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Executive Order 12266—Food Security Wheat Reserve

January 15, 1981

By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Section 302(a) of the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 (Title III of the Agricultural Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-494//, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1-101. There is hereby established a Food Security Wheat Reserve composed of a reserve stock of wheat, which shall not exceed four million metric tons.

1-102. The Secretary of Agriculture is responsible for designating, in accordance with Section 302 of the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980, the specific reserve stocks of wheat which shall comprise the Food Security Wheat Reserve.

JIMMY CARTER

The White House,

January 15, 1981.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:26 p.m., January 15, 1981]

Jimmy Carter, Executive Order 12266—Food Security Wheat Reserve Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250706

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