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United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1989 and 1990 crop years, to permit haying and grazing for a fee on wheat, feed grain, rice, and upland cotton conservation acreage.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1988
Extends the sign-up deadline to October 31, 1988, for the 1988 wheat and feed grain acreage limitation programs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1988
Federal Crop Insurance Improvements Act of 1978 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide crop insurance that meets the needs of different types of dry edible beans. Provides for improved communications and education of producers regarding crop insurance programs. Directs the Comptroller General, in consultation with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, to conduct a study of proposed changes in the crop insurance program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1988
Provides assistance to program and nonprogram agricultural producers who have experienced at least 50 percent crop losses in 1988 due to drought or other natural disasters in areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture. Limits producer assistance to $100,000. Requires payments to be made to eligible producers within 45 days of application.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1988
Emergency Agricultural Relief Act of 1988 - Provides assistance to program and nonprogram agricultural producers who have experienced at least 50 percent crop losses in 1988 due to drought or other natural disasters in areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture. Limits producer assistance to $100,000. Requires payments to be made to eligible producers within 45 days of application.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1988
Burley Tobacco Disaster Act of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1988 Burley tobacco price supports at 1987 levels. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide that in counties with two consecutive years of Burley tobacco quota underproduction, the third year's marketing quota shall be adjusted for such accumulated undermarketing.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1988
Makes producers of the 1988 wheat and feed grain crops eligible for disaster payments regardless of whether crop insurance was available to them.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1988
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance deficiency payments for corn and sorghum in July 1988, rather than October 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1988
Food Security Act Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1988 wheat and feed grain crops, to exempt farmers in counties designated as disaster areas (due to drought or other natural disasters) from repayment of excess deficiency payments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to limit annual imports of milk protein products to 50 percent of the average annual amount imported during the period 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a preferential import licensing system for such products based on the availability of domestic substitutes.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice producers eligible for deficiency payments shall be eligible for such payments on 92 percent of their 1988 acreage that: (1) was planted; and (2) is included in specified failed acreage reports.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1988
Producer Payment Relief Act of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the collection of advance deficiency payments made to certain producers of the 1988 wheat and feed grain crops in counties designated as disaster areas because of drought or other natural disaster.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1988
Urges the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize the low yield disaster program to help alleviate the possible drop in deficiency payments caused by the 1988 drought.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988
Food Security Act Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1988 wheat and feed grain crops, to exempt farmers in counties designated as disaster areas (due to drought or other natural disasters) from repayment of excess deficiency payments.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988
Advances the announcement date for the 1989 rice program to December 31, 1988, at the latest.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988
Food Security Act Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1988 wheat and feed grain crops, to exempt farmers in counties designated as disaster areas (due to drought or other natural disasters) from repayment of excess deficiency payments.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective for the 1988 through 1990 crop years, to permit producers to plant specified supplemental and alternative income-producing crops on acreage considered to be planted to program crops.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988
Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1989 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Services; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (5) rental payments; (6) building operations and maintenance; (7) advisory committees; (8) hazardous waste management; (9) departmental administration; (10) Working Capital Fund; (11) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) Office of the General Counsel; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (15) Economic Research Service; (16) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (17) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (18) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (19) Agricultural Research Service; (20) Cooperative State Research Service; (21) Extension Service; (22) National Agricultural Library; (23) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (24) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (25) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (26) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (27) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (28) Agricultural Marketing Service; (29) Office of Transportation; (30) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (31) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (32) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (33) Dairy Indemnity Program; (34) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (35) Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes specified amounts to be transferred from the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the General Sales Manager in expanding commodity sales abroad. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make specified amounts available for short-term and intermediate export credit. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service; (3) Human Nutrition Information Service; and (4) Food Stamp Program. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Agricultural Trade Missions; (3) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (4) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (5) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditures of appropriations for consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection. Authorizes the use of funds for replacement passenger motor vehicles and uniforms and allowances. Limits the availability of funds for contracting for research and service work. Prohibits the use of funds for production payments to recipients who harvest marihuana or other prohibited drug-producing plants for illegal use. Limits the amount of transfers to the Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services and National Finance Center operations. States that the following appropriation items shall remain available until expended: (1) Public Law 480; (2) mutual and self-help housing; (3) watershed and flood prevention operations; (4) resource conservation and development; (5) Colorado River Basin salinity control program; (6) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (7) specified amounts for an emergency contingency fund, and buildings and facilities; (8) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service county committees; (9) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; (10) Agricultural Research Service facilities and buildings; (11) scientific activities overseas (foreign currency program); (12) dairy indemnity program; (13) specified amounts for grasshopper and Mormon cricket control; (14) specified amounts for education training grants under Public Law 95-113; and (15) Food and Drug Administration facilities and buildings. Limits the availability of funds for orientation and language training. Authorizes part-time and intermittent intra-Department of Agriculture employee transfers. Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to any resolution of disapproval. Provides that the certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 65 percent of the value of loans closed during the fiscal year. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the use of funds to prevent or interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at competitive prices. Authorizes the provision of specified commodities to individuals in cases of hardship. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Prohibits the use of funds to reimburse the General Services Administration for rental space in excess of amounts specified in this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Authorizes the use of funds for foreign language translation of Department publications. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the FmHA from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Exempts Department veterinarians from personal service contract restrictions with respect to taking animal blood samples, testing and vaccinating animals, and performing branding and tagging activities on a fee-for-service basis. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Authorizes the use of funds for a one-year contract which is to be performed in two fiscal years if such contract's total amount is obligated in the same year for which the funds are appropriated. States that appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made, unless otherwise provided by law. Prohibits the use of funds to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease jointly-occupied space for its own use or on behalf of other Department of Agriculture agencies. Prohibits the use of funds to release information acquired from certain handlers under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. Prohibits the use of funds by the FmHA to employ or otherwise contract with private debt collection agencies to collect delinquent payments from FmHA borrowers. Prohibits the use of funds to alter the method of computing normalized agricultural commodity prices with regard to water resources projects in effect as of January 1, 1986. Prohibits the use of funds to sell loans made by the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Prohibits the use of funds under specified conditions to pay the salaries of personnel carrying out: (1) the honey price support program; and (2) the export enhancement program. Reduces appropriation items or loan program levels available under this Act by one percent, except for mandatory programs during FY 1989 and Public Law 480.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988
Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Solicitation Amendment of 1988 - Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to solicit at least annually applications for unprocessed agricultural commodities available for distribution under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1988
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide homeless women, infants, and children with access to the special supplemental food program (the program). Provides that the program shall be supplementary to receipt of meals from soup kitchens, shelters, or other emergency food assistance programs. Makes information on program participation by homeless families part of the biennial report on the program by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to the Congress. Requires State operation and administration plans to include plans to provide program benefits to, and meet the nutrition education needs of, eligible homeless individuals. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures under which eligible homeless individuals may continue to participate in the program when they are in States other than the State in which they were originally certified. Makes each State agency responsible for administering the program for populations of homeless individuals within its jurisdiction. Includes organizations and agencies serving homeless individuals among the entities to which State and local agencies must distribute information on the availability of program benefits. Requires that the special needs and problems of homeless individuals be taken into account in the prescription of appropriate supplemental foods by a competent professional authority. Authorizes the State agency to adopt methods of delivering program benefits to accommodate the special needs and problems of homeless individuals. Directs the State agency to ensure that shelters or institutions in which program participants reside do not: (1) accrue any financial or in-kind benefit from such participation; (2) use food items purchased with program assistance for communal feeding; (3) receive program assistance for participants or use program assistance to such participants for the bulk purchase of food items, except under circumstances defined by the Secretary; and (4) restrict participant ability to partake of food items purchased with program assistance or to participate in all services offered to program participants under the Act. Directs the Secretary annually to report to the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition on plans to ensure that eligible homeless individuals (as well as eligible members of migrant populations) continue to participate in the program as such persons move among States.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1988
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to obligate unused price support funds for drought assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1988
Nutritional Assistance Improvements Act of 1988 - Title I: Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) - Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to state that the dairy export incentive program and the export sales of dairy products program shall not be operated in a manner that will reduce the dairy products available for the temporary emergency food assistance program (TEFAP). States that the TEFAP bonus commodities program shall not be operated in a manner that will reduce available commodities for other school nutrition or elderly feeding programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, during each of FY 1989 through 1991, to purchase and make available for food assistance at least $225,000,000 worth of high protein commodities. Authorizes States to make supplemental commodities available for food assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Extends TEFAP, including storage and distribution authorizations, through FY 1991. Title II: Child Nutrition Programs - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase the school breakfast program reimbursement rate by three cents per meal. Amends the National School Lunch Act to provide an additional meal or snack to children who attend day care centers which are open more than eight hours a day. Title III: Special Supplemental Food Program - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to define "homeless individual" for purposes of the special supplemental food program (WIC) as an individual who: (1) lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence; or (2) has a primary nighttime residence that is a publicly or privately operated temporary shelter, institution providing temporary residence, temporary accommodation in another individual's residence, or a public or private place not normally used as a sleeping accommodation. Makes homeless individuals eligible for WIC assistance. Requires State WIC plans to include homeless outreach programs. Title IV: Food Stamp Program - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude dependent care payments from the household income computation for purposes of food stamp program (program) eligibility. Changes the dependent care deduction from $160 per month per household to $160 per month per dependent. Requires State program plans to include rural area outreach. Title V: Farmers Market Demonstration Project - Authorizes three-year demonstration projects in seven States to provide coupons (between ten and 20 dollars' worth) to WIC and commodity supplemental food program (low-income elderly) recipients for use at farmers' markets. Requires 35 percent State matching funds. Establishes minimum and maximum grant amounts at $75,000 and $400,000, respectively. Limits the use of funds for administrative costs. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations. Requires: (1) State recipients to report annually to the Secretary; and (2) the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees. Title VI: Other Nutrition Programs - Directs the Secretary to carry out at least one food bank commodity distribution project in each standard Federal region. Requires the Secretary to submit a program report to the Congress by January 3, 1990. Terminates the program on September 30, 1991. Directs the Secretary, for FY 1988 through 1991, to purchase and distribute in high unemployment areas at least $50,000,000 of surplus commodities for use in cooperative emergency feeding facilities. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to provide the commodity supplemental food program with bonus cheese equal to at least the value of cheese provided to such program in FY 1988. Title VII: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective as of October 1, 1988, except for the provisions of title II which shall become effective as of July 1, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1988
Surplus Milk Products Packaging Act of 1988 - Provides for the acquisition of surplus milk products (butter, cheese, nonfat dry milk) in consumer-sized packages when uncommitted Commodity Credit Corporation-held stocks exceed specified limits. Makes such acquisition mandatory or discretionary depending upon the level of excess stocks.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1988
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to obligate unused price support funds for drought assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1988
Farmers' Market Nutrition Enhancement Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to authorize three-year demonstration project grants in seven States to provide coupons (between ten and 20 dollars' worth) to special supplemental food program (WIC) recipients for use at farmers' markets. Requires at least 30 percent State matching funds. Sets minimum and maximum grant amounts at $75,000 and $700,000, respectively. Prohibits the use of funds to construct or operate a farmers' market. Limits the use of funds for administrative costs. Requires: (1) State recipients to make annual reports to the Secretary of Agriculture; and (2) the Secretary to provide the Congress with a project evaluation report within two years after the last grant award. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1991 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1988
Food Safety Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to revise the definition of "pesticide chemical" by including pesticide chemical residues in processed foods, inert ingredients of pesticide chemicals, and substances resulting from the metabolism or degradation of a pesticide chemical. Specifies that pesticide chemical residues in or on a raw agricultural commodity or processed food (defined as any food other than a raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing) and pesticide chemicals used in the production, storage, or transportation of processed food (currently, does not cover residues or apply to processed foods) are not food additives. Specifies that pesticide chemical residues in processed food, if within the tolerances set under this Act, do not make the food "adulterated" within the meaning of the FDCA. Establishes the general rule that any pesticide chemical residue in or on food, and any pesticide chemical added to food, requires either a tolerance or an exemption, and that the residue remaining on food must be within the tolerance limit or consistent with the exemption. Specifies that: (1) pesticide chemical residues in or on processed food which do not have a separate tolerance are lawful if those residues have been removed to the extent possible in good manufacturing practice and are within the tolerance for the raw agricultural commodity from which the processed food was made; and (2) raw agricultural commodities and processed food that contain pesticide chemicals or their residues pursuant to such a tolerance or exemption shall not be considered adulterated. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) promulgate regulations that establish, modify or revoke tolerances either in response to a petition or on the Administrator's initiative; and (2) establish expiration dates for such tolerances. Provides that a tolerance may be established for a pesticide chemical or pesticide chemical residue only if the risk to human health, including the health of identifiable population groups with special food consumption patterns, from dietary exposure to the chemical or residue is negligible. Revokes or modifies such tolerance if such risk is greater than negligible. Creates an exception to such rule under certain circumstances. Sets forth the following criteria for determining negligible risk: (1) for pesticide chemicals which are not likely to have any adverse human health effect below an identifiable level, the level at which the chemical will not cause or contribute to any known or anticipated adverse human health effects (including an ample margin of safety); and (2) for pesticide chemicals for which there is no level at which such chemicals will not cause adverse human health effects, the level at which the chemical will not cause or contribute in the population exposed to such chemical to a cancer risk (using conservative models) which exceeds a rate of one in a million. Sets forth guidelines for determining dietary exposure to pesticide chemicals or their residues. Directs the Administrator to: (1) take into account all dietary exposure to the chemical, including exposure under the proposed tolerance (or the tolerance in effect in the case of a petition to modify and revoke an existing tolerance), all other sources of dietary exposure (including drinking water) to the same chemical; and (2) consider the level of exposure based on the assumption that residues are on all authorized raw agricultural commodities and processed food at tolerance levels and exposure occurs for a lifetime, with specified exceptions. Sets forth factors to consider when the Administrator is required by this Act to consider the benefits of a pesticide chemical, including the effect of the use of such chemical on the food supply, the availability of alternatives, the extent to which other pest control methods can be substituted for the chemicals, and costs and health risks. Directs the Administrator to: (1) publish the basis for his determination when acting on the tolerance petition; and (2) propose regulations within 90 days of enactment specifying how the analysis of benefits will be conducted, the data that will be relied upon, and the factors that will be considered. Specifies that: (1) the tolerance level for a pesticide chemical applied to food shall be no higher than the Administrator determines is necessary for such chemical to have its intended effect; and (2) where such a chemical leaves no detectable residue, the Administrator shall establish a tolerance at the most sensitive limit of detection of the analytical method for detecting residues that the Administrator approves under this Act. Precludes the establishment of a tolerance until the Administrator determines that there is a practical method for detecting and measuring residues. Specifies that such method must be the best available practical method and that it would be considered practical only if it could be performed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on a routine basis with the personnel, equipment, and other resources available to the Secretary. Sets forth factors to be considered by the Administrator in determing whether to establish, modify, or revoke a tolerance for a pesticide chemical, including: (1) the probable consumption of treated food by the population group which consumes the greatest amounts of the food or which is most sensitive to the chemical; (2) the cumulative effect of the chemical, taking into account related chemicals and non-dietary routes of exposure; and (3) safety factors that are appropriate for animal experiments. Authorizes the Administrator to establish, modify, or revoke an exemption from the requirement for a tolerance in response to a petition or on the Administrator's own initiative. Specifies that an exemption may have an expiration date. Authorizes an exemption to be established, or left in effect, only if the pesticide chemical residue presents no risk to human health, including the health of identifiable population groups with special food consumption patterns, from dietary exposure at any level of residue that could result from use of the chemical on food. Directs the Administrator, in determining dietary exposure, to take into account: (1) all dietary exposure to the pesticide chemical, including exposure under the proposed exemption, all other tolerances or exemptions in effect for the same chemical, and all other sources of dietary exposure (including drinking water) to the same chemical; and (2) the maximum amount of residue that could reasonably be expected to occur if the instructions for use of the pesticide were not followed. Prohibits the Administrator from establishing an exemption: (1) unless the Administrator determines that there is a practical method for detecting and measuring the levels of such chemical or residue and that such method is the best available practical method; and (2) for those inert ingredients of a pesticide chemical which are essential for an active ingredient to have its intended effect, causing or contributing to adverse biological effects in any organism which may have an adverse effect on human health, and meet any other requirement established by the Administrator. Allows any person to file a petition for the issuance of a regulation that establishes, modifies, or revokes a tolerance, or establishes or revokes an exemption. Specifies the information and data that must be contained in a petition to establish a new tolerance or new exemption, including: (1) a summary of the scientific reports respecting the safety of, and exposure to, the pesticide chemical; and (2) a statement that the petitioner authorizes the publication of such summary by the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to establish requirements for petitions to modify or revoke tolerances or exemptions. Directs the Administrator to publish a notice of the filing of a complete petition within 30 days of such filing, announcing the availability of a complete description of the analytical methods for the detection and measurement of the pesticide chemical in food and including the summary required in the petition to establish a tolerance or exemption. Specifies the actions that the Administrator may take after considering the petition and other available information, including publication of a final regulation approving or disapproving the petition, or proposing a regulation that is different from that requested in the petition. Makes a final regulation issued under this section effective upon the date of publication. Sets forth procedures for filing and considering objections to the final regulation. Provides for judicial review for any person adversely affected (including a person without an economic interest) by the Administrator's decision. Specifies that such review would not operate to stay the Administrator's decision unless specifically ordered by the court. Authorizes the Administrator to establish, modify, or revoke a tolerance or to establish or revoke an exemption on his own initiative. Requires the Administrator to issue a notice of any proposed rule and provide for at least a 30 day period for public comment on the proposed regulation (unless the public interest requires a shorter period or the Administrator is acting to revoke or suspend a tolerance or exemption). Authorizes the Administrator to revoke an exemption, or to revoke or modify a tolerance, without following the required procedure if such action is necessary to prevent an imminent hazard. Directs the Administrator, in such case, to provide notice of the action and to hold a public hearing within five days of a request (which request was made within five days of the Administrator's action) for a hearing. Specifies that the effective date of the action shall not be delayed because of the hearing and the order may not be judicially reviewed until after the hearing or set aside while the order is being judicially reviewed. Requires the Administrator to request additional data, or initiate an action to modify or revoke the exemption, if the data contained in a petition (including a petition submitted before the date of enactment) to establish a tolerance or exemption is inadequate to support the continuation of such tolerance or exemption. Specifies that: (1) when the Administrator requires the submission of data, the Administrator shall publish an order in the Federal Register that establishes deadlines for the identification of the persons who will submit the data and the submission of necessary data and reports; (2) if such deadlines are not met, the tolerance or exemption would be automatically revoked (but allows the Administrator to delay the effective date of the revocation for up to 12 months for food containing residues which are within the tolerance or exemption or for such other period as necessary if extraordinary circumstances prevented the submission within the deadline); and (3) an order issued under this section shall be subject to administrative and judicial review. Provides for the confidentiality of data contained in a petition (upon request of the petitioner) until publication of a regulation or order unless disclosure has been made previously, or is allowed under this Act or otherwise required by law. Specifies the persons to whom confidential data may be disclosed, including the Congress and certain U.S. employees and authorized contractors of the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to publish the informative summary required in the petition and other summaries of the data relating to the proposed or final regulation or order. Sets forth procedures by which the public may obtain access to the health and safety data submitted or cited in support of a petition. Sets forth conforming provisions with respect to actions on the registration of pesticide chemicals under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Requires the Administrator, within 90 days of the enactment of this Act, to establish deadlines (and publish such deadlines and related information in the Federal Register) for the submission of necessary health and safety data to establish tolerances for inert ingredients which do not have tolerances as of the date of the enactment of this Act and for which an exemption may not be established under the FDCA. Provides that if the deadlines are not met, the pesticide chemicals containing the inert ingredients shall be considered unsafe, except that the Administrator could delay the effective date of the determination under specified circumstances. Subjects the order of the Administrator requiring the submission of data to administrative and judicial review. Requires the Administrator, within 90 days of enactment, to establish deadlines for the submission of necessary health and safety data to establish tolerances or exemptions for any pesticide chemicals which, on the date of enactment, do not have tolerances or exemptions because they are generally recognized as safe. Authorizes the Administrator to issue an order declaring such chemicals to be unsafe if such deadlines are not met. Provides for administrative and judicial review of such order. Specifies that such chemicals shall not be considered unsafe solely because they do not have a tolerance or exemption. Revises existing exemptions by requiring the Administrator, within 90 days of enactment, to establish deadlines for the submission of necessary health and safety data to establish tolerances or to continue the exemptions. Provides that if such deadlines are not met the exemptions would be automatically revoked. Authorizes the Administrator to delay the effective date of the revocation under specified conditions. Provides for administrative and judicial review.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1988
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to release the restriction that certain land located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, be used for public purposes; and (2) prior to releasing any restrictions contained in the deed granting such land to Mississippi State College, to enter into an agreement with the college which provides that the release of the restrictions shall be conditioned on the placing of identical restrictions on any property acquired by the college in exchange for the land.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1988
National Gleaning Clearinghouse Act of 1988 - Establishes in the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture a National Gleaning Clearinghouse to promote the collection and distribution of gleaned agricultural products and crops to assist persons in need.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1988
Upland Cotton Optional Acreage Diversion Act of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that producers of the 1988 through 1990 upland cotton crops who devote all or a part of their permitted upland cotton acreage to conservation or other authorized uses shall receive deficiency payments on the acreage considered to be planted to such crops (0/92 option) at not less than the projected deficiency rate for such crop. (Current law requires at least 50 percent planted cotton acreage in order to be eligible for such payments.) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to minimize adverse program effects on agribusiness and other agriculturally related economic interests within any county, State, or region. Authorizes the Secretary to restrict the total amount of upland cotton that may be taken out of production under this Act, except in counties eligible for emergency disaster loans. Requires the Secretary, in issuing implementing regulations under this Act, to ensure to the maximum extent possible, that the program will not adversely affect landlord-tenant crop acreage base relations. Provides for the protection of crop acreage bases and program yields. Limits 1988 availability of this program to those producers only who have executed a production adjustment contract with the Commodity Credit Corporation by April 15, 1988. Amends the United States Cotton Standards Act to authorize the Secretary to invest the proceeds of certain fees and charges collected under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1988
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to release the restriction that certain land located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, be used for public purposes; and (2) prior to releasing any restrictions contained in the deed granting such land to Mississippi State College, to enter into an agreement with the college which provides that the release of the restrictions shall be conditioned on the placing of identical restrictions on any property acquired by the college in exchange for the land.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1988
Conservation Cost-Share Act of 1988 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise conservation reserve program (program) cost-sharing formulas for: (1) specified tree plantings (of up to 20 rows) in areas of limited rainfall; and (2) grass seeding in areas where such costs exceed program rental payments.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1988
Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to increase commission merchant, dealer, and broker license fee ceilings.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1988
Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to authorize FY 1989 and 1990 appropriations for the temporary emergency food assistance program. Extends program authority through FY 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1988
Authorizes certain Department of Agriculture employees charged with enforcing plant disease or plant pest prevention laws to carry firearms while on official duty.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to state that the dairy export incentive program and the export sales of dairy products program shall not be operated in a way that will reduce the dairy products available for the temporary emergency food assistance program (TEFAP) or any other domestic feeding program. Extends TEFAP, including storage and distribution authorizations, through FY 1991. Increases the amount of TEFAP funds for emergency feeding organizations. Extends through FY 1991 the Secretary of Agriculture's responsibility to publish a notice of anticipated available commodities in the Federal Register. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend through FY 1991: (1) the dairy export incentive program; and (2) the export sales of dairy products program. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to direct the Secretary to establish procedures for State, local, or private donations to supplement Federal food assistance programs. Authorizes States or emergency feeding organizations to use funds appropriated under this Act for facilities use and distribution costs. Authorizes States to use such funds to conduct an information program regarding available food assistance programs, including the food stamp program and the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children. Directs State and local agencies to continue to use volunteer workers and donated food stuffs in food distribution programs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to waive the $50,000 individual payment limitation for States that develop an approved conservation reserve enhancement program.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate with State and local entities to create incentives, including cost-sharing, for shelterbelts and windbreaks in the conservation reserve program.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Agricultural Research Commercialization Act of 1988 - Establishes the Agricultural Research Commercialization Corporation (Corporation) in the Department of Agriculture to facilitate the commercialization of new industrial products and processes using traditional and new agricultural and forestry crops. Directs the Corporation to establish between ten and 12 regional centers. Provides for the appointment of regional advisory councils whose primary duty shall be project application review. Sets forth center activities, including: (1) identification of new products and of areas for new product commercialization; (2) coordination of research and development programs; (3) provision of technical assistance; (4) dissemination of information; and (5) coordination of private sector, university, and government needs and activities. Sets forth Corporation operating and administrative provisions, including financial disclosure and public access to Corporation information requirements. Directs the Corporation to provide grants, loans, and loan guarantees to eligible projects. States that the Corporation shall not receive proprietary or patent rights to any project proposal in return for such financial assistance. Sets forth financial assistance criteria. Requires a successful venture to repay the regional center the amount of financial assistance received for such project. Exempts unsuccessful ventures from such repayment, except that they must transfer any loan collateral to the Corporation. Establishes a revolving fund for the Corporation. Authorizes the establishment of regional revolving funds. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1999 appropriations. Authorizes a trust fund for the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Agricultural Research Commercialization Act of 1988 - Establishes the Agricultural Research Commercialization Corporation (Corporation) in the Department of Agriculture to facilitate the commercialization of new industrial products and processes using traditional and new agricultural and forestry crops. Directs the Corporation to establish between ten and 12 regional centers. Provides for the appointment of regional advisory councils whose primary duty shall be project application review. Sets forth center activities, including: (1) identification of new products and of areas for new product commercialization; (2) coordination of research and development programs; (3) provision of technical assistance; (4) dissemination of information; and (5) coordination of private sector, university, and government needs and activities. Sets forth Corporation operating and administrative provisions, including financial disclosure and public access to Corporation information requirements. Directs the Corporation to provide grants, loans, and loan guarantees to eligible projects. States that the Corporation shall not receive proprietary or patent rights to any project proposal in return for such financial assistance. Sets forth financial assistance criteria. Requires a successful venture to repay the regional center the amount of financial assistance received for such project. Exempts unsuccessful ventures from such repayment, except that they must transfer any loan collateral to the Corporation. Establishes a revolving fund for the Corporation. Authorizes the establishment of regional revolving funds. Authorizes FY 1989 through 1999 appropriations. Authorizes a trust fund for the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to waive the $50,000 individual payment limitation for States that develop an approved conservation reserve enhancement program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1988
Provides for fixing the initial pay rate of former employees of county committees established under the soil conservation program when such employees are appointed to positions within the Department of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1988
Upland Cotton Optional Acreage Diversion Act of 1988 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that producers of the 1988 through 1990 upland cotton crops who devote all or a part of their permitted upland cotton acreage to conservation or other authorized uses shall receive deficiency payments on the acreage considered to be planted to such crops (0/92 option) at not less than the projected deficiency rate for such crop. (Current law requires at least 50 percent planted cotton acreage in order to be eligible for such payments.) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to minimize adverse program effects on agribusiness and other agriculturally related economic interests within any county, State, or region. Authorizes the Secretary to restrict the total amount of upland cotton that may be taken out of production under this Act, except in counties eligible for emergency disaster loans. Requires the Secretary, in issuing implementing regulations under this Act, to ensure to the maximum extent possible that the program will not adversely affect landlord-tenant crop acreage base relations. Provides for the protection of crop acreage bases and program yields.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1988
State Grain Fund Protection Act of 1988 - Amends the United States Warehouse Act to permit States to require federally licensed grain warehouses to participate in State grain indemnity funds or to require collateral security.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1988
Grain Quality Improvement Act of 1988 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) to modify the FGIS mission statement to reflect the declaration of policy on the exportation of high quality grain contained in the United States Grain Standards Act. Amends such Act to define "foreign material" for grain standard purposes as all material other than grain, including dockage. Requires at least four members of the grain standards advisory committee to be agricultural commodity producers. Directs the Administrator to use specified additional FGIS funds to carry out two specified grain quality studies.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1988
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to take actions to assure: (1) salvage of 1987 fire damaged timber on specified national forest lands; and (2) access to fire damaged areas for salvage, rehabilitation, and reforestation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1988
Sodbuster Reform and Moratorium Act of 1988 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide an exemption to agricultural program ineligibility for production on highly erodible land for land continuously owned by a person who was and still is an active agricultural producer, and who was at least 60 years old at the time of enactment of such Act. Extends for two years the current program ineligibility exemptions. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to the Congress regarding the highly erodible land conservation program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the prohibition on an extra long staple cotton cross compliance requirement through the 1990 crop year.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1988
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the prohibition on an extra long staple cotton cross compliance requirement through the 1990 crop year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1988
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit eligible producers to enroll 1988 through 1990 set-aside acreage in a three-year wildlife habitat and vegetative cover set-aside program (program). Directs the Secretary to offer cost-sharing program incentives. Provides for Federal-State cost sharing. Limits program participation to producers who have participated in farm programs in two of the three crop years prior to program enrollment. Limits program acreage to not more than 50 percent of a producer's set-aside acreage, and authorizes the enrollment of up to 50 percent of paid land diversion acreage in the program. Requires the program to be carried out through the Commodity Credit Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1988
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend through FY 1991: (1) the dairy export incentive program; and (2) the export sales of dairy products program. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to state that such dairy export programs shall not be operated in a way that will reduce dairy products available for the temporary emergency food assistance program.