Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act of 2002

Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 income losses; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 or 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2728 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2728

         To provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2002

  Mr. Dayton (for himself and Mr. Wellstone) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
         To provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Agricultural Assistance 
Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. INCOME LOSS ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this 
Act as the ``Secretary'') shall use $4,500,000,000 of the funds of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assistance 
available to producers on a farm that have incurred qualifying income 
losses in calendar year 2001 or 2002.
    (b) Administration.--The Secretary shall make assistance available 
under this section in the same manner as provided under section 815 of 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114 
Stat. 1549A-55), including using the same loss thresholds for the 
quantity and economic losses as were used in administering that 
section.
    (c) Use of Funds for Cash Payments.--The Secretary may use funds 
made available under this section to make, in a manner consistent with 
this section, cash payments not for crop disasters, but for income loss 
to carry out the purposes of this section.

SEC. 3. LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall use $1,000,000,000 of the 
funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make and administer 
payments for livestock losses to producers for 2001 or 2002 losses in a 
county that has received an emergency designation by the President or 
the Secretary after January 1, 2001.
    (b) Administration.--The Secretary shall make assistance available 
under this section in the same manner as provided under section 806 of 
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 105-277; 114 
Stat. 1549A-51).

SEC. 4. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION.

    The Secretary shall use the funds, facilities, and authorities of 
the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this Act.

SEC. 5. REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary may promulgate such regulations as 
are necessary to implement this Act.
    (b) Procedure.--The promulgation of the regulations and 
administration of this Act shall be made without regard to--
            (1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of 
        title 5, United States Code;
            (2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture 
        effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to 
        notices of proposed rulemaking and public participation in 
        rulemaking; and
            (3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly 
        known as the ``Paperwork Reduction Act'').
    (c) Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking.--In carrying out 
this section, the Secretary shall use the authority provided under 
section 808 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 6. EMERGENCY REQUIREMENT.

    (a) In General.--The entire amount necessary to carry out this Act 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for the entire amount, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement under the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.), is 
transmitted by the President to Congress.
    (b) Designation.--The entire amount necessary to carry out this Act 
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of that Act (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)).
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