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74 STAT. 407.

A regulation, provisional listing or termination thereof, tolerance limitation, or certification or exemption therefrom, under this section shall not be the basis for any presumption or inference in any proceeding under section 706 (b) or (c) of the basic Act.

(3) For the purpose of enabling the Secretary to carry out his functions under paragraphs (1) (A) and (C) of this subsection with respect to color additives deemed provisionally listed, he shall, as soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, afford by public notice a reasonable opportunity to interested persons to submit data relevant thereto. If the data so submitted or otherwise before him do not, in his judgment, establish a reliable basis for including such a color additive or particular use or uses thereof in a list or lists promulgated under paragraph (1)(A), or for determining the prevailing level or levels of use thereof prior to the enactment date with a view to prescribing a temporary tolerance or tolerances for such use or uses under paragraph (1)(C), the Secretary shall establish a temporary tolerance limitation at zero level for such use or uses until such time as he finds that it would not be inconsistent with the protection of the public health to increase or dispense with such temporary tolerance limitation.

EFFECT ON MEAT INSPECTION AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACTS

SEC. 204. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to exempt any meat or meat food product, poultry or poultry product, or any person from any requirement imposed by or pursuant to the Meat Inspection Act of March 4, 1907, 34 Stat. 1260, as amended or extended (21 U.S.C.

71 and the following), or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 71 Stat. 441. U.S.C. 451 and the following).

Approved July 12, 1960.

86th Congress, S. 3450

July 14, 1960

AN ACT

74 STAT. 525.

To amend section 22 (relating to the endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts) of the Act of June 29, 1935, to increase the authorized appropriation for resident teaching grants to land-grant institutions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 22 of Agriculture and the Act of June 29, 1935, as amended (7 U.S.C. 329), is amended to mechanic arts read as follows: colleges.

"SEC. 22. In order to provide for the more complete endowment 49 Stat. 439. and support of the colleges in the several States and Puerto Rico entitled to the benefits of the Act entitled 'An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,' approved July 2,

1862, as amended and supplemented (7 U.S.C. 301-328), there are 12 Stat. 503. hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following amounts: "(a) For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and for each fiscal year thereafter, $7,650,000; and "(b) For the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and for each fiscal year thereafter, $4,300,000.

"The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) shall be paid annually to the several States and Puerto Rico in equal shares. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (b) shall be in addition to sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) and shall be allotted and paid annually to each of the several States and Puerto Rico in the proportion to which the total population of each State and Puerto Rico bears to the total population of all the States and Puerto Rico as determined by the last preceding decennial census. Sums appropriated in pursuance of this section shall be in addition to sums appropriated or authorized under such Act of July 2, 1862, as amended and supplemented, and shall be applied only for the purposes of the colleges defined in such Act, as amended and supplemented. The provisions of law applicable to the use and payment of sums under the Act entitled 'An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862,' approved August 30, 1890, as amended and supple- 26 Stat. 417. mented, shall apply to the use and payment of sums appropriated in 7 USC 321-326, pursuance of this section."

Approved July 14, 1960.

328.

86th Congress, S. 3146
September 13, 1960

AN ACT

To authorize the Commodity Credit Corporation to donate dairy products and other agricultural commodities for use in home economics courses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

74 STAT. 899.

United States of America in Congress assembled, That schools receiv- Commodity Credit ing surplus foods pursuant to clause (3) of section 416 of the Agri- Corp.

49 Stat. 774.

cultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431) or section 32 of the Act of Dairy products. August 24, 1935, as amended (7 U.S.C. 612c) are authorized to use such 68 Stat. 458. foods in training students in home economics. Approved September 13, 1960.

Public Law 86-783
86th Congress, H. R. 12759
September 14, 1960

AN ACT

74 STAT. 1021.

To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and for other

purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 509 of 72 Stat. 934.

the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by striking 7 USC 1461

"June 30, 1961" and inserting "December 31, 1961.“

Approved September 14, 1960.

note.

86th Congress, S. 2917
September 16, 1960

AN ACT

To establish a price support level for milk and butterfat.

74 STAT. 1054.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

68 Stat. 899.

United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) Milk and butterof section 201 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446), as fat. amended, is further amended by adding the following new sentence Price support. to be inserted immediately after the first sentence: "Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, for the period beginning with the enactment of this sentence and ending March 31, 1961, the price of milk for manufacturing purposes and the price of butterfat shall be supported at not less than $3.22 per hundredweight and 59.6 cents per pound, respectively."

Approved September 16, 1960.

87th Congress, H. R. 4510

March 22, 1961

AN ACT

To provide a special program for feed grains for 1961.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 105 of Feed grain prothe Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by adding the gram, 1961. following new subsection:

"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law

"(1) The level of price support for the 1961 crop of corn shall be established by the Secretary at such level not less than 65 per centum of the parity price therefor as the Secretary may determine. Price support for corn and grain sorghums shall be made available on not to exceed the normal production of the 1961 acreage of corn and grain sorghums of each eligible farm based on its average yield per acre for the 1959 and 1960 crop acreage. "(2) The Secretary shall require as a condition of eligibility for price support on the 1961 crop of corn, grain sorghums, and any other feed grain which he may designate that the producer shall participate in the special agricultural conservation program for 1961 for corn and grain sorghums to the extent prescribed by the Secretary."

72 Stat. 994.

7 USC 1441 note. Price support.

SEC. 2. Section 16 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Conservation. Act, as amended, is amended by adding the following new subsection: 49 Stat. 1151; "(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law

70 Stat. 1115.

"(1) The Secretary shall formulate and carry out a special agri- 16 USC 590p. cultural conservation program for 1961, without regard to provisions which would be applicable to the regular agricultural conservation program, under which, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines, conservation payments in amounts determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable shall be made to producers who divert acreage from the production of corn and grain sorghums to an approved conservation use and increase their average acreage devoted in 1959 and 1960 to designated soil conserving crops or practices by an equal amount: Provided, however, That any producer may elect in lieu of such payment to devote such diverted acreage to castor beans, safflower, sunflower, or sesame, if designated by the Secretary. Such special agricultural conservation program shall require the producer to take such measures as the Secretary may deem appropriate to keep such diverted acreage free from insects, weeds, and rodents. The acreage eligible for payments in cash or in an equivalent amount in kind under such conservation program shall be an acreage 75 STAT. 6. equivalent to 20 per centum of the average acreage on the farm 75 STAT. 7. planted to corn and grain sorghums in the crop years 1959 and 1960 or up to twenty acres, whichever is greater. Such payments in cash or in kind at the basic county support rate may be made on an amount of corn and grain sorghums not in excess of 50 per centum of the normal production of the acreage diverted from corn and grain sorghums on the farm based on its average yield per acre for the 1959 and 1960 crop acreage. Payments in kind only may be made by the Secretary for the diversion of up to an additional 20 per centum of such corn and grain sorghum acreage. Payments in kind on such additional acreage may be made at the basic county support rate on an amount of corn and grain sorghums not in excess of 60 per centum of the normal production of the acreage diverted from corn and grain sorghums on the farm based on its average yield per acre for the 1959 and 1960 crop acreage. The Secretary may make such adjustments in acreage

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