[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 4 (Monday, January 29, 1996)]
[Pages 89-90]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Food Assistance to Developing Countries

January 22, 1996

Presidential Determination No. 96-9

Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

Subject: Presidential Determination on Food Security Wheat Reserve 
Release

    By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, including the Food Security 
Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 (the ``Act'') (7 U.S.C. 1736f-1) and section 
301 of title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby delegate to the 
Secretary of Agriculture the authority to release up to 1,500,000 metric 
tons of wheat from the reserve established under the Act (the 
``reserve''). Wheat released from the reserve will be used to provide, 
on a sale or donation basis, emergency food assistance to developing 
countries during fiscal year 1996 under the Agricultural Trade 
Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1691, 1701 et seq.) to 
the extent that the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the 
domestic supply of wheat is so limited that quantities of wheat could 
not otherwise be made available for disposition consistent with the 
criteria set forth in the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance 
Act of 1954, except for urgent humanitarian purposes.
    Nothing in the delegation should be interpreted as affecting the 
coordination requirements of Executive Order 12752.

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

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on January 23.