§390vv Excess Crop Restrictions

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must, with help from the Secretary of the Interior, send Congress a report within one year after October 12, 1982 about surplus crops grown on land that gets irrigation water. The report must show data on those crops, give the share of irrigated farms in set-aside programs by acreage, crop, and State, study whether irrigated farms should be required to join set-aside programs and the costs, and offer ways to align reclamation and farm policies to ease surplus and low prices. For Federal reclamation projects authorized before October 12, 1982, any rule that stops delivery of irrigation water to prevent production of excess basic agricultural commodities can last no longer than ten years after the project’s initial authorization.