1.Short
title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Agriculture Hurricane Recovery
Act of 2005
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
TITLE I—Crop assistance
Sec. 101. Crop disaster assistance.
Sec. 102. Nursery crops and tropical fruit
producers.
Sec. 103. Citrus and vegetable assistance.
Sec. 104. Sugar producers.
TITLE II—Livestock assistance
Sec. 201. Livestock assistance program.
TITLE III—Forestry
Sec. 301. Tree assistance program.
TITLE IV—Conservation
Sec. 401. Emergency conservation program.
TITLE V—Low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers
Sec. 501. Emergency grants for low-income migrant and seasonal
farmworkers.
TITLE VI—Fisheries
Sec. 601. Fisheries assistance.
TITLE VII—Timber tax relief
Sec. 701. Timber tax relief for businesses affected by certain
natural disasters.
TITLE VIII—Miscellaneous
Sec. 801. Infrastructure losses.
Sec. 802. Commodity Credit Corporation.
Sec. 803. Emergency designation.
Sec. 804. Regulations.
2.Except as otherwise provided in this Act, in
this Act:
(1)The term additional coverage has the
meaning given the term in section 502(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7
U.S.C. 1502(b)).
(2)Catastrophic
risk protectionThe term catastrophic risk
protection means the level of insurance coverage provided under section
508(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(b)).
(3)The term disaster county means a county
included in the geographic area covered by a natural disaster declaration due
to hurricanes in calendar year 2005—
(A)made by the
Secretary under section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)) due to hurricanes in calendar year 2005; or
(B)made by the
President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).
(4)The term insurable commodity means an
agricultural commodity for which producers are eligible to obtain a policy or
plan of insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.).
(5)The term noninsurable commodity means an
eligible crop for which producers are eligible to obtain assistance under
section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7
U.S.C. 7333).
(6)The
term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
<enum>I</enum><header>Crop
assistance</header>
<section id="ID9e521ffe09134d7e86b53f7d8e81a3ac"><enum>101.<?LEXA-Enum 101.?></enum><header>Crop disaster assistance</header>
<subsection id="ID510ac0f1ca9c435986ea665766dbe755"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Emergency
assistance</header>
<paragraph id="id100E42B1A4DF4700A8269DED57F5034C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary of
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency assistance under
this section to producers on a farm or aquaculture operation (other than
producers of sugarcane) that meet the eligibility criteria of paragraph (2) in
the same manner as provided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–55), including using the same
loss thresholds for quantity and quality losses as were used in administering
that section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id208F9B674D4E44C6AD0FD478E69DDA18"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligibility
criteria</header><text>For producers described in paragraph (1) to be eligible
for emergency assistance under this section—</text>
<subparagraph id="id745EA833926743A9B7A88C79B19EFE40"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the farm or
aquaculture operation must be located in a disaster county; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3A168FD52A274EEE9A84CA0A114B0C84"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the producers
must have incurred qualifying crop or quality losses with respect to the 2004,
2005, or 2006 crop (as elected by a producer), but limited to only 1 such crop,
due to damaging weather or related condition, as determined by the
Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id52C2149F74E6476A86EF925BCB7CBB1A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Qualifying
crop losses for the 2006 crop are limited to only those losses caused by a
hurricane or tropical storm occurring during the 2005 hurricane season in
disaster counties.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID22c5322e5f17489abf1fe18ca7b75466"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Ineligibility
for assistance</header><text>Except as provided in subsection (c), the
producers on a farm shall not be eligible for assistance under this section
with respect to losses to an insurable commodity or noninsurable commodity if
the producers on the farm—</text>
<paragraph id="IDeca3966ee9c241e68c0d9f0c9a3f4a23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the case of an
insurable commodity, did not obtain a policy or plan of insurance for the
insurable commodity under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.) for the crop incurring the losses;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID3b08ec04bb584b6eaaf6f8c7e6428f52"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the case of a
noninsurable commodity, did not file the required paperwork, and pay the
administrative fee by the applicable State filing deadline, for the
noninsurable commodity under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement
and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) for the crop incurring the
losses;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID4e3c0ce16db744fa8e1d449775704850"><enum>(3)</enum><text>had an average
adjusted gross income (as defined in section 1001D of the Food Security Act of
1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–3a)) of greater than $2,500,000; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDad4ec6c431c24db7a5ea9a9b979ae444"><enum>(4)</enum><text>were not in
compliance with highly erodible land conservation and wetland conservation
provisions under subtitles B and C of title XII of the Food Security Act of
1985 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3811">16 U.S.C.
3811</external-xref> et seq.).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa47ce8f3cdb1420fb280a53acd64cc8e"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contract
waiver</header><text>The Secretary may waive subsection (b) with respect to the
producers on a farm if the producers enter into a contract with the Secretary
under which the producers agree—</text>
<paragraph id="ID5d03d407704446aeaa21754a904faf72"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the case of
all insurable commodities produced on the farm for each of the next 2 crop
years—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDcd5852df9fd54007a60472d163a4f225"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to obtain
additional coverage for those commodities under the Federal Crop Insurance Act
(7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0825785bc7854d948607e9099a4a3e3e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the event of
violation of the contract, to repay to the Secretary any payment received under
this section; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDb0574cf8c2aa40759e9f5bed792e5284"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the case of
all noninsurable commodities produced on the farm for each of the next 2 crop
or calendar years, as applicable—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9ff9097b054a4e52b4f40942c104c387"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to file the
required paperwork, and pay the administrative fee by the applicable State
filing deadline, for those commodities under section 196 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4383ae4d86224b9f80538eea3da30c59"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the event of
violation of the contract, to repay to the Secretary any payment received under
this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID1506586d8d8b4f588708f0c76984e58b"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Payment
limitations</header>
<paragraph id="ID190c26c906aa4fb387d2bea96710b9ee"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Limit on amount
of assistance</header><text>Assistance provided under this section to the
producers on a farm for losses to a crop, together with the amounts specified
in paragraph (2) applicable to the same crop, may not exceed 95 percent of what
the value of the crop would have been in the absence of the losses, as
estimated by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDc33ab8b245f348eaac6fffded2a5875a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other
payments</header><text>In applying the limitation in paragraph (1), the
Secretary shall include the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9e7158d95dc54e10b3ecb1a28aa95dc2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any crop
insurance payment made under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.) or payment under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and
Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) that the producers on the farm receive for
losses to the same crop.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd0c3374bbbe04d29be80327c5ee57d3d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The value of the
crop that was not lost (if any), as estimated by the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBEE53F203EF243D0AB0B92F7EF988B8C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Crop insurance
deductibles</header><text>For the purpose of determining crop insurance
payments under this section, the Secretary shall consider Hurricane Wilma as
having occurred during the 2005 crop year.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID2d8fd6ee5d8d45359159d444ec00c8dc"><enum>102.</enum><header>Nursery crops
and tropical fruit producers</header>
<subsection id="ID5a75e322023e4544ac57c42850935dac"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Emergency
financial assistance</header><text>Notwithstanding section 508(b)(7) of the
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(b)(7)), the Secretary shall use such
sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make
emergency financial assistance available to—</text>
<paragraph id="IDd765ecf8cb584e37889096605c3b33fa"><enum>(1)</enum><text>commercial
ornamental nursery and fernery producers in a disaster county for eligible
inventory losses due to hurricanes in calendar year 2005; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb4e9308375bc473c85f3fac473b686ba"><enum>(2)</enum><text>tropical fruit
producers in a disaster county who have suffered a loss of 35 percent or more
relative to their expected production (as defined in section 1480.3 of title 7,
Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation)) due to hurricanes in
calendar year 2005.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID4fccaef139704c09864faf5a40422452"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration</header>
<paragraph id="IDf0333d2f261245039d5cf2dced9034f8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Determination
of commercial operations</header><text>For a nursery or fernery producer to be
considered a commercial operation for purposes of subsection (a)(1) or (d)(1),
the producer must be registered as a nursery or fernery producer in the State
in which the producer conducts business.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID1c6553cfdeec4314b6a89f6395be972b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Determination
of eligible inventory</header><text>For purposes of subsection (a)(1), eligible
nursery and fernery inventory includes foliage, floriculture, and woody
ornamental crops, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="idEF9C1091AB1F48E68A6A276A6F8038CB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>stock used for
propagation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id25B2F15C4DBB4FE69695F5AAA4861F45"><enum>(B)</enum><text>fruit or nut
seedlings grown for sale as seed stock for commercial orchard operations
growing fruit or nuts.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID3cb3fabc2ede4efa807e8bf9b0464062"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Calculation of
losses and payments</header>
<paragraph id="ID02d4354829a54131a20e8cba48b14e86"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Nursery and
fernery producers</header>
<subparagraph id="id0B779056CC51448391392AADDD944580"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>For purposes of subsection (a)(1)—</text>
<clause id="idB055EE6722F74CF39A78545B98711147"><enum>(i)</enum><text>inventory losses
for a nursery or fernery producer shall be determined on an individual-nursery
or -fernery basis; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id8F4CC7C881234EC38A1D528072A5A398"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Secretary
shall not offset inventory losses at 1 nursery or fernery location by salvaged
inventory at another nursery or fernery operated by the same producer.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id63F42699903A497D8B34F005DC55FA1C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Amount</header><text>The
amount of payment to a nursery or fernery producer under subsection (a)(1)
shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying (as determined by the
Secretary)—</text>
<clause id="IDd43ff76c778d48e99dd698d2206b931c"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the
difference between the pre-disaster and post-disaster inventory value, as
determined by the Secretary using the wholesale price list of the producer,
less the maximum customer discount provided by the producer, and not to exceed
the prices in the Department of Agriculture publication entitled
<quote>Eligible Plant List and Price Schedule</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd146e1ac65f14ed783d75350a3d11111"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>25
percent; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID1352f167888e4e7f8367f08fd91b02bf"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the producer's
share of the loss.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID265325a3d09f4398a40764ac9a9ec29d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Tropical fruit
producers</header><text>The amount of a payment to a tropical fruit producer
under subsection (a)(2) shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying
(as determined by the Secretary)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID0a9805cadfd1405a98c57974afd4e10e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the number of
acres affected;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID21819bf142ab46b3b74575a87b0103c6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the payment rate;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe201637665e24c1faf8631856a3cea1f"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the producer's
share of the crop.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7f5afc6b2a754818a59c2d5b38f724a4"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Payment
limitation</header><text>The Secretary shall not impose any payment limitation
on an assistance payment made to a nursery, fernery, or tropical fruit producer
under paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDd8b1859ea3844200ba7a8feb33fcef1b"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Debris-Removal
assistance</header>
<paragraph id="ID5a9cf847230b484987b34c646d027b92"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Availability of
assistance</header><text>The Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary of
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial
assistance available to commercial ornamental nursery and fernery producers in
a disaster county to help cover costs incurred for debris removal and
associated cleanup due to hurricanes in calendar year 2005.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDcbde40efad0440c3ae642ed53bcdd93d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Amount of
assistance</header>
<subparagraph id="id44DF1570221F40E1B73FD614031327AE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Assistance under this subsection may not exceed the
actual costs incurred by the producer for debris removal and cleanup or $250
per acre, whichever is less.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id63A1B98077254B6CAAEBE992F9E8FCC8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>No additional
payment limitations</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (A), the
Secretary shall not impose any limitation on the maximum amount of payments
that a producer may receive under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDd2d8de41116a465fa099e9a587e54d27"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header>
<paragraph id="idBC25BAEDCBF34209BF4D9691625EC03E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), in carrying out this
section, the Secretary shall not discriminate against or penalize producers
that did not purchase crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) with respect to an insurable commodity or did not file the
required paperwork, and pay the administrative fee by the applicable State
filing deadline, for assistance under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) with respect to a
noninsurable commodity.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idE59D92B994C244F1BB32799C750780C4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>In
the case of a producer described in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id229C02EE6115462FB43A5B3197F1DA1D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>payment rates
under this section shall be reduced by 5 percent; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD76F1B350E3647E8BC5AE43FB9527115"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the producer
shall comply with subsection (f).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa1cc494455354785ba9c28e15a719127"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Contract to
procure crop insurance or NAP</header><text>In the case of a producer described
in subsection (e)(1) who receives any assistance under this section, the
producer shall be required to enter into a contract with the Secretary under
which the producer agrees—</text>
<paragraph id="IDad3ba35a306f46d1ad33d140db56b386"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the case of
all insurable commodities grown by the producer during the next available
coverage period—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9b0d8cbfde5245e7a0ebd867364d3648"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to obtain at
least catastrophic risk protection for those commodities under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcfa93b6bf6c7494e83635ea559ba4395"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the event of
violation of the contract, to repay to the Secretary any payment received under
this section; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID61ae421dacbe4e648aae83a841ede3b9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the case of
all noninsurable commodities grown by the producer during the next available
coverage period—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID2ae48c4fe6fe43baac7df67391f7b7ec"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to file the
required paperwork, and pay the administrative fee by the applicable State
filing deadline, for those commodities under section 196 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd7f262da1b1747ffa0b97a8f1dc85684"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the event of
violation of the contract, to repay to the Secretary any payment received under
this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDf9c28bf541164fa5b991b7d22438c353"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Relation to
other assistance</header>
<paragraph id="ID35176a82bb55498093e8e7641f08bc2e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Link to actual
losses</header><text>Assistance provided under subsection (a) to a producer for
losses to a crop, together with the amounts specified in paragraph (2)
applicable to the same crop, may not exceed 100 percent of what the value of
the crop would have been in the absence of the losses, as estimated by the
Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID0063cc160a24423b8d429b93befc7e9a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other
payments</header><text>In applying the limitation in paragraph (1), the
Secretary shall include the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe6c2ae64565842d099beb38b3fbe51aa"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any crop
insurance payment made under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.) or payment under section 196 of the Federal Agricultural Improvement and
Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) that the producer receives for losses to the
same crop.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbc13446dc80a49548088ffc73483baa1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Assistance
received under any other emergency crop loss authority.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9734c46f5a184bcbb7bb4d76e10eb7c4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The value of the
crop that was not lost (if any), as estimated by the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDa6142ee1df354e3a814e04fcda71a101"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Adjusted gross
income limitation</header><text>The average adjusted gross income limitation
specified in section 1001D of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308–3a),
shall apply to assistance provided under this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id4E1D876777E64DD8A1A14979E79DA8E7"><enum>103.</enum><header>Citrus and
vegetable assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act or any other law, the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary of
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial
assistance authorized under this section available to both citrus and vegetable
producers to carry out an assistance program similar to the program entitled
the <quote>Florida Citrus Disaster Program</quote>, described at 69 Fed. Reg.
63134, October 29, 2004, Document No. 04–24290 (relating to Florida citrus,
fruit, vegetable, and nursery crop disaster programs), except that qualifying
crop losses shall be limited to those losses caused by a hurricane or tropical
storm occurring during the 2005 hurricane season in a disaster county.</text>
</section><section id="id0AD7A3ACAF3F45D9BE3DE8CA1997D6D8"><enum>104.</enum><header>Sugar
producers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall
use $395,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make
payments to processors in Florida and Louisiana that are eligible to obtain a
loan under section 156(a) of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act
of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272(a)) to compensate first processors and producers for
crop and other losses that are related to hurricanes, tropical storms,
excessive rains, and floods occurring during calendar year 2005, to be
calculated and paid on the basis of losses on 40-acre harvesting units, in
disaster counties, on the same terms and conditions, to the maximum extent
practicable, as payments made under section 102 of the Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005 (Public Law
108–324; 118 Stat. 1235).</text>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Livestock
assistance</header>
<section id="idC7C049BEDC494A27A5B4EFEA7D99B78C"><enum>201.</enum><header>Livestock
assistance program</header>
<subsection id="ID93211373ed244361b988de5c4e4a93b7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Emergency
financial assistance</header>
<paragraph id="id8DE11D2879F44FBA90F151A41638B87A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary of
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments for livestock losses
to producers for 2005 or 2006 losses (as elected by a producer), but not both,
in a county that has received an emergency disaster designation by the
President after January 1, 2004.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9974D58E178F4EE7BF63689F76A9ECA0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Restriction</header><text>In
determining eligibility for assistance under this section, the Secretary shall
not use the end date of the normal grazing period to determine the threshold of
a 90-day loss of carrying capacity.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5c717356dd1a4563a1f11d4c9b3d2e85"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>Except
as provided in subsection (a), the Secretary shall make assistance available
under this subsection in the same manner as provided under section 806 of the
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat.
1549A–51).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID9837635616914215afb03b3fa16262c1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Mitigation</header><text>In
determining the eligibility for or amount of payments for which a producer is
eligible under this section, the Secretary shall not penalize a producer that
takes actions (including recognizing disaster conditions) that reduce the
average number of livestock the producer owned for grazing during the
production year for which assistance is being provided.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID7bceece941434d7393b9cef3dc1128ea"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Inclusion of
poultry</header><text>In providing assistance under this section, the Secretary
shall include poultry within the definition of <term>livestock</term>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Forestry</header>
<section id="IDcacbdb7ef12c4789b625101d81389c40"><enum>301.</enum><header>Tree
assistance program</header>
<subsection id="ID37fef54ef2a44f178c982c9189eb67a7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Specific
inclusion of nursery trees, Christmas trees, timber and forest
products</header><text>Section 10201 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8201) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9E3A789F4074F7DA464B6B3DFFF0DBE" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID1135e5ff051044859eabde0913d5614a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligible
orchardist</header><text>The term <term>eligible orchardist</term>
means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID611fc6f91b7843edbc51a07f897339e3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a person that
produces annual crops from trees for commercial purposes;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID76835feff9ea444fa22af620c8c450d4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a nursery grower
that produces field-grown trees, container-grown trees, or both, whether or not
the trees produce an annual crop, intended for replanting after commercial
sale; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID554635a1ca364b8384a2f66f8961e40f"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a forest
landowner who produces periodic crops of timber, Christmas trees, or pecan
trees for commercial
purposes.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="ID25f1b7d20e1b49458f7e0f37bce58506"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application of
amendment</header><text>The Secretary shall apply the amendment made by
subsection (a) beginning in disaster counties.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDfead9ffb73f14050aa6e238c23bc4e44"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Cost-Sharing
waivers</header>
<paragraph id="ID2452f14128d3442e945c15968dc03018"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Tree assistance
program</header><text>The cost-sharing requirements of section 10203(1) of the
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8203(1)) shall not
apply to the operation of the tree assistance program in disaster counties in
response to the hurricanes of calendar year 2005.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDde5e75faa5964afc9024e2af48ee3274"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Cooperative
forestry assistance act</header><text>The cost-sharing requirements of the
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.) shall not
apply in disaster counties during the 2-year period beginning on the date of
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id47869E777B254306B5E598A9F7EF987C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reforestation</header><text>In
carrying out the tree assistance program under subtitle C of title X of the
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8201 et seq.), the
Secretary shall provide such funds as are necessary to compensate forest owners
that—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD648F66DAD794484BC98DD738FEE4BAF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>produce periodic
crops of timber or Christmas trees for commercial purposes; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1146C2AB703147D9B92FABEF2977C5C8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>have suffered
tree losses in disaster counties.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Conservation</header>
<section id="ID92ca634db99b48359fae6dca67ebac9c"><enum>401.</enum><header>Emergency
conservation program</header>
<subsection id="id477A2BDC583F4ECF97E1D189DA2F522B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Specific
inclusion of nursery and fernery producers and interior
fences</header><text>Section 401 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16
U.S.C. 2201) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id47AB8EBD483E40EEAF03A807CDB603EE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">Sec.</header-in-text> 401.
The Secretary</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF2C805629F0A453A9FBF78ED53E36B97" style="OLC">
<section id="idB6725985AEA9495BB2F399E6E396B2ED"><enum>401.</enum><header>Payments to
agricultural producers for wind erosion control or rehabilitation
measures</header>
<subsection id="idBDD51CE544764EE4A0FD78AE9B16533A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Secretary</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id57DFFE56B2134F08BB222E94FBB23E6D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBFAD1615BF7443B681B43BB65BDFA26D" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID3eaaed7240404b70b41b181050518e20"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>In
this title:</text>
<paragraph id="idC10C23E7B92041C6A49C7591E8841624"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Agricultural
producer</header><text>The term <term>agricultural producer</term> includes a
producer of nursery or fernery crops.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id548D033430BD4F278767638F7FD5679B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Interior
fences</header><text>The term <term>fences</term> includes both perimeter
pasture and interior corral
fences.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDda6d2c8ba75648bab02f6f20bafe94ea"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application of
amendment</header><text>The Secretary shall apply the amendment made by
subsection (a)(2) beginning in disaster counties.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idFFA6790045FF4B24B51667DDDB72FDAD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Compensation</header><text>The
Secretary shall use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to compensate
producers on a farm operating in a disaster county for costs associated with
repairing structures, barns, storage facilities, poultry houses, beehives,
greenhouses, and shade houses due to hurricane damage in calendar year
2005.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Low-income
migrant and seasonal farmworkers</header>
<section id="id0A0A309773B94096A014297D09AB85B1"><enum>501.</enum><header>Emergency
grants for low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers</header>
<subsection id="idE9053FC2184C4E599F56EAAF6078C07E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
use $40,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, to remain
available until December 31, 2007, to provide emergency grants to assist
low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers under section 2281 of the Food,
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 5177a).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idD4E9434EC4E64F9498EA04B7CF3E40F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of
grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants provided under
this section may be used to provide such emergency services as the Secretary
determines to be necessary, including—</text>
<paragraph id="id4DD7F80ECF1D4A53B7B0D2034496FAF5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the repair of existing farmworker housing
and construction of new farmworker housing units to replace housing damaged as
a result of hurricanes during 2005; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1CB0B50FE8AF41AB85C3670C41B92E0D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the reimbursement of public agencies and
private organizations for emergency services provided to low-income migrant or
seasonal farmworkers after October 31, 2005.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Fisheries</header>
<section id="IDf820482e521b486fbe56440d6959e97d"><enum>601.</enum><header>Fisheries
assistance</header>
<subsection id="IDd55fff042cad480c86c21a279a9e0263"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Funds for
oyster restoration</header>
<paragraph id="idB23A6E735C054F3B9204016DC3C00EA1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary of Commerce
$10,000,000 to provide assistance for reseeding, rehabilitation, and
restoration of oyster reefs located in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, or
Mississippi.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idAF0203134EA4437B8B50346A8290E497"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability of
funds</header><text>The funds transferred under paragraph (1) shall remain
available until September 30, 2007.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDDDB9AFAA4B2435EB9C6E3EA8D700BC2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Receipt and
acceptance</header><text>The Secretary of Commerce shall be entitled to
receive, shall accept, and shall use as described in this section the funds
transferred under paragraph (1) without further appropriation.
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID00221c5c501b4321ae9b3023305cad99"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Funds for
fisheries disaster assistance</header>
<paragraph id="id274D668B4618482B8D0555658FDFF095"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made
available, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, out
of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary of Commerce $60,000,000 to provide
fisheries disaster assistance.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id306F75A4B5224C7BAABDEB79D99AE347"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation on
use of funds</header><text>Of the funds transferred under paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id148FD7CA408949D8A03F19B3BA21A04A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not more than 5
percent of such funds may be used for administrative expenses; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB839968C6FBD4761B928E3A2354C61F8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>none of such
funds may be used for lobbying activities or representational expenses.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA5EB20E4DA5943628C469EEEAB9CEDF9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Receipt and
acceptance</header><text>The Secretary of Commerce shall be entitled to
receive, shall accept, and shall use as described in this section the funds
transferred under paragraph (1) without further appropriation.
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID049bb71d1bb743409c39398bd9f1e786"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Provision of
assistance</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7136208597E142CBA93E5C948A729185"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Lump sum
payments to States</header><text>The Secretary of Commerce shall use the funds
transferred under this section to provide direct lump sum payments to the
States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to provide assistance to
persons located in a disaster county who have experienced significant economic
hardship due to the loss of fisheries, oysters, lobsters, stone crabs, or
clams, destroyed or damaged processing facilities, or closures due to red tide
or other water quality issues.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC8DFFDF35FC349898FC59142C4510583"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header><text>Funds transferred to the Secretary of Commerce under this
section shall be used to provide assistance—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70D522FE503049C18EA325039221EC81"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to individuals,
with priority given to food, energy needs, housing assistance, transportation
fuel, and other urgent needs;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C3318F3A7AF48C3B27DAEC75F4882C8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to small
businesses, including fishermen, fish processors, and related businesses
serving the fishing industry;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEE27D329563F4393895A15793BAF94B6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to carry out
activities related to domestic product marketing and seafood promotion;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0AD4707354EA4ED9800CEC756908B71D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>to carry out
seafood testing programs operated by a State.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VII</enum><header>Timber tax
relief</header>
<section id="id21D99EC96F484BB7A5CFD8E8CDAB79D0"><enum>701.</enum><header>Timber tax
relief for businesses affected by certain natural disasters</header>
<subsection id="id0CAFE26F7CBA4B63BDDB42EAB9840CE2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Casualty
losses</header>
<paragraph id="id2091DBE33E2F4A65B1EF60639C977B71"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 1211 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(relating to limitation of capital losses) shall not apply to any qualified
timber loss.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id7D652E14612748299698E3F087961E65"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualified
timber loss</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term
<term>qualified timber loss</term> means a loss with respect to timber which is
attributable to—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9CD8FA3391474549AB8AE16A218145C5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Hurricane
Dennis,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFE187965A1474BA1921824A0B01539A6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Hurricane
Katrina,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF716DFDAA6814D73B0DE3ABF6111F480"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Hurricane Rita,
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFCDB18DF674946DC8D5C5AC924F23F05"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Hurricane
Wilma.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id1677AB41293D4E18A07AD1DBBA87C6C9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increased
expensing for reforestation expenditures</header>
<paragraph id="idD9808D9EC42949D5A5879D9F8FAF8675"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In applying section 194(b) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 to any specified qualified timber property for the first taxable year
beginning after the date of the enactment of this section, subparagraph (B) of
section 194(b)(1) shall be applied—</text>
<subparagraph id="id84013A9A25ED4D26999602A0D960AD4C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by substituting
<quote>$20,000</quote> for <quote>$10,000</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id03CD3E5E7DAF4931978D4A0934576E21"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by substituting
<quote>$10,000</quote> for <quote>$5,000</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3A21A9EEDBB840609C985E1F4045CD2F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Specified
qualified timber property</header><text>The term <term>specified qualified
timber property</term> means qualified timber property (within the meaning of
section 194(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) which is located in an
area with respect to which a natural disaster has been declared by the
President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act as a result of—</text>
<subparagraph id="id53583850068049E68B1BFE9889E0F8DD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Hurricane
Dennis,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id22D1D6A9BE0E46FB991A0E87B4152CF4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Hurricane
Katrina,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id91AE575D561C47628F9E832F3677449F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Hurricane Rita,
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDFD6CD58E0DA46E7A35C9011F207E837"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Hurricane
Wilma.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section id="ID3f0ffa7959a24d58a2a645095ba13d1b"><enum>801.</enum><header>Infrastructure
losses</header>
<subsection id="IDff961702e9b54b4a83ca8832282c31ce"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Infrastructure
losses</header><text>The Secretary shall compensate producers on a farm in a
disaster county for costs incurred to repair or replace barns, greenhouses,
shade houses, poultry houses, beehives, and other structures, equipment, and
fencing that—</text>
<paragraph id="ID673dd9eee1b5405088b8cdda1367480d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>was used to
produce or store any agricultural commodity; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID04b67e43b6b946cbac339cc322e1eadd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>was damaged or
destroyed by the hurricanes of calendar year 2005.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDc8543d48f82248cfb8c33e55d5ee3033"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Timing of
assistance</header><text>The Secretary may provide assistance authorized under
this section in the form of—</text>
<paragraph id="IDfd70c2317136461baa635ac48b5f59f4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>reimbursement for
eligible repair or replacement costs previously incurred by producers;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID9d0c60976bb8425cacb678fafdee8595"><enum>(2)</enum><text>cash or in-kind
assistance in advance of the producer undertaking the needed repair or
replacement work.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID415dad0d332748ddb1bd65e6872543aa"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Payment
limitations</header><text>Assistance provided under this section to a producer
for a repair or replacement project, together with amounts received for the
same project from insurance proceeds or other sources, may not exceed 95
percent of the costs incurred to repair or replace the damaged or destroyed
structures, equipment, or fencing, as estimated by the Secretary.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID01b79b20ef4d4b41a0ebc182e5e41f6c"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Loan
eligibility</header><text>After approval of the county committee established
under section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C.
590h) for the county or other area in which the farming operation is located,
the producers on a farm in a disaster county shall be eligible to receive an
emergency loan under subtitle C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.) regardless of whether the producers satisfy the
requirements of the first proviso of section 321(a) of that Act (7 U.S.C.
1961(a)).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="IDee44ed74fd2a402b91f35604e6631175"><enum>802.</enum><header>Commodity
Credit Corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Except as
otherwise provided in this Act—</text>
<paragraph id="id0D8911BB3FB44B6BB7121AF1446ACF0F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary shall use the funds,
facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out
this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5A68FDF25EE64A279B73CFB08E49026C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">funds made available under this Act shall
remain available until expended.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ID2840abb6638348d9b0ff3e3d08a5c0a4"><enum>803.</enum><header>Emergency
designation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amounts
provided under this Act or under amendments made by this Act to respond to the
hurricanes of calendar year 2005 are designated as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress).</text>
</section><section id="ID522bb143ca6a4c2b9b45bed0230e6532"><enum>804.</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<subsection id="ID7f9a8ec9b3e24e2cb1a38be62e8cbb4b"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may promulgate such regulations as are
necessary to implement this Act and the amendments made by this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDb8d5560be5f44becb7804b4dfda789d7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedure</header><text>The
promulgation of the regulations and administration of this Act and the
amendments made by this Act shall be made without regard to—</text>
<paragraph id="IDa2ebd8c45faa426d97706f33964bb8bb"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the notice and
comment provisions of section 553 of title 5, United States Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID9380b172496f48318647cd981c5cb06a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Statement of
Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg.
13804), relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and public participation in
rulemaking; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdf21fad6a95f4d5591b1eea986533f20"><enum>(3)</enum><text>chapter 35 of
title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the <quote>Paperwork Reduction
Act</quote>).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDcc764bd0c2904de4877fc145e8489ce3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Congressional
review of agency rulemaking</header><text>In carrying out this section, the
Secretary shall use the authority provided under section 808 of title 5, United
States Code.</text>
</subsection></section>