To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers that incurred 2002 crop losses due to damaging weather or related condition and to provide emergency disaster assistance to livestock producers in counties that received a primary disaster designation by the Secretary of Agriculture in calendar year 2001 or 2002, and for other purposes.
Permits livestock producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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