Availability of funds.

70 Stat. 1033. 70 Stat. 1034.

52 Stat. 69. 7 USC 1392.

68 Stat. 909.

50 Stat. 524.

52 Stat. 77.

(b) Payments of grants under sections 7 to 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, may be conditioned upon the utilization of land with respect to which such payments or grants are to be made in conformity with farming practices which will encourage and provide for soil-building and soil- and waterconserving practices in the most practical and effective manner and adapted to conditions in the several States, as determined and approved by the State committees appointed pursuant to section 8 (b) of such Act, for the respective States.

(c) Section 11 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590k), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 11. All funds available for carrying out this Act shall be available for allotment to the bureaus and offices of the Department of Agriculture and for transfer to such other agencies of the Federal or State Governments, or to local public agencies, as the Secretary may request to cooperate or assist in carrying out this Act, and for payments to committees or associations of producers in any region or regions to cover the estimated administrative expenses to be incurred by any such committee or association in cooperating in carrying out this Act: Provided, That the Secretary may prescribe that all or part of such estimated expenses of any such committee or association may be deducted pro rata from the payments or grants made to the members thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary may make such payments in advance of determination of performance: Provided further, That the transfer of funds for services of technicians in formulating and carrying out agricultural conservation programs, from allotments for agricultural conservation payments within a State, shall be subject to such limitations and conditions as may be provided in appropriation or other law. Funds so transferred may be placed in a single account for each State."

SEC. 7. Section 392 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. Č. 139 (b)), is amended by changing the period at the end of the first sentence to a comma and adding the words "unless otherwise provided by appropriation or other law." and by changing the period at the end of the second sentence to a comma and adding the words "unless otherwise provided by appropriation or other law.".

SEC. 8. Section 606 of title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1954 (7 U.S. C. 1766) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Funds available for the purposes of this Act may be used for extending courtesies to representatives of foreign countries, when so provided in appropriation or other law."

SEC. 9. (a) Section 4 of the Act of July 22, 1937, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1004), is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ": Provided further, That there may be distributed to States and Territories such amounts as may be provided in applicable appropriations, in addition to the amount otherwise distributed thereto, for loans in reclamation projects and to entrymen on unpatented public lands".

(b) When authorized by appropriation or other law, funds of the Farmers' Home Administration available for administrative expenses may be placed in a single account.

SEC. 10. Section 516 (a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1516 (a)), is amended to read as follows:

"(a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not in excess of $12,000,000 for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1938, as may be necessary to cover the operating and administrative costs of the Corporation, which shall be allotted to the Corporation in such amounts and at such time or times as the Secretary of Agriculture

may determine: Provided, That expenses in connection with the purchase, transportation, handling, or sale of the agricultural commodity and the direct cost of loss adjusters for crop inspections and loss adjustments may be considered by the Corporation as being nonadministrative or nonoperating expenses. The Corporation is authorized to use premium income for administrative and operating costs within limits prescribed in applicable appropriations."

SEC. 11. (a) The Department of Agriculture is authorized to Aoquisition acquire land, or interest therein, by purchase, exchange or otherwise, of land. as may be necessary to carry out its authorized work: Provided, That no acquisition shall be made under this authority unless provision is made therefor in the applicable appropriation or other law.

(b) Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture which are available for the purchase of land may be expended for options to purchase land: Provided, That not to exceed $1 may be expended for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land unless otherwise provided in appropriation or other law.

SEC. 12. Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, funds available to the Department of Agriculture may be used for the payment of transportation expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses, in accordance with the Travel Expense Act of 1949, for travel between places of recruitment 63 Stat. 166. and duty, and while at places of duty, of persons appointed for temporary or seasonal services in inspection, classing or grading agricultural commodities.

5 USC 835 note.

SEC. 13. There is hereby established a working capital fund which Working capital shall be available without fiscal year limitation for expenses neces- fund.

sary, including the purchase or construction of buildings and improve-70 Stat. 1034. ments within the limitations thereon set forth in the appropriations 70 Stat. 1035. for the Forest Service, for furnishing supply and equipment services in support of programs of the Forest Service. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to transfer to the fund, without reimbursement, and to capitalize in the fund at fair and reasonable values, such receivables, inventories, equipment, and other assets as he may determine, and assume the liabilities in connection with such assets, but such capitalization shall not exceed $25,000,000: Provided, That the fund shall be credited with advance payments in connection with firm orders and reimbursements from appropriations and funds of the Forest Service, other departmental and Federal agencies, and from other sources, as authorized by law, at rates approximately equal to the cost of furnishing the facilities and service.

Approved August 3, 1956.

To provide for the regulation of the interstate transportation of migrant farm

workers.

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

United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 203 (a) Migrant farm of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended (49 U. S. C. workers.

303 (a)), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the follow- Interstate transing new subsections reading as follows:

(22) The term 'carrier of migrant workers by motor vehicle' means any person, including any 'contract carrier by motor vehicle', but not including any 'common carrier by motor vehicle', who or which transports in interstate or foreign commerce at any one time three or more migrant workers to or from their employment by any motor vehicle other than a passenger automobile or station wagon, except migrant workers transporting themselves or their immediate families.

“(23) The term 'migrant worker' means any individual proceeding to or returning from employment in agriculture as defined in section 3 (f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29

portation.
49 Stat. 544.

U.S. C. 203 (f)), or section 3121 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 52 Stat. 1060. 1954 (26 U. S. C. 3121 (g))."

68A Stat. 424.

SEC. 2. Section 204 (a) of part II of such Act, as amended (49 U. S. C. 304 (a)) is amended by adding a new subsection as follows: 49 Stat. 546. "(3a) Notwithstanding any other provision of section 203 (b), to 49 USC 303. establish for carriers of migrant workers by motor vehicle reasonable requirements with respect to comfort of passengers, qualifications and maximum hours of service of operators, and safety of operation and equipment. Such requirements shall apply to any such carrier only in the case of transportation of any migrant worker for a total distance of more than seventy-five miles, and then only if such transportation is across the boundary line of any State, the District of Columbia, or Territory of the United States, or a foreign country. When such requirements are established, the term 'motor carrier' shall be construed to include carriers of migrant workers by motor vehicle in the administration of sections 204 (c); 205; 220; 221; 222 (a), (b), (d), 49 USC 304, (f) and (g); and 224."

305, 320-322, 324.

SEC. 3. Section 13 (b) (1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended (29 U. S. C. 213 (b) (1)) shall not apply in the case of 52 Stat. 1068. any employee with respect to whom the Interstate Commerce Commission has power to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service solely by virtue of section 204 (a) (3a) of the Interstate Com- Supra. merce Act.

Approved August 3, 1956.

85th Congress, H. R. 2367

April 25, 1957

AN ACT

71 Stat. 26.

To establish a deferred grazing program as part of the relief available to drought stricken areas under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, and for other purposes.

gram.

42 USC 1855

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand Agriculture. ing any other provision of law, in connection with any major disaster Grazing produe to drought determined by the President to warrant assistance by the Federal Government under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Con- 64 Stat. 1109. gress, as amended, the President is authorized and directed as part 1855g. of the assistance provided pursuant to such Act to formulate and carry out, through the facilities of the Department of Agriculture, a deferred grazing program, which shall include nonuse or limited use, or any needed combination thereof, in any county affected by such disaster in which the Secretary of Agriculture determines grazing of native rangeland is a substantial factor in agricultural production, and finds that limited or deferred grazing is necessary and appropriate for the reestablishment or conservation of grass for grazing. Such program shall be applicable only to nonfederally owned land which is normally used for grazing. Within thirty days (1) after the date of enactment of this Act, or (2) after any subsequent designation of any such area as a disaster area by the President, the Secretary shall designate the counties in any such area in which this program shall be available, and the program shall remain available in each such county for a period of not more than five years after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 2. The program shall provide for payment for deferred Payments. grazing to farmers and ranchers at rates equal to the fair rental value of the land for the grazing use withheld under the program, as determined by the Secretary on the basis of the normal grazing capacity of the land during periods of adequate precipitation. No payment shall be made under the program if it is determined that a shift of livestock from the deferred areas to other land results in overgrazing nondeferred areas. Payment to any person for deferred grazing on land in any one county or land in more than one county operated as a single unit shall not exceed $5,000 for any one year.

SEC. 3. The program authorized herein may include such terms Conditions. and conditions, in addition to those specifically provided for herein, as are determined desirable to effectuate its purposes and to facilitate practical administration. The program authorized herein for any county shall be supplemental to the agricultural conservation program, and not in substitution of, other programs in such county authorized by any other law, except that no payment shall be made concurrently on the same land for deferred grazing under this and any other program.

71 Stat. 26.

Appropriation.

42 USC 18551855g.

SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to other funds authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, such funds as are necessary to carry out the program authorized herein.

Approved April 25, 1957.