[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 27 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
[Pages 1163-1164]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6907--Declaration of a State of Emergency and Release of 
Feed Grain From the Disaster Reserve

July 1, 1996

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Whereas, an extended drought and other natural disasters in feed 
grain-producing

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areas of the United States have caused significant reductions in feed 
grain supplies and severe hardship to livestock producers;
     Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 201 
and 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and 
section 813 of the Agricultural Act of 1970 (7 U.S.C. 1427a) (the 
``Act''), do hereby find and proclaim that the extended drought in the 
Southwest and other natural disasters in other feed grain areas of the 
United States have resulted in a state of emergency and that the state 
of emergency warrants the release of the reserve established pursuant to 
section 813(a) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 1427a(a)). Accordingly, I hereby 
declare that such amounts of the reserve as determined necessary by the 
Secretary of Agriculture (``the Secretary'') should be disposed of by 
the Secretary as authorized by the Act.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of 
July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 3, 1996]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on July 5.