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[CITE: 7USC7201]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
               CHAPTER 100--AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--SHORT TITLE, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 7201. Short title and purpose


(a) Short title

    This chapter may be cited as the ``Agricultural Market Transition 
Act''.

(b) Purpose

    It is the purpose of this chapter--
        (1) to authorize the use of binding production flexibility 
    contracts between the United States and agricultural producers to 
    support farming certainty and flexibility while ensuring continued 
    compliance with farm conservation and wetland protection 
    requirements;
        (2) to make nonrecourse marketing assistance loans and loan 
    deficiency payments available for certain crops;
        (3) to improve the operation of farm programs for milk, peanuts, 
    and sugar; and
        (4) to establish a commission to undertake a comprehensive 
    review of past and future production agriculture in the United 
    States.

(Pub. L. 104-127, title I, Sec. 101, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 896.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this 
title'', meaning title I of Pub. L. 104-127, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 
896, which enacted this chapter and section 6933 of this title, amended 
sections 1308, 1308-1, 1308-3, 1358-1, 1358b, 1358c, 1359a, 1373, 1441, 
1445j, 1508, 1516, 4504, 6401, 6402, 6413, 6414, and 6932 of this title 
and sections 713a-14, 714b, 714i, and 714k of Title 15, Commerce and 
Trade, repealed sections 1426, 1433f, 1441-2, 1444-2, 1444f, 1445b-3a, 
1445c-3, 1445h, 1446e to 1446h, and 1519 of this title, enacted 
provisions set out as notes under sections 1373, 1446e, 1446e-1, and 
1508 of this title, and repealed provisions set out as a note under 
section 1421 of this title. For complete classification of title I to 
the Code, see Tables.


                      Short Title of 1998 Amendment

    Pub. L. 105-228, Sec. 1, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1516, provided 
that: ``This Act [amending section 7212 of this title] may be cited as 
the `Emergency Farm Financial Relief Act'.''


                               Short Title

    Section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-127 provided that: ``This Act [see 
Tables for classification] may be cited as the `Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996'.''


                              Severability

    Section 928 of Pub. L. 104-127 provided that: ``If any provision of 
this Act [see Short Title note above] or the application thereof to any 
person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect 
other provisions or applications of this Act that can be given effect 
without regard to the invalid provision or application, and to this end 
the provisions of this Act are severable.''
