TOBACCO PROVISIONS.

SEC. 1112. TOBACCO PROVISIONS. (a) Transfer Authority.— Section 316 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 316(h)) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(h) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may permit, after June 30 of any crop year, the lease and transfer of flue-cured tobacco quota assigned to a farm if— “(A) the planted acreage of flue-cured tobacco on the farm to which the quota is assigned is determined by the Secretary to be equal to or greater than 90 percent of the farm’s acreage allotment, or the planted acreage is determined to be sufficient to produce the farm marketing quota under average conditions; and 101 STAT. 1330–8 “(B) the farm’s expected production of flue-cured tobacco is less than 80 percent of the farm’s effective marketing quota as a result of a natural disaster condition. “(2) Any lease and transfer of quota under this paragraph may be made to any other farm within the same State in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary.”. (b) Periodic Adjustment of Yield Factor for22Copy read “For”. Flue-Cured Tobacco Acreage-Poundage Quotas.— Section 317(a) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1314c(a)) is amended by striking out “and at five year intervals thereafter” each place it appears in paragraphs (2), (4), and (6)(A). (c) Improved Tobacco Field Measurement.— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should review current compliance procedures for acreage or poundage quotas with respect to cigar and dark-air and fire-cured tobaccos under the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) to determine means of improving such procedures. The Secretary shall recommend to Congress changes in existing law that would be necessary to implement any such improvements.