A bill to permit the lease and transfer of allotments and quotas for 1979 crop flue-cured tobacco destroyed because of contamination by the herbicide picloram.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the owners and operators of flue-cured tobacco farms in North and South Carolina to: (1) lease or transfer all or part of the 1979 crop allotment and quota attributable to tobacco destroyed due to contamination by the herbicide picloram to other owners and operators in the same State with the same allotment and quota; and (2) carry over to the 1980 crop year that part of such allotment and quota which the owner and operator is unable to lease and transfer during the 1979 crop year. Requires any such lease to be filed with the county committee of the county to which such transfer is made.…