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United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should use his existing authorities to export surplus dairy products.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1982
Agricultural Commodities Export Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to sell U.S. farm products competitively on the world market. Defers the fifty-cent per hundredweight milk charge unless surplus U.S. dairy products are sold competitively on the world market. Eliminates 1983 through 1985 land diversion payment limitations. Provides for the replacement of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) officers and directors for failure to sell commodities competitively on the world market. Repeals CCC charter restrictions on domestic sales.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to set 1983 acreage reduction bases for wheat and feed grains for farms that had no 1982 acreage limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any proposal to reduce food stamp benefits for those persons between the ages of 60 and 64 years who are now eligible.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture National Food and Agriculture Exposition is a significant development that will contribute to expanded U.S. agricultural exports.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 regarding the 1983 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton to exempt payments-in-kind from specified payment limitation and sales price restrictions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the No Net Cost Tobacco Program of 1982, to clarify that all tobacco lessors are liable for the No Net Cost Tobacco Fund assessments.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1982
Agricultural Export Subsidy Offset Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an export subsidy program, under which agricultural commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through price support operations are given to U.S. exporters, U.S. processors, or foreign countries to encourage additional export sales of such commodities. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) export sales of such commodities and of products of such commodities do not displace usual U.S. marketings; (2) such commodities and products are not exported to any country which is not eligible for most-favored nation treatment; and (3) such commodities and products after export are not resold or transhipped to another nation or used for purposes other than domestic purposes of such country. Requires the Secretary, if the program places U.S. processors at a disadvantage, to give to such processors the agricultural commodities acquired by the Corporation through price support operations. Terminates the Secretary's authority under this Act after December 31, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1982
Title I: Release of Restrictions on Albuquerque Land Transfer - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to release patent restrictions on certain land conveyed to the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which require that the land be used for approved public purposes, and which prohibit transfer of title or control. Conditions such release upon an exchange of the land for other lands in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Requires the city to use the Bernalillo County lands for public purposes and retain their title and control. Reserves mineral interests in such lands to the United States. Title II: National Forest Land Transfer - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell, exchange, or interchange certain National Forest System lands which are: (1) 40 acres or less and interspersed with or adjacent to mineral patents; (2) ten 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. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this title. States that nothing in this title authorizes conveyance of Federal lands within the National Wilderness Preservation System, National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, National Trails System, or National Monuments. States that nothing in this title authorizes the sale of Federal lands within National Recreation Areas. Includes lands proposed for exchange by State, county, or municipal governments among those whose exchange may be facilitated by the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1982
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit emergency disaster loans of up to $5,000 to be made and insured on the basis of estimated losses.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Agricultural Act of 1982 - Title I: Wheat, Feed Grain, Upland Cotton, and Rice Programs Under the Agricultural Act of 1949 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a combined acreage limitation program for the 1984 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Requires reductions in acreage bases. Sets minimum reduction rates at 15%, half of which shall be under the diversion program, half under the acreage limitation program. Bases 1984 acreages on 1983 figures. Sets minimum diversion payments at: (1) $3.00 a bushel for wheat; (2) $1.50 a bushel for corn (basis for feed grains); (3) $.30 a pound for upland cotton; and (4) $3.00 per hundredweight for rice. Sets 1983 through 1985 minimum price support loan rates at: (1) $3.80 a bushel for wheat; (2) $2.75 a bushel for corn; (3) $.60 a pound for upland cotton; and (4) $8.55 per hundredweight for rice. Title II: Special Payment-In-Kind - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a 1983 through 1985 payment-in-kind land conservation program. Uses excess Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) stocks to compensate participating farmers. Sets forth program provisions. Title III: Expansion of International Markets For, and the Disposition of, United States Agricultural Commodities - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the Secretary to give excess CCC stocks free to U.S. processors and exporters, and to foreign nations to encourage U.S. commodity exports. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use such stocks to make additional sales or to offset foreign export subsidies; (2) prevent the resale or transshipment of such stocks; and (3) provide subsidies to domestic industries hurt by imports made in whole or in part from such stocks. Restricts such program to countries having most-favored-nation status. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) and the Agricultural Act of 1949 to expand the overseas use of CCC stocks.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Amends Federal law to rename the Department of Agriculture as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should suspend milk producer assessments until April 15, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the 50-cent producer assessment from the dairy price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make Commodity Credit Corporation corn stocks available to U.S. poultry and egg producers in order to encourage poultry exports.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, to establish a two-tier dairy price support program for FY 1983 through 1985. Sets the price of milk for domestic needs: (1) at $13.10 per hundredweight for FY 1983; and (2) at the percentage of parity for FY 1984 and 1985 which $13.10 represented as of October 1, 1982. Sets the price of milk in excess of domestic needs at the higher support level uniformly reduced to cover the annual costs of acquiring, managing, and disposing of surplus milk. Provides that the funds from such reduction shall be remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) by the first milk handlers, including producers who market their own milk. Limits CCC annual milk purchases to five billion pounds, with producers responsible for costs in excess of such amount. Stipulates that the CCC shall increase its purchases if import quotas are increased. States that the price of milk shall be supported through milk and milk products purchases. Authorizes payments to producers who reduce their production. Establishes a National Dairy Board consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture and 15 presidentially-appointed members. Directs the Board to: (1) determine the relative proportions of milk to which the price support levels will apply and the producer responsibility for dairy product purchases; (2) establish a uniform price support reduction rate for milk in excess of domestic commercial market needs and announce such rate before October 1 of each year; (3) dispose of dairy products acquired by the CCC through authorized price support operations; and (4) remit proceeds from price support operations to the CCC. Sets forth enforcement provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to lower FY 1983 minimum milk price supports from $13.25 to $13.10. Eliminates the requirement for FY 1983 that milk be supported at not less than 75 percent of parity if estimated Government purchases are less 4,000,000,000 pounds.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, to eliminate the 50-cent producer assessment from the dairy price support program.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committees Act of 1982 - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide that the number of local committees selected under such Act shall be not less than the number of such local committees on December 31, 1980. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide that the members of local, county, and State committees selected under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act shall be paid travel expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committees Act of 1982 - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide that the number of local committees selected under such Act shall be not less than the number of such local committees on December 31, 1980. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide that the members of local, county, and State committees selected under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act shall be paid travel expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to prohibit the President from restricting the export of an agricultural commodity sought to be exported under an export sales contract: (1) requiring delivery of a commodity aboard an export vehicle within 180 days; (2) entered into before the President announces an export restriction on the commodity; and (3) reported pursuant to a specified section of the Agricultural Act of 1970. Permits the President to restrict exports of such a commodity during a declared war or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Child Nutrition Amendments of 1982 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to terminate the summer food service program for children in service institutions. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to terminate the special milk program for children, the nutrition education and training program, and the school breakfast program. Replaces grants-in-aid for the child care food program by establishing a general nutrition assistance program for children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 for the payments of allotments to States under such program. Requires each State, in order to receive an allotment, to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture an intended use report. Sets forth requirements for reports and audits for States in receipt of allotments. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions for purposes of this Act. Eliminates the Department of Defense Overseas Dependents' schools from participation in the school lunch program and the school breakfast program. Sets forth a minimum amount available to each State for administrative expenses. Authorizes the Secretary to make pro rata distribution of payments under the National School Lunch Act if available amounts are insufficient. Allows the Secretary to provide technical assistance in planning and carrying out activities under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Allows provision of such technical assistance under the general nutrition assistance program only at the request of a State.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Food and Nutrition Consolidation Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make specified payments to American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands for food and nutrition assistance programs. Requires each jurisdiction to have a plan for the provision of such assistance in order to receive the payments. Sets forth the information that must be contained in such plans. Provides for approval or rejection of such plan. Requires each jurisdiction to provide for a biennial audit of the programs. Requires each jurisdiction to provide the Secretary with a statement indicating whether the payments exceeded the program expenses and providing any other information that the Secretary requires. Authorizes the Secretary to seek injunctive relief if the Secretary determines that the requirements of a plan were not met. Directs the Secretary to provide program review and technical assistance for the food and nutrition assistance programs. Sets forth criminal penalties for the illegal use of funds or property provided by this Act. Provides for nondiscrimination in the use of such funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and such sums as necessary for FY 1984 through 1987. Makes conforming amendments to the National School Lunch Act, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, and the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Prohibits the Government from taking any action to restrict farm exports in a manner which interferes with otherwise valid export contracts which were entered into before such action is taken, except to the extent such contracts provide for delivery more than nine months after such action is taken.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for open-ditch land drainage measures.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Federal Grain Storage Insurance Act of 1982 - Establishes a Federal Grain Storage Insurance Corporation in the Department of Agriculture. Requires that a majority of the Corporations's Board be active farmers. Sets forth other administrative and operating provisions. Authorizes the Corporation to borrow up to $250,000,000 from the Treasury. Establishes a farmer-financed Grain Storage Insurance Fund in the Treasury. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) grain insurance; (2) warehouse certification; and (3) criminal penalties. Makes such program effective if approved in a producer referendum to be held within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Fragile Agricultural Lands Act of 1982 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to require farmers to implement certain soil and water conservation measures in order to qualify for specified land acquisition loans under such Acts.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Soil and Water Conservation Incentives Act of 1982 - States that it is the policy of Congress that the Federal Government should encourage private conservation through tax incentives. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer engaged in the business of farming an investment tax credit for soil and water conservation expenditures not treated as deductible expenses. Allows farmers a tax credit of a certain amount per acre of land on which conservation tillage practices are used. Reduces the credit for nontaxable government grants used by the taxpayer in carrying out such practices. Excludes from gross income interest received on loans used to construct soil conservation terrace systems. Provides that such tax exclusion shall not apply to: (1) persons engaged in the lending business; (2) corporations; and (3) certain types of loans. Includes soil conservation tillage equipment and equipment used in terrace systems as "three-year property" for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery system. Allows an income tax deduction for farmland conservation plans based on a certain allowance per cultivated acre, up to $10,000 a year. Provides that persons receiving cash rent for farmland are eligible for the tax deduction for soil and water conservation expenditures.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to reduce interest rate limits on certain emergency disaster loans made or insured after September 30, 1981: (1) from eight percent to five percent, where the loan applicant cannot obtain sufficient credit elsewhere; and (2) from the prevailing private market rate to the current average market yield on certain U.S. Treasury obligations (plus a one percent additional charge), where the applicant can obtain such credit elsewhere.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1982
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to require (currently authorizes) the Secretary of Agriculture to make economic emergency loans. Extends such program through FY 1983. Lowers the limit on individual loans: (1) from $400,000 to $200,000 under such Act; and (2) from $650,000 to $450,000 under such Act and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act combined. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit family farmers to request economic hardship loan repayment and foreclosure deferrals until September 30, 1983. Requires the Secretary to: (1) make loan consolidation or rescheduling available at the end of such period; and (2) notify borrowers of such deferral program. States that the interest rate on any rescheduled loan shall not exceed the interest rate on the original loan.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from promulgating any regulation which would not maintain or enhance the nutritional integrity of supplemental foods made available under the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Prohibits the Secretary, after September 23, 1982, from modifying any regulation governing such program, unless a finding is made that the modification will be beneficial to the health status of program participants. Requires the Secretary to submit such finding to the appropriate congressional committees prior to its publication in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretary to implement specified regulations concerning the program no later than December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Farm Export Protection Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to prohibit the President from restricting the export of an agricultural commodity sought to be exported under an export sales contract: (1) entered into before the President announces an export restriction on the commodity; and (2) reported pursuant to a specified section of the Agricultural Act of 1970. Permits the President to restrict exports of such a commodity during a declared war or national emergency. Declares that any strike or lockout which interferes with the execution of such an export sales contract shall be considered to affect an entire industry and imperil the national health and safety for purposes of specified sections of the Labor Management Relations Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Recognizes the 1981-1982 school year as the 60th anniversary of the Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress within six months concerning the current and possible future uses of U.S. agricultural products at U.S. military installations overseas.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Directs the President to take every possible action to encourage increasing the processed product share of farm exports including, but not limited to: (1) urging U.S. negotiators to try to include a quantity of value-added processed farm products in grain agreements with the Soviet Union or other nonmarket economy countries; (2) seeking elimination of unfair trade practices by foreign competitors by pursuing international trade negotiations; (3) using the authority of Public Law 480 to encourage inclusion of more processed products under both concessional sales and food aid programs; and (4) using authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export-Import Bank to ensure that credit arrangements for farm exports and farm product exports are on terms equal to those offered by other countries.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide for the maximum feasible use of U.S. agricultural products at military installations overseas; and (2) devise new ways to use surplus agricultural commodities now in the reserves of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend for one year the Agricultural and Productive Credit and Self-Help Community Development Programs.
United States · United States Senate · 17 September 1982
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take action to encourage increasing the processed product share of farm exports, including but not limited to: (1) urging U.S. negotiators to try to include a quantity of value-added processed farm products in grain agreements with the Soviet Union or other nonmarket economy countries; (2) seeking elimination of unfair trade practices by foreign competitors by pursuing international trade negotiations; (3) using the authority of Public Law 480 to encourage inclusion of more processed products under both concessional sales and food aid programs; and (4) using authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export- Import Bank to ensure that credit arrangements for farm exports and farm product exports are on terms equal to those offered by other countries.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 Department of Agriculture (USDA), rural affairs, and related program funds for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) standard level user fees; (3) advisory committees; (4) administrative expenses; (5) the Office of Governmental and Public Affairs; (6) the Office of Congressional Affairs; (7) the Office of the Inspector General; (8) the Office of the General Counsel; (9) the Federal Grain Inspection Service; (10) inspection and weighing services; (11) the Agricultural Research Service (ARS); (12) ARS buildings and facilities; (13) overseas scientific activities (foreign currency program); (14) the Cooperative State Research Service; (15) the Extension Service; (16) the National Agricultural Library; (17) the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (18) buildings and facilities, generally; (19) the Food Safety and Inspection Service; (20) the Economic Research Service; (21) the Statistical Reporting Service; (22) the Agricultural Cooperative Service; (23) the World Agricultural Outlook Board; (24) the Agricultural Marketing Service (marketing services, administrative expenses, market strengthening, transportation office, and payments to States and possessions); (25) the Packers and Stockyards Administration; (26) the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (salaries and expenses and the dairy indemnity program); (27) the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (administrative expenses, capital stock subscription, and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund); and (28) the Commodity Credit Corporation (net losses reimbursement and direct loan levels). Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Office of Rural Development Policy; (2) the Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Insurance Fund, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, Rural Development Insurance Fund, Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants, Very-Low Income Housing Repair Grants, Rural Housing for Domestic Farm Labor, Mutual and Self-Help Housing, Rural Community Fire Protection Grants, construction defects compensation, and salaries); (3) Rural Electrification Administration (Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund, Rural Telephone Bank, Rural Communication Development Fund, and salaries and expenses); (4) Soil Conservation Service (operations, river basin surveys, watershed planning and flood prevention, resource conservation, and Great Plains Conservation Program); and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (agricultural conservation, forestry incentive program, and water bank program). Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Nutrition Service (child nutrition programs, special milk program, WIC (women, infants, and children) feeding program, commodity supplemental food program, food stamps, nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico, food donations programs, and administrative expenses); and (2) the Human Nutrition Information Service. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service (including the general sales manager); Public Law 480; and (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development). Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Drug Administration (salaries, and standard level user charges); (2) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) the Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Requires consulting contracts to be available for public inspection unless otherwise provided for. Makes funds available for: (1) vehicle purchases; (2) uniforms and allowances; (3) research and service contracts; (4) Working Capital Fund transfers; and (5) publications translation, orientation, and language training. Prohibits funds to be paid to any person who harvests marihuana or drug-producing plants for illegal use. Prohibits appropriations remaining available beyond FY 1983 unless expressly provided for. Authorizes the use of USDA employees as needed on an intermittent basis among the various agencies of the USDA. Excludes overtime and disaster periods from consideration with respect to ceilings on full-time equivalent staff years. States that specified beneficial home ownership certificates sold by the Farmers Home Administration shall not be less than 75 percent of the value of the loans closed during FY 1983. Prohibits funds from being used: (1) to phase out the Resource Conservation and Development Program; and (2) to pay more than ten percent of the indirect cost rates of specified cooperative agreements between the USDA and nonprofit institutions. Exempts specified watershed projects from the requirements of Executive Orders 12113 and 12141. Authorizes the distribution of surplus agricultural commodities to needy persons. Prohibits Federal funds from being paid in FY 1983 on any form of U.S. loan guarantee with respect to credits on loans made to Poland unless: (1) Poland has been declared in default to the particular creditor; or (2) the President has provided Congress with a monthly written report explaining how U.S. national interest has been served by payments made on such Polish loans in the absence of a declaration of default. Prohibits: (1) standard level user charge reimbursements to the General Services Administration in excess of 1982 levels; and (2) the use of funds to place in effect any rule under section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 which would not maintain the nutritional value of food made available to women, infants, and children under such Act's supplemental food program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) national efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition should continue; (2) a national commitment to vital nutrition programs should continue; and (3) the Federal Government should retain primary responsibility for child nutrition programs.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to reduce interest rate limits on certain emergency disaster loans made or insured after September 30, 1981: (1) from eight percent to five percent, where the loan applicant cannot obtain sufficient credit elsewhere; and (2) from the prevailing private market rate to the current average market yield on certain Treasury obligations (plus a one percent additional charge), where the applicant can obtain such credit elsewhere.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the administration should use no less than one-fourth of our surplus grain stocks for food relief both at home and abroad. States that the distribution of grain should not disrupt local markets or depress prices for farmers in recipient countries.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that, during the forthcoming meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Government should try to restore U.S. competitiveness in agricultural trade: (1) with particular emphasis on correcting the disparate treatment of primary and nonprimary products provided in the Subsidies Code; and (2) without reference to any existing disagreements in nonagricultural areas. Declares that the United States, pending restoration of fair and equitable trading conditions under the GATT, should try to prevent further erosion of farm exports and try to regain a foreign market share commensurate with the competitive market advantage of the U.S. farmer. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should make available the funds necessary to assist exports and counteract foreign unfair trading practices. Declares that restoring U.S. farm export competitiveness will help create jobs and raise net farm income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Prohibits the purchase of domestic or imported grain and cotton at specified levels above or below parity prices. Exempts specified purchases. Sets forth civil penalties for violations. Provides for judicial review of any such penalty in a U.S. district court. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) refuse to issue, or suspend, certain warehouse licenses of violators; and (2) implement a supply management program for domestic grain and cotton.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) in forthcoming consultations with Japan the United States should seek completely open access to the Japanese market for U.S. beef and citrus; and (2) if such consultations do not result in open markets the United States should evaluate what remedies are appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to: (1) remove restraints on commerce caused by activities detrimental to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers; (2) require farm labor contractors to register under this Act; and (3) assure necessary protections for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers, agricultural associations, and agricultural employers. Sets forth definitions under this Act. Distinguishes between "agricultural employer" and "farm labor contractor." Distinguishes between "migrant agricultural worker" and "seasonal agricultural worker." Sets forth a definition of a "day-haul operation." Uses the same definition of "employ" as under specified provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Sets forth exemptions from coverage by this Act for specified types of family business, small business, labor organizations and other entities or persons. Provides that title I of this Act does not apply to any agricultural employer or agricultural association or to any employee of such employer or association. Title I: Farm Labor Contractors - Requires any person engaged in farm labor contracting activities to have a certificate of registration from the Secretary of Labor specifying which activities such person is authorized to perform. Prohibits a farm labor contractor from hiring, employing or using any individual to perform such activities unless such individual has a certificate of registration or a certificate of registration as a contractor employee. Holds the contractor responsible for contractor employee violations of this Act or regulations under this Act. Requires each registered contractor and contractor employee to carry, and exhibit on request, such certificates while engaging in such activities. Denies State employment service system facilities and services under the Wagner-Peyser Act to any contractor who refuses or fails to produce a certificate upon request. Directs the Secretary, after appropriate investigation and approval, to issue certificates to persons who file applications containing specified items, including documentation of compliance with requirements under this Act vehicles used to transport migrant or seasonal workers and housing for migrant workers. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to issue or renew, or to suspend or revoke, certificates if applicants or holders commit specified violations, fail to meet specified requirements, or have been convicted within the preceding five years of specified offenses. Provides for hearings on an appeals of such refusals, suspensions, or revocations. Prohibits transfer or assignment of certificates. Sets forth provisions relating to expiration and renewal of certificates and to notice of address change and amendment of certificates. Prohibits farm labor contractors from recruiting, hiring, or using, with knowledge, the services of any individual who is an alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or who has not been authorized by the Attorney General to accept employment. Title II: Migrant Agricultural Worker Protections - Requires each farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, and agricultural association which recruits any migrant agricultural worker to: (1) disclose specified information to such worker; (2) post a statement of worker rights and protections and a statement of the terms and conditions of occupancy of worker housing; and (3) keep specified records with respect to each such worker. Requires each farm labor contractor to supply copies of such records to any agricultural employer and association to which such contractor has furnished such workers. Prohibits knowingly providing false or misleading information to any worker concerning such required information, statements, and records. Requires that specified information and statements be provided in written English or, as necessary and reasonable, in Spanish or other language common to migrant agricultural workers not fluent or literate in English. Requires the Department of Labor to make forms available for use in providing such information. Requires such contractors, employers, and associations to pay the wages owed to migrant agricultural workers when due. Prohibits contractors, employers, and associations from: (1) requiring such workers to purchase any goods or services solely from such contractors, employers, or associations; or (2) violating, without justification, the terms of any working arrangement with such workers. Makes each person who owns or controls a facility or real property which is used as housing for migrant agricultural workers responsible for ensuring compliance with substantive Federal and State safety and health standards applicable to that housing. Prohibits such persons from permitting any such facility or property from being occupied by such workers unless there is posted at the site a copy of the certification by a State or local health authority or other appropriate agency that applicable safety and health standards are met. Permits such occupancy in cases in which a request for such inspection has been made to the appropriate agency at least forty-five days earlier. Exempts from such requirements any person who, in the ordinary course of that person's business, regularly provides housing on a commercial basis to the general public and who provides housing of the same character and on the same or comparable terms or conditions to migrant agricultural workers. Title III: Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protections - Requires each farm labor contractor, agricultural employer, and agricultural association which recruits any seasonal agricultural worker to: (1) disclose specified information to such worker, upon request, when an offer of employment is made (but to disclose such information to day-haul workers at the place of recruitment); (2) post a statement of worker rights and protections; and (3) keep specified records with respect to each such worker. Requires each farm labor contractor to supply copies of such records to any agricultural employer and association to which such contractor has furnished such workers. Prohibits knowingly providing false or misleading information to any worker concerning such required information, statements, and records. Requires that specified information and statements be provided to seasonal agricultural workers in written English or, as necessary and reasonable, in Spanish or other language common to migrant and agricultural workers not fluent or literate in English. Requires the Department of Labor to make forms available for use in providing such information. Requires such contractors, employers, and associations to pay the wages owed to seasonal agricultural workers when due. Prohibits contractors, employers, and associations from: (1) requiring such workers to purchase any goods or services solely from such contractors, employers, or associations; or (2) violating, without justification, the terms of any working arrangement with such workers. Title IV: Further Protections for Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers - Sets forth provisions for motor vehicle safety in the transportation of any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker (except on agricultural machinery and equipment while actually engaged in the planting, cultivating, or harvesting any agricultural commodity or the care of livestock or poultry). Requires each agricultural employer, agricultural association, and farm labor contractor, while using or causing to be used any vehicle for such transportation, to: (1) ensure that such vehicle conforms to standards prescribed by the Secretary under this Act and to other applicable Federal and State safety standards; (2) ensure that each driver has a valid and appropriate State license to operate such vehicle; and (3) have a specified type of insurance policy or a liability bond in effect. Directs the Secretary to consider specified factors in prescribing such motor vehicle safety regulations. Provides that such regulations, shall be in addition to, and shall not supersede or modify, any standard or regulation under the Interstate Commerce Act or successor provisions of Federal law which is independently applicable to such transportation. Makes any violation of such standards a violation under this Act. Provides that standards prescribed under the Interstate Commerce Act for the transportation of migrant workers shall be deemed to be standards under this Act if the Secretary fails to prescribe such standards. Requires that the required level of insurance be at least the amount currently required for common carriers of passengers under the Interstate Commerce Act and any successor provisions of Federal law. Provides that, if the employer, association, or contractor provides State workers' compensation coverage for such migrant or seasonal agricultural workers, an insurance policy or liability bond shall be required under this Act only for circumstances under which coverage for transportation of such workers is not provided under State law. Directs the Secretary to prescribe and revise such motor vehicle safety standards by specified regulations. Prohibits any person from utilizing the services of any farm labor contractor to supply any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker unless the person first takes reasonable steps to determine that the contractor has a valid registration certificate authorizing such activity. Permits reliance upon either possession of such certificate or confirmation of registration by the Department. Directs the Secretary to maintain a central public registry of all persons issued such certificates. Requires each farm labor contractor to obtain at each place of employment and make available for inspection to every worker such contractor furnishes for employment a written statement of the conditions of such employment. Prohibits any farm labor contractor from violating, without justification, the terms of any written agreement made with an agricultural employer or an agricultural association pertaining to any contracting activity or worker protection under this Act. Provides that such written agreements do not relieve a person of any responsibility under this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Part A: Enforcement Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to criminal sanctions, judicial enforcement, and administrative actions. Provides for a private right of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act or any regulation under this Act. Limits the amount of damages which may be awarded in cases of multiple infractions or in class actions. Prohibits discrimination against any migrant or seasonal worker because of complaints filed, proceedings instituted, testimony, or exercise of rights or protections under this Act. Declares agreements by employees purporting to waive or modify their rights under this Act to be void as contrary to public policy, but provides that a waiver or modification of rights in favor of the Secretary shall be valid for enforcement purposes. Part B: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out this Act; (2) use specified investigative powers to obtain information; and (3) make specified agreements with Federal and State agencies. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Declares that this Act is intended to supplement State law and that compliance with this Act shall not excuse any person from compliance with appropriate State law and regulation. Sets forth a transition provision authorizing the Secretary to deny a certificate of registration to any farm labor contractor, as defined in this Act, against whom there is a judgment outstanding under the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 or who is subject to a final order of the Secretary under such Act assessing a civil penalty which has not been paid. Provides that any findings under such Act may also be applicable to determinations of willful and knowing violations under this Act. Repeals the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1982
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay a rate for the storage of grain on farms which is no less than the rate the Corporation pays for storage of grain in commercial storage facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 Department of Agriculture (USDA), rural affairs, and related program funds for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) standard level user fees; (3) advisory committees; (4) administrative expenses; (5) the Office of Governmental and Public Affairs; (6) the Office of Congressional Affairs; (7) the Office of the Inspector General; (8) the Office of the General Counsel; (9) the Federal Grain Inspection Service; (10) inspection and weighing services; (11) the Agricultural Research Service (ARS); (12) ARS buildings and facilities; (13) overseas scientific activities (foreign currency program); (14) the Cooperative State Research Service; (15) the Extension Service; (16) the National Agricultural Library; (17) the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (18) buildings and facilities, generally; (19) the Food Safety and Inspection Service; (20) the Economic Research Service; (21) the Statistical Reporting Service; (22) the Agricultural Cooperative Service; (23) the World Agricultural Outlook Board; (24) the Agricultural Marketing Service (marketing services, administrative expenses, market strengthening, transportation office, and payments to States and possessions); (25) the Packers and Stockyards Administration; (26) the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (salaries and expenses and the dairy indemnity program); (27) the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (administrative expenses, capital stock subscription, and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund); and (28) the Commodity Credit Corporation (net losses reimbursement and direct loan levels). Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Office of Rural Development Policy; (2) the Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Insurance Fund, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, Rural Development Insurance Fund, Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants, Very-Low Income Housing Repair Grants, Rural Housing for Domestic Farm Labor, Mutual and Self-Help Housing, Rural Community Fire Protection Grants, construction defects compensation, and salaries); (3) Rural Electrification Administration (Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund, Rural Telephone Bank, Rural Communication Development Fund, and salaries and expenses); (4) Soil Conservation Service (operations, river basin surveys, watershed planning and flood prevention, resource conservation, and Great Plains Conservation Program); and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (agricultural conservation, forestry incentive program, and water bank program). Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Nutrition Service (child nutrition programs, special milk program, WIC (women, infants, and children) feeding program, commodity supplemental food program, food stamps, nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico, food donation programs, and administrative expenses); and (2) the Human Nutrition Information Service. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service (including the general sales manager); (2) Public Law 480; and (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Drug Administration (salaries, and standard level user charges); (2) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) the Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Requires consulting contracts to be available for public inspection unless otherwise provided for. Makes funds available for: (1) vehicle purchases; (2) uniforms and allowances; (3) research and service contracts; (4) Working Capital Fund transfers; and (5) publications translation, orientation, and language training. Prohibits funds to be paid to any person who harvests marihuana or drug-producing plants for illegal use. Prohibits appropriations remaining available beyond FY 1983 unless expressly provided for. Authorizes the use of USDA employees as needed on an intermittent basis among the various agencies of the USDA. Excludes overtime and disaster periods from consideration with respect to ceilings on full-time equivalent staff years. States that specified beneficial home ownership certificates sold by the Farmers Home Administration shall not be less than 75 percent of the value of the loans closed during FY 1983. Prohibits funds from being used to: (1) phase out the Resource Conservation and Development Program; and (2) pay more than ten percent of the indirect cost rates of specified cooperative agreements between the USDA and nonprofit institutions. Exempts specified watershed projects from the requirements of Executive Orders 12113 and 12141. Authorizes the distribution of surplus agricultural commodities to needy persons. Prohibits Federal funds from being paid in FY 1983 on any form of U.S. loan guarantee with respect to credits on loans made to Poland unless: (1) Poland has been declared in default to the particular creditor; or (2) the President has provided Congress with a monthly written report explaining how U.S. national interest has been served by payments made on such Polish loans in the absence of a declaration of default. Prohibits standard level user charge reimbursements to the General Services Administration in excess of 1982 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1970 to prohibit the President from restricting the export of an agricultural commodity sought to be exported under an export sales contract: (1) requiring delivery of a commodity aboard an export vehicle within 270 days; (2) entered into before the President announces an export restriction on the commodity; and (3) reported pursuant to a specified section of the Agricultural Act of 1970. Permits the President to restrict exports of such a commodity during a declared war or national emergency.