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- $Title{Presidential Proclamations & Executive Orders
- Chapters 6 & 7 [Reserved] & Agriculture}
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- $Author{National Archives and Records Administration}
- $Affiliation{National Archives}
- $Subject{order
- agriculture
- secretary
- section
- executive
- states
- act
- authority
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- $Volume{}
- $Date{1989}
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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.
-