§1471e — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

If the Secretary decides a livestock emergency needs more help than already provided, he must carry out extra aid programs listed below. The extra help can include donating feed owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to feed stranded animals with no identified owner, and paying to deliver that feed for a time the Secretary sets. It can also pay up to 50% of costs to install or improve livestock water systems (pipelines if cheapest, tanks or troughs, wells, ponds, springs), pay up to 50% of the cost to burn prickly pear cactus so it can be used as feed, and make CCC-owned commodities available to producers through a catalog sized for small producers using certificate exchanges. The Secretary may make at least $25,000,000 available for the water-system reimbursements for emergencies in 1988 and 1989.

Title 7, §1471e

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(a)In addition to the assistance provided under section 1471d of this title, if the Secretary determines that the livestock emergency also requires the implementation of one or more of the assistance programs described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall implement such programs.

(b)Special assistance under this section includes—

(1)the donation of feed owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation for use in feeding livestock stranded and unidentified as to its owner, including the cost of transporting feed to the affected area, during such period as the Secretary, by regulation, may prescribe;

(2)reimbursement of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of—

(A)installing pipelines (if that is the least expensive method) or other facilities, including tanks or troughs, for livestock water;

(B)construction or deepening of wells or ponds for livestock water; or

(C)developing springs or seeps for livestock water,

(3)reimbursement of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of burning prickly pear cactus to make it suitable for animal feed; and

(4)making commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation available to livestock producers through the use of a catalog that specifies lots of a size that are economically feasible for a small producer to obtain by means of certificate exchanges.

(c)The Secretary may make available at least $25,000,000 to provide special assistance under subsection (b)(2) for livestock emergencies in 1988 and 1989.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1989—Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 101–82, § 142, inserted “or ponds”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–82, § 203, added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, see section 101(c)(1) of Pub. L. 100–387, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under section 1427 of this title. Inapplicability of Section Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Feb. 7, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2018, see section 9092(b)(12) of this title. Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning

June 18, 2008, through Dec. 31, 2012, see section 8782(b)(12) of this title. Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning

May 13, 2002, through Dec. 31, 2007, see section 7992(b)(12) of this title. Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(b)(1)(L) of this title.

§1471e Additional Assistance