Agriculture

A bill to amend the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982

Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require that in commodity selection for famine relief and other assistance programs, consideration must be given to the nutritional impact on recipients and the benefits to the United States of providing processed and protein fortified products. Requires the President to assure that 60 percent of the actual tonnage of commodities allocated for such relief be processed food products with 45 percent consisting of plant and milk fortified processed foods.

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to authenticate and perform tests to certify that livestock and poultry semen for export satisfies the requirements of the foreign country to which such semen is to be exported.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to authenticate and perform certification tests of export livestock and poultry semen.

A joint resolution to proclaim March 21, 1983, as "National Agriculture Day."

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Designates March 21, 1983, as National Agriculture Day.

A joint resolution to proclaim March 21, 1983, as "National Agriculture Day".

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Designates March 21, 1983, as National Agriculture Day.

Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982

Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Federal Seed Act regarding lawn and turf seed mixture labelling and importation. Eliminates provisions regarding "fine" and "coarse" mixture labels, and adulterated and unfit seed.

Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982

Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Federal Seed Act regarding lawn and turf seed mixture labelling and importation. Eliminates provisions regarding "fine" and "coarse" mixture labels, and adulterated and unfit seed.

Shelterbelt Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1982

Shelterbelt Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a special shelterbelt program (vegetative barrier). Authorizes the Secretary to enter into ten-year agreements with landowners and operators to create and maintain such shelterbelts. Sets forth program guidelines.

A joint resolution concerning changes in regulations for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1982

Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from placing into effect any rule which would not maintain or enhance the nutritional integrity of supplemental foods made available under the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Directs the Secretary to make a finding that any rule changes governing the program subsequent to enactment of this resolution shall be beneficial to the nutritional status of program participants. Requires the Secretary to submit such finding to the appropriate congressional committees prior to its publication in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretary to implement a specified rule concerning the program no later than December 31, 1982.

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture for National Forest System lands and the Secretary of the Interior for public lands to adjust the termination date of certain contracts for the sale of timber from National Forest System lands and public lands.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1982

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the termination dates of timber sales contracts entered into before January 1, 1982, for a period equal to the original term of the contract but not to exceed five years.

A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 6892) to provide changes in legislation to meet reconciliation requirements of the first congressional budget resolution -- fiscal year 1983 -- for the House Committee on Agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1982

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 6892 (Budget reconciliation for House Committee on Agriculture).

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture and Institutions of the Farm Credit System should permit the deferral of the payment of principal and interest on, and forego the foreclosure of, certain loans made to farmers who are currently experiencing severe economic hardships.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1982

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture and institutions of the Farm Credit System should permit the deferral of the payment of principal and interest on, and forgo the foreclosure of, certain loans made to farmers who are currently experiencing severe economic hardships.

Farm Storage Facility Loan Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982

Farm Storage Facility Loan Act of 1982 - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Commodity Credit Corporation to make onfarm storage facility loans to producers of wheat, corn, oats, barley, dry edible beans, soybeans, and high moisture forage silage under the following conditions; (1) a $40,000,000 maximum total annual principal indebtedness; (2) a $50,000) (currently, $25,000) loan limit per producer; (3) a maximum 20 percent (currently, 30 percent) farmer equity allowance; (4) eligibility for three-year capacity facilities; and (5) an eight-year (currently, five-year) repayment period.

A bill to provide for an additional assistant Secretary of Agriculture to be appointed by the President.

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982

Provides for an additional assistant Secretary of Agriculture to be appointed by the President.

Food and Agriculture Reconciliation Act - Fiscal Year 1983

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982

Food and Agriculture Reconciliation Act - Fiscal Year 1983: Title I: Dairy - Subtitle A: Dairy Price-Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, to establish a two-tier dairy price support program for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets the price of milk for domestic needs: (1) at $13.10 per hundredweight for FY 1983; and (2) at the percentage of parity for FY 1984 and 1985 which $13.10 represented as of October 1, 1982. Sets the price of milk in excess of domestic needs at the higher support level uniformly reduced to cover the annual costs of acquiring, managing, and disposing of surplus milk. Provides that the funds from such reduction shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) by the first milk handlers, including producers who market their own milk. Limits CCC annual milk purchases to five billion pounds, with producers responsible for costs in excess of such amount. Stipulates that the CCC shall increase its purchases if import quotas are increased. States that the price of milk shall be supported through milk and milk products purchases. Authorizes payments to producers who reduce their production. Establishes a National Dairy Board consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture and 15 presidentially-appointed members. Directs the Board to: (1) determine the relative proportions of milk to which the price support levels will apply and the producer responsibility for dairy product purchases; (2) establish a uniform price support reduction rate for milk in excess of domestic commercial market needs and announce such rate before October 1 of each year; (3) dispose of dairy products acquired by the CCC through authorized price support operations; and (4) remit proceeds from price support operations to the CCC. Sets forth enforcement provisions. Subtitle B: Dairy Promotion Act - Dairy Promotion Act - Authorizes the Secretary, by dairy products promotion order, to establish a National Dairy Promotion Board made up of dairy farmers to promote dairy products. Requires approval of any proposed promotion order by a producer-referendum. Finances such Board through dairy producer assessments. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes domestic and foreign CCC commodity donations. Title II: Adjustment Program for the 1983 Crops of Wheat, Feed Grains, Upland Cotton, and Rice - Sets 1983 wheat price support levels at not less than $3.80 per bushel. Provides for a 25 percent combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop. Requires producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Bases 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice acreages upon the respective 1982 bases adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices and other factors as the Secretary determines. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to 1983 wheat and feed grain crop producers who participate in the acreage limitation or set-aside program. Sets such rates at $3.00 and $1.50 per bushel for wheat and corn respectively. Sets 1983 corn support levels (upon which feed grain levels are based) at not less than $2.71 per bushel. Provides for a 20 percent combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 corn corp will exceed a specified number of bushels. Requires producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Requires, if a reduction program is established for 1983 upland cotton, that 25 percent of such program shall be under a paid diversion program with the balance under an acreage limitation program. Requires producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to participating upland cotton producers. Sets the payment rate at 25 cents per pound. Provides for a 25 percent combined acreage limitation (15 percent) and diversion (ten percent) program for the 1983 rice crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 crop will exceed a specified hundredweight. Requires producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to participating rice producers. Sets such rate at $3.00 per hundredweight. Requires: (1) the Secretary to advance at least 50 percent of any land diversion payments to a participating producer as soon as possible; and (2) a noncomplying producer to repay the advance with interest. Title III: Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982 - Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) treat siblings living together who are not elderly, blind, or disabled as one household; and (2) treat persons 60 years or older living with others but unable to purchase and prepare meals because of medical disability as a separate household if the income of the other person does not exceed 165 percent of the nonfarm poverty guideline. Requires the rounding down of dollar amounts for the thrifty food plan in computing deductions of household income, and in calculating the value of allotments. Includes disabled veterans and their survivors as eligible for benefits under the food stamp program. Excludes from household income cost-of-living increases attributable to specified provisions of the Social Security Act, the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, and pensions for veterans of a period of war. Changes the date for adjusting deductions in computing household income from July 1, 1983, to October 1, 1983. Revises excess shelter deduction provisions to permit State agencies to use a standard utility allowance which does not fluctuate seasonally. Excludes from such use households not incurring or sharing such expenses. Requires monthly averaging of household income received on a regular weekly or biweekly basis. Prohibits any waiver of the requirement that migrant household income be calculated prospectively. Establishes categorical eligibility for recipients of Aid to Families With Dependent Children under the Social Security program. Authorizes State agencies to select certain categories of households which may file periodic reports of household circumstances at less frequent intervals than other types of households. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to require job search information at the time of an individual's application for food stamps. Increases from 60 to 90 days the period of ineligibility for voluntarily quitting a job. Authorizes the Secretary to require State agencies to use an alternative coupon issuance system if such system improves the integrity of the food stamp program. Prohibits the issuance of an initial month allotment under $10. Authorizes household information disclosure to Federal or federally-assisted programs. Requires expedited service to destitute migrant households or households with no income. Authorizes a State agency to promptly reduce or terminate benefits for any household which provides written information that clearly requires a reduction or termination. Requires State agencies to determine, not less frequently than annually, whether food stamp recipients are in receipt of duplicative benefits. Requires State agencies to reimburse the Secretary for the value of excess allotments issued to households. Sets forth a formula for reducing an agency's federally funded share of administrative costs based upon the State's payment error rate. Requires the Secretary to study the impact of benefit reductions and make a final report to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1, 1985. Authorizes ceilinged appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Allows the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide food assistance in the form of cash for FY 1982 and 1983. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of such assistance and submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees within six months. Requires that, out of one-half of the savings resulting from employment of workfare program people, an increased Federal share of administrative expenses be made available to agencies operating such programs. Makes certain provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 effective on the date of enactment of this Act.

Erosion Reduction Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982

Erosion Reduction Act of 1982 - Makes persons who cultivate erosion-susceptible land in a manner which does not prevent such erosion ineligible for specified agricultural payments and loans.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States a reversionary interest in certain land previously conveyed to the state of Connecticut.

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1982

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release the condition in the conveyance of certain land in Sterling, Connecticut, to the State of Connecticut which restricts the use of such land to public purposes under penalty of reversion to the United States. Makes inapplicable to this Act the provision of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act which prohibits the Secretary from selling, exchanging, leasing, or otherwise disposing of property to other than public authorities. Conditions such release upon the State's agreement not to sell, lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of such land: (1) except to a certain cemetery, exclusively for its expansion; and (2) unless the proceeds from such disposal are held in an account open to inspection by the Secretary and used for public purposes.

A bill to amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the payment of monetary penalties for certain admitted and infrequent violations involving misrepresentation under such Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1982

Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to require (currently only authorizes) the Secretary of Agriculture to accept payment of a fine in admission of certain labeling misrepresentations. Requires the U.S. resident-assignee of a nonresident's claim to furnish the same cost and fee bonds as required of the nonresident complainant.

A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to improve the price received by producers for the 1983 crop of rice.

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1982

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for a combined acreage limitation and diversion program for the 1983 rice crop if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the 1982 rice crop will exceed a specified number of bushels. Makes 1983 price support eligibility dependent upon compliance with such program. Makes the 1983 through 1985 rice acreage bases the same as the 1982 base. Requires the Secretary to make crop retirement and conservation payments available to any rice producer who is participating in the 1983 acreage limitation program. Sets the payment rate at $3.50 per hundredweight.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should maintain Federal involvement in, and support for, the child nutrition programs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1982

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) national efforts to reduce malnutrition should continue; (2) Federal involvement in nutrition programs should be maintained; and (3) responsibility for Federal child nutrition programs should not be turned back to the States.

Wilmer D. Mizell, Sr., of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice James C. Webster, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 22 July 1982

Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1982

Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the rounding down of dollar amounts for the thrifty food plan in computing deductions of household income and in calculating the value of allotments. Includes disabled veterans and their survivors as eligible for benefits under the food stamp program. Excludes from household income cost-of-living increases attributable to specified provisions of the Social Security Act, the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, and pensions for veterans of a period of war. Changes the date for adjusting deductions in computing household income from July 1, 1983, to October 1, 1983. Establishes categorical eligibility for recipients of Aid to Families With Dependent Children under the Social Security program. Authorizes State agencies to select certain categories of households which may file periodic reports of household circumstances at less frequent intervals than other types of households. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to require job search information at the time of an individual's application for food stamps. Authorizes the Secretary to require State agencies to use an alternative coupon issuance system if such system improves the integrity of the food stamp program. Prohibits the issuance of an initial month allotment under $10. Authorizes a State agency to promptly reduce or terminate benefits for any household which provides written information that clearly requires a reduction or termination. Requires State agencies to determine, not less frequently than annually, whether food stamp recipients are in receipt of duplicative benefits. Requires State agencies to reimburse the Secretary for the value of excess allotments issued to households. Sets forth a formula for reducing an agency's federally funded share of administrative costs based upon the State's payment error rate. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985. Allows the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide food assistance in the form of cash for FY 1982 and 1983. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the impact of such assistance and submit a report of the findings to the appropriate congressional committees not later than six months after enactment of this Act. Makes certain provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 effective on the date of enactment of this Act.

Farm Crisis Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982

Farm Crisis Act of 1982 - Title I: Paid Diversion and Conservation Program for 1983 Crop of Wheat and Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish 1983 wheat price support levels at not less than $3.80 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop. Requires wheat producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Bases 1983 through 1985 wheat and feed grain acreage bases upon the respective 1982 bases adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices and other factors as the Secretary of Agriculture determines. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to 1983 wheat and feed grain crop producers who participate in the acreage limitation or set-aside program. Sets 1983 corn support levels (upon which feed grain levels are based) at not less than $2.71 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 corn crop will exceed a specified number of bushels. Title II: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to guarantee grain storage facility loans to growers for up to 90 percent of each loan, and an aggregate annual amount of not more than $250,000,000 of principle and interest. Title III: Barter of Wheat, Feed Grains, Upland Cotton, and Rice for Strategic and Critical Materials and Petroleum Products - Requires (currently authorizes) the CCC to barter wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice for strategic and critical materials from abroad. Bases reimbursement upon the Administrator of General Services' estimate rather than the Secretary of the Treasury's. Requires the CCC to barter such commodities for petroleum products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when U.S. stocks fall below specified levels. Requires with regard to such petroleum products that the CCC: (1) transfer them to the Reserve without reimbursement; and (2) use normal trade channels to make the exchanges. Title IV: Emergency Agricultural Credit - Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to make the emergency agricultural credit program mandatory. Reduces personal outstanding debt limits on: (1) loans under such Act from $400,000 to $200,000; and (2) loans under such Act and under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act from $650,000 to $450,000. Extends new loan authority through FY 1983. Title V: Agricultural Exports - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) for FY 1983, at least $1,000,000,000 be appropriated for the agricultural export credit revolving fund under the Food For Peace Act of 1966; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture should initiate negotiations with the Soviet Union for a multiyear grain sale agreement. Title VI: White House Conference on Agriculture - Requests the President to convene a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Requires a report to the President and the Congress.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that certain steps should be taken to make wholesome food which is currently being wasted or discarded available for distribution to hungry people.

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982

Expresses the sense of Congress that surplus food or food which would otherwise be discarded should be distributed to hungry citizens.

A bill to improve farm commodity prices for wheat and feed grains.

United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1983 wheat support levels at not less than $3.80 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop. Requires wheat producers to comply with such combined program in order to receive price supports. Bases 1983 through 1985 wheat and feed grain acreage bases upon the 1982 base adjusted to reflect established crop-rotation practices and other factors as the Secretary of Agriculture determines. Requires the Secretary to make retirement and conservation payments to 1983 wheat and feed grain crop producers who participate in the acreage limitation or set-aside program. Sets 1983 corn support levels (upon which feed grain levels are based) at not less than $2.71 per bushel. Provides for a combined acreage limitation or set-aside and diversion program for such crop if the Secretary determines that the 1982 corn crop will exceed a specified number of bushels.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to the Roosevelt Memorial Church in Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia.

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1982

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land located in Georgia to a named church.

A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make land diversion payments for the 1983 crops of wheat and feed grains.

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Food and Agriculture Act of 1981, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make land diversion payments for the 1983 crops of wheat and feed grains. Establishes such payments for wheat at $2 per bushel and for feed grains at $1.50 per bushel of corn. Permits producers to apply for the program through the end of the acreage limitation program certification period.

A bill to exclude agricultural commodities obtained or financed by the United States and transported in dry bulk carriers from certain requirements that such agricultural commodities be transported on privately owned United States-flag commercial vessels and vessels of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982

Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to exclude federally financed agricultural commodities transported in dry bulk carriers from requirements that such cargoes be transported on privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels and vessels of the United States.

Dairy Products Promotion Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982

Dairy Products Promotion Act of 1982 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, by dairy products promotion order, to establish a National Dairy Promotion Board made up of dairy farmers to promote dairy products. Finances such Board through dairy producer assessments. Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain property to the Miami Area Unified School District Number 40, Miami, Arizona.

United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified land to the Miami Area Unified School District Numbered 40, Miami, Arizona.

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the National Endowment for Soil and Water Conservation shall be and is hereby endorsed by the United States Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982

Expresses the sense of the Congress in support of the National Endowment for Soil and Water Conservation.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress endorsing the National Endowment for soil and water conservation.

United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982

Expresses the sense of the Congress in support of the National Endowment for Soil and Water Conservation.

Milk Price Support Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982

Milk Price Support Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set milk price support levels: (1) at $12.60 through 1982; and (2) at $12.00 from January 1, 1983 through September 30, 1985.

An act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to assess civil penalties with respect to violations of certain Acts relating to the prevention of the introduction and dissemination into the United States of plant pests, plant diseases, and livestock and poultry diseases, to increase the amount of criminal fines which may be imposed with respect to violations of such Acts, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982

Amends Federal law to authorize civil penalties for violations of various animal and plant quarantine provisions. Adds specified criminal penalties and increases specified fines for such violations. Eliminates specified conveyance forfeiture provisions.

A bill to clarify and extend the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees to cover United States Government costs incident to the issuance of phytosanitary certificates with regard to plants and plant products intended for exportation and for the testing, certification, inspection and quarantine of import and export animals and certain products and materials.

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982

Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees for services: (1) to exporters requesting phytosanitary certificates for plants and plant products; (2) to importers and exporters of animals (including poultry and birds), animal products, or materials; and (3) for cleaning and disinfecting means of conveyance. Provides that such fees shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and used to pay costs incidental to these services.

A bill to amend section 20 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act, to require that imported meat which is capable of use as human food be labeled at all stages of distribution until preparation for ultimate consumption.

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982

Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the labeling of imported meat food products of livestock that are capable of consumption as human food.

Farm Program Improvement Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982

Farm Program Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance loans and deficiency payments available to wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice producers who participate in 1983 through 1985 set-aside or acreage limitation programs. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary to use up to 25 percent of agricultural export credit sale appropriations for credit guarantees and interest payments.

A bill to provide that lands set-aside or diverted must lie within contiguous counties.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1982

Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to provide that a farm's lands set aside or diverted must lie within one county or any number of contiguous counties.

A joint resolution to compensate farmers and others engaged in agriculture for losses suffered as a result of embargoes on the export of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to announce, before declaring an embargo on farm exports, the estimated: (1) impact on farm production; (2) financial loss to farmers; and (3) loss to the agricultural industry. Requires that compensatory payments be made to farmers and the agricultural industry if an embargo is declared.

No Net Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982

No Net Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982 - Title I: Modification of Tobacco Price Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out tobacco price support through Commodity Credit Corporation loan agreements with producer-owned cooperative marketing associations which will in turn make loans to producers. Requires each association to establish a separate capital account, to be known as a No Net Cost Tobacco Fund (Fund), consisting of contributions from producers of quota tobacco and, for associations handling Flue-cured tobacco, from persons who lease allotments and quotas to others. Requires such contributions for price support eligibility. Authorizes an association to set contribution rates subject to the Secretary's approval. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a contribution rate not high enough to reimburse the Corporation for any net loan losses that the association may incur. Permits an association to invest Fund moneys and to issue capital stock or certifications to investors. Requires that any earnings on Fund investments become a part of the Fund. States that net gains from the sale of an association's loan collateral tobacco shall go to the Corporation to be used to offset future losses or to reduce outstanding loan debts. Authorizes the Secretary to release excess gains to the associations. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the support rates for different grades of tobacco to avoid market excesses. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for an alternate auction sale of "excessively priced" Flue-cured tobacco. Sets forth conditions for such designation and sale. Title II: Modification of Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Quota System - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the leasing of Flue-cured tobacco acreage allotments or quotas. Prohibits such agreements after June 15 of the crop year, except in cases of natural disaster damage, but limits them to adjoining counties within the same State. Requires all arrangements in connection with a lease to be exclusively between lessor and lessee or an agent who regularly represents either party in nontobacco-related business transactions. Prohibits subleasing. Requires each party to file a certificate of compliance with the county committee in order for the lease to take effect. Makes loss of price supports for the affected acreage the penalty for false statements made in such certificate. Provides that the Flue-cured tobacco acreage allotment for a farm to which an allotment is transferred by sale or lease may not exceed 50 percent of such farm's tillable cropland. Permits the sale of allotments or quotas, but only to active producers (as defined in this Act) in the same county. Requires a producer to sell or forfeit any Flue-cured tobacco allotment: (1) which exceeds 50 percent of the farm's tillable cropland; or (2) in which no risk-sharing is involved. Requires a nonagricultural entity (other than an individual) which owns a Flue- cured tobacco farm but is not significantly involved in its management to sell its Flue-cured tobacco allotments or quotas or forfeit them. Requires the national yield factor for Flue-cured tobacco to be adjusted in 1983, and at five-year intervals thereafter, to the past five years' moving average. Permits individual adjustments. Authorizes producer-owned cooperative associations to make direct sales of Flue-cured tobacco.

Territorial Food and Nutrition Grant Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982

Territorial Food and Nutrition Grant Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands for food and nutrition assistance programs. Requires each jurisdiction to have a plan for the provision of such assistance in order to receive the payments. Sets forth the information that must be contained in such plans. Provides for approval or rejection of such plans. Requires the Federal Comptroller of each jurisdiction to provide for a biennial audit of the programs. Requires each jurisdiction to provide the Secretary with a statement indicating whether the payments exceeded the program expenses and providing any other information that the Secretary needs. Authorizes the Secretary to seek injunctive relief if the Secretary determines that the requirements of a plan were not met. Directs the Secretary to provide for the review of the food and nutrition assistance programs. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance for program administration. Sets forth fines and prison terms for the illegal use of funds or property provided by this Act. Provides for nondiscrimination in the use of funds provided by this Act.

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture, under certain conditions, to permit borrowers who are farmers to transfer, encumber, or lease property securing certain loans made under provisions of law administered by the Farmers Home Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982

Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to permit farmers and ranchers to transfer, encumber, or lease property securing Farmers Home Administration loans made before September 30, 1984.

Dairy Stabilization Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982

Dairy Stabilization Act of 1982 - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to revise the method of determining milk price support levels for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets the price of milk for domestic needs: (1) at $13.10 per hundred weight for FY 1983; and (2) at the percentage of parity for FY 1984 and 1985 which $13.10 represented as of October 1, 1982. Declares that price support for milk shall be provided through the purchase of milk and milk products by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) under borrowing authority approved by Congress and repayments from the National Dairy Board established by this Act. Authorizes the Board to make payments to milk marketers whose levels of marketing have been reduced from the levels of the prior fiscal year. Sets forth the method of determining such payments. Authorizes the CCC to increase its milk purchases in the event of an increase in dairy product imports. Establishes a National Dairy Board to: (1) determine the relative proportions of milk to which the price support levels will apply and the producer responsibility for dairy product purchases; (2) establish a uniform rate by which the price paid farmers for milk in excess of domestic commercial market needs shall be reduced to achieve the price support provided by this Act and announce such rate before October 1 of each year; (3) dispose of dairy products acquired by the CCC through authorized price support operations; and (4) remit proceeds from price support operations to the CCC. Authorizes the Board to develop innovative programs for the disposition of dairy products and to make recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture regarding details of the operation of the price support program. Sets forth methods of deriving funding for producer responsibility of program operations. Sets forth the duties of the Secretary under the price support program with respect to relations with the Board and responsibility for collection and payment of the funds under such program. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act and vests jurisdiction for enforcement with the U.S. district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to make investigations for the administration of this Act and to invoke the aid of any U.S. court to enforce subpenas. Deems all operations conducted under this Act as a program or operation of the Department of Agriculture.

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 1982 - Title I: Loan Rates for the 1982 Crops - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase 1982 loan rates for: (1) wheat from $3.55 to $4.00 per bushel; (2) corn from $2.55 to $2.90 per bushel; (3) upland cotton from $.55 to $.61 per pound; and (4) rice from $8.00 to $8.90 per hundredweight. Title II: Cropland Conversion and Acreage Limitation Programs for 1983 through 1985 Crops - Subtitle A: Cropland Conservation Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to proclaim a national cropland conservation program for the 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice crops. Requires participants to set aside 15 percent of their cropland for conservation use. Provides that: (1) such program will be approved or disapproved by a producer referendum; (2) if approved, commodity support levels will be set as provided for in title I of this Act; and (3) noncompliance will result in a three-year denial of specified farm benefits. Subtitle B: Acreage Limitation Program - Requires the Secretary to establish set-aside programs for the 1983 through 1985 wheat, feed grain, and upland cotton crops if cropland conservation programs are disapproved. Bases such set-asides on specified carry-over levels for such crops. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Makes conforming amendments. Title III: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to guarantee up to $250,000,000 annually (not more than 90 percent of any one loan to be guaranteed) for grower-harvested grain storage facility loans. Title IV: Barter of Agricultural Commodities for Strategic and Critical Materials and Petroleum Products - Authorizes the CCC to exchange agricultural products for oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regarding CCC foreign products bartering. Title V: Emergency Agricultural Credit - Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to make the economic emergency loan program mandatory. Extends such program through FY 1983. Lowers the limit on individual loans: (1) under such Act; and (2) under such Act and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act combined. Title VI: Agricultural Exports - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) $1,000,000,000 should be made available to the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund; and (2) the Secretary should conclude a grain agreement with the Soviet Union. Title VII: White House Conference on Agriculture - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene a White House Conference on Agriculture within one year. Requires a Conference report to the President and Congress.

Dairy Product Stabilization Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982

Dairy Product Stabilization Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to remove the upper limit (90 percent of parity) on the price support for milk. (Retains the current lower limit of not less than 75 percent). Provides for individual producer marketing bases based on the previous years' production. Authorizes county committees established under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to adjust the size of such bases under certain circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the percentage reduction of milk production in any marketing year for which the quantity to be produced exceeds necessary requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to impose assessments for excess marketing. Sets forth penalties for nonpayment of such assessments (with judicial review in U.S. district courts). Establishes in the Treasury a Dairy Product Stabilization Fund for the deposit of assessment receipts and for the purchase of milk and milk products. Directs the Secretary to conduct a referendum among producers to determine if they disapprove of this Act. Provides for the repeal of this Act upon a majority vote of disapproval.

National Topsoil Preservation Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1982

National Topsoil Preservation Act of 1982 - Declares that topsoil is a valuable natural resource upon which future generations will be dependent. Declares that ownership of land carries with it a responsibility to keep the topsoil accessible for use at a later date. Establishes a National Land Resources Protection Commission. Directs the Commission to establish standards with respect to the stockpiling and replacing of topsoil on all: (1) federally assisted projects; (2) projects on federally held land; and (3) projects which affect interstate commerce. Prescribes minimum criteria to be included in such standards. Directs the Commission to establish minimum standards to assure that projects covered by this Act will not cause pollution of existing streams, land slides, flooding, or substantial changes in the volume of water to be carried by adjacent waterways except where such change is consistent with State or Federal water resource policy. States that no dirt shall be moved on any project where the moving or covering of topsoil covers an area in excess of 100,000 square feet until a license or letter has been issued by the Commission or by a commission to whom authority has been delegated under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to establish certain employment requirements for the Food Stamp program.

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1982

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise employment requirements for any person making application for food stamp benefits based upon such person's recent history of employment or receipt of State unemployment compensation. Exempts from such requirements: (1) persons under 18 or over 59 years of age; (2) persons certified as physically or mentally unfit for employment by a physician; (3) an unmarried parent or other household member responsible for the care of a child under 6 years of age or incapacitated person; or (4) a married parent or other caretaker of a child under 6 years of age in a household in which the other parent is otherwise exempt from employment requirements.

A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1970, to prohibit restrictions on the export of certain agricultural commodities.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to prohibit the President from restricting the export of an agricultural commodity sought to be exported under an export sales contract: (1) requiring delivery of a commodity aboard an export vehicle within 180 days; (2) entered into before the President announces an export restriction on the commodity; and (3) reported pursuant to a specified section of the Agricultural Act of 1970. Permits the President to restrict exports of such a commodity during a declared war or national emergency.

A bill entitled: The Mandatory Cropland Set-Aside Act of 1982.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1982

Makes agricultural producers who do not comply with referendum-approved cropland set-asides ineligible for Federal assistance for three years.

Surplus Agricultural Commodities Disposal Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982

Surplus Agricultural Commodities Disposal Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to contract for the processing of surplus commodities into liquid fuels and agricultural commodity byproducts. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within 120 days and annually thereafter.

Federal Crop Insurance Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982

Federal Crop Insurance Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to insure producers against the loss of commodities stored in bankrupt warehouses.