Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 7 : Section 1860


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Section 1860. Federal irrigation, drainage, and flood-control projects

    (a) Restriction on crop loans or farm payments or benefits
      For a period of three years from May 28, 1956, no agricultural
    commodity determined by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance
    with subsection (c) of this section 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.
    (b) Contract provisions; ineligibility for benefits
      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.
    (c) Determination and proclamation of surplus agricultural
      commodities
      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.
    (d) "Federal irrigation or drainage project" defined
      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.



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