Further amendment of the Reorganization Act of 1949- Appointment of Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency.. Extending the Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act Providing penalties for the assassination of the President.. Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Archival Depository. Establishing a Department of Housing and Urban Development_ Protection of former Presidents and their wives or widows... National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965_. Authorization for Secret Service agents to make arrests... Use of cargo containers in coastwise trade. Amending the Lead-Zinc Small Producers Stabilization Act.. Tariff Schedules Technical Amendments Act of 1965.. Extension of vessel exchange program. Increase in Small Business Administration revolving fund.... 31 Federal Water Project Recreation Act... Saline water conversion program_ Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area_ . Assateague Island National Seashore..... Clean Air Act amendments and Solid Waste Disposal Act. Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965_.. National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act_. Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act Amendments of 1965___. Community Health Services Extension Amendments of 1965. Health Research Facilities Amendments of 1965.. Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments of 1965. Pacific Northwest Disaster Relief Act of 1965. Additional authorizations for certain river basin plans_. Additional assistance for disaster victims Garrison diversion unit, Missouri River Basin project. Auburn-Folsom south unit, American River division, Central Valley Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building. Financial assistance in construction and operation of public elementary and secondary schools in areas affected by a major disaster_ Interstate and Defense Highways System apportionment Interstate Commerce Act amendments. Rail rapid transit for the National Capital region_ A FACTUAL DIGEST OF SOME OF THE MAJOR PUBLIC LAWS RESULTING FROM CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS THIS SESSION (By Categories) AGRICULTURE ACREAGE-POUNDAGE MARKETING QUOTAS FOR TOBACCO This law (H.R. 5721) amended the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to provide for acreage-poundage marketing quotas for tobacco, and amended the tobacco price-support provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949. EXTEND TIME FOR WHEAT REFERENDUM (Public Law 89-82. Approved July 24, 1965) This law (H.R. 9497) extended the time for conducting the referendum with respect to the national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1966, from not later than August 1, 1965, as specified under existing law, to not later than 30 days after adjournment sine die of the 1st session of the 89th Congress. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ACT OF 1965 (Public Law 89-321. Approved November 3, 1965) This law (H.R. 9811) amended the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, to provide, generally, a 4-year program (1966-69) to maintain farm income, stabilize prices, and assure adequate supplies of agricultural commodities, reduce surpluses, lower Government costs, and promote foreign trade, and afford greater economic opportunity in rural areas. Title I provided for a class I base plan in Federal milk market order areas, to reduce production of milk in excess of market needs and stabilize income of dairy producers in market order areas. It included provisions for individual voting in farmer referendums on the class I base plan; leaving the legal status of producer-handlers unchanged; authorizing marketing orders for manufacturing milk; and entry of new producers into these markets. Title II extended the National Wool Act of 1954 through December 31, 1969, and set the formula for the support price for shorn wool. Title III extended the feed grain program for 4 years; provided for price support loans and payments-in-kind to program participants; required cooperators to divert acreage to conserving uses; and set the total price support at between 65 and 90 percent of parity. 1 Title IV extended the one-price cotton program for 4 years; guaranteed cooperators between 65 and 90 percent of parity on the permitted acreage of the allotment; required of participating farmers a mandatory reduction of 12% percent in 1966 from the farm acreage allotment (for subsequent years, up to 12% percent, as fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture); established a domestic allotment of not less than 65 percent of the farm allotment; permitted farmers voluntary reduction of acreage down to the domestic allotment in return for diversion payments; provided for loans to cooperators at not more than 90 percent of the estimated average world market price for cotton, and set the formula for price support payments; set the formula for payments for diverting acres; provided that farms with allotments of 10 acres or less, or the projected yield of which is 3,600 pounds or less, not be required to reduce acreage or production, and made special provisions for price support and diversion payments to the small farmer; provided that producers may stay out of the program, receive no price supports or payments, and sell cotton into export without penalty, with the national total of such nonprogram acreage not to exceed 250,000 acres in 1966, and provided for subsequent reduction; and permitted sale or lease of cotton acreage allotment under certain conditions and exchange of rice and cotton acreage allotments under certain conditions. Title V continued the voluntary wheat certificate program for 4 years with slight modifications. In order to increase producer income, wheat used domestically as food would be supported at 100 percent of parity and support for wheat not accompanied by marketing certificates would be not less than $1.25 per bushel in 1966. For subsequent years producers are assured of returns from price support and other payments equal to not less than the total support provided for 1966 unless the acreage allotment is increased above 50 million acres exclusive of small farms. Costs of certificates to domestic processors for all 4 years would not be more than the difference between the loan value and $2 per bushel. The law did not contain the so-called escalator clause whereby the Secretary could increase the costs of certificates to processors if the price of bread increased. Title VI authorized the Secrtary to enter into 5- to 10-year contracts with farmers calling for conversion of cropland into vegetative cover, water storage facilities, or other soil, water, wildlife or forest conservation uses. Payments would be at a rate of not more than 40 percent of the annual market value of the crop that would have been produced on the land. The Secretary was authorized to obligate not more than $225 million per year in new contracts signed during each of the next 4 years. Title VII, among other things, extended for 4 years the authority for the leasing of tobacco acreage and poundage; directed the Secretary of Agriculture to make a study of the parity income position of farmers and report thereon to Congress not later than June 30, 1966; authorized any State agency administering public lands to transfer an acreage allotment on such lands from one farm to another in the same county; and authorized the Secretary to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for the purchase of dairy products when there is not a sufficient supply of such products in the Commodity Credit Corporation to meet commitments. |