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PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3389 Insur£ince Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) with respect to the wheat acreage of the producers; or "(ii) reduced yield disaster payments under subparagraph (B), if reduced yield crop insurance is available to the producers under such Act with respect to the wheat acreage of the producers. " (D) ADMINISTRATION. — "(i) ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES. —Notwithstanding Disaster subparagraph (C), the Secretary may make a disaster assistance. payment to the producers on a farm under this paragraph if the Secretary determines that— "(I) as the result of drought, flood, or other natural disaster, or other condition beyond the control of the producers, the producers have suffered substantial losses of production either from being prevented from planting wheat or other nonconserving crops or from reduced)delds; "(II) the losses have created an economic emergency for the producers; "(III) crop insurance indemnity payments under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) and other forms of assistance made available by the Federal Government to the producers for the losses are insufficient to alleviate the economic emergency; and "(IV) additional assistance must be made available to the producers to alleviate the economic emergency, "(ii) ADJUSTMENTS.—The Secretary may make such adjustments in the amount of payments made available under this paragraph with respect to an individual farm as necessary to ensure the equitable allotment of the payments among producers, taking into account other forms of Federal disaster assistance provided to the producers for the crop involved. "(d) PAYMENT YIELDS.— The farm program payment jdelds for farms for each crop of wheat shall be determined under title V. " (e) ACREAGE REDUCTION PROGRAMS. — "(1) IN GENERAL. — "(A) ESTABLISHMENT. —Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines that the total supply of wheat, in the absence of an acreage limitation program, will be excessive taking into account the need for an adequate carry-over to maintain reasonable and stable supplies and prices and to meet a national emergency, the Secretary may provide for any crop of wheat an acreage limitation program as described in paragraph (2). "(B) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROGRAM. — In making a determination under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall take into consideration the number of acres placed in the agricultural resources conservation program established under subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.). "(C) ANNOUNCEMENTS. —I f the Secretary elects to implement an acreage limitation program for any crop year, the Secretary shall announce any such program not later than June 1 prior to the calendar year in which the crop is