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Book:        Presidential Proclamations & Executive Orders
Author:      National Archives and Records Administration
Affiliation: National Archives
Date:        1989

Chapters 6 & 7    [Reserved] & Agriculture

Chapter 6         [Reserved]

Chapter 7         Agriculture

Executive Order 11336 - Delegating to the Secretary of Agriculture certain
     authority relating to emergency livestock feed

     SOURCE:  The provisions of Executive Order 11336 of Mar. 22, 1967, appear
at 32 FR 4489, 3 CFR, 1966-1970 Comp., p. 629, unless otherwise noted.

     By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of Title 3 of the
United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as
follows:

     SECTION 1. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby designated and
empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of
the President, the authority vested in the President by clause (1) of the
fifth sentence of section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7
U.S.C. 1427), to the extent prescribed in subsection (b) of this section.

     (b) Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the chronic
economic distress of the needy members of an Indian tribe is materially
increased by severe drought, flood, hurricane, blizzard, or other
uncontrollable catastrophe affecting any reservation or other land designated
for Indian use which is utilized by members of such tribe for grazing
livestock, he may, under subsection (a) of this section, declare such
reservation or other land to be an acute distress area because of unemployment
or other economic reasons if he finds that the use of farm commodities or the
products thereof made available by the Commodity Credit Corporation for
livestock feed in that area will not displace or interfere with normal
marketing of agricultural commodities.

     SEC. 2. Federal assistance in relieving distress, extended as a result of
action by the Secretary of Agriculture under the authority delegated by
section 1 of this order, shall terminate in each instance upon notice by the
Secretary of Agriculture.

     SEC. 3. In carrying out the provisions of this order the Secretary of
Agriculture shall maintain liaison with the Secretary of the Interior and
shall consult with the latter as may be appropriate.

     SEC. 4. The declaration contained in the letter of the President to the
Secretary of Agriculture, dated February 1, 1965, that reservation lands in
Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, which are grazed in common by Indian tribes, are
an acute distress area shall continue in effect until January 1, 1968, or
until such earlier date as may be fixed by notice of the Secretary of
Agriculture published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

Executive Order 11957 - Designation of certain officers to act as Secretary of
     Agriculture

     SOURCE:  The provisions of Executive Order 11957 of Jan. 13, 1977, appear
at 42 FR 3295, 3 CFR, 1977 Comp., p. 79, unless otherwise noted.

     By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 3347 of Title 5 and
Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the
United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

     SECTION 1. During any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or
vacancy in office, both the Secretary of Agriculture and the Deputy Secretary
of Agriculture are not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties
of the Office of Secretary, the officers from the Department of Agriculture
whose appointments are vested in the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall act as Secretary in such order as the Secretary
of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe. If no such order of succession
is in effect at that time, then such officers shall act as Secretary in the
descending order of rank, as established by the listing of their offices in
Sections 5314, 5315 or 5316 of Title 5 of the United States Code and, at each
level of the Executive Schedule, in the order in which they shall have taken
oath as such officers.

     SEC. 2. Executive Order No. 11793 of July 10, 1974, is hereby revoked.

Executive Order 12266 - Food Security Wheat Reserve

     SOURCE:  The provisions of Executive Order 12266 of Jan. 15, 1981, appear
at 46 FR 4667, 3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 94, unless otherwise noted.

     By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of
America by Section 302(a) of the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980
(Title III of the Agricultural Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-494)), it is hereby
ordered as follows:

     1-101. There is hereby established a Food Security Wheat Reserve composed
of a reserve stock of wheat, which shall not exceed four million metric tons.

     1-102. The Secretary of Agriculture is responsible for designating, in
accordance with Section 302 of the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980,
the specific reserve stocks of wheat which shall comprise the Food Security
Wheat Reserve.

Executive Order 12548 - Grazing fees

     SOURCE:  The provisions of Executive Order 12548 of Feb. 14, 1986, appear
at 51 FR 5985, 3 CFR, 1986 Comp., p. 188, unless otherwise noted.

     By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws
of the United States of America, and in order to provide for establishment of
appropriate fees for the grazing of domestic livestock on public rangelands,
it is ordered as follows:

     SECTION 1. Determination of Fees.  The Secretaries of Agriculture and the
Interior are directed to exercise their authority, to the extent permitted by
law under the various statutes they administer, to establish fees for domestic
livestock grazing on the public rangelands which annually equals the $1.23
base established by the 1966 Western Livestock Grazing Survey multiplied by
the result of the Forage Value Index (computed annually from data supplied by
the Statistical Reporting Service) added to the Combined Index (Beef Cattle
Price Index minus the Prices Paid Index) and divided by 100; provided, that
the annual increase or decrease in such fee for any given year shall be
limited to not more than plus or minus 25 percent of the previous year's fee,
and provided further, that the fee shall not be less than $1.35 per animal
unit month.

     SEC. 2. Definitions As used in this Order, the term:

     (a) "Public rangelands" has the same meaning as in the Public Rangelands
Improvement Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-514);

     (b) "Forage Value Index" means the weighted average estimate of the
annual rental charge per head per month for pasturing cattle on private
rangelands in the 11 Western States (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California) (computed
by the Statistical Reporting Service from the June Enumerative Survey) divided
by $3.65 and multiplied by 100;

     (c) "Beef Cattle Price Index" means the weighted average annual selling
price for beef cattle (excluding calves) in the 11 Western States (Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington,
Oregon, and California) for November through October (computed by the
Statistical Reporting Service) divided by $22.04 per hundred weight and
multiplied by 100; and

     (d) "Prices Paid Index" means the following selected components from the
Statistical Reporting Service's Annual National Index of Prices Paid by
Farmers for Goods and Services adjusted by the weights indicated in
parentheses to reflect livestock production costs in the Western States:  1.
Fuels and Energy (14.5); 2. Farm and Motor Supplies (12.0); 3. Autos and
Trucks (4.5); 4. Tractors and Self-Propelled Machinery (4.5); 5. Other
Machinery (12.0); 6. Building and Fencing Materials (14.5); 7. Interest (6.0);
8. Farm Wage Rates (14.0); 9. Farm Services (18.0).

     SEC. 3. Any and all existing rules, practices, policies, and regulations
relating to the administration of the formula for grazing fees in section 6(a)
of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 shall continue in full force
and effect.

     SEC. 4. This Order shall be effective immediately.