Sec. 121. Definitions

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In this subtitle: The term affected contract grower means an owner of an AFO— that raises livestock or poultry pursuant to a written contract, marketing arrangement, or other arrangement, with a covered industrial operator; and whose AFO is impacted by a disaster mitigation event. The term affected contractor means an individual or entity that supplies, either with or without a contract, a covered industrial operator with a worker to perform labor directly or indirectly related to a disaster mitigation event.

The term covered worker — means an employee who performs labor in connection with a disaster mitigation event for a covered industrial operator; and includes any employee of an affected contract grower, or of another affected contractor, of a covered industrial operator. In this paragraph, the term employee means an individual performing any labor for a covered industrial operator, including through an affected contract grower or other affected contractor, unless— the individual is free from control and direction in connection with the performance of the labor, both under the contract for the performance of labor and in fact; the labor is performed outside the usual course of the business of the covered industrial operator; and the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession, or business of the same nature as that involved in the labor performed.

The term disaster mitigation event means a disaster event affecting a covered industrial operator that triggers activities described in the disaster mitigation plan submitted by the covered industrial operator under section 112(a)(2)(B).