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PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3501 encourage adequate participation in the program, except that the amount may not exceed an amount determined by multiplying— "(i) the estimated payment acreage for the crop; by "(ii) the farm program payment jdeld for the crop; by "(iiiXD in the case of wheat and feed grains, not less them 40 percent, nor more than 50 percent, of the projected payment rate; and "(II) in the case of rice and upland cotton, not less than 30 percent, nor more than 50 percent, of the projected payment rate, as determined by the Secretary. "(G) REPAYMENT. — If the deficiency payment payable to a producer for a crop, as finsilly determined by the Secretary under this Act, is less than the amount paid to the producer as an advance deficiency payment for the crop under this subsection, the producer shall repay an amount equal to the difference between the amount advanced and the amount finally determined by the Secretary to be payable to the producer as a deficiency payment for the crop concerned. "(H) REPAYMENT REQUIREMENT. — If the Secretary determines under this Act that deficiency payments will not be made available to producers on a crop with respect to which advance deficiency payments already have been made under this subsection, the producers who received the advsmce payments shall repay the payments. "(I) DEADLINE. — Any repayment required under subparagraph (G) or (H) shall be due at the end of the marketing year for the crop with respect to which the payments were made. "(J) NONCOMPLIANCE. — If a producer fails to comply with Regulations. requirements established under the acreage limitation program involved after obtaining an advance deficiency payment under this subsection, the producer shall repay immediately the amount of the advance, plus interest thereon in such gmiount as the Secretary shall prescribe by regulation. "(3) REGULATIONS. —The Secretary may issue such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out this section. "(4) COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION. —The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this section through the Commodity Credit Corporation. "(5) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY. — The authority provided in this section shall be in addition to, and not in place of, any authority granted to the Secretary or the Commodity Credit Corporation under any other provision of law. "(b) LAND DIVERSION PAYMENTS. — If the Secretary makes land diversion payments under this Act to assist in adjusting the total national acreage of any of the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, or rice to desirable levels, the Secretary may make at least 50 percent of such payments available to a producer as soon as possible after the producer agrees to undertake the diversion of land in return for the payments. "(c) TIMING OF DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS.— In the case of deficiency payments made available to producers for any of the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, and rice which payments are calculated on the basis of the national weighted aversige market