PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can give money to dairy and other livestock producers to help cover losses from producing livestock, but only when Congress provides money ahead of time in appropriation Acts. Livestock here means elk, reindeer, bison, horses, and deer. Help can include payments for animals that die, aid for feed shortages, compensation for sudden rises in production costs, and other economic help the Secretary thinks is appropriate. The Secretary cannot use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for this. Congress may appropriate whatever sums are needed to carry out the help.

Title 7, §1472

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(a)Definition of livestock

In this section, the term “livestock” includes elk, reindeer, bison, horses, and deer.

(b)Availability of assistance

In such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts, the Secretary of Agriculture may provide assistance to dairy and other livestock producers to cover economic losses incurred by such producers in connection with the production of livestock.

(c)Types of assistance

The assistance provided to livestock producers may be in the following forms:

(1)Indemnity payments to livestock producers who incur livestock mortality losses.

(2)Livestock feed assistance to livestock producers affected by shortages of feed.

(3)Compensation for sudden increases in production costs.

(4)Such other assistance, and for such other economic losses, as the Secretary considers appropriate.

(d)Limitations

The Secretary may not use the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide assistance under this section.

(e)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and not as part of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 which comprises this subchapter or as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949 which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of the 1949 Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “bison, horses, and deer” for “and bison”. 2004—Pub. L. 108–447 added subsec. (a) and redesignated former subsecs. (a) to (d) as (b) to (e), respectively.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2005 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–97 applicable to losses resulting from a disaster that occurs on or after July 28, 2005, and inapplicable to losses resulting from a disaster that occurs before such date, see section 784(c) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 1471 of this title.

§1472 Assistance for Livestock Producers