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United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a price support program (of not less than 44 percent of parity) for the 1982-1985 sugar beet and sugar cane crops.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to make any nonquota Maryland tobacco subject to area marketing quotas beginning with the 1982 crop.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Title I: Major Food Stamp Revisions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide for a reduction in the value of food stamp allotments to households in which school age children (up to a maximum of four children) are eligible for meals under the national school lunch program. Defines "school age child" to mean a household member of at least six years of age but less than 18 years of age and any other household member attending elementary or secondary school. Provides for an annual adjustment of the thrifty food plan in lieu of a semi-annual adjustment. Makes the household income eligibility standard 130 percent of the nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget. Eliminates the requirement for reports by: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture on the feasibility of recovering excessive food stamp benefits through Federal income tax data; and (2) the Director of the Congressional Budget Office on the review of the various consumer price indices. Increases the standard deduction in computing income for eligible households and the excess shelter expense deduction for such households. Eliminates the semi-annual adjustment of such deductions. Repeals increases in the dependent care deductions for working adults and medical deductions for the elderly and disabled. Revises retrospective accounting procedures to calculate income for households that derive their income in a period shorter than a year. Provides that certain household income, as of October 1, 1983, be calculated on a basis of anticipated income. Exempts migrant farmworker households from periodic income reporting requirements. Provides that all other households which fail to submit such report shall not receive an allotment for the period covered by such report. Title II: Other Food Stamp Cost Reductions - Excludes from certain food stamp eligibility: (1) boarders (persons who live with others or pay compensation to others for meals); (2) participants in drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs; (3) disabled or blind recipients of Social Security benefits; and (4) battered women and children temporarily residing in public or private nonprofit shelters. Declares that sources of income that are excluded from household income for purposes of the food stamp program are those sources determined by Federal law. Limits outreach services of State agencies to informing applicants and participants of their rights and responsibilities and regulations under the food stamp program. Sets forth the determining factors for households to be considered in immediate need of expedited service under such program. Title III: Improving Administrative Procedures for the Food Stamp Program - Revises the definition of retail food stores and the qualifications for such stores to accept and redeem food stamp coupons. Disallows expense deductions for expenses paid by a third party on behalf of a household. Sets forth eligibility criteria for sponsored aliens under the food stamp program. Eliminates provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 requiring the Secretary to follow regulations in force as of June 1, 1977, to prescribe the types and allowable amounts of financial resources an eligible household may own. Provides a procedure for the collection of overissuance of coupons by the reduction of monthly allotments. Makes households ineligible for food stamp assistance where the heads of such households voluntarily quit work, whether or not such household was eligible for assistance immediately prior to such unemployment. Provides that any person exempted from work requirements under the food stamp program because of compliance with work requirements under the Social Security Act, shall be held non-exempt under such program for noncompliance under such Act. Allows persons required to register for work under such program to be referred to State-operated community work experience programs. Requires certain unemployed persons in eligible households to register for employment once every twelve months (formerly once every six months). Restricts cash for change when using food stamp coupons to the lowest coupon denomination issued. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations to prescribe the liability of States for coupons issued through the mail. Directs State agencies to promptly restore food stamp benefits upon the request of households where such benefits were wrongfully denied or terminated, except in cases where such denials occurred during a period of time more than a year earlier than such request. Eliminates the requirement of the Secretary to supplement the nutrition education program with printed materials designed for persons with low reading and comprehension levels. Repeals the 60-day transfer of certification for eligible households which move from one political subdivision to another. Authorizes the Secretary to waive claims arising under provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and to reduce amounts due any State agency to collect unpaid claims assessed against such agency which has exhausted its appeal rights under such Act. Provides for an increase in the federally funded share of administrative costs to State agencies whose quality control programs result in less than the nationwide percentage of errors. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish staffing standards for State agencies. Directs that funds collected from claims arising under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 be credited to the food stamp appropriation account for the fiscal year in which the collection occurs. Directs that funds provided to State agencies for administrative cost-sharing be paid from such account. Title IV: Food Stamp Funding - Increases the amount of appropriations for fiscal year 1981, and sets forth amounts for fiscal year 1982 through 1985. Title V: Commodity Distribution Program - Amends the Agricultural Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend the authority of the Secretary to purchase and distribute agricultural commodities for food assistance programs for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Sets forth penalties for fraud under such Act. Title VI: Food Stamp Cash-Out of SSI Recipients - Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a State, to find that such State's cash payments under the Social Security Act have been specifically increased to include the bonus value of food stamps, for purposes of determining food stamp eligibility for supplemental security income recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to assure adequate supplies of peanuts for 1982 through 1985. Eliminates the national quota proclamation by the Secretary of Agriculture and eliminates his ability to apportion among the counties of a state allotments for the harvesting of peanuts. Provides formulas to determine farm yield, farm base production poundage and farm poundage quotas. Allows the Commodity Credit Corporation to make peanuts, received under loan agreements, available for domestic edible use. Requires the price to cover all costs involved in the peanut production including 100 percent of the loan value or in certain circumstances over 105 per cent of the loan value. Provides further price supports for peanut crops from 1982 to 1985. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, purchases or other operations on quota and additional peanuts for the 1982 through 1985 crops. Makes the quota support rate reflect the national average costs of production.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1981
Requests the President to designate October 16, 1981, as "World Food Day."
United States · United States Senate · 27 April 1981
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1981
Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Title I: Major Food Stamp Revisions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide for a reduction in the value of food stamp allotments to households in which school age children (up to a maximum of four children) are eligible for meals under the national school lunch program. Defines "school age child" to mean a household member of at least six years of age but less than 18 years of age and any other household member attending elementary or secondary school. Provides for an annual adjustment of the thrifty food plan in lieu of a semi-annual adjustment. Makes the household income eligibility standard 130 percent of the nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget. Eliminates the requirement for reports by: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture on the feasibility of recovering excessive food stamp benefits through Federal income tax data; and (2) the Director of the Congressional Budget Office on the review of the various consumer price indexes. Increases the standard deduction in computing income for eligible households and the excess shelter expense deduction for such households. Eliminates the semi-annual adjustment of such deductions. Repeals increases in dependent care deductions for working adults and medical deductions for the elderly and disabled. Revises retrospective accounting procedures to calculate income for households that derive their income in a period shorter than a year. Provides that certain household income, as of October 1, 1983, be calculated on a basis of anticipated income. Exempts migrant farmworker households from periodic income reporting requirements. Provides that all other households which fail to submit such report shall not receive an allotment for the period covered by such report. Title II: Other Food Stamp Cost Reductions - Excludes from certain food stamp eligibility: (1) boarders (one who lives with others or pays compensation to others for meals); (2) participants in drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs; (3) disabled or blind recipients of Social Security benefits; and (4) battered women and children temporarily residing in public or private nonprofit shelters. Declares that sources of income that are excluded from household income for purposes of the food stamp program are those sources determined by Federal law. Limits outreach services of State agencies to informing applicants and participants of their rights and responsibilities and regulations under the food stamp program. Sets forth the determining factors for households to be considered in immediate need of expedited service under such program. Title III: Improving Administrative Procedures for the Food Stamp Program - Revises the definition of retail food stores and the qualifications for such stores to accept and redeem food stamp coupons. Disallows expense deductions for expenses paid by a third party on behalf of a household. Sets forth eligibility criteria for sponsored aliens under the food stamp program. Eliminates provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 requiring the Secretary to follow regulations in force as of June 1, 1977, when prescribing the types and allowable amounts of financial resources eligible households may own. Provides a procedure for the collection of claims against a household arising from an overissuance of coupons by the reduction of monthly allotments. Makes allotments, households ineligible for food stamp assistance where the heads of such households voluntarily quit work, whether or not such household was eligible for assistance immediately prior to such unemployment. Provides that any person exempted from work requirements under the food stamp program because of compliance with work requirements under the Social Security Act, shall be held non-exempt under such program for noncompliance under such Act. Allows persons required to register for work under such program to be referred to State-operated community work experience programs. Requires certain unemployed persons in eligible households to register for employment once every twelve months (formerly once every 6 months). Restricts cash for change when using food stamp coupons to the lowest coupon denomination issued. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations to prescribe the liability of States for coupons issued through the mail. Directs State agencies to restore food stamp benefits promptly upon the request of households where such benefits were wrongfully denied or terminated, except in cases where such denials occurred during a period of time more than a year earlier than such request. Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary supplement the nutrition education program with printed materials designed for persons with low reading and comprehension levels. Repeals the 60-day transfer of certification for eligible households which move from one political subdivision to another. Authorizes the Secretary to waive claims arising under provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and to reduce amounts due any State agency for collecting unpaid claims assessed against it when such agency has exhausted its appeal rights under such Act. Provides for an increase in the federally funded share of administrative costs to State agencies whose quality control programs result in less than the nationwide percentage of errors. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish staffing standards for State agencies. Directs that funds collected from claims arising under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 be credited to the food stamp appropriation account for the fiscal year in which the collection occurs. Directs that funds provided to State agencies for administrative cost-sharing be paid from such account. Title IV: Food Stamp Funding - Increases the amount of appropriations not to be exceeded for fiscal year 1981, and sets forth such amounts for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Title V: Commodity Distribution Program - Amends the Agricultural Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend the authority of the Secretary to purchase and distribute agricultural commodities for food assistance programs for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Sets forth penalties for fraud under such Act. Title VI: Food Stamp Cash-Out of SSI Recipients - Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a State, to find that such State's cash payments under the Social Security Act have been specifically increased to include the bonus value of food stamps, for purposes of determining food stamp eligibility for supplemental security income recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1981
Food Stamp Accountability Act of 1981 - Title I: Eligibility Restrictions and Penalties for Recipient Use - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude boarders (persons who live with others and pay compensation to such others for meals) from the definition of an eligible household under such Act. Provides that parents and children who live together shall be treated as one household, unless one parent is 60 years of age or older. Increases eligibility disqualification periods for fraud and misrepresentation of food stamp law provisions. Provides for permanent disqualification from the food stamp program for the third occasion of any such adjudication. Revises procedures for State agencies to grant expedited services for households in immediate need of food stamps, including verification of such household's income and modification of such procedures with regard to migrant farmworkers. Requires certain household members to furnish their social security numbers to State agencies for the administration of the food stamp program. Title II: Improved Actions to Curb Abuse, Recover Overpayments, and Tighten Program Management - Revises the definition of retail food stores and the qualifications for such stores to accept and redeem food stamp coupons. Makes State agencies liable to the Secretary of Agriculture for the loss of coupons issued through the mail that management could have prevented. Directs approved retail food stores to display a sign providing information on how persons may report abuses in the operation of the food stamp program. Authorizes State agencies with written information from a household that requires reduction or termination of such household's benefits, to immediately reduce or terminate such benefits prior to an administrative hearing. Directs State agencies to promptly restore food stamp benefits upon the request of households, or other such notification, that such benefits were wrongfully denied or terminated, except in cases where such denial occurred more than one year before such notification. Authorizes the Secretary to replace coupons stolen or destroyed after receipt by a household for any one month during a six-month period. Prohibits replacement of coupons to households who lost or misplaced such coupons. Authorizes the Secretary to restrict the use of mail coupon issuance in any political subdivision under certain circumstances. Requires deposit in a special revolving fund of sums collected as civil money penalties for violations of the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to use such fund to finance actions to secure compliance with such Act. Requires households subject to an ineligibility determination to agree to a reduction in allotments, or repayment in cash, sufficient to reimburse the government for any overissuance of coupons. Subjects such households, upon failure to fulfill any such agreement, to an allotment reduction. Authorizes additional administrative cost-sharing to State agencies that have a prepared plan to curb fraudulent activities under the food stamp program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1981
Food Stamp Reform Act of 1981 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to prohibit any household from receiving increased benefits as a result of a member of the household being disqualified for fraudulent actions under such Act. Extends the period of ineligibility for heads of households who voluntarily quit a job without good cause from 60 days to six months. Amends such Act and the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to eliminate provisions authorizing food stamp eligibility to victims of disasters. Disallows food stamp coupon users from receiving cash for change from food purchases. Authorizes the disclosure of all information obtained from food stamp beneficiaries to local, State, or Federal law enforcement officials for the purpose of investigating possible violations of the Food Stamp Act or regulations issued under it. Requires state agencies to verify the size and income of applicant households in immediate need of food stamps because of lack of income. Authorizes state agencies to utilize unemployment and social security information to the extent permitted under the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to discontinue issuing food stamps through the mail in any part of a State in which during a six-month period, a specified percentage of allotments were reported not received. Provides a procedure for repayment of ineligible food stamp benefits by coupon allotment reductions or cash payments. Directs the Secretary and State agencies to require household members to furnish their social security numbers as a condition of eligibility for the food stamp program. Makes this Act effective January 1, 1982.
United States · United States Senate · 14 April 1981
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1981
Agricultural Act of 1981 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at not less than $3.50 per bushel. Sets the established price for such crops at the previous year's price adjusted to reflect changes in production costs. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage to meet domestic and export needs for each of the 1982-1985 crops by August of each year. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor for each crop. States that such factor shall be determined by dividing the national program acreage by the estimated number of acres to be harvested. Stipulates that the allocation factor shall be between 80 and 100 percent. States that: (1) the individual farm program acreage shall be determined by multiplying the allocation factor by planted acreage on farms for which individual farm program acreages are required to be determined; and (2) the farm program payment yield shall be based on the previous crop year. Permits the Secretary to limit wheat acreage as necessary. Requires such reduced acreage to be used for conservation purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a land diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program, and require participation as a condition of eligibility for loans and purchases. Requires diverted acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including wildlife habitats. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from specified: (1) export and processing marketing certificate requirements; (2) marketing quotas and producer certificate provisions; (3) quota provisions; and (4) current support price levels. Exempts the 1982-1985 feed grain crops from current support price levels. Title II: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 corn crops at not less than $2.55 per bushel, and for the 1982-1985 crops of grain sorghums, barley, oats, and rye at levels determined by the Secretary. Provides for target prices, national program acreage, allocation factors, payment yields, acreage limitations, and land diversion under similar conditions as apply to wheat under this Act. Provides for the nonapplicability of certain price support provisions to the 1982-1985 feed grain crops. Title III: Grain Reserves - Removes specified percentage limitations to give the Secretary complete discretion, with respect to terms and conditions of producer-held grain reserve storage loans, to determine at what market price levels such producers are to be encouraged or required to redeem and market stored wheat and feed grains or repay loans before the maturity dates. Removes specified limitations on the number of bushels the Secretary may determine as appropriate for the storage program to promote the orderly marketing of such commodities. Removes the exemption for corn sold for alcohol-as-fuel production from the price restrictions on Commodity Credit Corporation sales of feed grain stocks. Repeals: (1) provisions of such Act encouraging the President to enter negotiations to set up an International Emergency Food Reserve; (2) disaster reserve requirements. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to change from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to make farm storage facility loans. Title IV: Soybeans - Provides for loans and purchases of the soybean crops beginning with the 1982 crop at not less than $5.02 per bushel. States that the soybean marketing year shall begin on September 1 and end on August 31. Stipulates that: (1) participation in any soybean production control program shall not be required for price support participation; (2) soybeans shall not be eligible for any reserve storage program; (3) producers shall not be restricted from participating in storage facility or production loan programs; and (4) soybeans shall not be considered an agricultural commodity for price or production control programs. Title V: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Programs - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide that "thrifty food plan" cost adjustments will be made each January 1 based on the 12 months ending the preceding September 30. Increases the standard monthly income deduction and the excess shelter deduction. Sets forth standard and excess shelter deduction amounts for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Amends the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 to repeal scheduled increases in dependent care deductions for working adults and medical deductions for the elderly and the disabled. Revises household income computation formulas. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the periodic certification report requirement. Prohibits allotments from being given to any household that has not submitted required reports until such reports are submitted. Eliminates: (1) boarders from the definition of "household"; and (2) meals served to certain blind or disabled persons, to battered women and children in shelters, and to addicts and alcoholics in rehabilitation programs from the definition of "food." Eliminates the definition for "drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation program." Excludes Federal energy assistance payments and other federally excluded payments from the computation of household income. Replaces certain State outreach requirements with an obligation to inform applicants and participants of their rights under such Act. Revises the definition of "retail food store." Treats parents and children living together as a single household unless one of the parents is 60 years old or more. Provides for separate cost calculations for urban and rural Alaskan areas. Disallows expenses paid by a third party as a deduction from household income. Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary follow the regulations in force as of June 1, 1977, in prescribing financial resource inclusions and exclusions. Makes the intentional making of a false or misleading statement or misrepresentation of facts for the purpose of using or acquiring coupons or authorization cards grounds for a three- month disqualification. Requires the household of a disqualified member either to reimburse the Federal government or to accept an allotment reduction. Authorizes reasonable allotment reductions as a means of collecting other overissuance claims against a household. Amends current work requirement provisions to: (1) make work registration annual rather than every six months; (2) make a household ineligible regardless of when certification occurs if the head of such household voluntarily quits work without good cause; and (3) exempt participants in a State community work experience program from registration requirements. Restricts the receipt of cash in change for coupons used in food purchases. Sets forth the liability of States for certain losses relating to food stamp coupons. Prohibits coupon restoration for claims more than one year old. Eliminates: (1) the requirement that the Secretary develop special nutrition materials for individuals with low reading or comprehension abilities; and (2) the 60 days validity period for certification transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) waive a claim; or (2) reduce amounts otherwise owed to a State agency under such Act in order to collect certain unpaid claims assessed against such State agency. Provides that funds collected from claims against households or State agencies shall be credited to the food stamp appropriation account for the fiscal year in which the collection occurs. Replaces the fiscal year 1981 authorization of appropriations limit with an authorization of necessary appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1985. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend specified commodities distribution programs through fiscal years 1985. Establishes penalties for the fraudulent use of such commodities. Provides for the reimbursement of State administrative expenses during fiscal years 1982-1985. Stipulates that such funds shall not exceed 15 percent of a State's commodities appropriation. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of a State, to find that such State's cash payments under the Social Security Act have been specifically increased to include the bonus value of food stamps for determining food stamp eligibility for supplemental security income recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1981
Food and Agriculture Act of 1981 - Title I: Payment Limitations for Wheat, Feed Grains, Upland Cotton, and Rice - Extends through 1985 the $50,000 annual limitation on the total amount of payments (excluding disaster payments) available to a person under the wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice programs. Limits such annual payments to $100,000 when a disaster payments program is in effect. Title II: Dairy Program - Extends through 1985 the: (1) dairy base plan authority; and (2) program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals. Extends the dairy indemnity program through September 30, 1985. Establishes the milk support price for fiscal years 1982-1985 at between 75-90 percent of parity. Provides that: (1) the support price may not be less than the previous year; and (2) the support price shall be redetermined whenever dairy imports are increased as a result of relaxed import restrictions. Title III: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Sets the support price for shorn wool for the 1982-1985 marketing years at 85 percent of the current formula amount under such Act. Title IV: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at not less than $3.70 per bushel nor in excess of 100 percent of parity. Stipulates that the Secretary of Agriculture may reduce the loan level (by not more than ten percent nor less than $3.00 per bushel) as necessary to maintain domestic and export markets if the market price of wheat falls to 105 percent or less of the loan level. Establishes the target price for the 1982 crop at $4.40 per bushel and for the 1983-1985 crops at the previous year's target price adjusted to reflect production cost changes. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national wheat program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 crops by August 1 of each year. Permits the Secretary to revise such programs as necessary. Establishes the national program acreage as the number of harvested acres necessary for domestic and export requirements. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor for each crop year. States that such factor shall be determined by dividing the national program acreage (of a crop) by the estimated number of acres to be harvested. Stipulates that the allocation factor shall be between 80 and 100 percent. States that: (1) the individual farm program acreage shall be determined by multiplying the allocation factor by planted acreage on farms for which individual farm program acreages are required to be determined; and (2) the farm program payment yield shall be based on the previous crop year. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for a set-aside of croplands if necessary to avoid excessive wheat and feed grain harvests. Directs the Secretary to announce any such set-aside by August 1. Requires producers participating in such set-aside program to use such acreage for conservation purposes. Stipulates that the Secretary may permit such acreage or part thereof to be used for other commodities if such crops are necessary to provide an adequate supply, and will not increase the cost of the price support program nor adversely affect farm income. Authorizes the Secretary to make land-diversion payments whether or not a set-aside is in effect to wheat and feed grain producers. Requires such acreage to be used for conservation purposes. Authorizes such land-diversion contracts to be determined by bid. Requires that the total diverted acreage in any county or local community not adversely affect the economy of such area. Permits the set-aside and diverted acreage to be used for wildlife purposes. Requires such set-aside and land-diversion programs to be carried out through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from specified: (1) export and processing marketing certificate requirements; (2) marketing quotas and producer certificate provisions; (3) quota provisions; and (4) current support price levels. Title V: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 corn crops at not less than $2.50 per bushel. Stipulates that the Secretary may reduce the loan and purchase level (by not more than ten percent nor less than $2.25 per bushel) if the market price of corn falls to 105 percent or less of such level. Requires the Secretary to provide emergency compensation (increased target price payments) if such reductions occur. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 barley, oat, grain sorghums, and rye crops at levels in relation to corn prices. Establishes the target price for the 1982 corn crop at $2.75 per bushel and for the 1983-1985 corn crops at the previous year's target price adjusted to reflect production cost changes. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national feed grain program acreage for the 1982 crops by November 1 of each year. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for 1982-1985 cropland set-asides and land diversion payments along similar lines as apply to wheat under this Act. Extends current authority through 1985 for certain price support exemptions. Title VI: Upland Cotton - Suspends application of existing price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops. Extends the upland cotton loan program through 1985. Establishes the price support loan level for the 1982-1985 crops as the smaller of 85 percent of the average U. S. price over a five-year period and 90 percent of the average Northern Europe price (as determined by formulas in this Act.). Stipulates that such level may not be less than $.55 per pound. Permits the Secretary to adjust the level upward under specified conditions. States that such loans shall be made for a ten month term, with an additional eight months if requested by the producer. Requires the President to impose a 90-day quota on imported cotton upon a finding by the Secretary that the spot market price of upland cotton for any month exceeds 130 percent of the average spot market prices for the preceding 36 months. Establishes the target price for the 1982 crop at $.80 per pound and for the 1983-1985 crops at the previous year's target price adjusted to reflect production cost changes. Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national upland cotton program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 crops by November 1 of each year. Requires such national acreage to be at least ten million acres. Bases individual farm acreage on the national acreage. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for 1982-1985 cropland set-asides (up to 28 percent of planted acreage) and land diversion payments along similar lines as apply to wheat under this Act. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend the present skiprow provisions through 1985. States that the permanent State, county, and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 upland cotton crop shall be the preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Extends Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions through July 31, 1986. Title VII: Rice - Establishes the target price for the 1982 rice crop at $11.01 per hundredweight and for the 1983-1985 rice crops at the previous year's target price adjusted to reflect production cost changes. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 rice crops at a level which bears the same ratio to the previous year's loan level as the target price bears to the previous year's target price. Permits the Secretary to establish a lower loan level, as necessary (not less than $8.26 per hundredweight nor more than 100 percent of parity). Directs the Secretary to proclaim a national rice program acreage for each of the 1982-1985 crops by December 31 of each year. Bases individual farm acreage on the national acreage. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for 1982-1985 cropland set-asides and land diversion payments along similar lines as apply to wheat under this Act. Suspends provisions relating to allotments, marketing quotas, and acreage apportionment for the 1982-1985 rice crops. Title VIII: Peanuts - Exempts the 1982-1985 peanut crops from annual marketing quota and State acreage allotment requirements. Extends for the 1982-1985 peanut crops: (1) minimum national poundage quota of 1,44,000 tons; (2) sale, lease, and transfer of acreage provisions; (3) reporting and recordkeeping provisions; and (4) unused allotments provisions. Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 quota peanut crops at not less than $650 per ton. Title IX: Soybeans - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 soybean crops at not less than $5.44 per bushel. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a soybean set-aside as a condition of price support eligibility for another commodity. Title X: Sugar - Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 sugarcane and sugar beet crops. Title XI: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary to make disaster payments, prevented planting disaster payments, and reduced yield disaster payments for the 1982-1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, and rice crops. Permits the Secretary to make individual adjustments. Provides that whenever a set-aside is in effect for one or more of the 1982-1985 wheat, feed grain, upland cotton, or rice crops, the Secretary may: (1) require for support eligibility that the normally planted acreage be reduced by the amount of set-aside or diversion; and (2) increase the target price of such commodities (and other commodities as necessary). Extends the farm storage facility loan program through September 30, 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to make producer storage loans for the 1982-1985 wheat and feed grain crops at rates up to 120 percent above the wheat and feed grain price support levels. Title XII: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend international assistance programs under such Act through 1985. Permits the domestic distilled spirits industry to participate in the concessional sales program under such Act. Title XIII: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Programs - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 concerning the "thrifty food plan" to: (1) provide for separate cost calculations for urban and rural Alaskan areas; and (2) revise the procedures for determining food cost adjustments so that adjustments will be made each January 1 based on the 12 months ending the preceding September 30. Revises the provisions for determining annual household income deductions to: (1) base such deductions on the 12 months ending the preceding September 30; (2) disallow household expenses paid by a third party; and (3) repeal certain deduction increases for dependent care and the elderly scheduled to take effect October 1, 1981. Replaces the current six-month work registration requirement with an annual requirement. Sets forth the liability of States for certain losses relating to food stamp coupons. Provides that penalties collected from food stores for food stamp violations shall be deposited in a special fund and used for activities to reduce food stamp abuse. Eliminates the current limit on fiscal year 1981 food stamp funding authorizations. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1985. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend specified commodities distribution programs through fiscal year 1985. Establishes penalties for fraudulent use of such commodities. Title XIV: Multiyear Set-Asides - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to extend the multiyear set-aside through the 1985 crop year. Title XV: Food and Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend the terms of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board to December 3, 1986. Increases the membership of such Board from 21 to 25. Authorizes the Secretary to establish an Office of Higher Education within the Department of Agriculture to assist in strengthening higher education in the food and agricultural sciences. Revises current grant provisions, including limiting grants to not more than five years. Transfers to the Secretary all functions, programs, and offices under section 22 of the Bankhead-Jones Act and the Second Morrill Act. States that persons in agricultural research, extension, teaching, or any combination thereof shall be eligible for a National Agricultural Science Award. Makes Federal laboratories eligible for biomass energy research grants. Provides that: (1) ten percent of the funds for low-income family nutrition education programs shall be divided equally among all the States; and (2) one percent of such funds may be used for administrative purposes. Redefines "eligible institution" for animal health and disease research purposes to require an institution to have related annual expenditures in excess of $150,000. Limits grants for regional or national animal health problems to not more than five years. Requires the Secretary to annually establish priority lists for such funds. Sets forth factors to be considered in making such determinations. Increases the annual authorization of appropriations for continuing agricultural and forestry extension at 1890 land grant colleges, beginning in fiscal year 1982. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, and make grants to land grant colleges and universities, extension services, and other institutions to further Federal-State cooperation in the areas of agricultural research, extension, and teaching; and (2) establish human nutrition centers at such institutions. Prohibits funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts from being reduced to cover indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Makes forestry schools and land grant colleges eligible for agricultural research facilities construction grants. Limits such grants to projects for renovation or installation of equipment, or in the case of new construction, for auxiliary facilities or fixed research equipment only. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to strengthen research and education on national and regional rural development issues. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Replaces specific authorizations of appropriations with generalized authorizations for the following programs: (1) rural development and small farm research and extension; (2) food and agricultural sciences education; (3) biomass energy research; (4) solar energy model farms; (5) agricultural research; (6) agricultural extension; and (7) competitive, special, and facilities research. Title XVI: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act (unless otherwise provided) effective October 1, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1981
Amends title X (Miscellaneous) of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to limit the total amount of commodity price support loans available to any single person for the 1982-1985 crops.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from pre-slaughter animal examination and post mortem carcass inspection requirements all meat food products processed by a federally inspected establishment and derived from meat which has been slaughtered or processed at a State-inspected establishment in a State whose meat inspection requirements have been determined by the Secretary to be at least equal to the Federal requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set the loan level for a suspended agricultural export at not less than the average market price (for such commodity) for the preceding 15 days when such suspension is national security or foreign policy related (currently 90 percent of parity in situations of short supplies). Directs the Secretary to establish a short-term agricultural export credit program for a commodity (within five days) after any such suspension.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to make all nonquota tobacco, including Maryland Type 32, subject to area quotas beginning with the 1982 crop.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Makes price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 inapplicable to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); and (3) raise the minimum loan level from 48 cents to 55 cents per pound. Declares that any upland cotton imported during a special import quota period shall be duty-free. Extends the disaster payment program for cotton through 1985. Denies eligibility for such payments to any person in a county in which crop insurance is generally offered. Changes the deadline for announcement of the national program acreage from December 15 to November 1. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to limit, on a uniform basis to all cotton-producing farms, the acreage planted to cotton if the Secretary determines that the total supply will otherwise likely be excessive. Directs the Secretary to require acreage set-asides only if such acreage limitations are in effect (currently, the Secretary must require set-asides upon determining the likelihood of an excessive supply.) Eliminates compliance with the set-aside program as a condition for loan eligibility. Directs the Secretary to delegate to State and county committees his present authority to make loans, purchases, and payments with respect to a non-complying producer on an equitable basis in relation to the seriousness of default. Prohibits the making of regulations which condition loans and payments on cross-compliance and offsetting-compliance procedures. Directs the Secretary to make available recourse loans on seed cotton to encourage and assist producers in orderly ginning and marketing. Extends through July 31. 1986 the Commodity Credit Corporation's present authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. States that the permanent State, county, and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 crop of upland cotton, as adjusted for under plantings in 1977, shall again become effective as preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Requires the Secretary to carry out a special price support or loan program through the Commodity Credit Corporation whenever the Executive Branch of the Federal Government suspends, for any reason other than a national emergency, the commercial export sales of upland cotton to any country or area with which the United States otherwise continues commercial trade. Limits such programs to instances where the country or area in question imported more than three percent of total cotton exports in the two years preceding such suspension. Prescribes formulae to assure producers, through payments or interest free loans, the export prices they would have received in the absence of such suspension. Directs the Secretary, through the Corporation, to compensate U.S. firms for losses incurred with respect to cotton and cotton product sales contracts canceled due to such suspension. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Corporation a revolving fund for financing export credit sales of cotton in accordance with GSM-5 (42 FR 10999). Requires the Secretary to provide for, and credit to such fund, all repayments on export sales of cotton made under GSM-5.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1981
Agricultural Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy and Soybean Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to lower the minimum price support for milk from 75 percent to 70 percent of parity, with allowance to drop even below the minimum if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the Commodity Credit Corporation has accumulated excessive quantities of milk or milk products. Sets the support price effective on October 1, 1981, at a minimum $13.10 per hundredweight of milk containing 3.67 percent milkfat. Repeals the prohibition against requiring a soybean acreage set-aside as a condition of eligibility for price support for any other commodity. Extends through 1985 the Corporation's authority to transfer dairy products to the military and veterans hospitals. Title II: Wheat - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to producers of such crops at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration the cost of production, supply and demand conditions, and world prices. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program, and require participation as a condition of eligibility for loans and purchases. Permits devotion of diverted acreage to wildlife food plots or habitats. Title III: Feed Grains - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside, and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of feed grains. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to feed grains producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors. Authorizes the conducting of a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat under title II of this Act. Title IV: Upland Cotton - Suspends application of existing price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); (3) repeal existing prevented planting and disaster payment authority, along with the national acreage and set-aside programs; and (4) retain the current land diversion (and land diversion payment) program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat and feed grains under titles II and III of this Act. Extends through July 31, 1986, the Commodity Credit Corporation's present authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through 1985 the present rules governing skiprow practices. Title V: Rice - Suspends application of existing acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to rice producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors (but lets stand, without extending, current authorities relating to established prices). Authorizes the conduct of a land-diversion program (while not suspending or repealing current authority to conduct a set-aside program) along the lines prescribed for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton under titles II, III, and IV of this Act. Title VI: Peanuts - Suspends application of specified acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of peanuts. Establishes national poundage quotas for the 1982 through 1985 marketing years. Makes the farm base production poundage for each of such years the same as the poundage for 1981. Changes the formula for the determination of farm poundage quotas. Permits the sale, lease, or other transfer of farm base production poundage, from farm to farm, subject to specified conditions, including transfer to a farm in another county. Revises formulae for the determination of violations subject to marketing penalties. Permits handlers to contract with producers for purchase of additional peanuts (in excess of quota peanuts) for domestic edible use. Revises the formulae for the computation of the purchase price of additional peanuts. Suspends the exemption from marketing penalties of farms whose peanut acreage is one acre or less. Changes the interest rate on marketing penalties from six percent per annum (of the penalty amount) to 120 percent per annum of the interest rate charged the Commodity Credit Corporation by the Treasury of the United States on the date such penalty became due. Declares the facts constituting the basis for determining liability for or amount of any such penalty to be final and conclusive and not reviewable. Extends the existing price support program for peanuts through the 1985 crop. Title VII: Grain Reserves - Removes specified percentage limitations to give the Secretary complete discretion, with respect to terms and conditions of producer-held grain reserve storage loans, to determine at what market price levels such producers are to be encouraged or required to redeem and market stored wheat and feed grains or repay loans before the maturity dates. Removes specified limitations on the number of bushels the Secretary may determine as appropriate for the storage program to promote the orderly marketing of such commodities. Removes the exemption for corn sold for alcohol-as-fuel production from the price restrictions on Commodity Credit Corporation sales of feed grain stocks. Repeals: (1) provisions of such Act encouraging the President to enter negotiations to set up an International Emergency Food Reserve; (2) disaster reserve requirements. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to change from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to make farm storage facility loans. Title VIII: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act to set the support price of shorn wool at a percentage of (currently 85 percent) an amount calculated according to a specified formula that will be not more than 90 percent nor less than 60 percent. Allows the Secretary to set the support price at less than 60 percent of such amount if such lower level is determined to be appropriate because of exceptional circumstances involving the cost or availability of shorn wool. Removes existing limits on total price support payments at any one time. Repeals the current provision for reimbursement of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the making of price support payments. Title IX: General and Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the requirement that the Secretary make Soil Conservation Act payments even if the entitled recipient dies, becomes incompetent, disappears, or is succeeded by another who completes the prescribed performance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend through 1985 the current Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions for wheat and feed grains. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the domestic disaster emergency feed program. Title X: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480 - Food for Peace program) to extend from December 31, 1981, through December 31, 1985, the authority for assistance programs and agreements to finance sales under such Act. Repeals the exclusion from "friendly country" status of any country or area dominated by a Communist government where commodity sales are for foreign currencies only. Limits to sales under agreements entered into before January 1, 1972, any sales for foreign currencies whose foreign currency proceeds the President is authorized to use for bond payments and other specified purposes. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the maximum amount available in any fiscal year for emergency or extraordinary relief other than food relief. Repeals: (1) Commodity Credit Corporation authority to finance ocean freight charges where such charges are higher than usual by reason of a requirement that the commodities involved be transported by United States-flag vessels; (2) the current requirement that the President take into consideration specified self-help measures a developing country is undertaking before entering into agreements with it for the sale of U.S. agricultural commodities; and (3) the ceiling on the annual aggregate dollar amount of all agreements to sell U.S. agricultural commodities for foreign currencies or long-term dollar-credit. Restricts to purchases of food commodities from private stocks the requirement of public bids for financial assistance under such Act. Removes the ceiling from the authorization of appropriations to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the costs of assistance programs. Allows representatives of the distilled spirits industry to use foreign currencies in market development activities intended to expand export sales of U.S. agricultural commodities. Changes from April 1 to July 1 the due date of the President's annual report to Congress on activities carried out under such Act. Title XI: Rural Development and Conservation - Reaffirms that agricultural land is an important natural resource. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States and localities developing programs which emphasize the importance of such land. Authorizes the use of grants, contracts, and other such means for such purposes. Reaffirms Congressional policy to promote soil and water conservation. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress by December 31, 1981 on a comprehensive soil and water conservation policy. Title XII: Research, Extension, and Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the Congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Sets the membership of the Joint Council at not less than 25 representatives of organizations or agencies conducting research, extension, or teaching programs. Establishes three-year, staggered terms for such members. Changes from December 31 to June 30 the due date for the Joint Council's annual report to the Secretary. Exempts the Joint Council from coverage by the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Extends from five to ten years the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases membership from 21 to 25, serving staggered terms. Changes the due dates of: (1) the Board's annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) the Board's appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Specifies as part of the staff of five full-time professionals assisting the Joint Council and the Users Advisory Board: (1) an executive secretary for each entity; and (2) an executive director to serve both. Authorizes the granting of special five-year facilities grants to research foundations established by land-grant colleges and universities. Repeals authority for grants for research on the production of alcohols for fuel and industrial hydrocarbons. Revises the formula for the allocation of funds for programs of direct nutrition education of low-income families. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary develop and distribute nutrition education materials. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board. Eliminates the ceiling on annual appropriations for animal health and disease research. Directs the Secretary to establish annual priority lists of animal health and disease problems of national or regional significance, to serve as guidelines for grant awards. Repeals the solar energy research and development program, including: (1) competitive grants for research and development of farm and forest uses of solar energy, as well as uses of solar derived biomass as a substitute for non-renewable fuels and petrochemicals; (2) the solar energy research information system, including advisory committee; (3) authority for model farms and demonstration projects; and (4) the establishment of regional solar energy research and development centers. Authorizes the Secretary to provide specialized or technical services on a reimbursable basis to U.S. colleges and universities carrying out international food, agricultural and related research and development projects and activities. Repeals the authority and mandate for studies on: (1) the economic and social consequences of the Extension Service and cooperative extension services; (2) the effects of changing climate and weather on crop and livestock productivity; (3) organic farming; and (4) the status and future needs of agricultural research facilities. Allocates a minimum of 25 percent of appropriations for specified research programs for research at State agricultural experiment stations. Authorizes appropriations for specified programs and activities under such Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct regular evaluations of such programs, with annual reports to Congress. Confers on the Secretary general authority to award contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements to further the research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to exempt from the prohibition against excess federal property and property the Secretary furnishes to State or county extension services, State experiment stations, and institutions engaged in cooperative research and extension work under the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977. Title XIII: Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to repeal, with respect to marketing orders providing for uniform prices for all producers or producer associations delivering milk to the same handler, the current allowance for adjustments to such prices to reflect utilization of producer milk by all handlers in any use classification during a representative period of one to three years. Title XIV: Department of Agriculture Advisory Committees Repeal - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the general requirements for the establishment of Department of Agriculture advisory committees.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Livestock Fraud Protection Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal offense to obtain or use unlawfully the property of another which has a value of at least $10,000 in connection with the marketing of livestock in interstate or foreign commerce. Redefines the current offenses prohibiting the transportation or sale of stolen cattle in commerce to substitute the word "livestock" for "cattle".
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Agricultural Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy and Soybean Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to lower the minimum price support for milk from 75 percent to 70 percent of parity, with allowance to drop even below the minimum if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the Commodity Credit Corporation has accumulated excessive quantities of milk or milk products. Sets the support price effective on October 1, 1981, at a minimum $13.10 per hundredweight of milk containing 3.67 percent milkfat. Repeals the prohibition against requiring a soybean acreage set-aside as a condition of eligibility for price support for any other commodity. Extends through 1985 the Corporation's authority to transfer dairy products to the military and veterans hospitals. Title II: Wheat - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of wheat. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to producers of such crops at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration the cost of production, supply and demand conditions, and world prices. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program, and require participation as a condition of eligibility for loans and purchases. Permits devotion of diverted acreage to wildlife food plots or habitats. Title III: Feed Grains - Suspends application of existing crop production loan level, established price, acreage allotment, set-aside, and marketing quota provisions of such Act to the 1982 through 1985 crops of feed grains. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to feed grains producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors. Authorizes the conduct of a land-diversion program in lieu of the present set-aside program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat under title II of this Act. Title IV: Upland Cotton - Suspends application of existing price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); (3) repeal existing prevented planting and disaster payment authority, along with the national acreage and set-aside programs; and (4) retain the current land diversion (and land diversion payment) program along lines similar to those prescribed for wheat and feed grains under titles II and III of this Act. Extends through July 31, 1986 the Commodity Credit Corporation's present authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through 1985 the present rules governing skiprow practices. Title V: Rice - Suspends application of existing acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and purchases available to rice producers at any level the Secretary determines appropriate taking into consideration specified factors (but lets stand, without extending, current authorities relating to established prices). Authorizes the conduct of a land-diversion program (while not suspending or repealing current authority to conduct a set-aside program) along the lines prescribed for wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton under titles II, III, and IV of this Act. Title VI: Peanuts - Suspends application of specified acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to the 1982 through 1985 crops of peanuts. Establishes national poundage quotas for the 1982 through 1985 marketing years. Makes the farm base production poundage for each of such years the same as the poundage for 1981. Changes the formula for the determination of farm poundage quotas. Permits the sale, lease, or other transfer of farm base production poundage, from farm to farm, subject to specified conditions, including transfer to a farm in another county. Revises formulae for the determination of violations subject to marketing penalties. Permits handlers to contract with producers for purchase of additional peanuts (in excess of quota peanuts) for domestic edible use. Revises the formulae for the computation of the purchase price of additional peanuts. Suspends the exemption from marketing penalties of farms whose peanut acreage is one acre or less. Changes the interest rate on marketing penalties from six percent per annum (of the penalty amount) to 120 percent per annum of the interest rate charged the Commodity Credit Corporation by the Treasury of the United States on the date such penalty became due. Declares the facts constituting the basis for determining liability for or amount of any such penalty to be final and conclusive and not reviewable. Extends the existing price support program for peanuts through the 1985 crop. Title VII: Grain Reserves - Removes specified percentage limitations to give the Secretary complete discretion, with respect to terms and conditions of producer-held grain reserve storage loans, to determine at what market price levels such producers are to be encouraged or required to redeem and market stored wheat and feed grains or repay loans before the maturity dates. Removes specified limitations on the number of bushels the Secretary may determine as appropriate for the storage program to promote the orderly marketing of such commodities. Removes the exemption for corn sold for alcohol-as-fuel production from the price restrictions on Commodity Credit Corporation sales of feed grain stocks. Repeals: (1) provisions of such Act encouraging the President to enter negotiations to set up an International Emergency Food Reserve; (2) disaster reserve requirements. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to change from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to make farm storage facility loans. Title VIII: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act to set the support price of shorn wool at a percentage (currently 85 percent) of an amount calculated according to a specified formula that will be not more than 90 percent nor less than 60 percent. Allows the Secretary to set the support price at less than 60 percent of such amount if such lower level is determined to be appropriate because of exceptional circumstances involving the cost or availability of shorn wool. Removes existing limits on total price support payments at any one time. Repeals the current provision for reimbursement of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the making of price support payments. Title IX: General and Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the requirement that the Secretary make Soil Conservation Act payments even if the entitled recipient dies, becomes incompetent, disappears, or is succeeded by another who completes the prescribed performance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend through 1985 the current Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions for wheat and feed grains. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the domestic disaster emergency feed program. Title X: Public Law 480 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480 - Food for Peace program) to extend from December 31, 1981 through December 31, 1985 the authority for assistance programs and agreements to finance sales under such Act. Repeals the exclusion from "friendly country" status of any country or area dominated by a Communist government where commodity sales are for foreign currencies only. Limits to sales under agreements entered into before January 1, 1972 any sales for foreign currencies whose foreign currency proceeds the President is authorized to use for bond payments and other specified purposes. Increases from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the maximum amount available in any fiscal year for emergency or extraordinary relief other than food relief. Repeals: (1) Commodity Credit Corporation authority to finance ocean freight charges where such charges are higher than usual by reason of a requirement that the commodities involved be transported by United States-flag vessels; (2) the current requirement that the President take into consideration specified self-help measures a developing country is undertaking before entering into agreements with it for the sale of United States agricultural commodities; and (3) the ceiling on the annual aggregate dollar amount of all agreements to sell United States agricultural commodities for foreign currencies or long-term dollar-credit. Restricts to purchases of food commodities from private stocks the requirement of public bids for financial assistance under such Act. Removes the ceiling from the authorization of appropriations to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the costs of assistance programs. Allows representatives of the distilled spirits industry to use foreign currencies in market development activities intended to expand export sales of United States agricultural commodities. Changes from April 1 to July 1 the due date of the President's annual report to Congress on activities carried out under such Act. Title XI: Rural Development and Conservation - Reaffirms that agricultural land is an important natural resource. Encourages the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States and localities developing programs which emphasize the importance of such land. Authorizes the use of grants, contracts, and other such means for such purposes. Reaffirms Congressional policy to promote soil and water conservation. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress by December 31, 1981 on a comprehensive soil and water conservation policy. Title XII: Research, Extension, and Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to revise the Congressional findings and purposes of such Act to give greater emphasis to the role of State agricultural extension services in research and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Sets the membership of the Joint Council at not less than 25 representatives of organizations or agencies conducting research, extension, or teaching programs. Establishes three-year, staggered terms for such members. Changes from December 31 to June 30 the due date for the Joint Council's annual report to the Secretary. Exempts the Joint Council from coverage by the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Extends from five to ten years the term of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases membership from 21 to 25, serving staggered terms. Changes the due dates of: (1) the Board's annual recommendations to the Secretary from October 31 to July 1; and (2) the Board's appraisal of the President's budget from March 1 to February 20. Specifies as part of the staff of five full-time professionals assisting the Joint Council and the Users Advisory Board: (1) an executive secretary for each entity; and (2) an executive director to serve both. Authorizes the granting of special five-year facilities grants to research foundations established by land-grant colleges and universities. Repeals authority for grants for research on the production of alcohols for fuel and industrial hydrocarbons. Revises the formula for the allocation of funds for programs of direct nutrition education of low-income families. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary develop and distribute nutrition education materials. Extends from five to ten years the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board. Eliminates the ceiling on annual appropriations for animal health and disease research. Directs the Secretary to establish annual priority lists of animal health and disease problems of national or regional significance, to serve as guidelines for grant awards. Repeals the solar energy research and development program, including: (1) competitive grants for research and development of farm and forest uses of solar energy, as well as uses of solar-derived biomass as a substitute for non-renewable fuels and petrochemicals; (2) the solar energy research information system, including advisory committee; (3) authority for model farms and demonstration projects; and (4) the establishment of regional solar energy research and development centers. Authorizes the Secretary to provide specialized or technical services on a reimbursable basis to United States colleges and universities carrying out international food, agricultural and related research and development projects and activities. Repeals the authority and mandate for studies on: (1) the economic and social consequences of the Extension Service and cooperative extension services; (2) the effects of changing climate and weather on crop and livestock productivity; (3) organic farming; and (4) the status and future needs of agricultural research facilities. Allocates a minimum of 25 percent of appropriations for specified research programs for specified programs and activities under such Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct regular evaluations of such programs, with annual reports to Congress. Confers on the Secretary general authority to award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to further the research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to exempt from the prohibition against excess federal property and property the Secretary furnishes to State or county extension services, State experiment stations, and institutions engaged in cooperative research and extension work under the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977. Title XIII: Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to repeal , with respect to marketing orders providing for uniform prices for all producers or producer associations delivering milk to the same handler, the current allowance for adjustments to such prices to reflect utilization of producer milk by all handlers in any use classification during a representative period of one to three years. Title XIV: Department of Agriculture Advisory Committees Repeal - Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to repeal the general requirements for the establishment of Department of Agriculture advisory committees.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to exempt from the definition of "farm labor contractor": (1) any person supplying migrant workers for employment in his own agricultural operation (currently the employer must personally engage in such hiring); (2) bona fide employees who perform such activity for their employer (currently full-time or regular employees who engage only incidentally in such activity); (3) any person who supplies students or other persons whose principal occupation is nonagricultural to perform certain seed industry work (currently only applies to corn and sorghum with a maximum four-week work period); and (4) nonprofit or cooperative associations of farmers, growers, or ranchers and their employees. Defines the terms "for such person's own operation" and "bona fide employee" for purposes of such Act. Redefines "migrant worker" to mean a seasonal or temporary agricultural worker who can not normally return to his or her domicile after each working day (currently anyone employed in agriculture).
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service to collect inspection fees, including administrative and supervisory costs.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Title I: Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendments - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to repeal: (1) the low income farm ownership loan program; (2) the maximum five percent interest rate on disaster emergency loans for persons unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere; (3) the Secretary of Agriculture's authority to make and insure disaster loans to applicants who can obtain credit elsewhere; and (4) the minimum 25 percent of all insured farm ownership and operating loans reserved for low- income, limited-resource borrowers. Title II: Small Business Act Amendments - Amends the Small Business Act to: (1) specify the availability of Small Business Administration disaster loans to refinance any mortgage against a totally destroyed or substantially damaged home or business concern, under certain conditions; (2) end the availability of loans for economic disasters for natural, physical disasters declared by the Secretary of Agriculture only, or certified to the SBA Administrator by the governor of a State; (3) condition the extension of a loan or guarantee upon the Administrator's finding that reasonable credit is not otherwise available; and (4) modify the formula for the determination of interest rates (currently limited to the average annual interest rate on all interest-bearing obligations of the United States) to allow such rates to rise above a minimum level keyed to the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States, plus a one percent additional charge. Limits the total amount of loans to any borrower to $500,000 for each disaster, unless the borrower constitutes a major source of employment in the disaster area.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture waive interest on loans made in 1980 and 1981 crops of wheat and feed grains placed in the grain reserve program.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Cotton-Tobacco-Warehouse User Fee Act of 1981 - Title I: Cotton Classifying and Related Services - Amends the United States Cotton Standards Act, the Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, and the United States Cotton Futures Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to impose and collect cotton classing and loose cotton sale charges in an amount sufficient to cover, as nearly as practicable, the costs of providing such services, including administrative and supervisory costs. Directs the Secretary to impose, in a similar manner, charges for the establishment of cotton standards. States that all such charges shall be credited to the current appropriation incurring such costs and shall remain available until expended. Exempts from the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 any cotton samples submitted in compliance with the requirements of such Acts and thereby becoming United States property. Makes this title effective July 1, 1981. Title II: Tobacco Inspection and Related Services - Amends the Tobacco Inspection Act to direct the Secretary to impose and collect charges for inspection or certification of tobacco at designated auction markets, as well as for sampling and weighing. Requires the imposition of such charges in an amount sufficient to cover, as nearly as practicable, the costs of providing such services, including administrative and supervisory costs. States that all such charges shall be credited to the current appropriation incurring such costs and shall remain available until expended. Requires the collection of such charges from warehouse operators. Limits the performance of tobacco inspection or certification services for tobacco sold at auction to designated markets. Repeals current authority to perform such services, for a fee, at undesignated markets as well. Repeals the Naval Stores Act, relating to the establishment of standards and prohibitions with respect to commerce in spirits of turpentine and rosin. Makes this title effective July 1, 1981. Title III: Warehouse Examination, Inspection, and Licensing - Amends the United States Warehouse Act to require the Secretary to impose warehouse examination, inspection, and licensing fees sufficient to cover, as nearly as practicable, the costs of providing such services and licenses, including administrative and supervisory costs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for services under such Act other than warehouse examination, inspection, and licensing. Makes this title effective October 1, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to replace the current five percent interest ceiling on loans for water and waste disposal and community facilities with an adjustable ceiling based on current market yields for outstanding municipal obligations, plus not more than one percent.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that U.S. representatives to the World Health Assembly in May 1981 should vote in favor of the "International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes" and that American and other countries' infant formula industries should comply with such code.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a price support program for soybeans beginning in the 1982 marketing year. States that: (1) participation in any production adjustment control program is not required for such price support eligibility; and (2) soybeans are not an eligible commodity for a producer storage program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Meat Inspection, Grading, and Labeling Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct tests on imported carcasses and meat or meat food products capable of consumption as human food at the point of entry into the United States to determine if such products contain any prohibited substance under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend such tests for certain packaged foods and label such foods as untested. Allows adulterated meat food products to be imported into the United States if such products are labeled as condemned and are to be used as fertilizers or other similar purposes. Requires the Secretary to prescribe assessments on imported meat food products necessary to cover the costs of inspections, certifications, testing, and labeling. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or revoke the privilege of any person or plant to export such products to the United States for failure to pay such assessments. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the labeling of meat food products at the time of inspection to indicate whether such products are domestic or imported. Requires imported labeling to indicate the country of origin. Provides that any person other than the ultimate consumer who breaks a container of meat food products, shall affix such labeling as required by regulations issued by the Secretary. Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the inspection and certification of agricultural products shipped or received in interstate commerce. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a system for grading the quality of imported meat food products.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to make dairy base plan authority permanent (current authority expires at the end of 1981). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend through 1985: (1) semiannual milk support adjustments; (2) the program of price-supported dairy products for the military and veterans' hospitals; and (3) the dairy indemnity program. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1985. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 wheat crops at the higher of $3.20 per bushel or 85 percent of the average U.S. price over a given period in order to keep the price of wheat competitive with that of other grains. Extends current authority through 1985 for land diversion payments to wheat producer. Exempts the 1982-1985 wheat crops from: (1) marketing quotas and producers certificate provisions; (2) quota provisions; and (3) current support price levels. Extends the Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions for wheat and feed grains through 1985. Extends the nonapplicability of processor and exporter certificate requirements to wheat processors and exporters through May 31, 1986. Title IV: Feed Grains - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 corn crop at not less than $2.40 per bushel or 75 percent of the average U.S. corn price over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 corn crops at between 65-85 percent of such price (with a minimum of $2.40 per bushel). Provides for loans and purchases of the 1982-1985 crops of barley, oats, grain sorghums, and rye at levels determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends current authority through 1985 for: (1) land diversion payments to feed grain producers; (2) the inapplicability of certain price support provisions to such producers. Title V: Upland Cotton - Extends for the 1982-1985 upland cotton crops: (1) marketing quota and acreage allotment suspensions; (2) loan levels, with a provision that upland cotton imported into the United States while a special quota is in effect shall not be subject to import duties; (3) Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions; (4) skiprow practices; (5) exemptions from cotton-soybean equivalency requirements; and (6) the land diversion program. States that the permanent State, county and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 upland cotton crop shall be the preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Title VI: Rice - Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 rice crop at 75 percent of the average U.S. rice crop over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 rice crops at between 65-85 percent of such price. States that the level for the 1982-1985 crops shall not be less than $8.01 per hundredweight. Extends the land diversion program. Suspends provisions relating to allotments, marketing quotas, and acreage apportionment for the 1982-1985 rice crops. Title VII: Peanuts - Exempts the 1982-1985 peanut crops from annual marketing quota and State acreage allotment requirements. Provides that the 1982-1985 New Mexico peanut allotments shall not be reduced below the adjusted 1977 level. Extends for the 1982-1985 peanut crops provisions relating to the national acreage allotment, national poundage quota, and farm poundage quota. Modifies such provisions to: (1) set a minimum national acreage allotment of 1,614,000 acres; (2) set a minimum national poundage quota of 1,440,000 tons increased as necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) require and set forth formulae for determining individual farm yields, base production poundage, and poundage quotas. States that if the total of all increases in individual farm poundage quotas exceeds ten percent of the national poundage quota the Secretary shall adjust such increases in order not to exceed such national poundage quota. Extends provisions relating to sale, lease, and transfer of acreage allotments for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Permits acreage allotments and marketing quotas to be transferred without regard to county boundaries in a State having a peanut acreage allotment of not more than 11,000 acres. Extends provisions relating to marketing penalties and the disposition of additional peanuts for the 1982-1985 crops. Modifies such provisions to: (1) direct the Secretary to authorize specified county committees to reduce or waive penalties for unintentional violations; (2) provide that weight errors not exceeding one-tenth of one percent in the case of any marketing document shall not be considered violations except in cases of fraud or conspiracy; (3) permit the Secretary to exempt certain seed peanuts from marketing penalties; (4) penalize handlers for marketing peanuts in excess of the quantity, grade, or quality of quota levels; (5) change the deadline for contracting for additional peanuts from June 15 to April 15; (6) permit producers to redeem additional peanuts from loan at prices equal to or more than 105 percent of the loan level of quota peanuts; and (7) give sole authority to the area marketing associations for selling additional peanuts under loan when such peanuts are sold at prices not less than the Commodity Credit Corporation's minimum price. Extends through 1985: (1) specified reporting and recordkeeping requirements; and (2) preservation of unused allotments provisions. Extends the price support program for the 1982-1985 peanut crops. Modifies such program to: (1) establish such levels at the Secretary's discretion, but not less than $650 per ton; (2) set forth factors to be considered by the Secretary in making any loan level adjustments; (3) prohibit the support price for additional peanuts from being set at a level that would incur losses for the Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) require storage loans and supervisory activities to be carried out by grower associations operated primarily for such purposes; and (5) direct the Secretary to require area marketing associations to establish recordkeeping procedures. Title VIII: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the soybean price support program under the category of "basic agricultural commodity." Provides for loans and purchases of the: (1) 1982 soybean crop at 75 percent of the average U.S. price over a given period; and (2) 1983-1985 soybean crops at between 65-85 percent of such price. States that the level for the 1982-1985 crops shall not be less than $5.02 per bushel. States that soybeans are ineligible for the producer storage reserve program. Title IX: Grain Reserve Storage Facility Loans - Modifies the current wheat and feed grains producer storage program as follows: (1) directs the Secretary to set up a producer storage program for wheat and feed grains; (2) authorizes the Secretary to fix loan levels as necessary to encourage producer participation; (3) establishes the repayment period for such loans at not less than three years with an adjustable interest rate based upon the rate paid by the Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) sets the release price for a particular commodity at the average adjusted cost of production; (5) provides for storage payments to be made until the loan matures or until the commodity's market price is at least 115 percent of the release price; (6) authorizes the Secretary to require early repayment in cases of emergency, after sending notice of such a situation to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees; and (7) prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling wheat or feed grains at less than 130 percent of the release price whenever the storage program is in effect. Extends the farm storage facility loan program through 1985. Title X: Miscellaneous - Extends the special grazing and hay program through 1985. Amends the Wheat and Wheat Foods Research and Nutrition Education Act to provide penalties for violations of such Act. Repeals title XVIII (advisory committees) of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Directs: (1) the Secretary to appoint a special task force to study the concept of farm income protection insurance; (2) such task force to report to the Senate and House Agriculture Committees within 18 months of enactment of this Act; and (3) such task force to be dissolved 40 days after submitting such report. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to authorize State agencies to perform official inspections at export port locations under specified circumstances. Title XI: Agricultural Exports - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to establish in the U.S. Treasury an Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund to make loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. agricultural commodities and for loans for related overseas facilities construction and acquisition. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1984. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports (beginning not later than December 31, 1982) to Congress regarding the Fund's operations. Dissolves such Fund effective October 1, 1985. Provides for a two-House veto of any bilateral international agreement (excluding treaties) which involves a commitment by the United States to assure access by foreign countries or instrumentalities to U.S. agricultural commodities on a commercial basis. Directs the Secretary to formulate a special export subsidy program to neutralize the effects of such foreign subsidies in non-U.S. markets. Sets forth the determinations which must be first made by the President before the Secretary may so act. Amends the Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary to mitigate the adverse effects on agricultural prices generated by executive foreign policy or national security export controls. Sets forth formulae for determining such payments. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend international assistance programs under such Act through 1985. Title XII: Food Stamps - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to establish a food stamp purchase requirement. Exempts the elderly and the disabled from such requirement. Increases from 30 to 33 percent the assumed amount of income spent on food. Establishes penalties for abuses by coupon issuers. Excludes boarders from food stamp participation. Requires children and parents living together to apply as one household unless one of the parents is at least 60 years old. Eliminates the provision allowing food stamps to be used in authorized restaurants. Adjusts the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan on January 1 of each year to reflect cost increases for the 12 months preceding September 30. Permits the Secretary to make individual food need adjustments in such Plan. Permits low income energy assistance payments to be counted as income for purposes of determining food stamp benefits. Requires States to establish a workfare program as a condition for participation in the food stamp program. Eliminates inflation adjustments for household income computation. Disallows income deductions for household expenses paid by a third party. Increases the period of disqualification for State-determined fraud from three to 12 months. Establishes a minimum 12-month period of disqualification for food stamp coupon fraud. Requires repayment of double the value of fraudulently received coupons before a person is eligible to again participate in the program (currently liable for the value of fraudulently received coupons). Lowers the age of "dependent" children from 12 to six for work exemption purposes. Prohibits any non-participating household from becoming eligible for such program, or from increased benefits, because of a family member's going on strike. Disqualifies households (other than those with elderly or certain disabled members) if gross income exceeds: (1) one-twelfth of the nonfarm poverty level; and (2) for a household with income, 115 percent of such poverty level. Reduces the household school lunch allotment and the per meal value of the Thrifty Food Plan for a family of eight. Requires first-month benefits to be pro-rated as necessary. Eliminates: (1) the provision prohibiting food stamps from being counted as income for public assistance determinations; and (2) Federal funding under such Act for food stamp outreach activities. Limits the period for recovering wrongfully denied benefits to 45 days from the date such a request is received by the State agency. Increases funding authorization for fiscal year 1981, and authorizes specified maximum appropriations for fiscal years 1982-1985. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend specified commodities distribution programs through fiscal year 1985. Establishes penalties for fraudulent use of such commodities. Amends the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 to repeal scheduled increases in dependent care deductions for working adults and medical deductions for the elderly and the disabled. Title XIII: Reauthorization of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 - Extends the terms of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board from five to ten years. Revises membership and reporting provisions. Exempts such Council from the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Creates an additional Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Extends the authorization of appropriations for competitive research grants through fiscal year 1987. Makes: (1) land grant college research foundations eligible for special grants; and (2) cooperative forestry schools and land grant colleges eligible for facilities grants. Amends the Research Facilities Act of 1963 to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1987. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act to: (1) direct the Secretary to develop a higher education program in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) direct the Secretary of Education to transfer specified authority not already transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977; (3) authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to colleges for food and agricultural sciences programs, and (4) make competitive grants for specialized programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for higher education grants through fiscal year 1987. Transfers specified teaching and related functions from the Secretary of Education to the Secretary of Agriculture. Extends the authorization of appropriations for alcohol and industrial hydrocarbon research grants through fiscal year 1987. Increases the maximum amount awardable to institutions in any one State. Establishes a distribution formula for the national education program. Extends the term of the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board from five to ten years. Requires the Secretary to establish priority lists of animal health problems and to award grants on the basis of such priorities. Directs the Secretary to utilize institutions of higher education to develop linkages among such institutions, the Federal Government, and international research centers to improve worldwide food and agricultural progress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance (on a reimbursable basis) to U.S. institutions so involved. Extends authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1987 for: (1) agricultural research; (2) agricultural experimental stations; and (3) cooperative extension programs. Provides that funds made available by the Secretary under specified Acts shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs incurred by the recipient. Amends the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 to direct the Secretary to appoint a 16 member forestry advisory council. Amends Federal law to make funds from custom duties on agricultural products available for food and agricultural research, extension, and teaching. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to furnish excess Federal property to State and county extension services, agricultural experimental stations, and to land grant colleges. Title XIV: Resource Conservation - Directs the Secretary to establish a program for the conservation of soil, water, and related resources in special designated areas with soil and water management problems. Provides with regard to such program that: (1) a conservation plan shall be developed by the Secretary and the local soil and water conservation district; (2) such plan shall be the basis for contracts to pay landowners to make conservation-oriented cropping changes; (3) contracts shall be for a maximum length of ten years; (4) special areas may be designated for ten years following enactment of this Act; and (5) the Secretary shall report to Congress by January 1, 1986, and at five-year intervals thereafter. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Preservation Act to: (1) make all Indian tribes eligible sponsors of small watershed projects; (2) permit the Federal Government to share the costs of mitigating fish and wildlife losses resulting from such projects; and (3) raise the approval authority of the Secretary from $1,000 to $3,000. Permits energy developing components of projects under such Act and under title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to be considered as part of the cost-benefit ratio. Authorizes the Secretary to use volunteers for conservation work without regard to civil service requirements. Deems such volunteers to be Federal employees for purposes of injury and tort compensation. Authorizes necessary appropriations. Title XV: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective as of October 1, 1981, except as otherwise provided therein.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Upland Cotton, Rice, and Soybean Act of 1981 - Title I: Upland Cotton - Makes price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 inapplicable to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); and (3) raise the minimum loan level from 48 cents to 55 cents per pound. Sets the established price for the 1982 cotton crop at not less than $0.709 per pound. Defines cost of production as cost of production per acre. Declares that any upland cotton imported during a special import quota period shall be duty-free. Extends the disaster payment program for cotton through 1985. Denies eligibility for such payments to any producer if crop insurance is available under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Changes the deadline for announcement of the national program acreage from December 15 to November 1. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to limit, on a uniform basis to all cotton-producing farms, the acreage planted to cotton if the Secretary determines that the total supply will otherwise likely be excessive. Directs the Secretary to require acreage set-asides only if such acreage limitations are in effect (currently, the Secretary must require set-asides upon determining the likelihood of an excessive supply.) Eliminates compliance with the set-aside program as a condition for loan eligibility. Directs the Secretary to delegate to State and county committees his present authority to make loans, purchases, and payments with respect to a non-complying producer on an equitable basis in relation to the seriousness of default. Prohibits the making of regulations which condition loans and payments on cross-compliance and offsetting-compliance procedures. Directs the Secretary to make available recourse loans on seed cotton to encourage and assist producers in orderly ginning and marketing. Extends through July 31, 1986, the Commodity Credit Corporation's authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to state that the permanent State, county, and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 crop of upland cotton, as adjusted for underplantings in 1977, shall again become effective as preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through 1985 the present rules governing skiprow practices. Title II: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the established price and loan program for rice through the 1985 crop year. Increases from $6.31 to $8.00 per hundredweight the minimum loan level for rice. Sets a formula for the determination of additional payments to cooperators, but not on a greater acreage than that actually planted to rice. Defines the cost of production factor in target price adjustments as the cost of production per acre. Limits the maximum number of acres eligible for prevented planting disaster payments to the acreage actually planted to rice for harvest in the immediately preceding year. Revises the formula for computation of such a payment to reflect only 75 percent (currently 100 percent) of the farm program payment yield. Denies eligibility for disaster payments on the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice to any person in a county in which Federal crop insurance is generally offered. Establishes a general guideline for the determination of the national program acreage for the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice, in place of the current mandatory 1,800,000 acres. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine a program allocation factor for each crop (no more than 100 percent less than 80 percent), which shall be used in the computation of individual farm acreage allotments. Authorizes the Secretary to limit, on a uniform basis to all rice-producing farms, the acreage planted to rice if the total supply of rice will likely exceed national needs. Provides for cropland set-aside for conservation uses in such event. Eliminates compliance with the set-aside or land diversion program as a condition for loan eligibility. Repeals certain provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with respect to acreage allotment and marketing quotas which are not in conformity with the provisions of this Act. Title III: Soybeans - Amends such Act to prescribe a formula for the price support of soybeans in any marketing year beginning with the 1982 crop, at a level equal to 75 percent of the average Chicago quoted cash price for Number 1 yellow-soybeans for the immediately preceding five marketing years, but not less than $5.02 per bushel. Requires announcement of such price support by October 1 of each year, with the marketing year running from September 1 through August 31. Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) requiring participation in any soybeans production adjustment control program as a condition of price support eligibility; (2) establishing a reserve storage program for soybeans; (3) restricting producer eligibility for or participation in any soybean loan program or farm storage facility loan program; or (4) considering soybeans an agricultural commodity for the purpose of any established price or production adjustment control program. Title IV: Exports - Requires the Secretary to carry out a special price support or loan program through the Commodity Credit Corporation whenever the executive branch of the Federal Government suspends, for any reason other than short supply, the commercial export sales of any agricultural commodity to any country or area with which the United States otherwise continues commercial trade. Limits such program to instances where the country or area in question imported more than three percent of total United States exports of such commodity in the two years preceding such suspension. Prescribes formulae to assure producers, through payments or interest-free nonrecourse loans, the export prices they would have received in the absence of such suspension. Directs the Secretary, through the Corporation, to compensate United States firms for losses incurred with respect to cotton and cotton-produce sales contracts canceled due to such suspension. Title V: Export of Agricultural Commodities - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to establish in the Treasury of the United States an Agricultural Export Credit Sales Revolving Fund for financing export credit sales of agricultural commodities out of private stocks. Requires all repayments on export sales of such commodities to be credited to such fund. Title VI: Farm Income Protection Program - Directs the Secretary to formulate a specific program for each year (to be announced publicly no later than March 1) which shall be designed to achieve market prices for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice equal to or greater than the established price for each such commodity.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the authorizations for appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and to provide such sums as necessary for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to implement pilot programs to measure the nutrition health status of low-income persons in order to develop minimum criteria and methods for local nutrition monitoring which can be applied on a nationwide basis. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend the commodity distribution program to fiscal year 1985. Directs the Secretary, under the commodity supplemental food program, to institute two pilot projects for the low-income elderly and to provide funds to State agencies administering such program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a price support program (of not less than $9 per hundredweight) for the 1981-1985 crops of sunflower seeds.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Provides that soil conservation be considered in the selection of agricultural lands involved in set-aside or diversion programs.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide additional financial assistance to certain agricultural producers who remove croplands from production for the purpose of installing specified soil conservation measures. Requires approval by the concerned soil conservation board (as defined in this Act) before such assistance may be provided and limits any such assistance to one-half of one percent of the croplands in a single county.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1981
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging to make grants to local educational agencies to administer nutritional services demonstration projects for older persons. States that such projects shall: (1) provide for free lunch for older persons at schools providing such lunches to children under the National School Lunch Act; (2) encourage such persons to remain at the schools to provide counseling and supervisory assistance to the students; and (3) furnish to such persons sufficient food for an evening meal. Requires the Commissioner to submit a report to the Congress based on a study of such projects by September 30, 1983. Extends the authorization for appropriations under the Older Americans Act of 1965 to October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1981
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System lands which are: (1) 40 acres or less and interspersed with or adjacent to mineral patents; (2) five acres or less and have been used or improved upon as a result of an erroneous Federal survey; and (3) road rights-of-way substantially surrounded by lands not owned by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1981
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980 to permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to transfer funds to cover fiscal year 1981 operating and administrative costs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to: (1) provide for consumer participation in the administration of agricultural marketing orders; and (2) set forth an agency procedure for the issuance of marketing order rules and regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1981
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) investigate using the protein byproduct resulting from the production of fuel alcohol from agricultural commodities to meet the food needs of developing countries through the Food for Peace programs and the Export Credit Sales Program; (2) investigate using such protein byproduct in the distribution of food products under a specified commodity donation program; (3) report to Congress on the results of such investigations; and (4) provide Congress annually with a description of the efforts being made to make such protein byproduct available as part of the Food for Peace programs, the Export Credit Sales Program, and the commodity donation program. Authorizes the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase such protein byproduct for donation for certain domestic and foreign purposes despite the fact that the byproduct does not meet the otherwise mandatory percentage of grain in products donated.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1981
Potato Research and Promotion Act of 1981 - Amends the Potato Research and Promotion Act to revise the National Potato Promotion Board's assessment rate beginning with fiscal year 1982. States that the failure of potato producers to approve an amendment to any research and promotion plan shall not invalidate the existing plan.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1981
Beginning Farmers Assistance Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide loan guarantees to States for loans by State agencies to eligible and approved individuals to purchase and operate family farms. Limits the loan guarantee to not more than 90 percent of the principal and interest. Prescribes the contents of a State application to participate in such loan guarantee program. Limits approval of such applications to 20. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove such an application within 90 days after receipt. Provides for termination of participation whenever an approved State falls into noncompliance with the terms of its application. Limits eligibility of individuals seeking State loans under such program to individuals who: (1) have a net worth of less than $100,000 and assets having an aggregate value of less than $300,000 in fiscal year 1982; (2) have not purchased or owned a family farm in the ten-year period preceding application for a loan; and (3) are unable to obtain conventional credit. Sets forth a formula for the determination of the maximum aggregate amount of outstanding loans with respect to which the Secretary may make guarantees. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to the appropriate Congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal years 1982 through 1984, at the end of which the Secretary's authority to guarantee such loans shall terminate. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit the use of real estate loans for loan closing costs and points.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1981
Agricultural Land Resources Act of 1981 - Encourages the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with other Federal agencies and to provide technical assistance to State, local, and qualifying nonprofit entities in order to limit the conversion of agricultural land to nonagricultural uses. Directs the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit related recommendations to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and distribute agricultural land resource educational materials; and (2) designate at least one agricultural land information center as a State and local center.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1981
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the loan level for an agricultural export suspended for reasons of foreign policy or national security as the greater of such commodity's average market price: (1) for the 60-day period ending on such suspension; or (2) on the fifth day before such suspension (currently 90 percent of parity in situations of short supplies). Requires the Commodity Credit Corporation to acquire and hold the amount of such commodity that was to have been exported under the suspended contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1981
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize marketing research and promotion projects, including paid advertising, for filberts.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1981
Rice Production Act of 1981 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the established price and loan program for rice through the 1985 crop year. Increases from $6.31 to $8.00 per hundredweight the minimum loan level for rice. Sets a formula for the determination of additional payments to cooperators, but not on a greater acreage than that actually planted to rice. Limits the maximum number of acres eligible for prevented planting disaster payments to the acreage actually planted to rice for harvest in the immediately preceding year. Denies eligibility for disaster payments on the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice to any person in a county in which Federal crop insurance is generally offered. Establishes a general guideline for the determination of the national program acreage for the 1982 through 1985 crops of rice in place of the current mandatory 1,800,000 acres. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine a program allocation factor for each crop (no more than 100 percent nor less than 80 percent), which shall be used in the computation of individual farm acreage allotments. Continues the Secretary's authority to provide for a set aside of cropland but only if the total supply of rice will likely exceed national needs. Requires any rice producer setting cropland aside for conservation uses to limit rice actually planted for harvest to an acreage which when added to the amount set aside will not exceed the sum of the acreage planted and the acreage set aside, if any, from the previous crop year. Repeals certain provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with respect to acreage allotment and marketing quotas which are not in conformity with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1981
Makes price support, marketing quota, base acreage allotment, and related provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 inapplicable to the 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) extend the nonrecourse loan program through 1985; (2) revise the standard for determining cotton loan levels (from Strict Middling one and one-sixteenth inch to Middling one and three-thirty seconds inch cotton C.I.F. Northern Europe); and (3) raise the minimum loan level from 48 cents to 55 cents per pound. Declares that any upland cotton imported during a special import quota period shall be duty-free. Extends the disaster payment program for cotton through 1985. Denies eligibility for such payments to any person in a county in which crop insurance is generally offered. Changes the deadline for announcement of the national program acreage from December 15 to November 1. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to limit, on a uniform basis to all cotton-producing farms, the acreage planted to cotton if the Secretary determines that the total supply will otherwise likely be excessive. Directs the Secretary to require acreage set-asides only if such acreage limitations are in effect (currently, the Secretary must require set-asides upon determining the likelihood of an excessive supply). Eliminates compliance with the set-aside program as a condition for loan eligibility. Directs the Secretary to delegate to State and county committees his present authority to make loans, purchases, and payments with respect to a non-complying producer on an equitable basis in relation to the seriousness of default. Prohibits the making of regulations which condition loans and payments on cross-compliance and offsetting- compliance procedures. Directs the Secretary to make available recourse loans on seed cotton to encourage and assist producers in orderly ginning and marketing. Extends through July 31, 1986, the Commodity Credit Corporation's present authority to sell upland cotton at not less than 115 percent of the loan rate. States that the permanent State, county, and farm base acreage allotments for the 1977 crop of upland cotton, as adjusted for underplantings in 1977, shall again become effective as preliminary allotments for the 1986 crop. Requires the Secretary to carry out a special price support or loan program through the Commodity Credit Corporation whenever the Executive Branch of the Federal Government suspends, for any reason other than a congressionally declared national emergency, the commercial export sales of upland cotton to any country or area with which the United States otherwise continues commercial trade. Limits such program to instances where the country or area in question imported more than three percent of total United States cotton exports in the two years preceding such suspension. Prescribes formulae to assure producers, through payments or interest-free loans, the export prices they would have received in the absence of such suspension. Directs the Secretary, through the Corporation, to compensate U.S. firms for losses incurred with respect to cotton and cotton-product sales contracts canceled due to such suspension. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Corporation a revolving fund for financing export credit sales of cotton in accordance with GSM-5 (42 FR 10999). Requires the Secretary to provide for, and credit to such fund, all repayments on export sales of cotton made under GSM-5.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
Rural Telephone Bank Amendment Act of 1981 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to require the United States to purchase class A stock to fund the Rural Telephone Bank through 1991 until such stock equals $600,000,000. Extends the date for such stock to be redeemed and retired by the telephone bank as soon as practicable after September 30, 1995. Eliminates the minimum amount of class A and class B stock which must be issued before class A stock may be retired.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1981
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell at public auction certain lands in the Tahoe National Forest known as the Blythe Arena. Authorizes appropriations in the amount of such sale for the Secretary to acquire lands in the State of California to be permanently reserved, held, and administered as part of the national forest system.