[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.