A bill to authorize and direct the establishment and maintenance of reserve supplies of soybeans corn, grain, sorghum, barley, oats, and wheat for national security and to protect domestic consumers against an inadequate supply of such commodities, such reserve to be isolated from normal marketing channels and withheld from the market except as herein provided; and to protect producers of such commodities against an unfair loss of income resulting from excess production following a period of exceptionally high demand, and for other purposes.
Consumers Strategic Storable Reserve Act - Establishes reserve supplies of soybeans, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, and wheat. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to dispose of commodities in such reserve as follows: (1) for use in relieving distress in any area of the United States declared by the President to be an acute distress area; (2) for use in a state of civil defense emergency; and (3) for sale in assistance in the preservation and maintenance of foundation herds of cattle, sheep, and goats, and to provide feed for livestock in any emergency area.
Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
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