96-2499. Presidential Determination on Food Security Wheat Reserve Release

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 1996)]
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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 24 / Monday, February 5, 1996 / 
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Title 3--
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                Presidential Determination No. 96-9 of January 22, 1996

                
Presidential Determination on Food Security Wheat 
                Reserve Release

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

                By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by 
                the Constitution and laws of the United States, 
                including the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 
                (the ``Act'') (7 U.S.C. 1736f-1) and section 301 of 
                title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby delegate to 
                the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to release 
                up to 1,500,000 metric tons of wheat from the reserve 
                established under the Act (the ``reserve''). Wheat 
                released from the reserve will be used to provide, on a 
                sale or donation basis, emergency food assistance to 
                developing countries during fiscal year 1996 under the 
                Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
                1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691, 1701 et seq.) to the extent that 
                the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the 
                domestic supply of wheat is so limited that quantities 
                of wheat could not otherwise be made available for 
                disposition consistent with the criteria set forth in 
                the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act 
                of 1954, except for urgent humanitarian purposes.

                Nothing in the delegation should be interpreted as 
                affecting the coordination requirements of Executive 
                Order 12752.

                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 22, 1996.

[FR Doc. 96-2499
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