent with an approved State or regional plan and the recommendations of the local plan review commission; (2) the Secretary determines that the ownership and operation of the facility will result in the efficient and competitive shipment of bulk agricultural commodities and increased benefits to local producers; and (3) the Secretary determines that the rail carrier designated to provide service to the facility will be able to provide adequate service. Authorizes the Secretary to make such loan assistance available only if borrowers are unable to obtain credit from commercial lending institutions. Requires the Secretary, in order to preserve local ownership and control of agricultural transportation, to give loan assistance preference to existing storage facility operators and local agricultural producers in the area to be served by the subterminal facility. Provides that the loan authority for such facilities and equipment shall be allocated among qualifying States or groups of States based on a formula established by the Secretary that includes the total State railroad mileage, the annual production and transportation of bulk agricultural commodities, and the existing storage capacity for such commodities within the affected area, as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Defines "subterminal facility" as any facility used for the transient storage of bulk agricultural commodities or for transporting, upgrading, receiving, drying, or loading them out. Requires such facilities to be located between an area of agricultural production and any major storage or major export point, at a place that conveniently serves the needs of producers and purchasers of such commodities, including rail sidings, and loading or unloading facilities which can accommodate unit railroad cars and other appropriate transportation modes designed for the transport and storage of bulk agricultural commodities. Prescribes the necessary content of the grain shipment and storage plans required from applicant States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to bona fide farmers and ranchers who are primarily and directly engaged in agricultural production and who have substantial operations in breeding, raising, fattening, or marketing livestock. Directs the Secretary to guarantee loans made by any legally-organized lending agency up to 90 percent of the principal and interest. Requires such lender, as a condition of the guarantee, to certify to the Secretary that the lender is unwilling to provide credit to the applicant in the absence of such guarantee, that the applicant is directly engaged in agricultural production and the financing provided is to be used for livestock purposes, and that the loan is to maintain existing operations. Establishes a ceiling on the amount of loans guaranteed for any borrower. Requires such loans to be secured by collateral acceptable to the Secretary. Establishes a ceiling on the total amount of loan guarantees outstanding. Excludes such guarantees from the budget totals of the United States Government. Applies the provisions of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to loans guaranteed under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Soybean Emergency Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish price supports for the 1980 and 1981 crops of soybeans at not less than $5.02 per bushel.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to defer principal and interest and forego foreclosure on loans provided under any law administered by the Farmers Home Administration during any period in which the earnings on investment in the agricultural sector are less than such earnings in the nonagricultural sector.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to bona fide farmers and ranchers who are primarily and directly engaged in agricultural production and who have substantial operations in breeding, raising, fattening, or marketing livestock. Directs the Secretary to guarantee loans made by any legally-organized lending agency up to 90 percent of the principal and interest. Requires such lender, as a condition of the guarantee, to certify to the Secretary that the lender is unwilling to provide credit to the applicant in the absence of such guarantee, that the applicant is directly engaged in agricultural production and the financing provided is to be used for livestock purposes, and that the loan is to maintain existing operations. Establishes a ceiling on the amount of loans guaranteed for any borrower. Requires such loans to be secured by collateral acceptable to the Secretary. Establishes a ceiling on the total amount of loan guarantees outstanding. Excludes such guarantees from the budget totals of the United States Government. Applies the provisions of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to loans guaranteed under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should formulate and implement an emergency loan program to assist farmers in meeting the cost of producing their 1980 crops.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1980
Designates the week beginning April 5, 1981, as "National Vegetable Garden Week."
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1980
Food Security Act of 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to develop a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries. Directs the President to establish a reserve stock of wheat of up to 4,000,000 metric tons. Authorizes the President to release such stocks on a donation or concessional sale basis to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries at any time that the domestic supply of wheat in the United States is so limited that quantities cannot be made available except for urgent humanitarian purposes, but any wheat removed for such purpose shall not be replaced. Exempts such reserve stock from limitations which may be imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Export Administration Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase price supports for the 1980 crop of corn to not less than $2.35 per bushel, for the 1981 crop of corn to not less than $2.50 per bushel, for the 1980 crop of wheat to not less than $3.63 per bushel, and for the 1981 crop of wheat to not less than $3.90 per bushel.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to make price support loans on the 1979 crops of corn and wheat to any producer who did not comply with the requirements of the 1979 set-aside program for the commodity. Authorizes the sale of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn for use in making alcohol for motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should establish a discount rate for agricultural paper which is less than the rate for commercial and industrial paper.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to make price support loans on the 1979 crops of corn and wheat to any producer who did not comply with the requirements of the 1979 set-aside program for the commodity. Authorizes the sale of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn for use in making alcohol for motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish programs of land diversion payments with respect to the 1980 crops of feed grains and wheat. Requires producers seeking such payments to devote not more than 1,000 acres of crop land during the 1980 crop year to approved conservation purposes. Establishes a ceiling on the amount of total payments to feed grain and wheat producers under such programs. Sets forth the formulae for computing the payment to a producer under such programs. Sets payment rates, for the purposes of such formulae, at $1.25 per bushel for corn with all other feed grain prices fixed in relation to such price, and $1.50 per bushel of wheat. Directs the Secretary to implement and administer a special wheat acreage grazing and hay program for the 1980 crop year.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Emergency Agricultural Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and implement an emergency price support program for the 1979 crops of wheat and corn. Directs the Secretary to make available to producers for 60 days loans and purchases at specified levels for wheat and corn for both participants and nonparticipants in the Federal crop program. Entitles producers already carrying a price support loan on the 1979 crop to an additional price support loan. Limits the availability of emergency loans and purchases to producers who did not participate in the 1979 wheat or feed grain program to up to 50 percent of the wheat or corn produced in the 1979 crop year on the acreage normally planted to designated crops.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to reduce the value of the allotment received by a household containing members who have available to them meals provided under the national school lunch program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Food and Agricultural Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase the same quantity of classes of commodities affected by a suspension of commercial export sales of a specified commodity as he is required to purchase of such suspended commodity.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase loan rates under the price support loan program for the 1980 and 1981 crops of corn and wheat. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to make price support loans on the 1979 crops of corn and wheat to any producer of corn or wheat who did not comply with the requirements of the 1979 set-aside program for the commodity. Authorizes the sale of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn for use in making alcohol for motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require annual rather than biannual adjustments in the cost of the thrifty food plan and the standard deduction under the food stamp program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains to divert from production 12,000,000 metric tons of such grains. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that feed grain producers devote to approved conservation uses not less than 15 percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Set forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at not less than $1.25 per bushel for corn and at a fair and reasonable rate in relation to such corn rate, as determined by the Secretary, for all other feed grains. Directs the Secretary to establish a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of wheat to divert from production 4,000,000 metric tons of wheat. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that wheat producers devote to approved conservation uses not less than ten percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at not less than $1.50 per bushel. Directs the Secretary to implement and administer a special grazing and hay program for the 1980 crop year. Sets payments rates for the 1980 crop of wheat under such program at not less than $0.50 per bushel.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Directs (rather than permits) the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations for the clean and sanitary movement of livestock and poultry in interstate commerce or into or from the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980
Amends the National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to issue commodity letters of credit each fiscal year to each State participating in the food service programs under this Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 for the purchase of domestic agricultural commodities and other foods for use in carrying out these programs. Directs the Secretary to specify the types of commodities and other foods to be purchased with such letters, with special emphasis to be given high protein foods. Establishes the national average value of commodity letters of credit for fiscal year 1981. Sets forth the formula for the periodic adjustment of such average. Apportions such letters to each State based upon the number of school lunches served in such State. Directs each State to further apportion the value of the letters received to each school based upon the number of lunches served in such school. Directs the Secretary to forward to each State an advance program payment to be used by the State under the letters for the purchase of foods for the requirements of lunches and breakfasts. Substitutes such commodity letter program for the direct purchase and donation of commodities by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to issue commodity letters of credit in lieu of direct purchase and donation for the purchase of agricultural commodities for use in institutions participating in the child care food program. Sets forth the formula for determining the value of such letters. Permits each State participating in such program to elect to receive cash payments in lieu of some or all of such letters. Directs the Secretary to make available to the Department of Defense the same payments and commodity letters of credit as are provided to the States for breakfasts and lunches to students attending dependents' schools outside the United States. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to substitute the commodity letters of credit for the direct purchase and donation of commodities by the Secretary. Permits the Secretary to use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the purpose of issuing commodity letters for specified programs. Establishes criminal penalties for violations respecting the application, procurement, claim for reimbursement, or record keeping in the commodity letters program. Permits the issuance of commodity letters for summer camps for children. Amends the Comprehensive Older Americans Act of 1978 to permit the use of cash payments in lieu of the commodity letters.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Food Stamp Accountability Act of 1980 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the costs of the thrifty food plan and the amount of the standard deduction annually rather than semiannually. Disqualifies from the food stamp program any individual enrolled in an institution of higher education. Requires that each State agency determine the eligibility of each applicant household by verifying specified income in part through the use of information obtained from other government agencies' records. Permits the State agency to verify prior to certification the size of any applicant household and any factors of eligibility involving households which fall within such agency's error-prone household profiles. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the Commissioner of Social Security to disclose to the Department of Agriculture and to a State food stamp agency information from individual income tax returns with respect to net earnings from self-employment and payments of retirement income which have been disclosed to the Social Security Administration, but only to the extent necessary to determine an individual's eligibility for food stamp benefits. Requires the appropriate State agency to disclose to the Secretary of Agriculture or to any State food stamp agency specified information respecting wages, unemployment compensation, and whether an individual has refused an offer of employment to the extent necessary to determine an individual's eligibility for benefits. Directs the Secretary of Labor to withhold payments from a State which does not substantially comply with such requirements. Requires each State agency to issue a photographic identification card to be presented by any member of a household when utilizing the household authorization card to receive coupons when such household is located in a city of a specified size. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Labor to reimburse specified agencies and organizations operating specified pilot projects involving work for 50 percent of all administrative costs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the appropriate committees of Congress the feasibility of issuing coupons bearing the identification number ascribed to the participating household.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Agricultural Renewable Energy Development and Management Act of 1980 - Authorizes the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Renewable Energy Development in the Department of Agriculture to: (1) conduct a study reviewing the Nation's agricultural, forestry, and rural energy needs, resources, practices, and programs; and (2) develop an agricultural sector energy production, use, and conservation program setting forth measures, funding levels, and other means to accelerate the development and production of renewable energy for direct application in farm and rural environments. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, with the assistance of the Assistant Secretary, to annually report on such program to the appropriate committees of Congress. Permits the Assistant Secretary to implement a renewable energy applied research program to develop low-cost renewable energy forms and the economic means for adapting existing machinery and structures to such forms. Permits the Assistant Secretary to implement an agricultural, forestry, and rural community renewable energy education extension program to disseminate the findings of such research.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1980
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide for the duty-free entry of water chestnuts and bamboo shoots for three years from enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to reduce the value of the allotment received by a household containing members who have available to them meals provided under the national school lunch program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Food Security Act of 1980 - Declares it to be U.S. policy to develop a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries. Directs the President, in order to carry out such policy, to establish a reserve stock of wheat of up to 4,000,000 metric tons for specified purposes. Permits stocks of wheat for such reserve to be acquired: (1) through purchases from producers or in the market, if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such purchases will not unduly disrupt the market; and (2) by designation by the Secretary of stocks of wheat acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes the President to release such designated or acquired wheat reserve stocks to provide, on a donation or sale basis, emergency food assistance to developing countries at any time that the U.S. domestic wheat supply is so limited that quantities cannot be made available for disposition, except for humanitarian purposes, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Provides that up to 300,000 tons of wheat may be released from the reserve in any fiscal year for use under such Act in providing urgent humanitarian relief in developing countries which suffer major disasters (as determined by the President), in circumstances of unanticipated and exceptional need when the normal means of obtaining food assistance make timely programming impossible. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on wheat so released and its timely replenishment. Allows such wheat to be processed in the U.S. and shipped to the recipient country as wheat flour, when necessary. Requires that such wheat be made available under such Act, with specified provisions as to determinations of availability inapplicable thereto. Directs the Secretary to provide for reserve management as to location and class of wheat needed to meet emergencies, rotation to avoid spoilage and deterioration, and prompt equivalent replacement of removed quantities. Specifies that stocks of wheat shall not: (1) be considered a part of the total domestic supply (including carryover) for certain purposes; or (2) be subject to any quantitative export limitations under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Directs the Secretary to utilize the funds and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act, except that any restrictions applicable to the acquisition, storage, or disposition of Corporation owned or controlled commodities shall not apply to wheat for or in the reserve. Requires that the Corporation be reimbursed for actual costs under such program. Declares final any determination by the President or the Secretary under this Act. Provides that: (1) this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1980; (2) the authorities of this Act shall expire on September 30, 1983; and (3) any wheat in the reserve when such authorities expire shall be distributed under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act in fiscal year 1984 and subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1980
Swine Health Protection Act - Prohibits the feeding, or the permission to feed, of garbage to swine unless such garbage has been treated to kill disease organisms, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, at a facility holding a valid permit issued by the Secretary (or the chief agricultural or animal health official of a State with an agreement with the Secretary). Exempts waste from ordinary household operations which is fed directly to swine on the same premises as the household from coverage as "garbage" under this Act. Requires persons operating a garbage-treatment facility who know such garbage is to be fed to swine to hold a valid permit issued under this Act. Provides for the issuance, suspension, and revocation of such permits. Requires that such facilities, to be issued such permits: (1) meet requirements prescribed by the Secretary to prevent the introduction or dissemination of any infectious or communicable disease of animals or poultry; and (2) be so constructed that swine are unable to enter the premises or have access to untreated garbage or material coming in contact with such garbage. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Provides for general enforcement of this Act by the Attorney General, upon the request of the Secretary, in U.S. district courts. Provides for cooperative agreements with State agencies for coordination of enforcement, administration, and regulation under this Act and under State law. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or supercede any State law prohibiting the feeding of garbage to swine. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1980
Agricultural Protection Act of 1980 - Title I: Food Security Fund - Designates this title as the "Food Security Act of 1980." Declares it to be U.S. policy that: (1) adequate financial resources be placed at the President's disposal to meet urgent humanitarian needs for wheat in foreign nations and comply with international obligations to provide such assistance, within the framework of a market economy; and (2) governmental acquisition and perpetual maintenance of large additional stocks of a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries would depress producer prices, destroy production incentives, disrupt markets, impair U.S. capacity to meet urgent humanitarian and foreign policy objectives, and require the expenditure of large sums of public money for the storage and handling of such wheat. Permits wheat to be acquired through purchases in the U.S. open market in such a manner as the Secretary of Agriculture determines will not unduly disrupt the market. Directs the Secretary to formulate and administer a program of purchasing, on a voluntary basis, wheat under the Agricultural Act of 1949 for donation for specified purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize stocks of wheat acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation, if such stocks are promptly replaced with wheat held in the producer storage program if such program wheat is not available in amounts and locations sufficient to meet the purposes of this Act. Sets forth such purposes as determined by the President: (1) to provide urgent humanitarian relief in any foreign country which suffers a major disaster as determined by the President and whose needs for relief cannot be satisfied in a timely manner under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; (2) to assist any developing country to meet its food requirements at any time that the U.S. domestic supply of wheat is so limited that quantities cannot be made available under such Act; and (3) to fulfill any lawful international obligation. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary to make wheat available to eligible foreign nations under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary, upon determination of the President that wheat is needed for such purposes, to: (1) make all necessary arrangements for the purchase and disposition thereof; and (2) pay costs of processing, transportation, handling and other incidental costs to designated points abroad of wheat stocks acquired for such donation. Provides that wheat acquired under this Act: (1) may be processed in the U.S. and shipped in the form of wheat flour when conditions in the recipient country so require; and (2) shall not be subject to any quantitative limitations on export under specified provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979. Directs the Secretary to utilize specified funds and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to be reimbursed for such funds. Title II: Isolation of Embargoed Grain - Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase and take title to and possession of all grain (as well as soybeans) the export of which to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was blocked by the President in retaliation for the invasion of Afghanistan. Prohibits the Corporation from selling or disposing such grain at a price or for value less than the equivalent of parity, except under specified conditions. Permits the Corporation to sell or dispose of such grain without regard for such restriction in quantities: (1) up to ten percent of the total embargoed amount of a particular commodity, during each market year, whenever the Secretary determines that the carryover at the end of a marketing year will be less than the average carryover for the three immediately preceding marketing years and that the sale or other disposition would not unduly depress the market price; (2) an additional ten percent in any market year if the Secretary determines the market price would not be unduly depressed and reports to the appropriate congressional committees 30 days prior to such disposal; and (3) as necessary to avoid spoilage or deterioration, provided that prompt replacement is made in appropriate cases. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 125 percent of the then current level of price support for feed grains as the minimum market price which must be reached before certain producer storage program conditions come into effect which are designed to induce producers to redeem and market the feed grains securing loans under such program without regard to the maturity dates thereof. Sets 145 percent of the then current level of price support for feed grains as the minimum market price which must be reached before the Secretary may require producers to repay such loans, plus accrued interest thereon, refund amounts paid for storage, and pay such additional interest and other charges as may be required by regulation. Sets ten percent above such levels at which the Secretary may call for repayment of wheat or feed grains as one of the minimum levels at which the Commodity Credit Corporation must charge for any of its stocks of such commodities. Title III: Land Diversion Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to establish and announce, not later than March 1, 1980, a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains designed to divert 12,000,000 metric tons from production. Declares eligible for such payments a producer who devotes to approved conservation uses a minimum of ten percent of the cropland acreage planted or which would be planted to the 1980 feed grain crop of such producer. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such payment. Includes as a factor in such formula, a minimum payment rate for corn of $1.00 per bushel, and a payment rate for all other feed grains which the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable in relation to the corn rate. Provides for a similar wheat diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of wheat, designed to divert 4,000,000 metric tons from production. Includes as a factor in determining payments under such program a minimum payment rate of $1.25 per bushel of wheat. Provides that, for the 1980 crop of wheat, the minimum payment rate shall be $0.50 per bushel under a special wheat acreage grazing and hay program. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective with respect to the 1979 crop of corn, to authorize the Secretary to make available to any producer, who did not file a timely agreement to participate in the 1979 feed grain set-aside program, loans and purchases up to a total of $100,000 on corn produced in the 1979 crop year on the producer's acreage normally planted to designated crops. Exempts sales of corn for use in the production of alcohol for motor fuel, at facilities that began operation after January 4, 1980, and at prices not less than the prevailing market prices for corn in the normal marketing area of such facilities, from minimum sales price requirements for sales of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary to set price support loan levels for agricultural commodities at 90 percent of the parity price whenever the President or any member of the executive branch suspends export sales to any country or area to which the U.S. otherwise continues commercial trade. Provides that, if such suspension is based on reasons of national security or foreign policy, the loan level may be set at not less than the average market price during the 30 days immediately preceding such suspension. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to raise the minimum quantities of agricultural commodities required to be distributed: (1) for 1980 to 1,650,000 metric tons; and (2) for 1981 and each fiscal year thereafter to 1,800,000 metric tons. Lowers the minimum portion of such quantities which must be distributed through nonprofit voluntary agencies and the World Food Program for 1982 and each fiscal year thereafter to 1,350,000 metric tons.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Trade Suspension Commodity Reserves Act of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish trade suspension reserves of wheat, corn, grain sorghums, oats, barley, rye, and such other grains as the Secretary deems appropriate, whenever: (1) the President or other member of the executive branch causes the commercial sales of such commodities to any country or area of the world to be suspended for reasons of national security or foreign policy under any provision of law; and (2) the prices producers receive for such commodities are, or will be, adversely affected by such action. Directs the Secretary to announce, within 30 days after such suspension: (1) whether trade suspension grain reserves under this Act will be established; and (2) the amount of the commodity to be placed in such reserves. Requires that such amount be that portion of the suspended commercial exports which should be removed from the market to maintain producer prices at the levels immediately prior to the suspension. Authorizes the Secretary to establish reserves necessary to stabilize prices under this Act by: (1) purchasing, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, commodities suitable for use in the production of alcohol for fuel and paying reserve maintenance and disposition costs; and (2) increasing the stocks held under the producer storage program of the Agricultural Act of 1949 by making additional nonrecourse loans available to producers under such program, if the export sales of wheat or feed grains are suspended. Permits the Secretary to dispose of such commodities, acquired by the Corporation under this Act, only through sale, at not less than the fuel conversion price for the commodity involved, for use in the production of alcohol as motor fuel at facilities which: (1) begin operation after January 4, 1980; and (2) can produce alcohol from agricultural or forestry biomass feedstocks other than the commodity involved. Authorizes the Secretary to facilitate the use for fuel production purposes of commodities held in reserve under this Act by producers under the producer storage program by requiring such producers to repay nonrecourse loans under such program whenever the then current market price for the commodity involved is not less than the fuel conversion price. Directs the Secretary to announce such fuel conversion prices, whenever nonrecourse loans are announced available under this Act and every three months thereafter while such loans are available or outstanding. Requires that such fuel conversion price: (1) be determined by the Secretary according to specified considerations; and (2) permit gasoline-alcohol mixtures using alcohol produced from the commodity to be competitive in price with nonlead gasoline priced at the point it leaves the refinery, adjusted for differences in octane rating. Directs the Secretary to establish safeguards to assure that commodities held in trade suspension grain reserves under this Act shall not be used in any manner to unduly depress, manipulate, or curtail the free market. Requires that all producers of a commodity be eligible for nonrecourse loans under the producer storage program made available under this Act. Declares this Act to be effective only with respect to suspensions implemented after December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to delete the requirement of a determination of short supply before the Secretary of Agriculture must set loan levels for agricultural commodities, the exports of which have been suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to raise the limit on secured storage facility construction or remodeling loans from $50,000 to $100,000. Bases the size of the facility for which such loan may be obtained upon the amount of space required to store the quantity of the commodity estimated to be produced by the borrower during a three-year (formerly, two-year) period. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise loan and purchase levels for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of corn from $2.00 to $2.35 per bushel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available loans and purchases for the 1979 crop of feed grains to producers ineligible to receive specified loans and purchases under the Agricultural Act of 1949 because of their nonparticipation in a set-aside program under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Requires that such loans and purchases be available: (1) at levels equal to 85 percent of the respective loan and purchase levels for participants in the set-aside program; (2) only on condition that any feed grains for which such loans or purchases are made shall be stored under the producer storage program; and (3) for not more than one-half the 1979 crop of each feed grain of such producer. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such producers are: (1) able to store the feed grains with respect to which such loans and purchases are made; and (2) eligible for loans, purchases, and payments under the producer storage program.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1980
Agriculture Emergency Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the minimum loan and purchase levels which the Secretary of Agriculture is required to make available to producers, for the 1979 through 1981 crops, from $2.35 to $3.90 per bushel for wheat, from $2.00 to $2.50 per bushel for corn, and from 48 cents to 60 cents per pound for cotton. Sets a minimum loan and purchase level for the 1979 through 1981 crops of soybeans at $6.25 per bushel. Directs the Secretary to adjust such levels for such commodities at the beginning of each semiannual period after the beginning of the marketing year to reflect any estimated change in the parity index during such semiannual period. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation, whenever the extended loan program for producer storage is in effect, from selling any of its stocks of wheat or feed grains at less than ten percent above the level at which the Secretary may call for the repayment of loans under specified conditions, or at less than 20 percent above the then current level of price support for the commodity, whichever is higher, with specified exceptions. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require that the minimum quantities of agricultural commodities distributed for 1981 and each fiscal year thereafter under specified food relief programs be 1,600,000 metric tons of which not less than 1,300,000 metric tons shall be distributed through the nonprofit voluntary agencies of the World Food Program. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary to set price support loan levels for agricultural commodities at 90 percent of the parity price whenever the President or any other member of the executive branch suspends export sales of such commodities to any country or area of the world (no longer requiring that such suspensions be directed at countries or areas with which the U.S. otherwise continues commercial trade or be based upon determinations of short supply). Directs the Secretary to establish land diversion payment programs for the 1980 crops of corn and wheat. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that grain producers devote to approved conservation uses, an amount of cropland not less than a percentage of their 1980 crop planted acreage (15 percent for corn and 10 percent for wheat). Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of such payments. Sets $1.50 per bushel for both corn and wheat as a payment rate factor in such formulas. Waives interest payment requirements on price support loans to producers of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, rye, or oats for the 1979 crops for any period after January 10, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1980
Producer Referendum Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish in the Department of Agriculture a Board of Agricultural Producers to be composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and one member from each State selected by the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service in such State. Directs the Board to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to specified set-asides of cropland; (2) assist the Secretary in determining and improving cost of production formulas used to administer price support programs; and (3) advise the Secretary on other related matters. Declares that no cropland set-aside shall be effective unless such set-aside: (1) is limited to one crop year; (2) requires that any cropland set-aside be rotated no less than every two years; (3) does not prevent the use of cropland for production of crops for use in the production of fuel alcohol; and (4) has not been disapproved in a referendum by a majority of producers on U.S. farms whose principal source of income is derived from such crop. Directs the Secretary to conduct such referendum not later than 30 days after providing for the set-aside of any cropland used in the production of any agricultural commodity for any crop year under the Agricultural Act of 1949 or the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Sets forth a civil penalty of $300 per acre for noncompliance with cropland set-asides.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1980
Amends the Cotton Research and Promotion Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from appointing to Cotton Board membership any person: (1) who has been convicted of any Federal or State offense carrying a penalty of imprisonment of more than one year; or (2) against whom any Federal or State agency has issued an order imposing sanctions for any violation of law relating to the buying, selling, handling, or transporting of agricultural commodities or contracts for the future delivery of such commodities. Prohibits the use of specified funds by a specified cotton producer organization to provide information to cotton producers concerning the activities of such organization or association or the Board under such Act, unless such information is specifically requested by a producer. Limits to ten percent of its budget for any fiscal period the amount which the Board may expend to provide such information to producers. Requires the Board to provide or direct any such information to all producers, unless specifically requested by a producer. Requires that all information with respect to refunds made to individual producers be kept confidential by all officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture and of the Board. Provides for criminal penalties and removal from office for convicted violators of such requirement. Prohibits the use of specified information, which has not been made public and which may affect or tend to affect prices, purchases, sales, or contracts for the future delivery of cotton, in any activity relating to such purchases, sales, or contracts. Prohibits specified communications or acquisitions to further such use. Provides penalties for violations of such prohibitions. Directs the Secretary to utilize a committee or committees of Department employees or officers with expertise in cotton marketing, production, processing and textile research, and administration, to establish guidelines governing legitimate expenditures by the cotton producer organization carrying out a program under such Act. Requires that such committee grant prior approval for all expenditures by such organization in excess of $7,500. Directs the Secretary to take actions to ensure: (1) that the Board or the Secretary budgets, audits, and approves all funds, incomes, and expenditures of such organization; and (2) that the Board obtains ownership of all technology, patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property which has been developed, maintained, or serviced in whole or part with funds collected pursuant to such Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate committees of Congress detailing such actions and recommending legislation relating to such matters.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should announce promptly a decision on whether there will be an acreage diversion program in effect for the 1980 crops of wheat and feed grains.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980
Agricultural Emergency Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the minimum loan and purchase levels which the Secretary of Agriculture is required to make available to producers, for the 1979 through 1981 crops, from $2.35 to $3.90 per bushel for wheat, from $2.00 to $2.50 per bushel for corn, and from 48 cents to 60 cents per pound for cotton. Sets a minimum loan and purchase level for the 1979 through 1981 crops of soybeans at $6.25 per bushel. Directs the Secretary to adjust such levels for such commodities at the beginning of each semiannual period after the beginning of the marketing year to reflect any estimated change in the parity index during such semiannual period. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation, whenever the extended loan program for producer storage is in effect, from selling any of its stocks of wheat or feed grains at less than ten percent above the level at which the Secretary may call for the repayment of loans under specified conditions or at less than 20 percent above the then current level of price support for the commodity, whichever is higher, with specified exceptions. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require that the minimum quantities of agricultural commodities distributed for 1981 and each fiscal year thereafter under specified food relief programs be 1,600,000 metric tons, of which not less than 1,300,000 metric tons shall be distributed through the nonprofit voluntary agencies of the World Food Program. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary to set price support loan levels for agricultural commodities at 90 percent of the parity price whenever the President or any other member of the executive branch suspends export sales of such commodities to any country or area of the world (no longer requiring that such suspensions be directed at countries or areas which the U.S. otherwise continues commercial trade or be based upon determinations of short supply). Directs the Secretary to: (1) announce and put into effect as soon as practicable specified cropland set-aside programs for wheat and for corn and feed grains; and (2) require that cropland acreage on the farm equal to not less than ten percent of the respective acreage of such commodities planted for harvest for the 1980 crop year be set aside and devoted to specified conservation uses. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the 1980 cropland set-aside program operation as necessary because of the delay in initiating the program. Waives interest payment requirements on price support loans to producers of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, rye, or oats for the 1979 crop for any period after January 10, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to subject to forfeiture anything of value that is furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for coupons or authorization cards in any manner not authorized by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set loan levels for specified agricultural commodities whenever export sales have been suspended (presently such loan levels are set only when export sales are suspended due to short supplies). Requires such loan levels to be set at the highest national weighted average market price received by farmers in any of the three months preceding the export suspension.