(2012-0191-F) The Agricultural Market Transition Act, Agriculture Marketing Assistance, and the Loan Deficiency Program

6 folders, approximately 385 pages

The email in this collection discuss: the 1996 Farm Bill, Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA), USDA announcements of prevailing world market price of cotton and rice and the resulting marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payment rates available to producers, agricultural reports on markets and perspectives, remarks by Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman on agricultural assistance programs, proposed USDA Marketing Loan changes, Economic Injury Disaster Loans for drought victims, federal response to 1999 drought and heat wave, FY 2000 Agriculture appropriations conference report to including $5.5 billion to double Freedom to Farm or Agricultural Market Transition Act payments and $1.2 billion in disaster aid, and H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2000.

The materials in FOIA 2012-0191-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topice of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. The email from this collection primarily addresses farming and agricultural topics to include the 1996 Farm Bill, Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA), world market price of cotton and rice, agricultural reports on markets and perspectives, agricultural assistance programs, proposed USDA Marketing Loan changes, disaster aid, Economic Injury Disaster Loans for drought victims, federal response to 1999 drought and heat wave, FY 2000 agriculture appropriations conference, and H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2000.

Textual

Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in one collection area - Clinton Presidential Records: ARMS Emails. The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) is a database that contains email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential email. The ARMS database is comprised of six sub-series of email records called "buckets." The buckets generally represent a specific White House office. The buckets are titled: NPR for National Performance Review, OPD for Office of Policy Development, POTUS for President of the United States, WHO for White House Office, CEA for Council of Economic Advisers, and Default for emails not associated with an office. The OPD bucket contains email created or received by an individual with an Office of Policy Development (OPD) White House user account. The WHO bucket contains email created or received by individual with an Executive Office of the President White House user account not identified as CEA, NPR, or OPD. The CEA bucket contains email created or received by an individual with a Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) White House user account. The Default bucket contains email created or received by unknown or un-recognized email accounts. Email found within the Default bucket often includes email created or received by offices or individuals outside the Executive Office of the President. ARMS email are arranged by topic, there-under by bucket, and there-under chronologically by creation date.

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Staff Archivist, 2013. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of folders processed in response to FOIA 2012-0191-F:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
OPD [OA/ID 250000]
[Agriculture Market Transition, Marketing Assistance, Loan Deficency, and Disaster Loan]
[5/25/1999 – 8/12/1999]
WHO [OA/ID 500000]
[Agriculture Market Transition, Marketing Assistance, Loan Deficency, and Disaster Loan]
[6/9/1999 – 11/30/1999]
CEA [OA/ID 950000]
[Agriculture Market Transition, Marketing Assistance, Loan Deficency, and Disaster Loan]
[8/4/1999 – 8/20/1999]
Default [OA/ID 1100000]
[Agriculture Market Transition, Marketing Assistance, Loan Deficency, and Disaster Loan]
[4/6/1999 – 8/19/1999]
[8/24/1999 – 11/30/1999]
[1/2/2001 – 1/18/2001]