1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of
2006
.
(b)The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
TITLE I—Wildfire relief
Sec. 101. Emergency conservation program.
Sec. 102. Environmental quality incentives program.
Sec. 103. Livestock assistance grant program.
TITLE II—Agricultural production losses
Sec. 201. Crop disaster assistance.
Sec. 202. Livestock assistance.
Sec. 203. Sugar beet disaster assistance.
Sec. 204. Bovine tuberculosis herd indemnification.
Sec. 205. Reduction in payments.
TITLE III—Supplemental nutrition and agricultural economic
disaster assistance
Sec. 301. Replenishment of Section
32.
Sec. 302. Supplemental economic loss payments.
TITLE IV—Conservation
Sec. 401. Emergency watershed protection program.
TITLE V—Farm Service Agency
Sec. 501. Funding for additional personnel.
TITLE VI—Miscellaneous
Sec. 601. Funding.
Sec. 602. Regulations.
TITLE VII—Emergency designation
Sec. 701. Emergency designation.
2.In this Act:
(1)The term additional coverage has the
meaning given the term in section 502(b)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act
(7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(1)).
(2)The term disaster county means—
(A)a county included in the geographic area
covered by a natural disaster declaration; and
(B)each county contiguous to a county
described in subparagraph (A).
(3)The term insurable commodity means an
agricultural commodity (excluding livestock) for which the producers on a farm
are eligible to obtain a policy or plan of insurance under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
(4)The
term livestock includes—
(A)cattle (including
dairy cattle);
(B)bison;
(C)sheep;
(D)swine; and
(E)other livestock,
as determined by the Secretary.
(5)Natural disaster
declarationThe term natural disaster declaration
means a natural disaster declared by the Secretary during calendar year 2005 or
2006 under section 321(a) of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)).
(6)The term noninsurable commodity means a
crop for which the producers on a farm are eligible to obtain assistance under
section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7
U.S.C. 7333).
(7)The
term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
<enum>I</enum><header>Wildfire
relief</header>
<section changed="not-changed" id="ID36861FDBCD38493D8FA68AFEC62BE705"><enum>101.</enum><header>Emergency
conservation program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary shall use an additional $30,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to carry out emergency measures identified by the Administrator of
the Farm Service Agency as of the date of enactment of this Act through the
emergency conservation program established under title IV of the Agricultural
Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), of which not less than $2,000,000
shall be used to carry out such measures in the State of Montana for the
control of wildfires.</text>
</section><section changed="not-changed" id="idD98E50330F92467BB70B16D465F61C32"><enum>102.</enum><header>Environmental
quality incentives program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary shall use an additional $200,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to carry out emergency measures identified by the Secretary as of
the date of enactment of this Act through the environmental quality incentives
program established under chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food
Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.), of which not less than
$10,000,000 shall be used to carry out such measures in the State of Montana
for the control of wildfires.</text>
</section><section changed="not-changed" id="idDD8E568B74B74F9F97F56C63D2A2066B"><enum>103.</enum><header>Livestock
assistance grant program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary shall use an additional $100,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to carry out the Livestock Assistance Grant Program announced by
the Secretary on August 29, 2006, in the same manner as the Program announced
by the Secretary except that counties adversely impacted by wildfires shall be
eligible to participate in the Program.</text>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Agricultural
production losses</header>
<section id="id93069F04115E42A0A86A240F0A0C7B0A"><enum>201.</enum><header>Crop disaster
assistance</header>
<subsection id="idC2197578FD524F7CA8AABC1E3C97454A"><enum>(a)</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 financial
assistance authorized under this section available to producers on a farm that
have incurred qualifying losses described in subsection (c).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDD173B62C9036417192AA40EC62D422A9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administration</header>
<paragraph id="ID9159C2458A2546019F7179B7D540D3EC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall
make assistance available under this section 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 economic losses as were used in administering that section, except
that the payment rate shall be 50 percent of the established price, instead of
65 percent.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID1ebd69ef9f954331a9903dd37a022191"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Noninsured
producers</header><text>For producers on a farm that were eligible to acquire
crop insurance for the applicable production loss and failed to do so or failed
to submit an application for the noninsured assistance program for the loss,
the Secretary shall make assistance in accordance with paragraph (1), except
that the payment rate shall be 35 percent of the established price, instead of
50 percent.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDADDFB8A4AE874F18A10EF9E36255146E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualifying
losses</header><text>Assistance under this section shall be made available to
producers on farms, other than producers of sugar beets, that incurred
qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to damaging
weather or any related condition (including losses due to crop diseases,
insects, and delayed harvest), as determined by the Secretary.</text>
</subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID0E42208F4D2D4447B258E03B0FB7475A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Quality
losses</header>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDA7C8077515FA4068B2FB4550FC490A0E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>In addition to any payment received under subsection (b),
the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation to make payments to producers on a farm described in
subsection (a) that incurred a quality loss for the 2005 or 2006 crop, or both,
of a commodity in an amount equal to the product obtained by
multiplying—</text>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id1DD0275333C04C70A119D2564895375B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the payment
quantity determined under paragraph (2);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID18E7B70A385E4AA8BE98FA8423296741"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idD5FC6164C4574FEE934E927577A1F29C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of an
insurable commodity, the coverage level elected by the insured under the policy
or plan of insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idC93ED66C29D149FE842708A4931E46A8" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a noninsurable
commodity, the applicable coverage level for the payment quantity determined
under paragraph (2); by</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID45B787B45D8E4D899D2729B7CA15A93A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>50 percent of the
payment rate determined under paragraph (3).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDC89BA46BCD114A50B3D9A9F2863A5420"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Payment
quantity</header><text>For the purpose of paragraph (1)(A), the payment
quantity for quality losses for a crop of a commodity on a farm shall equal the
lesser of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID10456B2FF6894939930508357561182F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the actual
production of the crop affected by a quality loss of the commodity on the farm;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDCF3F14CF18594DE0977C1F36B6A2B934"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id19EF97801CF044699098E89B932BBB95"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of an
insurable commodity, the actual production history for the commodity by the
producers on the farm under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idADB21E476C214D4EB07C7AC64A7C9BE6" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a noninsurable
commodity, the established yield for the crop for the producers on the farm
under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
(7 U.S.C. 7333).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID0C4A38EC36174D2E9291E3A478BAA58E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Payment
rate</header>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idB1F1024B0FF24114A5A3051AFC36710F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>For the purpose of paragraph (1)(B), the payment rate for
quality losses for a crop of a commodity on a farm shall be equal to the
difference between (as determined by the applicable State committee of the Farm
Service Agency)—</text>
<clause changed="not-changed" id="ID5B1FF92D27524582A7B86A949BDFF6D9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the per unit
market value that the units of the crop affected by the quality loss would have
had if the crop had not suffered a quality loss; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="IDADDA7D812C3C402C8C7B1942F7B830D7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the per unit
market value of the units of the crop affected by the quality loss.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id82CC34BFEF1A49BC97B81F759DE244FC"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Factors</header><text>In
determining the payment rate for quality losses for a crop of a commodity on a
farm, the applicable State committee of the Farm Service Agency shall take into
account—</text>
<clause changed="not-changed" id="id0A3372AA1C634BB29BE95A668A06AF36"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the average local
market quality discounts that purchasers applied to the commodity during the
first 2 months following the normal harvest period for the commodity;</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id9281ABD85BEA4930AC10D7407F466D07"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the loan rate
and repayment rate established for the commodity under the marketing loan
program established for the commodity under subtitle B of title I of the Farm
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7931 et seq.);</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="idDC6350DBE18C4AF5A651B9B0A43ADB6A"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the market
value of the commodity if sold into a secondary market; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id8B2ACC2AF6334F56ABAC92DBDD1AFE66"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>other factors
determined appropriate by the committee.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDA945184FCD024C48B735BCDE7754C4C9"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Eligibility</header>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id44F2D052131C4B5A9B0BA9E9C733BC42"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>For producers on a farm to be eligible to obtain a
payment for a quality loss for a crop under this subsection—</text>
<clause changed="not-changed" id="idAB2BBE57299F49AFAE91A535877717D1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amount
obtained by multiplying the per unit loss determined under paragraph (1) by the
number of units affected by the quality loss shall be reduced by the amount of
any indemnification received by the producers on the farm for quality loss
adjustment for the commodity under a policy or plan of insurance under the
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.); and</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="id17FA5BEB29504502A7917DEA7F3D145F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the remainder
shall be at least 25 percent of the value that all affected production of the
crop would have had if the crop had not suffered a quality loss.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="id033BEDC889524FFDA88BED4BF774E6C8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Ineligibility</header><text>If
the amount of a quality loss payment for a commodity for the producers on a
farm determined under this paragraph is equal to or less than zero, the
producers on the farm shall be ineligible for assistance for the commodity
under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC433338E6B5C4E858B0CFAEDEB5163C2"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Eligible
production</header><text>The Secretary shall carry out this subsection in a
fair and equitable manner for all eligible production, including the production
of fruits and vegetables, other specialty crops, and field crops.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99E3804A24B04CA7BE0A187D34E18A4D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Timing</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2B19DBC5CEE14DDDA7409C76A21DE46B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall make
payments to producers on a farm for a crop under this section not later than 60
days after the date the producers on the farm submit to the Secretary a
completed application for the payments.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4EFAC348085B4FE3BA9CD65EE5D9CD34"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Interest</header><text>If
the Secretary does not make payments to the producers on a farm by the date
described in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall pay to the producers on a farm
interest on the payments at a rate equal to the current (as of the sign-up
deadline established by the Secretary) market yield on outstanding, marketable
obligations of the United States with maturities of 30 years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ID617422C1AB8E4EDAA87CFCD2152A8CE6"><enum>202.</enum><header>Livestock
assistance</header>
<subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID413941568E394BD783EC476C9AF1FC22"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Livestock
Compensation Program</header>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID68FA554233B84DFD9E5F0FBC23A47D66"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Use of
Commodity Credit Corporation funds</header><text>Effective beginning on the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall use funds of the Commodity
Credit Corporation to carry out the 2002 Livestock Compensation Program
announced by the Secretary on October 10, 2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 63070), to provide
compensation for livestock losses during calendar years 2005 and 2006 for
losses due to a disaster, as determined by the Secretary, except that the
payment rate shall be 75 percent of the payment rate established for the 2002
Livestock Compensation Program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID25AC833E8CCB410DA4C0988C3748DF89"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible
applicants</header><text>In carrying out the program described in paragraph
(1), the Secretary shall provide assistance to any applicant for livestock
losses during calendar year 2005 or 2006, or both, that—</text>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID3FA1E8C5DA3340A2802F96C03ED35F99"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="IDCE82C1BDAB3D480D8798A5ACA1BDA7EF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>conducts a livestock
operation that is located in a disaster county, including any applicant
conducting a livestock operation with eligible livestock (within the meaning of
the livestock assistance program under section 101(b) of division B of Public
Law 108–324 (118 Stat. 1234)); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="ID4A3603F7160C4800B7B4655C216E6172" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>produces an animal described in
section 10806(a)(1) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (21
U.S.C. 321d(a)(1));</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDDC964EACB1C04B8F8BDEC71606410D7D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>demonstrates to
the Secretary that the applicant suffered a material loss of pasture or hay
production, or experienced substantially increased feed costs, due to damaging
weather or a related condition during the calendar year, as determined by the
Secretary; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="idC8F1929989224ED097BA70842C94DD96"><enum>(C)</enum><text>meets all other
eligibility requirements established by the Secretary for the program.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID04AD0CB4D51D4D0E94282E4D0A445DA6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Mitigation</header><text>In
determining the eligibility for or amount of payments for which a producer is
eligible under the livestock compensation program, the Secretary shall not
penalize a producer that takes actions (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>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idED4F59B37B9549FCBDA9981F5C073735"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Livestock
indemnity payments</header>
<paragraph id="idBB33D54C8D5043C2B0D7B7156D164574"><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 livestock indemnity payments
to producers on farms that have incurred livestock losses during calendar years
2005 and 2006 for losses that occurred prior to the date of enactment of this
Act (including wildfire disaster losses in the States of Montana and Texas and
other States) due to a disaster, as determined by the Secretary, including
losses due to hurricanes, floods, anthrax, and wildfires.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idB1177EAF999A48FBAAE8B47E4EF8DF34"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Payment
rates</header><text>Indemnity payments to a producer on a farm under paragraph
(1) shall be made at a rate of not less than 30 percent of the market value of
the applicable livestock on the day before the date of death of the livestock,
as determined by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID21a5740a4fda4e7b97d0ee84be5c8b5b"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Ewe lamb
replacement and retention</header>
<paragraph id="id425BF41B35AB4B509857F9FFFD7B46D3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall use $13,000,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to make payments under the Ewe Lamb Replacement
and Retention Payment Program under part 784 of title 7, Code of Federal
Regulations (or a successor regulation) for each qualifying ewe lamb retained
or purchased during the period beginning on January 1, 2006, and ending on
December 31, 2006.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idDFF955570DE64471966921B309E61831"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Ineligibility
for other assistance</header><text>A producer that receives assistance under
this subsection shall not be eligible to receive assistance under subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id17AD5528EBA34AD6A2479DA48CCDD39B"><enum>203.</enum><header>Sugar beet
disaster assistance</header>
<subsection id="ID2066adab5d9d41adb33f246999d629b7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall use $24,000,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to provide assistance to sugar beet producers that
suffered production losses (including quality losses) for the 2005 crop
year.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID51fc4cdb0c624efb9da013e1f952a7c0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>The
Secretary shall make payments under subsection (a) in the same manner as
payments were made under section 208 of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003
(Public Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 544), including using the same indemnity benefits
as were used in carrying out that section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID058f8d0de54f4c209bf485d55418d0a8"><enum>204.</enum><header>Bovine
tuberculosis herd indemnification</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall use $2,000,000 of funds
of the Commodity Credit Corporation to indemnify producers that suffered losses
to herds of cattle due to bovine tuberculosis during calendar year 2005.</text>
</section><section id="id60E3C063791D4C4F853EDD7F8B8F9887"><enum>205.</enum><header>Reduction in
payments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amount of any
payment for which a producer is eligible under this title shall be reduced by
any amount received by the producer for the same loss or any similar loss
under—</text>
<paragraph id="id68C771F6ED26497B8E4EFD37943BE95E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Department of Defense, Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and
Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–148; 119 Stat. 2680);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id75832DBC3453428BAF856574439CC558"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an agricultural
disaster assistance provision contained in the announcement of the Secretary on
January 26, 2006, or August 29, 2006; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id585C6333944E4C1291499BFB16B97FAC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and
Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public Law 109-234; 120 Stat. 418).</text>
</paragraph></section><enum>III</enum><header>Supplemental
nutrition and agricultural economic disaster assistance</header>
<section changed="not-changed" id="ID31BAA31F15294ACBBFAEF9219F936536"><enum>301.</enum><header>Replenishment
of Section <enum-in-header>32</enum-in-header></header>
<subsection changed="not-changed" id="IDC8ED71A97F8C403D922A22694B2A0301"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of
Specialty Crop</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDA1ED5E4692D34265A7EA3034F4EF1F13"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The term <term>specialty crop</term> means any
agricultural crop.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID26DE5EEC5A6141BFA9569E324D231198"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>The
term <term>specialty crop</term> does not include—</text>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDE9DC79FCE6D048EE9534C026BA229BCA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>wheat;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDB7844B1371F549C19FA7E2B453F673E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>feed
grains;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDDE4ACF2A7A4D4B7ABD2662EDFD578AD2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>oilseeds;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDC475A0C7014E4D2D995141988F9B1B69"><enum>(D)</enum><text>cotton;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDDAD5968F1B1F4E1EAB644E3D6D94C83B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>rice;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID36448749590346C0A280FCA8998EDE9A"><enum>(F)</enum><text>peanuts;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID7D0CC933AC454EB0B7FF4D60AB3C5A7F"><enum>(G)</enum><text>milk.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="IDBAE5FCF0C5E34CFB846A137712C95487"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Base State
Grants</header>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID8FE8EADE91CF41D98DF2F16AC3C852A8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall use $25,000,000 of funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation to make grants to the several States to be used to
support activities that promote agriculture.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID70713FFAA9064338B97338C853085F10"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Amounts</header><text>The
amount of the grants shall be $500,000 to each of the several States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID0A3D31F360BD4A8ABB13ED66C379FE97"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grants for
Value of Production</header><text>The Secretary shall use $74,500,000 of funds
of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make a grant to each of the several
States in an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying—</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID899B376153AB411FA7BDE3D436A7CAE0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the share of the
State of the total value of specialty crop and livestock of the United States
for the 2004 crop year, as determined by the Secretary; by</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDF251CED8254045F0B2FDE6B5293701B0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$74,500,000.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID977D883BC692415F8C8C9962C46C9F1B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Special Crop
and Livestock Priority</header><text>As a condition on the receipt of a grant
under this section, a State shall agree to give priority to the support of
specialty crops and livestock in the use of the grant funds.</text>
</subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID033C4A188A8E452AA2898693EC711F5B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Use of
Funds</header><text>A State may use funds from a grant awarded under this
section—</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDDFD5EFA6D0C140248C8F06A891200A41"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to supplement
State food bank programs or other nutrition assistance programs;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDD5456FFF685A4C19BC681EBD426DC1D5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to promote the
purchase, sale, or consumption of agricultural products;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDD25F1619D9DF4B1B81E057F709324083"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to provide
economic assistance to agricultural producers, giving a priority to the support
of specialty crops and livestock; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDBF482EFB2B484A94872A2E3FB4117E35"><enum>(4)</enum><text>for other
purposes as determined by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section changed="not-changed" id="ID4F6130AE5C3D4AE4B283EFF4C2773A8C"><enum>302.</enum><header>Supplemental
economic loss payments</header>
<subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID62D4A7836AF2433999269EFD9E8452D9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary shall make a
supplemental economic loss payment to—</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID2EFE063385B84B0BB5E0AF207BA94230"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any producers on
a farm that received a direct payment for crop year 2005 under title I of the
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="IDF71798D308584D9FBD394D7115E86EB4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any dairy
producer that was eligible to receive a payment during the 2005 calendar year
under section 1502 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7
U.S.C. 7982).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID102018A49D1A4C20BE8561D9626CC490"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amount</header>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID80F23A86EEB04655A16ED70B462720E7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered
commodities</header><text>Subject to paragraph (3), the amount of a
supplemental economic loss payment made to the producers on a farm under
subsection (a)(1) shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying—</text>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID7885B25DF75F4D9D82785AAE9A3D0778"><enum>(A)</enum><text>30 percent of the
direct payment rate in effect for the covered commodity of the producers on the
farm;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID95A828E171884BC48C63E11A57663D21"><enum>(B)</enum><text>85 percent of the
base acres of the covered commodity of the producers on the farm; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID112881027961444CACB469AB0AFB06D2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the payment yield
for each covered commodity of the producers on the farm.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID8A34FBDDA12B4940A2B57054675D2E89"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Dairy
payments</header>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="ID922DD2BA31724BBAB02831E664CD9028"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Distribution</header><text>Supplemental
economic loss payments under subsection (a)(2) shall be distributed in a manner
that is consistent with section 1502 of the Farm and Rural Investment Act of
2002 (7 U.S.C. 7982).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDBD2C4DEEDB644175937982FA4F7A7B6A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Maximum
amount</header><text>Subject to paragraph (3), the total amount available for
supplemental economic loss payments under subsection (a)(2) shall not exceed
$147,000,000.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID3D86CCE140274BC6B71FD4C4966DB121"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitations</header>
<subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDF6B00D2EA63149E6832E12B9C2B58AA6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall ensure
that no person receives supplemental economic loss payments under—</text>
<clause changed="not-changed" id="IDFB354D5510124989B96F397B87659EC4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subsection (a)(1)
in excess of the per person limitations applicable to a person that receives
payments described in subsection (a)(1); and</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="IDC5BC0A41E2AB4AD78263D87EAE79699C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsection
(a)(2) in excess of the per dairy operation limitation applicable to producers
on a dairy farm described in subsection (a)(2).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="IDAE6B2352A6A24E72AE3AC9845B684046"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>In
carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary—</text>
<clause changed="not-changed" id="ID875B184B55574F9EB3F786275A722CD1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall establish
separate limitations for supplemental economic loss payments received under
this section; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="not-changed" id="ID11946FDBE31540BF926EB29C0912085F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>shall not
include the supplemental economic loss payments in applying payment limitations
under section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1001) for
payments made pursuant to the underlying normal operation of the program
described in subsection (a)(1) or section 1502 of the Farm and Rural Investment
Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7982).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Conservation</header>
<section changed="not-changed" id="ID22596330931549BC904CC510A8FF4191"><enum>401.</enum><header>Emergency
watershed protection program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall use an additional
$60,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out emergency
measures identified by the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service
as of the date of enactment of this Act through the emergency watershed
protection program established under section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act
of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203).</text>
</section><enum>V</enum><header>Farm Service
Agency</header>
<section changed="not-changed" id="IDC2B7568FAF47493EBD19A1A0FD7BC581"><enum>501.</enum><header>Funding for
additional personnel</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary shall use $30,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to
hire additional County Farm Service Agency personnel—</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID9211630984EA4667979FB42975B4684F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to expedite the
implementation of, and delivery under, the agricultural disaster and economic
assistance programs under this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID6F255AB56F4B4FFFA032AC13F7BC8A63"><enum>(2)</enum><text>as the Secretary
determines to be necessary to carry out other agriculture and disaster
assistance programs.</text>
</paragraph></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section changed="not-changed" id="IDF4D58EFFA4A04AC89977ED9E0D196557"><enum>601.</enum><header>Funding</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall use the funds,
facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out
this Act, to remain available until expended.</text>
</section><section changed="not-changed" id="ID005A4D773DC74DD6B7920728454042A1"><enum>602.</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<subsection changed="not-changed" id="ID368883AC88114C0B9DABB7DD3EC81E9E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>The Secretary may promulgate such regulations as are
necessary to implement this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection changed="not-changed" id="IDCC5AE04A85BE46B7895604F96EAEC99C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedure</header><text>The
promulgation of the regulations and administration of this Act shall be made
without regard to—</text>
<paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID6F410DB73A6F4DD49B3742D52AAAAE54"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the notice and
comment provisions of section 553 of title 5, United States Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="not-changed" id="ID2D8F315E33D445CB9D4A1E5B175A39A7"><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 changed="not-changed" id="IDD78B6C07FABF4C13AF2EE9EF7AA98DBB"><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 changed="not-changed" id="IDE55AB321C6784811AD90B10C701A29B6"><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><enum>VII</enum><header>Emergency
designation</header>
<section changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID48762CF6AED84483B055AE5F2D3F3C4B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>701.</enum><header>Emergency
designation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amounts
provided in this Act are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on
the budget for fiscal year 2007, as made applicable in the Senate by section
7035 of Public Law 109–234.</text>
</section>