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RCED-85-30 1 (1985-02-08)

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Comptroller General


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Department Of Agriculture And Producer

Costs To Operate The Tobacco Program





For 1983, the Department of Agriculture regulated
the production and marketing of eight kinds of
tobacco, including the two primary kinds--flue-cured
and burley--through acreage allotments, marketing
quotas, and price-support loans. While the No Net
Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982 generally provides
that this program be carried out at no net cost to the
taxpayers, it does not require the Department of
Agriculture to recover all of the interest cost incurred.

GAO found that the tobacco program will continue to
operate at a loss to the government unless the method
for charging interest on the tobacco price-support
loans is changed. The Secretary of Agriculture has not
implemented a prior GAO recommendation to recover
these costs. Accordingly, GAO recommends that if the
Congress intends to include full interest costs among
those costs to be recovered from producers,
the 1982 act be amended to require that the Depart-
ment of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation
recover full interest costs.


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