[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1354 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1354

    To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to 
        producers of forage crops for losses due to army worms.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 3, 2001

  Mrs. Carnahan (for herself and Mr. Leahy) 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 require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to 
        producers of forage crops for losses due to army worms.

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

SECTION 1. COMPENSATION OF PRODUCERS FOR FORAGE LOSSES DUE TO ARMY 
              WORMS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall use not more 
than $25,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
provide payments to producers of forage crops for losses due to army 
worms.
    (b) Amount.--
            (1) In general.--The amount of a payment made to a producer 
        under this section shall be equal to 65 percent of the average 
        price received by producers of a forage crop in the crop year 
        (as determined under paragraph (2)) for any deficiency in an 
        established regular cutting greater than 35 percent of the 
        established yield for the cutting, as determined by the 
        Secretary.
            (2) Average price.--For the purpose of paragraph (1), the 
        average price received by producers of a forage crop shall be 
        equal to the simple average price received by producers of the 
        crop, as determined by the Secretary, during the immediately 
        preceding 5 crop years, excluding the year in which the average 
        price was the highest and the year in which the average price 
        was the lowest.
            (3) Administration.--Except as provided in paragraph (1), 
        the amount of a payment made to a producer under this section 
        shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions 
        specified in section 196 of the Agricultural Market Transition 
        Act (7 U.S.C. 7333).
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