7 U.S.C. § 1860 — Federal irrigation, drainage, and flood-control projects
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 327 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 346 words · no verdicts yet
For three years beginning May 28, 1956, certain surplus crops grown on newly irrigated or drained federal project lands could not receive specified benefits. The Secretaries must enforce these limits through contracts and annually identify surplus commodities.
(a) Restriction on crop loans or farm payments or benefits. For 3 years beginning May 28, 1956, a commodity that the Secretary of Agriculture identifies under subsection (c) as in surplus supply could not receive crop loans or Federal farm payments or benefits if grown on newly irrigated or drained land in a newly authorized Federal irrigation or drainage project, unless the land was used to produce that commodity before May 28, 1956.
(b) Contract provisions; ineligibility for benefits. The Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture must put provisions they consider necessary to enforce this section into all contracts for newly authorized Federal irrigation, drainage, or flood-control projects. For 3 years beginning May 28, 1956, surplus crops grown on land reclaimed by newly authorized flood-control projects, and the reclaimed land, were ineligible for benefits under this Act’s soil-bank provisions and price-support laws.
(c) Determination and proclamation of surplus agricultural commodities. By October 1 each year, the Secretary of Agriculture must identify and proclaim commodities whose supply exceeds estimated domestic-consumption and export needs plus adequate emergency reserves. Those commodities are treated as in surplus supply during the next crop year.
(d) “Federal irrigation or drainage project” defined. The term means an irrigation or drainage project subject to the Federal reclamation laws in effect when this amendment was adopted, including the Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and later amendments or supplements, or subject to irrigation and drainage laws administered by the Agriculture Department or Secretary of Agriculture.
For a period of three years from May 28, 1956, no agricultural commodity determined by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with subsection (c) to be in surplus supply shall receive any crop loans or Federal farm payments or benefits if grown on any newly irrigated or drained lands within any Federal irrigation or drainage project hereafter authorized unless such lands were used for the production of such commodity prior to May 28, 1956.
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be included, in all irrigation, drainage, or flood-control contracts entered into with respect to Federal irrigation, drainage, or flood-control projects hereafter authorized, such provisions as they may deem necessary to provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this section. For a period of three years from May 28, 1956, surplus crops grown on lands reclaimed by flood-control projects hereafter authorized and the lands so reclaimed shall be ineligible for any benefits under the soil-bank provisions of this Act and under price support legislation.
On or before October 1 of each year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine and proclaim the agricultural commodities the supplies of which are in excess of estimated requirements for domestic consumption and export plus adequate reserves for emergencies. The commodities so proclaimed shall be considered to be in surplus supply for the purposes of this section during the succeeding crop year.
For the purposes of this section the term “Federal irrigation or drainage project” means any irrigation or drainage project subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) in effect at the date of the adoption of this amendment and any irrigation or drainage project subject to the laws relating to irrigation and drainage administered by the Department of Agriculture or the Secretary of Agriculture.
Source credit: (May 28, 1956, ch. 327, title II, § 211, 70 Stat. 202.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of May 28, 1956, ch. 327 · 70 Stat. 202
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