[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4583 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4583

To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the 
  counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers 
whose farming operations are located in certain declared disaster areas 
        on the total of the partial payments for that crop year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2004

Mr. Rehberg (for himself and Mr. Peterson of Minnesota) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the 
  counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers 
whose farming operations are located in certain declared disaster areas 
        on the total of the partial payments for that crop year.

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

SECTION 1. SPECIAL COUNTER-CYCLICAL PAYMENT RATE FOR 2003 CROP YEAR FOR 
              PRODUCERS OPERATING IN DECLARED DISASTER AREAS.

    Section 1104 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 
(7 U.S.C. 7914) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(g) Special Payment Rate for Certain Declared Disaster Areas.--
            ``(1) 2003 rate based on projected payment rate.--In the 
        case of the counter-cyclical payments that were required to be 
        made under this section for the 2003 crop year to producers on 
        a farm located in a federally declared disaster area for any of 
        the 2001 through 2004 crop years, the Secretary shall use as 
        the payment rate for that crop year the payment rate that was 
        used to make partial payments under subsection (f) for that 
        crop year, rather than the final payment rate determined for 
        that crop year.
            ``(2) Prompt payment of additional amounts.--As soon as 
        practicable after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 
        the Secretary shall pay to producers described in paragraph (1) 
        any additional counter-cyclical payment amount due the 
        producers for the 2003 crop year as a result of the revised 
        payment rate required by paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Federally declared disaster area defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term `federally declared disaster area' means 
        an area--
                    ``(A) covered by a Presidential declaration of 
                major disaster issued under section 401 of the Robert 
                T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
                Act (42 U.S.C. 5170); or
                    ``(B) determined to be a disaster area by the 
                Secretary under subpart A of part 1945 of title 7, Code 
                of Federal Regulations.''.
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