[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1430 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1430

    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency 
 financial assistance to agricultural producers who suffer severe crop 
             losses in federally designated disaster areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 1995

Mr. Farr (for himself, Mr. Doolittle, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Pombo, Ms. Eshoo, 
   Mr. Herger, Mr. Fazio of California, Mrs. Seastrand, Mr. Brown of 
  California, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Rose, Mr. Dooley, and Mr. Calvert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency 
 financial assistance to agricultural producers who suffer severe crop 
             losses in federally designated disaster areas.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN DISASTER 
              AREAS.

    (a) Assistance Authorized.--The Secretary of Agriculture may 
provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers for 
crop and operating losses incurred as a result of damages to, or the 
destruction of, an agricultural commodity that--
            (1) is grown in an area designated as the site of a major 
        disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
        Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.);
            (2) is normally produced by the producer, but was damaged, 
        destroyed, or prevented from being planted because of the 
        natural disaster that was the basis for the designation or 
        because of conditions directly related to the natural disaster; 
        and
            (3) is not an agricultural commodity that was eligible for 
        crop insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
        U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) before the natural disaster.
    (b) Use of Existing Authorities.--The Secretary shall use existing 
authorities available to the Secretary to provide assistance under 
subsection (a). In using such authorities, the Secretary may waive any 
provision of law that otherwise prevents an agricultural producer 
described in subsection (a) from receiving assistance, except that the 
Secretary may not waive crop loss requirements that condition the 
receipt of crop insurance or disaster assistance.
    (c) Prevention of Duplication.--An agricultural producer may not 
receive assistance under subsection (a) if the producer is compensated 
for the same loss under any other provision of law.
    (d) Effect on Existing Authorities.--The receipt by an agricultural 
producer of assistance under subsection (a) shall not be construed to 
make the agricultural producer eligible for any other Federal 
assistance program.
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