[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR718.204]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER VII--FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 718_PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MULTIPLE PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart C_Reconstitution of Farms, Allotments, Quotas, and Bases
 
Sec. 718.204  Reconstitution of allotments, quotas, and bases.

    (a) Farms shall be reconstituted in accordance with this subpart 
when it is determined that the land areas are not properly constituted 
and, to the extent practicable, shall be based on the facts and 
conditions existing at the time the change requiring the reconstitution 
occurred.
    (b) Reconstitutions of farms subject to a direct and counter-
cyclical program contract in accordance with part 1413 of this title 
will be effective for the current year if initiated on or before August 
1 or prior to the issuance of DCP payments for the farm or farms being 
reconstituted.
    (c) For tobacco farms, a reconstitution will be effective for the 
current

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year for each crop for which the reconstitution is initiated before the 
planting of such crop begins or would have begun.
    (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c) of this section, 
a reconstitution may be effective for the current year if the county 
committee determines, and the State committee concurs, that the purpose 
of the request for reconstitution is not to perpetrate a scheme or 
device designed to evade the requirements governing programs found in 
this title.