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Law· SS. 2269 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1980
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 the limit on the total principal balance outstanding at any time on loans insured or guaranteed under such Act. Extends the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make new contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until September 30, 1981.
Bill· SS. 2264 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make price support available, beginning with the 1979 crops of wheat and feed grains, to producers who participate in a specified producer storage program, at increased levels of at least $3.50 per bushel for wheat and $2.50 per bushel for corn. Provides that such increased levels shall not be used for making specified determinations. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to raise the limit on a secured storage facility construction or remodeling loan from $50,000 to $100,000. Deletes the requirement that the size of such facilities for which such loans are obtained be based on estimated production quantities.
Bill· SS. 2258 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
National Agricultural Security Act of 1980 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make available loans and purchases and participation in the producer storage program on up to 50 percent of the corn produced in the 1979 crop year by any producer who did not file a timely agreement to participate in the 1979 feed grain set-aside program. Permits the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell its stock of corn at less than 150 percent of the current level of price support if such corn is used in the production of alcohol for motor fuel at facilities meeting specified requirements. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to stipulate that the reduction of acreage normally planted to designated commodities required by the Secretary for eligibility for price supports shall not apply to the 1979 crop of soybeans. Directs the President to establish a reserve stock of wheat to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries when domestic supplies are limited. Declares that such reserve stocks shall not be considered a part of the total domestic supply and shall not be subject to specified export limitations. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to raise the limit on a secured storage facility construction or remodeling loan from $50,000 to $100,000. Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise the ceiling on the total principal balance which may be outstanding from $4,000,000,000 t0 $6,000,000,000. Extends the authority to make contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until September 30, 1981. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, with the U.S. Trade Representative, to study and report to the President and Congress on the potential for expanding U.S. agricultural export markets and the use of agricultural exports to obtain needed natural resources or other products. Sets forth items to be included in such study. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to use the funds, facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase the agricultural products which were intended for export to the Soviet Union.
Bill· HRH.R. 6428 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish land diversion payment programs for the 1980 crops of corn and wheat. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that grain producers devote to approved conservation uses, an amount of cropland not less than a percentage of their 1980 crop planted acreage (15 percent for corn and 10 percent for wheat). Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of such payments. Sets $1.50 per bushel for both corn and wheat as a payment rate factor in such formulas.
Bill· SS. 2249 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the minimum level of price support on quota peanuts for the 1980 and 1981 crops from $420 per ton to $502 per ton.
Bill· HRH.R. 6403 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the minimum level of price support on quota peanuts for the 1980 and 1981 crops from $420 per ton to $502 per ton.
Bill· HRH.R. 6382 (96th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and announce, not later than March 1, 1980, a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that feed grain producers devote to approved conservation uses, not later than July 1, 1980, an amount of cropland equal to 20 percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Set forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at $1.25 per bushel for corn and at a fair and reasonable rate in relation to such corn rate, as determined by the Secretary, for all other feed grains.
Bill· HRH.R. 6392 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Economic Recovery Act of 1980 - Title I: Production and Sale of Agricultural Commodities - Directs the National Board of Agricultural Governors (created by Title II of this Act) to establish, on a monthly basis for each agricultural commodity, a parity price and a comprehensive cost of production price, taking into account for the latter: (1) machinery ownership costs; (2) farm overhead costs; (3) a value for the management services contributed by the producer; (4) labor costs; and (5) a value for the land utilized. Directs the Board to determine an established price for each agricultural commodity equal to such parity price or to such comprehensive cost of production price, whichever is less. Directs the Board to establish for each commodity a national production goal based on estimated domestic and export requirements, and levels of production consistent with established agricultural conservation or soil management programs. Directs the Board to allocate allotments or marketing quotas based upon the production history of each farm during three out of the five preceding calendar years. Limits such allocations to individual farmers and farmer-owned or controlled cooperatives and corporations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans available to producers of Board-selected commodities. Requires the Board to establish a program to acquire reserve stocks of agricultural commodities. Directs the Board to establish quotas for each agricultural commodity imported into the United States. Establishes in the United States Treasury the Agricultural Export Fund for the deposit of any tariff revenues received from a foreign country in which an agricultural commodity was produced, for use in the purchase of any United States products. Prohibits the sale of any United States agricultural commodity for export at less than 100 percent of the established price. Requires the Board to conduct, upon petition, producer referendums on proposed regulations. Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to make it an unfair or deceptive trade practice for any person engaged in the retail sale of food to sell any food product without a sign at the point of sale stating the amount received by farmers for the agricultural commodities which were used to produce the food product involved. Prescribes civil penalties for anyone who buys, sells, or trades any agricultural commodity at a price less than a specified percent (increasing from 90 percent in 1980 to 95 percent in 1981), or more than 110 percent, of the established price. Title II: National Board of Agricultural Governors - Establishes a National Board of Agricultural Governors composed of 57 members appointed by the President. Directs the Board to: (1) carry out the programs set forth in title I of this Act; (2) conduct public hearings to assure fair and equitable implementation of such programs; (3) advise the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations; and (4) establish and administer all agricultural production and marketing programs of the Federal Government. Title III: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act and sets the effective date. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6391 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, emergency operating loans to: (1) producers who will meet eligibility conditions for loans, purchases, and payments under the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to their 1980 crops; and (2) producers of livestock, dairy products, and poultry and poultry products whose farm income is derived primarily therefrom. Sets forth conditions, purposes, amounts, interest rates, and repayment schedules relating to such loans. Directs the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service to administer, and the Secretary to issue, necessary regulations for this Act.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 495 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices). Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation, whenever the extended loan program for producer storage is in effect, from selling any of its stocks of wheat or feed grains at less than 110 percent of the then current parity price of such commodity.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 554 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Authorizes the expenditure of funds, not to exceed $1,247,200, for investigations and studies to be conducted by the House Committee on Agriculture. Specifies that $16,300 of such funds are for the reimbursement of computer and computer-related services requested by such committee. Declares that no part of these funds shall be available for expenditure in connection with the study of any subject which is being investigated by any other House committee. Terminates the authorization granted by this resolution on January 3, 1981.
Bill· HRH.R. 6376 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available price supports to producers of sunflower seeds. Requires the Secretary to make available loans and purchases on the 1980 and 1981 crops at a level of not less than ten dollars per hundredweight. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a set-aside of sunflower seed acreage as a condition to such price support.
Bill· HRH.R. 6370 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to establish the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to be available for: (1) the export of, or aid in the development of, foreign markets for agricultural commodities; and (2) loans for the acquisition of facilities in foreign countries to improve the countries' capacities to handle agri-commodities exported from the United States. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress annually concerning the export credit sales program. Abolishes such fund effective October 1, 1983.
Bill· HRH.R. 6340 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise from $4,000,000,000 to $5,500,000,000 the limit on the total principal balance outstanding at any time on loans insured or guaranteed under such Act. Extends the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make new contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until September 30, 1981. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to raise the limit on a secured storage facility construction or remodeling loan from $50,000 to $100,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 6333 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1980
Agricultural Census Amendments of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) determine the overall reporting burden on respondents in the 1979 census of agriculture, drainage, and irrigation; (2) take necessary steps to assure that such burden for the 1983 census will be not more than one-half of the 1979 burden; and (3) report to Congress on such determination and such steps.
Law· HRH.R. 6285 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Egg Research and Consumer Information Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to raise the maximum allowable number of members of the Egg Board from 18 to 20. Provides that two such voting members, and alternates therefor, be consumers or representatives of consumers, if approved by egg producers. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make such consumer appointments from nominations submitted by eligible organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make such consumer appointments as necessary to protect consumer interests if such nominees are not members of bona fide consumer organizations or do not represent consumers. Raises the limit on the rate of assessment prescribed by the order of the Egg Board from five cents to seven and one-half cents per case of commercial eggs or the equivalent thereof for fiscal year 1981. Permits such rate to be increased by no more than three-quarters of a cent for each fiscal year thereafter, up to ten cents per case. Declares that the failure of egg producers to approve an amendment to the Egg Research and Promotion Order to increase the rate of assessment shall not be deemed to invalidate the Order. Sets a minimum civil penalty of $500 for violations of this Act. Raises the maximum civil penalty for such violations from $1,000 to $5,000. Authorizes the Secretary to issue cease and desist orders against such violations, in addition to or in lieu of such civil penalties. Requires notice and opportunity for a hearing before such penalties may be assessed or such orders issued. Permits appeals of such penalties or orders in the appropriate U.S. court of appeals. Provides for civil penalties for failure to obey cease and desist orders which have become final and unappealable. Directs the Secretary to refer unpaid civil penalties to the Attorney General, who shall recover such amounts assessed in the appropriate U.S. district court.
Bill· HRH.R. 6301 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise the limits on the total principal balances outstanding at any one time on loans insured or guaranteed under such Act: (1) from $400,000 to $600,000 for any borrower; and (2) from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 for all such loans. Extends the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make new contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until September 30, 1981.
Bill· HRH.R. 6291 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 the limit on the total principal balance outstanding at any time on loans insured or guaranteed under such Act. Extends the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make new contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until May 15, 1982. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to raise the limit on a secured storage facility construction or remodeling loan from $50,000 to $60,000. Sets the maximum interest rate on such loans at five percent per year.
Bill· HRH.R. 6296 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Family Farm Development Act of 1980 - Title I: Family Farm Development Service - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Family Farm Development Service, containing a Research Board, which shall devise a national long-term plan for the development of a system providing incentives to encourage small and moderate-size family farmers to use and develop new and improved farming techniques, technology, and mechanisms of food production and distribution. Directs the Administrator of the Family Farm Development Service to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Congress: (1) a report containing such plan before the end of the three-and-one-half-year development period; and (2) an annual report on specified activities. Title II: Research Program - Directs the Administrator of the Family Farm Development Service to conduct an intensive research grant program concerning the improvement of small and moderate-sized family farms. Directs the Secretary to submit to the President and the Congress an annual report, with recommendations, on such research program. Title III: Education, Training, and Demonstration Programs - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to establish extension programs providing small farmers with education and demonstration assistance, using paraprofessionals. Directs the Secretary: (1) to provide small farmers with pest control and soil improvement instruction; (2) to establish a program encouraging family farmers to hire and train apprentice farmers; and (3) to establish a scholarship program for farmers and potential farmers to study organic farming methods in foreign countries. Title IV: Loans for Appropriate Technology - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to include among the purposes for which loans may be made or insured under such Act, payment of costs: (1) of appropriate technology use; and (2) incident to instituting methods of sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management among the purposes for which loans may be made or insured under such Act. Sets as a condition for eligibility for such loans being a resident of the U.S. (formerly required U.S. citizenship). Provides that loans made or insured to institute sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management methods shall be repayable in installments determined by the Secretary to reduce initial repayments. Title V: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Farm Tax Equity Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to limit the deductions attributable to the trade or business of farming to a maximum amount consisting of the sum of the taxpayer's gross income plus $17,500 reduced by the amount by which the nonfarm adjusted gross income of such taxpayer exceeds $17,500. Provides for an annual inflation adjustment of such amount. States that such limitation shall not apply if the taxpayer's nonfarm adjusted gross income does not exceed $17,500 or if the taxpayer elects to compute his taxable income on the accrual method of accounting. Requires the accrual method of accounting for any person engaged in the trade or business of farming whose gross income from farming exceeds $100,000, or an amount adjusted for inflation. Provides for a capital gains tax applicable to transfer of rural land by foreign investors. Requires specified reporting procedures relating, to such tax. Title VI: Family Farm Ownership Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants of from $100,000 to $500,000 to units of general local government for the purchase of land suitable for farming, which land shall be sold to new or young farmers. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applicants who demonstrate that the preservation of family farming is of vital importance to the area in which the applicant is located. Establishes revolving fund accounts of grant recipients. Sets forth provisions concerning selection of purchaser and conditions of sale. Title VII: Industrial Hydrocarbons and Alcohols - Authorizes the Secretary to make, and to guarantee, loans for the construction and first year operation of facilities to produce industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities, forest products, and their byproducts for direct use or blending as motor or industrial fuel. Declares eligible for such assistance, upon application: (1) any producer who operates a family farm or group of such producers; (2) any private nonprofit organization; and (3) any State or local government. Sets forth: (1) the terms of agreement required from recipients of such aid; (2) limitations on financial assistance; (3) consequences of noncompliance with conditions for such aid; and (4) exemption of specified surplus commodities from marketing agreements or orders. Title VIII: Farm Marketing Programs - Directs the Division of Cooperative Marketing of the Department of Agriculture to give primary emphasis to services to small and moderate-sized family farmers. Amends the National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary to make cash payments to State educational agencies, upon application, in lieu of not to exceed 25 percent of the value of the commodities such agencies would have received under the school lunch program. Requires that such cash payments be used by such agencies to purchase program commodities designated from time to time by the Secretary as being in abundance nationally, or by the Secretary or the State Governor as being in abundance in the school area. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out pilot projects in 12 States under which county extension offices will use computer terminals to assist family farmers in attaining information clarifying various market alternatives. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, not to exceed 75 percent of costs, to establish a direct marketing system between consumers and farmers. Title IX: Food Price Stabilization - Establishes a Food Price Review Board to monitor increases in the price of any food product, and to recommend to the President the issuance of orders limiting or adjusting the amount of any such increase so that it is equal to, and not more than, the amount of any increase in the price received by the grower or producer of any raw food product involved. Empowers the President to issue such orders. Title X: Miscellaneous Amendments; Definitions - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to make it an unfair or deceptive practice affecting commerce for any person engaged in the retail sale of food to sell any food product without a sign at the point of sale containing the amount received by farmers for the agricultural commodities which were used to produce the food product involved. Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to include farmers and individuals residing in counties with populations of less than 50 persons per square mile among those whose special difficulties of access to legal services or special legal problems should be taken into account by the Legal Services Corporation in determining and implementing its priorities. Directs the Legal Services Corporation to make grants and contracts for research and for information clearinghouses on legal issues and governmental administrative practices involving farm ownership and operation. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for such purposes. Defines terms used in this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6294 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set the loan level at 90 percent of the parity price for any specified agricultural commodities in which export sales have been suspended (presently such loan levels are set only when export sales are suspended due to short supplies). Stipulates that the loan level shall be at least the average market price for the 30 marketing days preceding the suspension of exports of such commodities for national security or foreign policy reasons.
Bill· HRH.R. 6295 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Family Farm Development Act of 1980 - Title I: Family Farm Development Service - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a Family Farm Development Service, containing a Research Board, which shall devise a national long-term plan for the development of a system providing incentives to encourage small and moderate-size family farmers to use and develop new and improved farming techniques, technology, and mechanisms of food production and distribution. Directs the Administrator of the Family Farm Development Service to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the Congress: (1) a report containing such plan before the end of the three-and-one-half-year development period; and (2) an annual report on specified activities. Title II: Research Program - Directs the Administrator of the Family Farm Development Service to conduct an intensive research grant program concerning the improvement of small and moderate-sized family farms. Directs the Secretary to submit to the President and the Congress an annual report, with recommendations, on such research program. Title III: Education, Training, and Demonstration Programs - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to establish extension programs providing small farmers with education and demonstration assistance, using paraprofessionals. Directs the Secretary: (1) to provide small farmers with pest control and soil improvement instruction; (2) to establish a program encouraging family farmers to hire and train apprentice farmers; and (3) to establish a scholarship program for farmers and potential farmers to study organic farming methods in foreign countries. Title IV: Loans for Appropriate Technology - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to include among the purposes for which loans may be made or insured under such Act, payment of costs: (1) of appropriate technology use; and (2) incident to instituting methods of sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management among the purposes for which loans may be made or insured under such Act. Sets as a condition for eligibility for such loans being a resident of the U.S. (formerly required U.S. citizenship). Provides that loans made or insured to institute sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management methods shall be repayable in installments determined by the Secretary to reduce initial repayments. Title V: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Farm Tax Equity Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to limit the deductions attributable to the trade or business of farming to a maximum amount consisting of the sum of the taxpayer's gross income plus $17,500 reduced by the amount by which the nonfarm adjusted gross income of such taxpayer exceeds $17,500. Provides for an annual inflation adjustment of such amount. States that such limitation shall not apply if the taxpayer's nonfarm adjusted gross income does not exceed $17,500 or if the taxpayer elects to compute his taxable income on the accrual method of accounting. Requires the accrual method of accounting for any person engaged in the trade or business of farming whose gross income from farming exceeds $100,000, or an amount adjusted for inflation. Provides for a capital gains tax applicable to transfer of rural land by foreign investors. Requires specified reporting procedures relating, to such tax. Title VI: Family Farm Ownership Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants of from $100,000 to $500,000 to units of general local government for the purchase of land suitable for farming, which land shall be sold to new or young farmers. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applicants who demonstrate that the preservation of family farming is of vital importance to the area in which the applicant is located. Establishes revolving fund accounts of grant recipients. Sets forth provisions concerning selection of purchaser and conditions of sale. Title VII: Industrial Hydrocarbons and Alcohols - Authorizes the Secretary to make, and to guarantee, loans for the construction and first year operation of facilities to produce industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities, forest products, and their byproducts for direct use or blending as motor or industrial fuel. Declares eligible for such assistance, upon application: (1) any producer who operates a family farm or group of such producers; (2) any private nonprofit organization; and (3) any State or local government. Sets forth: (1) the terms of agreement required from recipients of such aid; (2) limitations on financial assistance; (3) consequences of noncompliance with conditions for such aid; and (4) exemption of specified surplus commodities from marketing agreements or orders. Title VIII: Farm Marketing Programs - Directs the Division of Cooperative Marketing of the Department of Agriculture to give primary emphasis to services to small and moderate-sized family farmers. Amends the National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary to make cash payments to State educational agencies, upon application, in lieu of not to exceed 25 percent of the value of the commodities such agencies would have received under the school lunch program. Requires that such cash payments be used by such agencies to purchase program commodities designated from time to time by the Secretary as being in abundance nationally, or by the Secretary or the State Governor as being in abundance in the school area. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out pilot projects in 12 States under which county extension offices will use computer terminals to assist family farmers in attaining information clarifying various market alternatives. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, not to exceed 75 percent of costs, to establish a direct marketing system between consumers and farmers. Title IX: Food Price Stabilization - Establishes a Food Price Review Board to monitor increases in the price of any food product, and to recommend to the President the issuance of orders limiting or adjusting the amount of any such increase so that it is equal to, and not more than, the amount of any increase in the price received by the grower or producer of any raw food product involved. Empowers the President to issue such orders. Title X: Miscellaneous Amendments; Definitions - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to make it an unfair or deceptive practice affecting commerce for any person engaged in the retail sale of food to sell any food product without a sign at the point of sale containing the amount received by farmers for the agricultural commodities which were used to produce the food product involved. Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to include farmers and individuals residing in counties with populations of less than 50 persons per square mile among those whose special difficulties of access to legal services or special legal problems should be taken into account by the Legal Services Corporation in determining and implementing its priorities. Directs the Legal Services Corporation to make grants and contracts for research and for information clearinghouses on legal issues and governmental administrative practices involving farm ownership and operation. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for such purposes. Defines terms used in this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6279 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling any stocks of wheat or feed grains acquired in market year 1979 at less than 150 percent of the current price support level for such commodity at the time of sale. Declares that such restriction shall not prevent: (1) specified sales and offsetting purchases necessary to properly handle, rotate, distribute, and locate commodities; or (2) use of commodities to relieve acute distress areas or major disaster areas, as determined by the President.
Bill· SS. 2199 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard to whether producers of wheat, corn, and feed grains participated in the 1979 Federal program for such crops, to: (1) make nonrecourse loans available to such producers on their 1979 crops; and (2) make emergency loans to such producers, in conjunction with the Commodity Credit Corporation. Authorizes the Secretary to announce and carry out a cropland set-aside program for the 1980 crops of wheat, corn, and feed grains, upon determination that such action is in the public interest due of the suspension of grain exports to the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to modify and adjust such program.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 133 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to develop a plan for local nutrition monitoring including: (1) the identification of priority target areas; (2) the coordination of Federal, State, and local responsibilities; and (3) the choice of methodology and a timetable.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 335 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Authorizes additional expenditures not to exceed $813,000 from March 1, 1980, through February 28, 1981, by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for inquiries and investigations. Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate not later than February 28, 1981.
Bill· HRH.R. 6257 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System lands, under specified conditions, and to accept lands, land interests, or cash as consideration for the lands sold or exchanged. Requires that all lands or land interests acquired under this Act become National Forest System lands.
Bill· HRH.R. 6245 (96th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set the loan level at 90 percent of the parity price for any specified agricultural commodities in which export sales have been suspended (presently such loan levels are set only when export sales are suspended due to short supplies). Stipulates that the loan level shall be at least the average market price for the five marketing days preceding the suspension of exports of such commodities for national security or foreign policy reasons.
Bill· HRH.R. 6251 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Emergency Embargo Protection Act of 1980 - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set the loan level at 90 percent of the parity price for any specified agricultural commodities in which export sales have been suspended (presently such loan levels are set only when export sales are suspended due to short supplies).
Bill· HRH.R. 6239 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require that the levels of loans and purchases for the 1979, 1980, and 1981 crops of corn, wheat, and soybeans be not less than 70 percent of parity. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available loans and purchases at not less than 80 percent of program levels for the 1979 crops of corn, barley, oats, grain sorghum, and wheat to producers who did not participate in, or who were ineligible because of noncompliance with, such programs. Declares that specified provisions of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, relating to set-asides of normally planted acreage, shall not apply to specified loans and purchases for the 1979 crop of soybeans.
Bill· HRH.R. 6238 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1980
Requires the United States to purchase all grain the export of which to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was blocked by the President in retaliation for the invasion, by that country, of Afghanistan. Prohibits any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States from: (1) selling or disposing of any such grain at less than parity; or (2) selling or disposing of, for purposes of this Act, a greater quantity of any specific kind of grain than that purchased in compliance with this Act.