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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-218—JULY 20, 1982

96 STAT. 205

MANDATORY SALE OP CERTAIN FLUE-CURED TOBACCO ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MARKETING QUOTAS HELD BEFORE ENACTMENT

SEC 202. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 316, a new section 316A, as follows: MANDATORY SALE OF CERTAIN FLUE-CURED TOBACCO ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MARKETING QUOTAS

"SEC. 316A. (a) Any person (including, but not limited to, any governmental entity, public utility, educational institution, or religious institution, but not including any individual) which, on or after the date of the enactment of this section— "(1) owns a farm for which a Flue-cured acreage allotment or marketing quota is established under this Act; and "(2) is not significantly involved in the management or use of land for agricultural purposes; shall sell such allotment or quota in accordance with section 316(g) of this Act not later than December 1, 1983, or December 1 of the year after the year in which the farm is acquired, whichever is later, or shall forfeit such allotment or quota under the procedure specified in subsection (c). "(b) Any person (including, but not limited to, any governmental entity, public utility, educational institution, or religious institution) who, on or after December 1, 1983, owns a farm for which the total acreage alloted for the production of Flue-cured tobacco under this Act exceeds 50 per centum of such farm's tillable cropland, as defined in section 316(e)(2) of this Act, shall forfeit any acreage allotment or marketing quota representing the excess under the procedure specified in subsection (c). In the case of any person who acquires a farm after December 1, 1983, the acreage allotment or marketing quota representing the excess shall not be subject to forfeiture until July 1 of the year after the year of acquisition. "(c)(l) If, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the appropriate county committee determines that any person knowingly failed to comply with subsection (a) or (b), then the allotment or quota specified in such subsection shall be forfeited and shall be reallocated in the manner provided for in section 316(h)(3)(A) of this Act. "(2) Notice of such determination shall be mailed, as soon as practicable, to such person. If such person is dissatisfied with such determination, then such person, within fifteen days after notice of such determination is so mailed, may request review of such determination under section 363 of this Act.". PERIODIC ADJUSTMENT OF YIELD FACTOR FOR FLUE-CURED ACREAGEPOUNDAGE QUOTAS

SEC. 203. Section 317(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1314c) is amended by— (1) adding at the end of paragraph (2) the following: "Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in 1983, and at five-year intervals thereafter, the national average yield goal for Flue-cured tobacco shall be adjusted by the Secretary to the past five years' moving national average yield.";

7 USC I3i4b-i.

Ante, p. 203.

Ante, p. 203.

Noncompliance, penalty.

Ante, p. 203.

Review. 7 USC 1863.