Sec. 801. CROP LOSS ASSISTANCE
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## SEC. 801 CROP LOSS ASSISTANCE **[**[7 U.S.C. 1421 note](/us/usc/t7/s1421)**]** ###
(a)In General The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this title as the “Secretary”) shall use $1,200,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assistance available to producers on a farm that have incurred losses in a 1999 crop due to a disaster, as determined by the Secretary. ###
(b)Administration The Secretary shall make assistance available under this section in the same manner as provided under section 1102 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 105–277), including using the same loss thresholds as were used in administering that section. ###
(c)Qualifying Losses Assistance under this section may be made for losses associated with crops that are, as determined by the Secretary— ####
(1)quantity losses; ####
(2)quality losses; or ####
(3)severe economic losses due to damaging weather or related condition. ###
(d)Crops Covered Assistance under this section shall be applicable to losses for all crops (including losses of trees from which a crop is harvested, livestock, and fisheries), as determined by the Secretary, due to disasters. ###
(e)Crop Insurance In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall not discriminate against or penalize producers on a farm that have purchased crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). ###
(f)Rice Loan Deficiency Payments In the case of producers of the 1999 crop of rice that harvested such rice on or before August 4, 1999, the Secretary may use funds made available under this section to— ####
(1)make loan deficiency payments to producers that received, or that were eligible to receive, such payments under section 135 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7235) in a manner that results in the same total payment that would have been made if the payment had been requested by the producers on August 5, 1999; and ####
(2)recalculate any repayment made for a marketing assistance loan for the 1999 crop of rice on or before August 4, 1999, as if the repayment had been made on August 5, 1999. ###
(g)Honey Recourse Loans ####
(1)In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to assist producers of honey to market their honey in an orderly manner during a period of disastrously low prices, the Secretary may use funds made available under this section to make available recourse loans to producers of the 1999 crop of honey on fair and reasonable terms and conditions, as determined by the Secretary. ####
(2)Loan rate The loan rate of the loans shall be 85 percent of the average price of honey during the 5-crop year period preceding the 1999 crop year, excluding the crop year in which the average price of honey was the highest and the crop year in which the average price of honey was the lowest in the period. ###
(h)Recourse Loans for Mohair ####
(1)In general Subject to paragraph
(2)and notwithstanding any other provision of law, during fiscal year 2000, the Secretary may use funds made available under this section to make recourse loans available in accordance with section 137(c) of the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7237(c)) to producers of mohair produced during or before that fiscal year. ####
(2)Interest Section 137(c)(4) of that Act shall not apply to a loan made under paragraph (1).
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- Pub. L. 105-277
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