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Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 492 (98th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Makes a supplemental appropriation for FY 1984 to the Department of Agriculture to provide emergency food assistance for African countries through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). Requires that a specified amount of such commodities shall be available in connection with dispositions abroad pursuant to title II (the famine relief provisions) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) and that a specified amount shall be available on a competitive bid or barter basis. Authorizes the CCC to purchase commodities to meet emergency requirements if CCC stocks are not available.
Bill· HRH.R. 4943 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Solvency Act of 1984 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to maintain two separate accounts within the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund: (1) the Electrification Account; and (2) the Telephone Account. Requires obligations of the Fund to provide for level annual debt service payments. Authorizes reformation of outstanding obligations to provide for such payments. Replaces existing five and two percent insured loan interest rates with a standard annual rate (of at least five percent) to be determined by the Administrator. Authorizes reduced rates for financial hardship borrowers. Requires the Administrator to assist borrowers to achieve the financial strength necessary to obtain loans from non-Fund sources. Limits annual Electrification Account and Telephone Account principal obligations. Repeals certain restrictions on the terms and conditions of loans under such Act relating to: (1) preference in loans; and (2) elections of loans for a telephone system with an average subscriber density of three or fewer per mile. Repeals the provision including in the Fund moneys borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury in exchange for interim votes. States that redeemed Class A stock shall be deposited into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury.
Bill· HRH.R. 4928 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out title II (famine relief provisions) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480).
Bill· SS. 2328 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Wheat Improvement Act of 1984 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce target prices for the 1984 and 1985 wheat crops from $4.45 per bushel to $4.38 per bushel, and from $4.65 per bushel to $4.38 per bushel, respectively. Requires wheat farmers, in order to qualify for 1984 price support assistance, to reduce their planted acreage by 30 percent under a combined (20 percent) acreage reduction and (ten percent) diversion program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to permit such land to be devoted to hay and grazing. Sets the program sign up date at not earlier than March 30, 1984. Provides, with regard to the 1984 diversion program, for payments of not less than $3.00 per bushel, except that the Secretary may reduce such payment by up to ten percent if appropriate to meet program objectives. Requires advance payments of at least 50 percent. Sets payment-in-kind rates at not less than 85 percent of the farm program yield. Provides for 1984 wheat crop advance deficiency payments.
Bill· SS. 2304 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Food Aid and Export Market Promotion Act - Requires the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to make a specified minimum amount of credit guarantees available to finance export sales of farm commodities. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to increase the annual authorized appropriations to carry out famine relief programs (title II of such Act). Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the donation of CCC stocks of dairy products and other agricultural commodities for the assistance of needy persons outside the United States. (Current law authorizes the donation only of CCC stocks of dairy products.) Requires that the proceeds of the sale or barter of such dairy products or commodities shall be used exclusively to facilitate providing assistance to such needy people. Requires the CCC to make available a specified minimum amount of financing during FY 1984 and 1985 for export sales of breeding animals and for the establishment of facilities in the importing nation for handling agricultural commodities. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to authorize the CCC to finance or guarantee export sales of agricultural commodities out of CCC and private stocks. Requires that repayment of such financing shall be in dollars with interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires the General Accounting Office, within 120 days of enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on the effectiveness and adequacy of U.S. food aid programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 4846 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Terminates Farm Credit Administration authority to promulgate certain branch cooperative bank and lending power regulations. Preserves such authority from termination if Congress enacts its approval of such authority within 180 days.
Bill· HRH.R. 4863 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1984 for emergency food assistance for Africa.
Bill· HRH.R. 4817 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to notify applicants for operating and economic emergency loans of the approval or disapproval of an application within 60 days of its receipt. States that failure to so notify shall be considered loan approval, unless there are no remaining unobligated loan funds.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 433 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the insured loan component of the economic emergency loan program is of critical importance to farmers and ranchers; (2) the limitation and effective termination of such insured loans violated the intent of Congress; and (3) the Farmers Home Administration should immediately begin the obligation of insured economic emergency loan funds (of at least $500,000,000) and should continue such program until the funds are exhausted or until September 30, 1984.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 431 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1984
Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Agriculture for the second session of the 98th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.
Bill· HRH.R. 4755 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1984
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to state that the 1984 feed grain acreage base for farms that participated in the 1983 acreage limitation program shall be the 1983 acreage base rather than the two preceding crop years' average.
Bill· SS. 2256 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1984
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to exempt from Federal inspection requirements any restaurant central kitchen that prepares ready-to-eat meat and poultry products sent to and served at restaurants owned or operated by the same persons who own or operate such central facility.
Bill· SS. 2254 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1984
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude "sources of radiation" from the definition of food additive. Subjects food irradiation to the same regulations that apply to raw agricultural commodity pesticide use. Exempts existing regulations from such requirements.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 333 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the insured loan component of the economic emergency loan program is of critical importance to farmers and ranchers; (2) the limitation and effective termination of such insured loans violated the intent of Congress; and (3) the Farmers Home Administration should immediately begin the obligation of insured economic emergency loan funds and should continue such program until the funds are exhausted or until September 30, 1984.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 330 (98th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, from March 1, 1984, through February 28, 1985, to: (1) make expenditures from the contingent fund; (2) employ personnel; (3) utilize, on a reimbursable basis, the services of department or agency personnel; (4) procure consultant services; and (5) provide for the training of its professional staff.
Bill· HRH.R. 4730 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Conservation and Forestation Act of 1984 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into contracts (not less than five-year periods) to replace crops with vegetative cover or other conservation practices on designated farm acreage. Sets forth program provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Agricultural Forestation Program - Authorizes the Secretary to pay farmers (in cash or in-kind) to divert non-timber acreage to pine tree production. Permits farmers who are temporarily unable to repay Small Business Act or Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act loans to use such payments and the proceeds from pine timber sales to repay such loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 4743 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Agricultural Export Trade Equity Act of 1984 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to use the FY 1985 and 1986 agricultural export promotion funds for export assistance only in connection with agricultural commodities and products that have been adversely affected by price or credit subsidies used by other countries. Directs the Secretary to export at least 100,000 metric tons of dairy products owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation in each of FY 1985 and 1986, provided that: (1) export sales of dairy products shall be made at appropriate prices of not less than the minimum prices applicable under the International Dairy Arrangement; and (2) the level of exports shall be in addition to donations of dairy products made under other Acts. Authorizes the Secretary to formulate and carry out a program under which agricultural commodities and products acquired by the Corporation are made available for export without charge to U.S. exporters and users and foreign purchasers in order to promote export markets for such commodities and products. Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that equal treatment is provided to domestic and foreign purchasers and users in cases where the importation of a manufactured product made from agricultural commodities, made available for export under this Act, would place domestic users of such commodity at a competitive disadvantage; (2) consider all interested foreign purchasers for participation, giving priority to those who have purchased U.S. agricultural commodities in the past and who continue to do so in increased quantities; (3) ensure that Corporation stocks, made available for export under this Act, are used to encourage increased use of such commodities and to avoid unnecessary market displacement of domestic agricultural commodities; and (4) take reasonable precautions to prevent resale, transshipment, or any use of such stocks other than domestic use in the importing country. Provides for supplemental distributions to foreign purchasers who use funds realized from the sale of commodities made available for export under this Act to construct or rehabilitate facilities in the importing country for specified purposes. Requires the Secretary to determine the intervals and amounts of such supplemental distributions. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the Corporation. Amends the Agriculture Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the President to consider distributing commodities for famine relief in processed and protein-fortified form. Requires the President to take all feasible steps to ensure that an appropriate portion of such commodities be in the form of processed and protein-fortified products. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to urge the Secretary of Agriculture to fund an export market development program for value-added farm products and processed foods at a greater funding level than that provided during FY 1984.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 465 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Designates chili as the official food of the United States.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 247 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1984
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Federal bank regulatory agencies should require their examiners to exercise caution and restraint in adversely classifying loans made to agricultural borrowers.
Bill· SS. 2225 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release certain reversionary interests in specified lands conveyed to Clemson University, South Carolina. Conditions such release upon the use of the affected lands for public purposes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Clemson University certain Federal mineral interests in the lands to which the reversionary interests applied if the University's application meets specified guidelines.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 245 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1984
States that U.S. negotiators, in negotiations with Japan, should insist that Japan dismantle all nontariff barriers to imports of beef. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that if progress is not made toward the dismantling of such nontariff barriers by a specified time, the U.S. Trade Representative should seek appropriate relief under U.S. and international trade law.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 87 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. negotiators, in negotiations with Japan, should insist that Japan dismantle all nontariff barriers to imports of beef; and (2) if progress is not made toward the dismantling of such nontariff barriers by a specified time, the U.S. Trade Representative should seek appropriate relief under U.S. and international trade law.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 306 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the food stamp plan as well as other food assistance programs should remain national programs and the block grant concept proposed by the President's Task Force on Food Assistance Programs should not be adopted.
Bill· HRH.R. 4610 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Consecutive- Disaster Emergency Loan Act of 1984 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make and insure disaster loans to persons engaged in aquaculture whose operations have been affected for at least three consecutive years by a designated natural disaster. Authorizes the Secretary to make such assistance available to aquaculture operators who have suffered production losses in adjacent counties. Directs the Secretary to conduct such loan program in a manner that will foster the family farms. Authorizes: (1) loan consolidation and refinancing; and (2) loan and foreclosure deferral for up to five years. Sets forth related provisions. Directs the Secretary to promulgate implementing regulations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4611 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1984
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983, to extend the milk diversion program sign-up date from February 1, 1984, to February 15, 1984.