A bill to provide to agricultural producers emergency livestock assistance and assistance for control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, with offsets.
Directs the Secretary to use specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds for FY 2002 and 2003 grasshopper and Mormon cricket control activities on Federal, State, and private land. Amends the Plant Protection Act to increase the FY 2002 and 2003 Federal cost-share for control activities on State and private land.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, regarding nonrecource marketing assistance loan rates, to make: (1) 2002 and 2003 crop year rates applicable to crop year 2002 only; and (2) 2004 through 2007 crop year rates applicable to crop years 2003 through 2007. (Reduces the loan rate for certain crop year 2003 commodities.)
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to reduce FY 2003 funding for the environmental quality incentives program. Allocates 100 percent (currently 60 percent) of FY 2003 cost-sharing and incentive amounts to livestock production practices.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the transfer of funds for provision of water to desert terminal lakes.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7169-7170)
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