Food Security Wheat Reserve Release

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Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 139
Thursday, July 21, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
Presidential Determination No. 94-36 of July 19, 1994

Food Security Wheat Reserve Release

Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by
the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 (the
``Act'') (7 U.S.C. 1736f-1), I hereby authorize the
release in fiscal year 1994 of up to 200,000 metric
tons of wheat from the reserve established under the
Act (the ``reserve'') for use under Title II of the
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of
1954 to meet relief needs that exist in the Caucasus
region of the former Soviet Union, which I hereby
determine are suffering severe food shortages. The
wheat will be used to provide urgent humanitarian
relief to the peoples in this region who are suffering
widespread hunger and malnutrition.

This action is taken because wheat needed for relief in
this region cannot be programmed for such purpose in a
timely manner under the normal means of obtaining
commodities for food assistance due to circumstances of
unanticipated and exceptional need.

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

(Presidential Sig.)>

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, July 19, 1994.