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[CITE: 7USC1422]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 35A--PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1422. Increase of price support levels

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, price support 
at a level in excess of the maximum level of price support otherwise 
prescribed in this Act may be made available for any agricultural 
commodity if the Secretary determines, after a public hearing of which 
reasonable notice has been given, that price support at such increased 
level is necessary in order to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the 
supply of any agricultural commodity essential to the national welfare 
or in order to increase or maintain the production of any agricultural 
commodity in the interest of national security. The Secretary's 
determination and the record of the hearing shall be available to the 
public.
    (b) Effective only for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed 
grains, cotton, and rice, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide for 
annual adjustments in the established prices for such program crops to 
reflect any change during the last calendar year ending before the 
beginning of each such crop year in the index of prices paid by farmers 
for production items, interest, taxes, and wage rates in such calendar 
year.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title IV, Sec. 402, 63 Stat. 1054; Pub. L. 101-
624, title XI, Sec. 1127, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3508.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, 
63 Stat. 1051, as amended, known as the Agricultural Act of 1949, which 
is classified principally to this chapter (Sec. 1421 et seq.). For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-624 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1990 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 101-624 effective beginning with 1991 crop of 
an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 
1171 of Pub. L. 101-624, set out as a note under section 1421 of this 
title.

                  Exceptions From Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of 
directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity 
Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, 
officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said 
Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and 
employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan 
No. 2, Sec. 1, effective June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set 
out as a note under section 2201 of this title.


                       Inapplicability of Section

    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(b)(1)(J) of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1428, 1441, 1444 of this 
title.
