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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
                        Part B--Marketing Quotas
 
                  subpart iv--marketing quotas--cotton
 
Sec. 1344. Apportionment of national acreage allotments


(a) Basis

    Whenever a national marketing quota is proclaimed under section 1342 
of this title, the Secretary shall determine and proclaim a national 
acreage allotment for the crop of cotton to be produced in the next 
calendar year. The national acreage allotment for cotton shall be that 
acreage, based upon the national average yield per acre of cotton for 
the four years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the 
national marketing quota is proclaimed, required to make available from 
such crop an amount of cotton equal to the national marketing quota.

(b) Apportionment among States for year 1953 and subsequent years; 
        adjustment; national acreage reserve

    The national acreage allotment for cotton for 1953 and subsequent 
years shall be apportioned to the States on the basis of the acreage 
planted to cotton (including the acreage regarded as having been planted 
to cotton under the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) 
during the five calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year 
in which the national marketing quota is proclaimed, with adjustments 
for abnormal weather conditions during such period: Provided, That there 
is established a national acreage reserve consisting of three hundred 
and ten thousand acres which shall be in addition to the national 
acreage allotment; and such reserve shall be apportioned to the States 
on the basis of their needs for additional acreage for establishing 
minimum farm allotments under subsection (f)(1) of this section, as 
determined by the Secretary without regard to State and county acreage 
reserves (except that the amount apportioned to Nevada shall be one 
thousand acres). For the 1960 and succeeding crops of cotton, the needs 
of States (other than Nevada) for such additional acreage for such 
purpose may be estimated by the Secretary, after taking into 
consideration such needs as determined or estimated for the preceding 
crop of cotton and the size of the national acreage allotment for such 
crop. The additional acreage so apportioned to the State shall be 
apportioned to the counties on the basis of the needs of the counties 
for such additional acreage for such purpose, and added to the county 
acreage allotment for apportionment to farms pursuant to subsection (f) 
of this section (except that no part of such additional acreage shall be 
used to increase the county reserve above 15 per centum of the county 
allotment determined without regard to such additional acreage). 
Additional acreage apportioned to a State for any year under the 
foregoing proviso shall not be taken into account in establishing future 
State acreage allotments. Needs for additional acreage under the 
foregoing provisions and under the last proviso in subsection (e) of 
this section shall be determined or estimated as though allotments were 
first computed without regard to subsection (f)(1) of this section.

(c) Apportionment among States for years 1950 and 1951; computation and 
        adjustment

    The national acreage allotments for cotton for the years 1950 and 
1951 shall be apportioned to the States on the basis of a national 
acreage allotment base of twenty-two million five hundred thousand 
acres, computed and adjusted as follows:
        (1) The average of the planted acreages (including acreage 
    regarded as planted under the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-
    ninth Congress) in the States for the years 1945, 1946, 1947, and 
    1948 shall constitute the national base; except that in the case of 
    any State having a 1948 planted cotton acreage of over one million 
    acres and less than 50 per centum of the 1943 allotment, the average 
    of the acreage planted (or regarded as planted under Public Law 12, 
    Seventy-ninth Congress) for the years 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, and 
    1948 shall constitute the base for such State and shall be included 
    in computing the national base; to this is to be added (A) the 
    estimated additional acreage for each State required for small-farm 
    allotments under subsection (f)(1) of this section; (B) the acreage 
    required as a result of the State adjustment provisions of paragraph 
    (2) of this subsection; (C) the additional acreage required to 
    determine a total national allotment base of twenty-two million five 
    hundred thousand acres, which additional acreage shall be 
    distributed on a proportionate basis among States receiving no 
    adjustment under paragraph (2) of this subsection.
        (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this 
    subsection, the acreage allotment base for 1950 and 1951 for any 
    State (on the basis of a national acreage allotment base of twenty-
    two million five hundred thousand acres) shall not be less than the 
    larger of (1) 95 per centum of the average acreage actually planted 
    to cotton in the State during the years 1947 and 1948, or (2) 85 per 
    centum of the acreage planted to cotton in the State in 1948.
        (3) If the national acreage allotment for 1950 or 1951 is more 
    or less than twenty-two million five hundred thousand acres, 
    horizontal adjustments shall be made percentagewise by States so as 
    to reflect the ratio of the national acreage allotment for 1950 and 
    1951 to twenty-two million five hundred thousand acres.

(d) Apportionment for year 1952; adjustment

    The national acreage allotment for cotton for 1952 shall be 
apportioned to States on the basis of the acreage planted to cotton 
(including the acreage regarded as having been planted to cotton under 
the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) during the 
years 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1950, with adjustments for abnormal weather 
conditions during such period.

(e) Apportionment among counties; reservation of acreage; additional 
        acreage for establishing minimum farm allotments

    The State acreage allotment for cotton shall be apportioned to 
counties on the same basis as to years and conditions as is applicable 
to the State under subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section: 
Provided, That the State committee may reserve not to exceed 10 per 
centum of its State acreage allotment (15 per centum if the State's 1948 
planted acreage was in excess of one million acres and less than half 
its 1943 allotment) which shall be used to make adjustments in county 
allotments for trends in acreage, for counties adversely affected by 
abnormal conditions affecting plantings, or for small or new farms, or 
to correct inequities in farm allotments and to prevent hardship: 
Provided further, That if the additional acreage allocated to a State 
under the proviso in subsection (b) of this section is less than the 
requirements as determined or estimated by the Secretary for 
establishing minimum farm allotments for the State under subsection 
(f)(1) of this section, the acreage reserved under this subsection shall 
not be less than the smaller of (1) the remaining acreage so determined 
or estimated to be required for establishing minimum farm allotments or 
(2) 3 per centum of the State acreage allotment; and the acreage which 
is required to be reserved under this proviso shall be allocated to 
counties on the basis of their needs for additional acreage for 
establishing minimum farm allotments under subsection (f)(1) of this 
section, and added to the county acreage allotment for apportionment to 
farms pursuant to subsection (f) of this section (except that no part of 
such additional acreage shall be used to increase the county reserve 
above 15 per centum of the county allotment determined without regard to 
such additional acreages).

(f) Apportionment among farms

    The county acreage allotment, less not to exceed the percentage 
provided for in paragraph 3 of this subsection, shall be apportioned to 
farms on which cotton has been planted (or regarded as having been 
planted under the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) 
in any one of the three years immediately preceding the year for which 
such allotment is determined on the following basis:
        (1) Insofar as such acreage is available, there shall be 
    allotted the smaller of the following: (A) ten acres; or (B) the 
    acreage allotment established for the farm for the 1958 crop.
        (2) The remainder shall be allotted to farms other than farms to 
    which an allotment has been made under paragraph (1)(B) of this 
    subsection so that the allotment to each farm under this paragraph 
    together with the amount of the allotment to such farm under 
    paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection shall be a prescribed percentage 
    (which percentage shall be the same for all such farms in the county 
    or administrative area) of the acreage, during the preceding year, 
    on the farm which is tilled annually or in regular rotation, 
    excluding from such acreages the acres devoted to the production of 
    sugarcane for sugar; sugar beets for sugar; wheat, tobacco, or rice 
    for market; peanuts picked and threshed; wheat or rice for feeding 
    to livestock for market; or lands determined to be devoted primarily 
    to orchards or vineyards, and nonirrigated lands in irrigated areas: 
    Provided, however, That if a farm would be allotted under this 
    paragraph an acreage together with the amount of the allotment to 
    such farm under paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection in excess of the 
    largest acreage planted (and regarded as planted under Public Law 
    12, Seventy-ninth Congress) to cotton during any of the preceding 
    three years, the acreage allotment for such farm shall not exceed 
    such largest acreage so planted (and regarded as planted under 
    Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) in any such year.
        (3) The county committee may reserve not in excess of 15 per 
    centum of the county allotment (15 per centum if the State's 1948 
    planted cotton acreage was in excess of one million acres and less 
    than half its 1943 allotment) which, in addition to the acreage made 
    available under the proviso in subsection (e) of this section, shall 
    be used for (A) establishing allotments for farms on which cotton 
    was not planted (or regarded as planted under Public Law 12, 
    Seventy-ninth Congress) during any of the three calendar years 
    immediately preceding the year for which the allotment is made, on 
    the basis of land, labor, and equipment available for the production 
    of cotton, crop-rotation practices, and the soil and other physical 
    facilities affecting the production of cotton; and (B) making 
    adjustments of the farm acreage allotments established under 
    paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection so as to establish 
    allotments which are fair and reasonable in relation to the factors 
    set forth in this paragraph and abnormal conditions of production on 
    such farms, or in making adjustments in farm acreage allotments to 
    correct inequities and to prevent hardship: Provided, That not less 
    than 20 per centum of the acreage reserved under this subsection 
    shall, to the extent required, be allotted, upon such basis as the 
    Secretary deems fair and reasonable to farms (other than farms to 
    which an allotment has been made under paragraph (1)(B) of this 
    subsection), if any, to which an allotment of not exceeding fifteen 
    acres may be made under other provisions of this subsection.
        (4) Any part of the acreage allotted for 1950 to individual 
    farms in any county under the provisions of this section which will 
    not be planted to cotton and which is voluntarily surrendered to the 
    county committee shall be deducted from the allotments to such farms 
    and may be reapportioned by the county committee to other farms in 
    the same county receiving allotments to the extent necessary to 
    provide such farms with the allotments authorized under paragraph 
    (5) of this subsection. If any acreage remains after providing such 
    allotments, it may be apportioned in amounts determined by the 
    county committee to be fair and reasonable to other farms in the 
    same county receiving allotments which the county committee 
    determines are inadequate and not representative in view of their 
    past production of cotton and to new farms in such county. No 
    allotment shall be made, or increased, by reason of this paragraph 
    to an acreage in excess of 40 per centum of the acreage on the farm 
    which is tilled annually or in regular rotation, as determined under 
    regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Any transfer of allotment 
    under this paragraph shall not operate to reduce the allotment for 
    any subsequent year for the farm from which acreage is transferred, 
    except in accordance with paragraph (1)(B) and the proviso in 
    paragraph (2) of this subsection: Provided, That any part of any 
    farm acreage allotment may be permanently released in writing to the 
    county committee by the owner and operator of the farm and may be 
    reapportioned in the manner set forth above. In any subsequent year, 
    unless hereafter otherwise provided by law, acreage surrendered 
    under this paragraph and reallocated pursuant to applications filed 
    in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (5) of this section 
    shall be credited to the State and county in determining acreage 
    allotments.
        (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and without 
    reducing any farm acreage allotment determined pursuant to the 
    foregoing provisions of this subsection, each farm acreage allotment 
    for 1950 shall be increased by such amount as may be necessary to 
    provide an allotment equal to the larger of 65 per centum of the 
    average acreage planted to cotton (or regarded as planted to cotton 
    under the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) on 
    the farm in 1946, 1947, and 1948, or 45 per centum of the highest 
    acreage planted to cotton (or regarded as planted to cotton under 
    Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress) on the farm in any one of 
    such three years; but no such allotment shall be increased by reason 
    of this provision to an acreage in excess of 40 per centum of the 
    acreage on the farm which is tilled annually or in regular rotation, 
    as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary. An 
    increase in any 1950 farm acreage allotment shall be made pursuant 
    to this paragraph only upon application in writing by the owner or 
    operator of the farm within such reasonable period of time (in no 
    event less than fifteen days) as may be prescribed by the Secretary. 
    The additional acreage required to be allotted to farms under this 
    paragraph shall be in addition to the county, State, and national 
    acreage allotments and the production from such acreage shall be in 
    addition to the national marketing quota. The additional acreage 
    authorized by this paragraph shall not be taken into account in 
    establishing future State, county, and farm acreage allotments.
        (6) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the 
    subsection, if the county committee recommends such action and the 
    Secretary determines that such action will result in a more 
    equitable distribution of the county allotment among farms in the 
    county, the remainder of the county acreage allotment (after making 
    allotments as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection) shall be 
    allotted to farms other than farms to which an allotment has been 
    made under paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection so that the allotment 
    to each farm under this paragraph together with the amount of the 
    allotment of such farm under paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection 
    shall be a prescribed percentage (which percentage shall be the same 
    for all such farms in the county) of the average acreage planted to 
    cotton on the farm during the three years immediately preceding the 
    year for which such allotment is determined, adjusted as may be 
    necessary for abnormal conditions affecting plantings during such 
    three-year period: Provided, That the county committee may in its 
    discretion limit any farm acreage allotment established under the 
    provisions of this paragraph for any year to an acreage not in 
    excess of 50 per centum of the cropland on the farm, as determined 
    pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this subsection: 
    Provided further, That any part of the county acreage allotment not 
    apportioned under this paragraph by reason of the initial 
    application of such 50 per centum limitation shall be added to the 
    county acreage reserve under paragraph (3) of this subsection and 
    shall be available for the purposes specified therein. If the county 
    acreage allotment is apportioned among the farms of the county in 
    accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, the acreage 
    reserved under paragraph (3) of this subsection may be used to make 
    adjustments so as to establish allotments which are fair and 
    reasonable to farms receiving allotments under this paragraph in 
    relation to the factors set forth in paragraph (3) of this 
    subsection.
        (7)(A) In the event that any farm acreage allotment is less than 
    that prescribed by paragraph (1) of this subsection, such acreage 
    allotment shall be increased to the acreage prescribed by said 
    paragraph (1). The additional acreage required to be allotted to 
    farms under this paragraph shall be in addition to the county, 
    State, and national acreage allotments and the production from such 
    acreage shall be in addition to the national marketing quota.
        (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
            (i) the acreage by which any farm acreage allotment for 1959 
        or any subsequent crop established under paragraph (1) of this 
        subsection exceeds the acreage which would have been allotted to 
        such farm if its allotment had been computed on the basis of the 
        same percentage factor applied to other farms in the county 
        under paragraph (2), (6), or (8) of this subsection shall not be 
        taken into account in establishing the acreage allotment for 
        such farm for any crop for which acreage is allotted to such 
        farm under paragraph (2), (6), or (8) of this subsection; and 
        acreage shall be allotted under paragraph (2), (6), or (8) of 
        this subsection to farms which did not receive 1958 crop 
        allotments in excess of ten acres if and only if the Secretary 
        determines (after considering the allotments to other farms in 
        the county for such crop compared with their 1958 allotments and 
        other relevant factors) that equity and justice require the 
        allotment of additional acreage to such farm under paragraph 
        (2), (6), or (8) of this subsection,
            (ii) the acreage by which any county acreage allotment for 
        1959 or any subsequent crop is increased from the national or 
        State reserve on the basis of its needs for additional acreage 
        for establishing minimum farm allotments shall not be taken into 
        account in establishing future county acreage allotments, and
            (iii) the additional acreage allotted pursuant to 
        subparagraph (A) of this paragraph (7) shall not be taken into 
        account in establishing future State, county, or farm acreage 
        allotments.

        (8) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of paragraphs (2) 
    and (6) of this subsection, the Secretary shall, if allotments were 
    in effect the preceding year, provide for the county acreage 
    allotment for the 1959 and succeeding crops of cotton, less the 
    acreage reserved under paragraph (3) of this subsection, to be 
    apportioned to farms on which cotton has been planted in any one of 
    the three years immediately preceding the year for which such 
    allotment is determined, on the basis of the farm acreage allotment 
    for the year immediately preceding the year for which such 
    apportionment is made, adjusted as may be necessary (i) for any 
    change in the acreage of cropland available for the production of 
    cotton, or (ii) to meet the requirements of any provision (other 
    than those contained in paragraphs (2) and (6)) with respect to the 
    counting of acreage for history purposes: Provided, That, beginning 
    with allotments established for the 1961 crop of cotton, if the 
    acreage actually planted (or regarded as planted under the Soil Bank 
    Act, the environmental quality incentives program established under 
    chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
    1985 [16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.], and the release and reapportionment 
    provisions of subsection (m) (2) of this section) to cotton on the 
    farm in the preceding year was less than 75 per centum of the farm 
    allotment for such year or, in the case of a farm which qualified 
    for price support on the crop produced in such year under section 
    1444(b) of this title, 75 per centum of the farm domestic allotment 
    established under section 1350 of this title for such year, 
    whichever is smaller, in lieu of using such allotment as the farm 
    base as provided in this paragraph, the base shall be the average of 
    (1) the cotton acreage for the farm for the preceding year as 
    determined for purposes of this proviso and (2) the allotment 
    established for the farm pursuant to the provisions of this 
    subsection for such preceding year; and the 1958 allotment used for 
    establishing the minimum farm allotment under paragraph (1) of this 
    subsection shall be adjusted to the average acreage so determined. 
    The base for a farm shall not be adjusted as provided in this 
    paragraph if the county committee determines that failure to plant 
    at least 75 per centum of the farm allotment was due to conditions 
    beyond the control of producers on the farm. The Secretary shall 
    establish limitations to prevent allocations of allotment to farms 
    not affected by the foregoing proviso, which would be excessive on 
    the basis of the cropland, past cotton acreage, allotments for other 
    commodities, and good soil conservation practices on such farms.

(g) Law and conditions governing establishment of acreage allotments and 
        yields

    Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section--
        (1) State, county, and farm acreage allotments and yields for 
    cotton shall be established in conformity with section 1344a of this 
    title.
        (2) In apportioning the county allotment among the farms within 
    the county, the Secretary, through the local committees, shall take 
    into consideration different conditions within separate 
    administrative areas within a county if any exist, including types, 
    kinds, and productivity of the soil so as to prevent discrimination 
    among the administrative areas of the county.

(h) Repealed. Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 378(d), as added 
        Aug. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85-835, title V, Sec. 501, 72 Stat. 996

(i) Excess planting; old and new farm allotment

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any acreage 
planted to cotton in excess of the farm acreage allotment shall not be 
taken into account in establishing State, county, and farm acreage 
allotments. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, 
beginning with the 1960 crop the planting of cotton on a farm in any of 
the immediately preceding three years that allotments were in effect but 
no allotment was established for such farm for any year of such three-
year period shall not make the farm eligible for an allotment as an old 
farm under subsection (f) of this section: Provided, however, That by 
reason of such planting the farm need not be considered as ineligible 
for a new farm allotment under subsection (f)(3) of this section.

(j) Availability of records for inspection

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, State and 
county committees shall make available for inspection by owners or 
operators of farms receiving cotton acreage allotments all records 
pertaining to cotton acreage allotments and marketing quotas.

(k) Minimum allotments to States

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this section except 
subsection (g)(1) of this section, there shall be allotted to each State 
for which an allotment is made under this section not less than the 
smaller of (A) four thousand acres or (B) the highest acreage planted to 
cotton in any one of the three calendar years immediately preceding the 
year for which the allotment is made.

(l) Administration of law governing war crops

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, in 
administering the provisions of Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress, 
as it relates to war crops, shall carry out the provisions of such Act 
in the following manner:
        (i) A survey shall be conducted of every farm which had a 1942 
    cotton acreage allotment, and of such other farms as the Secretary 
    considers necessary in the administration of Public Law 12. This 
    survey shall obtain for each farm the most accurate information 
    possible on (a) the total acreage in cultivation, and (b) the 
    acreage of individual crops planted on each farm in the years 1941, 
    1945, 1946, and 1947.
        (ii) An eligible farm for war-crop credit shall be a farm on 
    which (a) the cotton acreage on the farm in 1945, 1946, or 1947, was 
    reduced below the cotton acreage planted on the farm in 1941; (b) 
    the war-crop acreage on the farm in 1945, 1946, or 1947, was 
    increased above the war-crop acreage on the farm in 1941; and (c) 
    the farm had a cotton acreage allotment in 1942.
        (iii) A farm shall be regarded as having planted cotton (in 
    addition to the actual acreage planted to cotton) to the extent of 
    the lesser of (a) the reduction in cotton acreage for each of the 
    years 1945, 1946, and 1947, below the acreage planted to cotton in 
    1941, or (b) the increase in war crops for each of the years 1945, 
    1946, and 1947, above that planted to such war crops in 1941. 
    However, the county committee may be given the discretion to adjust 
    such war-crop credit when the county committee determines that the 
    reduction in cotton acreage was not related to an increase in war 
    crops, but the adjustment shall be made only after consultation with 
    the producer.
        (iv) The Secretary, using the best information obtainable, and 
    working with and through the State and county committees, shall use 
    whatever means necessary to make an accurate determination of the 
    credits due each individual farm, under Public Law 12.
        (v) The total of the war-crop credits due the individual farms 
    in each county shall be credited to the county and the total of the 
    war-crop credits due all of the counties in a State shall be 
    credited to the State.
        (vi) The acreage credited to States, counties, and farms for the 
    years 1945, 1946, or 1947, because of war crops, shall be taken into 
    full account in the determination and distribution of cotton acreage 
    allotments on a national, State, county, and farm basis.

(m) Acreage allotments, 1954; increases; apportionments; limitations; 
        unallotted farm acreage; reapportionment of surrendered acreage; 
        extra long staple cotton; reserve acreage

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
        (1) The national acreage allotment established under subsection 
    (a) of this section for the 1954 crop of cotton shall be increased 
    to twenty-one million acres and apportioned to the States in the 
    same manner in which the national acreage allotment heretofore 
    established for 1954 was apportioned to the States. In addition to 
    such increased national acreage allotment, and in order to provide 
    equitable adjustments in 1954 farm acreage allotments, (A) three 
    hundred and fifteen thousand additional acres shall be prorated as 
    follows: one-half to the States of Arizona, California, and New 
    Mexico, and one-half to the other States (excluding those which 
    receive a minimum allotment under subsection (k) of this section), 
    the proration of each half being made to the States participating 
    therein on the basis of their respective shares of the increased 
    national acreage allotment, and (B) such additional acreage shall be 
    added as may be required to provide each State a total allotment 
    under subsection (b) of this section and the provisions of this 
    paragraph of not less than 66 per centum of the acreage planted to 
    cotton in the State in 1952. The additional acreage made available 
    to States under clause (B) of the preceding sentence shall not be 
    taken into account in establishing future State acreage allotments. 
    The additional acreage made available to States under the provisions 
    of this paragraph shall be apportioned to counties on the basis of 
    their respective shares of the State acreage allotment heretofore 
    apportioned pursuant to subsection (e) of this section, and the 
    additional acreage shall be apportioned to farms pursuant to the 
    provisions of subsection (f) of this section: Provided, That, if the 
    county committee determines that such action will result in a more 
    equitable distribution of the additional county allotment among 
    farms in the county, the additional acreage shall be apportioned by 
    the county committee to farms so as to provide each farm with an 
    allotment equal to the larger of 65 per centum of the average 
    acreage planted to cotton on the farm in 1951, 1952, and 1953 (as 
    determined by the county committee in establishing allotments under 
    subsection (f) of this section) or 40 per centum of the highest 
    acreage planted to cotton on the farm in any one of such three years 
    as so determined: Provided, That the State committee in each State 
    shall limit such increase based on the system of farming, soil, 
    crop-rotation practices, and other physical factors affecting 
    production in such State, to an acreage not in excess of 50 per 
    centum of the cropland on the farm, as determined under regulations 
    heretofore prescribed by the Secretary. If the additional acreage is 
    insufficient to meet the total of the farm increases so computed, 
    such farm increases shall be reduced pro rata to the additional 
    acreage available to the county; if the additional acreage available 
    to the county is in excess of the total of the farm increases so 
    computed the acreage remaining after making such increases shall be 
    allotted to farms pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f)(3) of 
    this section. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this 
    paragraph, if the State committee determines that such action will 
    result in a more equitable distribution of the additional acreage 
    made available to the State under this paragraph it shall apportion 
    such additional allotment directly to farms so as to provide each 
    farm with an allotment equal to the larger of 65 per centum of the 
    average acreage planted to cotton on the farm in 1951, 1952, and 
    1953 (as determined by the county committee in establishing 
    allotments under subsection (f) of this section) or 40 per centum of 
    the highest acreage planted to cotton on the farm in any one of such 
    three years as so determined: Provided, That the State committee in 
    each State shall limit such increase based on the system of farming, 
    soil, crop-rotation practices, and other physical factors affecting 
    production in such State, to an acreage not in excess of 50 per 
    centum of the cropland on the farm, as determined under regulations 
    heretofore prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, That if the State 
    total of the farm increases so computed exceeds the additional 
    acreage made available to the State under this paragraph, such farm 
    increases shall be reduced pro rata to the additional acreage 
    available to the State. Any acreage unallotted to farms because of 
    the limitations contained in the preceding sentence shall be 
    apportioned by the State committee to counties on the basis of past 
    acreages planted to cotton and shall be used by county committees 
    for adjustments in farm allotments on the basis of one or more of 
    the following: The past acreage of cotton on the farm, the 
    percentage of cropland heretofore determined under subsection (f)(2) 
    of this section, and the factors enumerated in subsection (f)(3) of 
    this section. Before apportioning such unallotted acreage to 
    counties as provided in the foregoing sentence, the State committee 
    may, if it determines that such action is required to provide 
    equitable allotments within the State, apportion such unallotted 
    acreage directly to farms to the extent required to provide each 
    farm with the minimum allotment described in subsection (f)(1) of 
    this section. Any part of the county allotment heretofore 
    established for the 1954 crop which was not apportioned to farms 
    because of the limitation contained in the proviso in subsection 
    (f)(2) of this section shall be available to the State committee and 
    used as provided above for apportionment of unallotted acreage to 
    farms. The provisions of this subsection, except paragraph (2) of 
    this subsection, shall not apply to extra long staple cotton covered 
    by section 1347 of this title.
        (2) Any part of any farm cotton acreage allotment on which 
    cotton will not be planted and which is voluntarily surrendered to 
    the county committee shall be deducted from the allotment to such 
    farm and may be reapportioned by the county committee to other farms 
    in the same county receiving allotments in amounts determined by the 
    county committee to be fair and reasonable on the basis of past 
    acreage of cotton land, labor, equipment available for the 
    production of cotton, crop rotation practices, and soil and other 
    physical facilities affecting the production of cotton. If all of 
    the allotted acreage voluntarily surrendered is not needed in the 
    county, the county committee may surrender the excess acreage to the 
    State committee to be used for the same purposes as the State 
    acreage reserve under subsection (e) of this section. Any allotment 
    released under this provision shall be regarded for the purposes of 
    establishing future allotments as having been planted on the farm 
    and in the county where the release was made rather than on the farm 
    and in the county to which the allotment was transferred, except 
    that this shall not operate to make the farm from which the 
    allotment was transferred eligible for an allotment as having cotton 
    planted thereon during the three-year base period: Provided, That 
    notwithstanding any other provisions of law, any part of any farm 
    acreage allotment may be permanently released in writing to the 
    county committee by the owner and operator of the farm, and 
    reapportioned as provided herein. Acreage released under this 
    paragraph shall be credited to the State in determining future 
    allotments. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply also to 
    extra long staple cotton covered by section 1347 of this title.
        (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or other 
    provision of law, the acreage allotted to any State for 1954 under 
    the provisions of subsection (b) of this section and the provisions 
    of paragraph (1) of this subsection which is less than one hundred 
    thousand acres but more than thirty thousand acres shall be 
    increased by an acreage equal to 15 per centum of the acreage 
    allotted to it prior to January 30, 1954. Such acreage shall be used 
    by the State committee as a reserve to make equitable adjustments in 
    1954 farm acreage allotments on the basis of land, labor, equipment 
    available for the production of cotton, crop-rotation practices, 
    past acreages of cotton, soil, and other physical factors affecting 
    the production of cotton.

(n) Transfer of farm cotton acreage allotments in case of natural 
        disasters; eligibility for allotment

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the 
Secretary determines for any year that because of a natural disaster a 
portion of the farm cotton acreage allotments in a county cannot be 
timely planted or replanted in such year, he may authorize for such year 
the transfer of all or a part of the cotton acreage allotment for any 
farm in the county so affected to another farm in the county or in an 
adjoining county on which one or more of the producers on the farm from 
which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in the production of 
cotton and will share in the proceeds thereof, in accordance with such 
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Any farm allotment 
transferred under this paragraph shall be deemed to be released acreage 
for purposes of acreage history credits under subsections (f)(8) and 
(m)(2) of this section, and section 1377 of this title: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (m)(2) of this section, the 
transfer of any farm allotment under this subsection for any year shall 
operate to make the farm from which the allotment was transferred 
eligible for an allotment as having cotton planted thereon during the 
three-year base period.

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, Sec. 344, 52 Stat. 57; Apr. 7, 1938, 
ch. 107, Sec. 9, 52 Stat. 203; May 31, 1938, ch. 292, Sec. 1, 52 Stat. 
586; Mar. 13, 1939, ch. 9, 53 Stat. 512; June 22, 1939, ch. 238, 
Secs. 1-3, 53 Stat. 853; Feb. 6, 1942, ch. 44, Sec. 3, 56 Stat. 52; Aug. 
29, 1949, ch. 518, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 670; Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title 
IV, Sec. 419, 63 Stat. 1062; Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 81, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 40; 
Jan. 30, 1954, ch. 2, Secs. 1-3, 68 Stat. 4-6; Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, 
title III, Sec. 310, 68 Stat. 904; May 28, 1956, ch. 327, title III, 
Sec. 303(a)-(d), 70 Stat. 203; Pub. L. 85-456, June 11, 1958, 72 Stat. 
186; Pub. L. 85-835, title I, Secs. 103(4), 104(a)-(d), 105-107, Aug. 
28, 1958, 72 Stat. 990-992; Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, 
Sec. 378(d), as added Pub. L. 85-835, title V, Sec. 501, Aug. 28, 1958, 
72 Stat. 996; Pub. L. 86-172, Sec. 2, Aug. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 393; Pub. 
L. 87-37, May 20, 1961, 75 Stat. 84; Pub. L. 87-446, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 
Stat. 64; Pub. L. 88-12, Apr. 26, 1963, 77 Stat. 13; Pub. L. 88-297, 
title I, Sec. 106(3), (8), Apr. 11, 1964, 78 Stat. 177; Pub. L. 104-127, 
title III, Sec. 336(b)(2)(A), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1006.)

                       References in Text

    Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress, referred to in subsecs. (b), 
(c), (d), (f), (l), is act Feb. 28, 1945, ch. 15, 59 Stat. 9, which 
related to Emergency Farm Acreage Allotments. See note below. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
    The Soil Bank Act, referred to in subsec. (f)(8), is act May 28, 
1956, ch. 327, 70 Stat. 188, as amended, which was classified to 
subchapters I to III of chapter 45 (Sec. 1801 et seq.) of this title and 
was repealed by Pub. L. 89-321, title VI, Sec. 601, Nov. 3, 1965, 79 
Stat. 1206. For complete classification of this Act to the Code prior to 
its repeal, see Tables.
    The Food Security Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (f)(8), is 
Pub. L. 99-198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1354, as amended. Chapter 4 of 
subtitle D of title XII of the Act is classified generally to part IV 
(Sec. 3839aa et seq.) of subchapter IV of chapter 58 of Title 16, 
Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title of 1985 Amendment note set out under section 1281 of this 
title and Tables.
    Section 1347 of this title, referred to in subsec. (m)(1), (2), was 
repealed by Pub. L. 98-88, Sec. 2, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 494.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (f)(8). Pub. L. 104-127 substituted ``environmental 
quality incentives program established under chapter 4 of subtitle D of 
title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985'' for ``Great Plains 
program''.
    1964--Subsec. (f)(8). Pub. L. 88-297, Sec. 106(3), inserted ``or, in 
the case of a farm which qualified for price support on the crop 
produced in such year under section 1444(b) of this title, 75 per centum 
of the farm domestic allotment established under section 1350 of this 
title for such year, whichever is smaller'' after ``75 per centum of the 
farm allotment for such year'' to protect the farm base of any farm 
participating in the domestic allotment choice program if the acreage 
planted on the farm was at least 75 per centum of the farm domestic 
allotment.
    Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 88-297, Sec. 106(8), extended the transfer 
provisions to natural disasters occurring in any year instead of only 
during 1963.
    1963--Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 88-12 substituted ``portion of the 1963'' 
for ``substantial portion of the 1962'', and inserted proviso ``that 
notwithstanding subsection (m)(2) of this section, transfers under this 
subsection for 1963 makes the farm from which the allotment was 
transferred eligible for an allotment as having cotton during the three-
year period''.
    1962--Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 87-466 substituted ``1962'' for ``1961''.
    1961--Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 87-37 substituted ``1961'' for ``1958'', 
and ``Any farm allotment transferred under this paragraph shall be 
deemed to be released acreage for purposes of acreage history credits 
under subsections (f)(8) and (m)(2) of this section, and section 1377 of 
this title'' for ``Acreage history credits for transferred acreage shall 
be governed by the provisions of subsection (m)(2) of this section 
pertaining to the release and reapportionment of acreage allotments. No 
transfer hereunder shall be made to a farm covered by a 1958 acreage 
reserve contract for cotton.''
    1959--Subsec. (f)(8). Pub. L. 86-172, Sec. 2(1), inserted proviso 
for determination of base beginning with allotments established for the 
1961 crop of cotton, and inserted provisions prohibiting the adjustment 
of the base for a farm where the county committee determines that 
failure to plant at least 75 per centum of the farm allotment was due to 
conditions beyond control of producers on the farm, and requiring the 
Secretary to establish limitations to prevent allocations of allotment 
to farms not affected by proviso.
    Subsec. (g)(3). Pub. L. 86-172, Sec. 2(2), repealed par. (3) which 
provided that for any farm on which the acreage planted to cotton in any 
year was less than the farm acreage allotment for such year by not more 
than the larger of 10 per centum of the allotment or one acre, an 
acreage equal to the farm acreage allotment should be deemed to be the 
acreage planted to cotton on such farm, and the additional acreage added 
to the cotton acreage history for the farm should be added to the cotton 
acreage history for the county and State.
    Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 86-172, Sec. 2(3), inserted provisions 
respecting eligibility for old and new farm allotment.
    Subsec. (m)(2). Pub. L. 86-172, Sec. 2(4), struck out ``; but no 
such acreage shall be surrendered to the State committee so long as any 
farmer receiving a cotton acreage allotment in such county desires 
additional cotton acreage'' after ``subsection (e) of this section'' and 
substituted ``Any allotment released under this provision shall be 
regarded for the purpose of establishing future allotments as having 
been planted on the farm and in the county where the release was made 
rather than on the farm and in the county to which the allotment was 
transferred'' for ``Any allotment transferred under this provision shall 
be regarded for the purposes of subsection (f) of this section as having 
been planted on the farm from which transferred rather than on the farm 
to which transferred'' and ``Acreage released under this paragraph shall 
be credited to the State in determining future allotments'' for 
``Acreage surrendered, reapportioned under this paragraph, and planted 
shall be credited to the State and county in determining future acreage 
allotments''.
    1958--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 103(4), substituted ``four'' 
for ``five'' in second sentence.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 104(a), established a national 
acreage reserve of 310,000 acres in addition to the national acreage 
allotment, provided that apportionments of additional acreage shall not 
be taken into account in establishing future State allotments, and 
inserted provisions for determination of needs for additional acreage.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 104(b), inserted proviso relating 
to additional acreage allocated to a State.
    Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 104(c), substituted ``(A) ten 
acres; or (B) the acreage allotment established for the farm for the 
1958 crop'' for ``(A) four acres; or (B) the highest number of acres 
planted to cotton in any year of such three-year period''.
    Subsec. (f)(6). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 104(d), substituted 
``provisions of paragraph (2) of this subsection'' for ``foregoing 
provisions of this subsection except paragraph (3) of this subsection'', 
``remainder of the county acreage allotment (after making allotments as 
provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection) shall be allotted'' for 
``county acreage allotment, less the acreage reserved under paragraph 
(3) of this subsection, shall be apportioned'', and inserted provisions 
requiring the allotments to be a prescribed percentage of the average 
acreage planted to cotton on the farm during the three years immediately 
preceding the year for which such allotment is determined.
    Subsec. (f)(7). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 105, added par. (7).
    Subsec. (f)(8). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 106, added par. (8).
    Subsec. (h). Act Feb. 16, 1938, Sec. 378(d), as added by Pub. L. 85-
835, Sec. 501, repealed subsec. (h) which related to apportionment by 
county committee and reallocation of flood lands.
    Subsec. (m)(2). Pub. L. 85-835, Sec. 107, provided that any cotton 
acreage which is surrendered shall be retained in the county and not 
surrendered to the State committee so long as any farmer in the county 
desires additional cotton acreage.
    Subsec. (n). Pub. L. 85-456 added subsec. (n).
    1956--Subsec. (b). Act May 28, 1956, Sec. 303(a), temporarily 
inserted ``Provided, That there is hereby established a national acreage 
reserve consisting of one hundred thousand acres which shall be in 
addition to the national acreage allotment; and such reserve shall be 
apportioned to the States on the basis of their needs for additional 
acreage for establishing minimum farm allotments under subsection (f)(1) 
of this section, as determined by the Secretary without regard to State 
and county acreage reserves (except that the amount apportioned to 
Nevada shall be one thousand acres), and the additional acreage so 
apportioned to the State shall be apportioned to the counties on the 
same basis and added to the county acreage allotment for apportionment 
to farms pursuant to subsection (f) of this section (except that no part 
of such additional acreage shall be used to increase the county reserve 
above 15 per centum of the county allotment determined without regard to 
such additional acreage). Additional acreage apportioned to a State for 
any year under the foregoing proviso shall not be taken into account in 
establishing future State acreage allotments. Needs for additional 
acreage under the foregoing proviso and under the last proviso in 
subsection (e) of this section shall be determined as though allotments 
were first computed without regard to subsection (f)(1) of this 
section.'' See Effective and Termination Dates of 1956 Amendment note 
below.
    Subsec. (e). Act May 28, 1956, Sec. 303(b), temporarily inserted 
``Provided further, That if the additional acreage allocated to a State 
under the proviso in subsection (b) of this section is less than the 
requirements as determined by the Secretary for establishing minimum 
farm allotments for the State under subsection (f)(1) of this section, 
the acreage reserved by the State committee under this subsection shall 
not be less than the smaller of (1) the remaining acreage so determined 
to be required for establishing minimum farm allotments or (2) 3 per 
centum of the State acreage allotment; and the acreage which the State 
committee is required to reserve under this proviso shall be allocated 
to counties on the basis of their needs for additional acreage for 
establishing minimum farm allotments under subsection (f)(1) of this 
section, and added to the county acreage allotment for apportionment to 
farms pursuant to subsection (f) of this section (except that no part of 
such additional acreage shall be used to increase the county reserve 
above 15 per centum of the county allotment determined without regard to 
such additional acreages).'' See Effective and Termination Dates of 1956 
Amendment note below.
    Subsec. (f)(1). Act May 28, 1956, Sec. 303(c), temporarily inserted 
``Insofar as such acreage is available,'', substituted ``four acres'' 
for ``five acres'', and struck out ``(or regarded as planted under 
Public Law 12, Seventy-ninth Congress)'' after ``planted''. See 
Effective and Termination Dates of 1956 Amendment note below.
    Subsec. (f)(6). Act May 28, 1956, Sec. 303(d), temporarily 
substituted ``provisions of paragraph (2) of this subsection'' for 
``foregoing provisions of this subsection except paragraph (3) of this 
subsection'' and ``the remainder of the county acreage allotment (after 
making allotments as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection) shall 
be allotted to farms other than farms to which an allotment has been 
made under paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection so that the allotment to 
each farm under this paragraph together with the amount of the allotment 
of such farm under paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection shall be a 
prescribed percentage (which percentage shall be the same for all such 
farms in the county) of the average acreage planted to cotton on the 
farm during the three years immediately preceding the year for which 
such allotment is determined,'' for ``the county acreage allotment, less 
the acreage reserved under paragraph (3) of this subsection, shall be 
apportioned to farms on which cotton has been planted in any one of the 
three years immediately preceding the year for which such allotment is 
determined, on the basis of the acreage planted to cotton on the farm 
during such three-year period,'' and struck out ``(A) apportion such 
county allotment by first establishing minimum allotments in accordance 
with paragraph (1) of this subsection and by allotting the remaining 
acreage to farms other than those receiving an allotment under paragraph 
(1)(B) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph and 
(B)'' after ``committee may in its discretion''. See Effective and 
Termination Dates of 1956 Amendment note below.
    1954--Subsec. (e). Act Jan. 30, 1954, Sec. 3(a), inserted at end 
``or to correct inequities in farm allotments and to prevent hardship''.
    Subsec. (f)(3). Act Jan. 30, 1954, Sec. 3(b), inserted ``, or in 
making adjustments in farm acreage allotments to correct inequities and 
to prevent hardship''.
    Subsec. (f)(6). Act Aug. 28, 1954, Sec. 310(a), inserted proviso to 
first sentence.
    Act Jan. 30, 1954, Sec. 3(c), added par. (6).
    Subsec. (h). Act Jan. 30, 1954, Sec. 2, inserted sentence relating 
to reallocation of flood lands.
    Subsec. (m). Act Jan. 30, 1954, Sec. 1, added subsec. (m).
    Subsec. (m)(2). Act Aug. 28, 1954, Sec. 310(b), struck out ``1954 or 
1955'' wherever appearing.
    1950--Subsec. (f)(4), (5). Act Mar. 31, 1950, added pars. (4) and 
(5).
    1949--Subsec. (f)(3). Act Oct. 31, 1949, increased reserve 
percentage of county allotment from 10 to 15 in first sentence and 
decreased percentage of acreage reserved from 30 to 20 in proviso.
    Act Aug. 29, 1949, amended section generally to provide for a 
national acreage base to be used in apportioning to the States the 
actual national acreage allotment, and to make the national acreage 
allotment base and the outlined division among the States such as will 
complement the minimum national marketing quota provisions and thus 
permit a gradual reduction of any excessive carryover.
    1942--Subsec. (j). Act Feb. 6, 1942, added subsec. (j).
    1939--Subsec. (e)(1). Act June 22, 1939, Sec. 1, substituted ``For 
1938, 1939, and any subsequent year'' for ``For 1938 and 1939''.
    Subsec. (g). Act June 22, 1939, Sec. 2, substituted ``For 1938, 
1939, and each subsequent year'' for ``For each of the years 1938 and 
1939''.
    Subsec. (h). Act June 22, 1939, Sec. 3, substituted ``for 1938, 
1939, and each subsequent year'' for ``For each of the years 1938 and 
1939''.
    Act Mar. 13, 1939, substituted ``for any crop year'' for ``for the 
crop year 1938'' and struck out ``for 1938'' from first proviso.
    1938--Subsec. (b). Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(a), amended second 
sentence.
    Subsec. (d)(3). Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(b), inserted ``sugarcane 
for sugar,'' after ``excluding from such acreage the acres devoted to 
the production of'' in second sentence, and ``wheat or rice'' after 
``rice for market or,''.
    Subsec. (e). Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(c), designated existing 
provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).
    Subsec. (g). Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(d), added subsec. (g).
    Subsec. (h). Act May 31, 1938, among other changes, inserted ``and 
for the crop year 1938 any part of the acreage allotted to individual 
farms in the State which it is determined, in accordance with 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary, will not be planted to cotton 
in the year for which the allotment is made, shall be deducted from the 
allotments to such farms and may be apportioned, in amounts determined 
by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable, preference being given to 
farms in the same county receiving allotments which the Secretary 
determines are inadequate and not representative in view of the past 
production of cotton and the acreage diverted from the production of 
cotton on such farms under the agricultural conservation program in the 
immediately preceding year: Provided, That any such transfer of 
allotment for 1938 shall not affect apportionment for any subsequent 
year'' after ``Secretary''.
    Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(d), added subsec. (h).
    Subsec. (i). Act Apr. 7, 1938, Sec. 9(d), added subsec. (i).


                    Effective Date of 1958 Amendment

    Section 104(e) of Pub. L. 85-835 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [amending this section] shall be effective 
beginning with the 1959 crop.''
    Section 105 of Pub. L. 85-835 provided that the amendment made by 
that section is effective beginning with 1959 crop.


            Effective and Termination Dates of 1956 Amendment

    Section 303(e) of act May 28, 1956, provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [amending this section] shall be effective only 
with respect to 1957 and 1958 crops. For the 1956 crop, an acreage in 
each State equal to the acreage allotted in such State which the 
Secretary determines will not be planted, placed in the acreage reserve 
or conservation reserve, or considered as planted under section 377 of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [section 1377 of 
this title], may be apportioned by the Secretary among farms in such 
State having allotments of less than the smaller of the following: (1) 
four acres, or (2) the highest number of acres planted to cotton in any 
of the years 1953, 1954, and 1955.''


                    Effective Date of 1954 Amendment

    Section 3 of act Jan. 30, 1954, provided that the amendments made by 
that section are effective beginning with 1955 crop. The amendments made 
by sections 1 and 2 of such act took effect on the date of approval of 
such act, Jan. 30, 1954.


                            Savings Provision

    Transfer or reassignment of allotment as remaining in effect and 
ineligibility of displaced farm owner for additional allotment 
notwithstanding repeal of subsec. (h), see note set out under section 
1378 of this title.


                       Inapplicability of Section

    Section inapplicable to 1984 and subsequent crops of extra long 
staple cotton, see section 3 of Pub. L. 98-88, set out as a note under 
section 1342 of this title.
    Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, 
peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 
4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(a)(1)(A) of this 
title.
    Section inapplicable to 1991 through 1995 crops of upland cotton, 
see section 502 of Pub. L. 101-624, set out as a note under section 1342 
of this title.
    Section inapplicable to 1986 through 1990 crops of upland cotton, 
see section 502 of Pub. L. 99-198, set out as a note under section 1342 
of this title.
    Section inapplicable to 1982 through 1985 crops of upland cotton, 
see section 501 of Pub. L. 97-98, set out as a note under section 1342 
of this title.
    Section inapplicable to 1978 through 1981 crops of upland cotton, 
see section 601 of Pub. L. 95-113, set out as a note under section 1342 
of this title.
    Pub. L. 91-524, title VI, Sec. 601(1), Nov. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1371, 
as amended by Pub. L. 93-86, Sec. 1(19)(A), Aug. 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 233, 
provided that this section is inapplicable to 1971 through 1977 crops of 
upland cotton.


                    Emergency Farm Acreage Allotment

    Act Feb. 28, 1945, ch. 15, 59 Stat. 9, provided for farm acreage 
allotment during national emergency proclaimed by the President on Sept. 
8, 1939, and May 27, 1941, and which emergencies terminated on July 25, 
1947, by the provisions of Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, Sec. 3, 61 
Stat. 451.


                       County Committee Allotment

    Act Mar. 13, 1939, in addition to amending former subsec. (h), 
contained the following: ``Provided, That hereafter such allotment of 
acreage in counties shall be to such farms as the County Committee of 
such county may designate. In making such designation the County 
Committee shall consider only the character and adaptability of the soil 
and other physical facilities affecting the production of cotton and the 
need of operator for an additional allotment to meet the requirement of 
the families engaging in the production of cotton on the farm in such 
year.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1346, 1349, 1350, 1377, 
1428, 1444 of this title.
