    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [May 31, 1991]
    [Pages 588-589]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Presidential Determination No. 91-38--Memorandum on the Use of Wheat
    Reserve for Disaster Assistance
    May 31, 1991

    Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

    Subject: Food Security Wheat Reserve Release

        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 1991 of up to 300,000 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, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1691 et
    seq.), to meet relief needs that exist in developing countries of

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    the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, which I hereby determine are
    suffering major disasters. The wheat will be used to provide urgent
    humanitarian relief to the peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
    who are suffering widespread hunger and malnutrition.
        This action is taken because wheat needed for relief in these
    regions 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.

                                                                 George Bush

                        [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:46
                            p.m., June 20, 1991]

                        Note: The memorandum was released by the Office of
                            the Press Secretary on June 1.