43 U.S.C. § 390vv — Excess crop restrictions

(a) Report to Congress on production of surplus crops on acreage served by irrigation water: Within one year of October 12, 1982, the Secretary of Agriculture, working with the Secretary of the Interior, had to send Congress a report on surplus crops grown on land served by irrigation water. The report had to include: (1) data on how much surplus crop is produced on irrigated land; (2) what share of irrigated farms take part in crop set-aside programs, broken down by acreage, crop, and state; (3) whether it would be workable and appropriate to require irrigated farms to join set-aside programs, and what that would cost; and (4) recommendations for coordinating national reclamation policy with agriculture policy to help ease repeated problems of surplus crops and low prices. (b) Restrictions prohibiting delivery of irrigation water for production of excess basic agricultural commodities: No matter what any other law says, for any federal reclamation project authorized before October 12, 1982, a restriction that blocks delivering irrigation water for growing excess basic farm commodities can last no more than ten years after the date the project was first authorized.