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PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3411 "(11) the Secretary shall ensure that reductions in deficiency payments under subclause (I) are sufficient to ensure that this subparagraph will result in no additional cost to the Commodity Credit Corporation. " (G) EXCEPTION FOR MALTING BARLEY. —The Secretary may provide that no producer of malting barley shall be required as a condition of eligibility for feed grain loans, purchases, and payments to comply with any acreage limitation under this paragraph if the producer has previously produced a malting variety of barley for harvest, plants barley only of an acceptable malting variety for harvest, and meete such other conditions as the Secretary may prescribe. "(3) TARGETED OPTION PAYMENTS.— "(A) IN GENERAL. — Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if the Secretary implements an acreage limitation program with respect to any of the 1991 through 1995 crops of feed grains, the Secretary may make available to producers on a farm who do not receive payments under subsection (c)(l)(E) for such crop on the farm, adjustments in the level of deficiency payments that would otherwise be made available to the producers if the producers exercise the payment options provided in this paragraph. "(B) PAYMENT OPTIONS. —If the Secretary elects to carry out this paragraph, the Secretary shall make the payment options specified in subparagraphs (C) and (D) available to producers who agree to make adjustments in the quantity of acreage diverted from the production of feed grains under an acreage limitation program in accordance with this paragraph. "(C) INCREASED ACREAGE LIMITATION OPTION.— "(i) INCREASE IN ESTABLISHED PRICE. — If the Secretary elects to carry out this paragraph, a producer shall be eligible to receive an increase in the established price for corn under clause (ii) if the producer agrees to an increase in the acreage limitation percentage to be applied to the producers' corn acreage beise above the acreage limitation percentage announced by the Secretary. "(ii) METHOD OF CALCULATION. — For the purposes of calculating deficiency payments to be made available to producers who participate in the program under this paragraph, the Secretary shall increase the established price for com by an amount determined by the Secretary, but not less than 0.5 percent, nor more than 1 percent, for each 1 percentage point increase in the acreage limitation percentage applied to the producers' corn acreage base. " (iii) LIMITATION.—The acreage limitation percentage to be applied to the producers' corn acreage base shall not be increased by more than 5 percentage points for the 1991 crop and 10 percentage points for each of the 1992 through 1995 crops above the acreage limitation percentage announced by the Secretary for the crop or above 20 percent total for the crop. "(D) DECREASED ACREAGE LIMITATION OPTION.—