Presidential Determination on Food Security Wheat Reserve Release

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Title 3--
The President

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.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 22, 1996.