§864a Grants to Reduce Production of Methamphetamines From Anhydrous Ammonia

Summary

The Secretary may give money to farms, co-ops, and related businesses so they can put a physical lock or a chemical that makes it harder to turn anhydrous ammonia from their fertilizer nurse tanks into methamphetamine. Each grant pays between $40 and $60 for each nurse tank the recipient has. The Secretary picks the exact dollar amount per tank. Up to $15,000,000 was approved for grants for fiscal years 2008 through 2012. Eligible entity means: a producer of agricultural commodities; a cooperative whose majority of members produce or process agricultural commodities; or a business that mostly sells farm products at retail to farmers and ranchers or that applies agricultural chemicals by air or ground. Nurse tank is treated as a cargo tank under 49 CFR 173.315(m) as of the law’s enactment.