[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 302 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 302

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make emergency loans under 
  the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to poultry farmers 
               whose energy costs have escalated sharply.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2001

  Mr. Shows 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 make emergency loans under 
  the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to poultry farmers 
               whose energy costs have escalated sharply.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY LOANS FOR POULTRY FARMERS WHOSE ENERGY COSTS HAVE 
              ESCALATED SHARPLY.

    Section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1961(a)) is amended--
            (1) in the 1st sentence, by inserting ``, or that the 
        applicants' poultry farming operations have been substantially 
        affected by an increase in energy prices of at least 25 percent 
        in any 12-month period'' before ``: Provided,'';
            (2) in the 2nd sentence, by inserting ``, or that conduct 
        poultry farming operations in any county contiguous to a county 
        where the Secretary has found that poultry farming operations 
        have been substantially affected by an increase in energy 
        prices of at least 25 percent in any 12-month period'' before 
        the period; and
            (3) in the 3rd sentence--
                    (A) by inserting ``or (in the case of a poultry 
                farming operation), by an increase in energy prices,'' 
                after ``a natural disaster''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, or that poultry farming 
                operations have been substantially affected by such 
                increase in energy prices,'' after ``by such natural 
                disaster''.
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