PUBLIC LAW 98-180—NOV. 29, 1983 97 STAT. 1129 purchases of milk or the products of milk would be five billion pounds milk equivalent or less and if the Secre- tary determines it necessary in order to assure an adequate supply of pure and wholesome milk to meet current needs, the Secretary may increase the price support rate in effect on such date in an amount not less than 50 cents per hundredweight. "(C) The price of milk shall be supported through the pur- chase of milk and the products of milk. " (2)(A)(i) Effective for the period beginning with the first day of the first calendar month following the date of enactment of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 and ending on March 31, 1985, to encourage the adjustment of milk production to levels consistent with the national demand for milk and the products of milk, the Secretary shall provide for a reduction of 50 cents per hundredweight to be made in the price received on all milk produced in the United States and marketed by produc- ers for commercial use. "(ii) Effective for the period beginning with the date of enact- ment of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 and ending on the last day of the month of enactment of such Act, the provisions of paragraphs (2) through (7) of subsection (d) of this section, as in effect on the day immediately prior to the date of enactment of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983, shall be applicable to all milk produced in the United States and marketed by producers for commercial use. Enact- ment of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 shall not affect in any manner the collection or enforcement of any deduction from the price of milk previously implemented by the Secretary under this subsection as in effect for any milk mar- keted for commercial usc prior to the effective date of the reduction provided for in this paragraph, as added by section 102(a) of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983. "(B) The funds represented by the reduction in the price required to be applied to the marketings of milk by a producer under subparagraph (A) shall be collected and remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation, at such time and in such manner as prescribed by the Secretary, by each person making payment to a producer for milk purchased from the producer, except that in the case of a producer who markets milk of the producer's own production directly to consumers, such funds shall be remitted directly to the Corporation by the producer. "(C) To the extent that funds collected under this paragraph are inadequate to make the payments to producers who reduce marketings under paragraph (3), such payments shall be made using funds otherwise available to the Corporation. The funds remitted to the Corporation under this paragraph shall be considered as included in the payments to a producer of milk for purposes of the minimum price provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. "(3)(A) The Secretary shall, not later than January 1, 1984, provide for a milk diversion program under which the Secretary shall offer to enter into a contract, at any time up to February 1, 1984, with any producer of milk in the United States for the purpose of reducing the quantity of milk marketed by the producer for commercial usc during the fifteen-month period Ante, p. 1128. Commodity Credit Corporation, collection of funds. 7 USC 601 note. 7 USC 674. Milk diversion program. Contract offer.
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