A bill to provide agricultural disaster assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying crop or quality losses for the 2005 crop due to damaging weather or related condition, and for other purposes.

Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005 to provide emergency crop disaster assistance to agricultural producers who incurred qualifying 2005 losses due to damaging weather or related conditions. (Eliminates the provision limiting 2005 crop assistance to only producers who suffered losses in 2004 from hurricanes or tropical storms in disaster-designated counties.)

Provides emergency tree assistance to commercial orchardists and timber producers who incurred qualifying natural disaster-caused losses in 2005.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program for eligible: (1) livestock producers who are in a disaster county; and (2) catfish producers.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1636 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1636

To provide agricultural disaster assistance to producers on a farm that 
  incurred qualifying crop or quality losses for the 2005 crop due to 
     damaging weather or related condition, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 8, 2005

     Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Talent, Mr. Obama, and Mr. Bond) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide agricultural disaster assistance to producers on a farm that 
  incurred qualifying crop or quality losses for the 2005 crop due to 
     damaging weather or related condition, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AGRICULTURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Crop and Tree Assistance.--
            (1) In general.--Section 101 of division B of Public Law 
        108-324 (118 Stat. 1232) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(2)--
                            (i) by striking ``the 2003, 2004, or 2005 
                        crop (as elected by a producer), but limited to 
                        only one of the crop years listed'' and 
                        inserting ``the 2003 or 2004 crop (as elected 
                        by a producer) and the 2005 crop''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``qualifying crop losses'' 
                        and all that follows through ``in this 
                        paragraph,''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``2004'' and 
                inserting ``2005''.
            (2) Emergency designation.--The amounts made available by 
        the transfer of funds in or pursuant to the amendments made by 
        paragraph (1) are designated as an emergency requirement 
        pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress).
    (b) Livestock Compensation Program.--
            (1) Use of commodity credit corporation funds.--Effective 
        beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
        shall use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry 
        out the 2002 Livestock Compensation Program announced by the 
        Secretary on October 10, 2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 63070) for 2005 
        losses.
            (2) Eligible applicants.--In carrying out the Program, the 
        Secretary shall--
                    (A) provide assistance to any applicant that--
                            (i) conducts a livestock operation that is 
                        physically located in a disaster county, 
                        including any applicant conducting a livestock 
                        operation with eligible livestock, as that term 
                        is used in carrying out the livestock 
                        assistance program under section 101(b) of 
                        division B of Public Law 108-324 (118 Stat. 
                        1232); and
                            (ii) meets all other eligibility 
                        requirements established by the Secretary for 
                        the Program; and
                    (B) provide assistance to any applicant that--
                            (i) produces an animal described in section 
                        10806(a)(1) of the Farm Security and Rural 
                        Investment Act of 2002 (21 U.S.C. 321d(a)(1)); 
                        and
                            (ii) meets all other eligibility 
                        requirements established by the Secretary for 
                        the Program.
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