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[CITE: 7USC1471]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 35A--PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
      SUBCHAPTER V--EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK FEED ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1988
 
Sec. 1471. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter:
        (1) The term ``livestock producer'' means--
            (A) a person that is actively engaged in farming and that 
        receives a substantial amount of total income from the 
        production of grain or livestock, as determined by the 
        Secretary, that is--
                (i) an established producer or husbander of livestock or 
            a dairy producer who is a citizen of, or legal resident 
            alien in, the United States; or
                (ii) a farm cooperative, private domestic corporation, 
            partnership, or joint operation in which a majority interest 
            is held by members, stockholders, or partners who are 
            citizens of, or legal resident aliens in, the United States, 
            if such cooperative, corporation, partnership, or joint 
            operation is engaged in livestock production or husbandry, 
            or dairy production; or

            (B) Any \1\ of the following entities that is actively 
        engaged in livestock production or husbandry, or dairy 
        production--
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                (i) any Indian tribe (as defined in section 450b(b) of 
            title 25); \2\
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                (ii) any Indian organization or entity chartered under 
            the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984, chapter 576; 25 
            U.S.C. 461 et seq.), commonly known as the ``Indian 
            Reorganization Act'';
                (iii) any tribal organization (as defined in section 
            450b(c) of title 25); \2\ or
                (iv) any economic enterprise (as defined in section 
            1452(e) of title 25);

        (2) The term ``livestock'' means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, 
    poultry (including egg-producing poultry), equine animals used for 
    food or in the production of food, fish used for food, and other 
    animals designated by the Secretary (at the Secretary's sole 
    discretion) that--
            (A) are part of a foundation herd (including producing dairy 
        cattle) or offspring; or
            (B) are purchased as part of a normal operation and not to 
        obtain additional benefits under this subchapter.

        (3) The term ``State'' means any State of the United States, the 
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or Guam.
        (4) The term ``feed'', for the purposes of emergency feed 
    assistance, means any type of feed (including feed grain, oilseed 
    meal, premix or mixed feed, liquid or dry supplemental feed, 
    roughage, pasture, or forage) that--
            (A) best suits the livestock producer's operation; and
            (B) is consistent with acceptable feed practices.

        (5) The term ``area'' includes any Indian reservation (as 
    defined in section 1985(e)(1)(D)(ii) \2\ of this title).

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, Sec. 602, as added Pub. L. 100-387, 
title I, Sec. 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 926.)

                       References in Text

    Section 450b of title 25, referred to in par. (1)(B)(i), (iii), has 
been amended, and subsecs. (b) and (c) of section 450b no longer define 
the terms ``Indian tribe'' and ``tribal organization''. However, such 
terms are defined elsewhere in that section.
    Act of June 18, 1934, referred to in par. (1)(B)(ii), is act June 
18, 1934, ch. 576, 48 Stat. 984, as amended, popularly known as the 
Indian Reorganization Act, which enacted sections 461, 462, 463, 464, 
465, 466 to 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476 to 478, and 479 of Title 
25, Indians. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 461 of Title 25 and Tables.
    Section 1985(e)(1)(D)(ii) of this title, referred to in par. (5), 
was redesignated section 1985(e)(1)(A)(ii) of this title by Pub. L. 104-
127, title VI, Sec. 638(3)(A)(ii), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1096.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, see section 101(c)(1) 
of Pub. L. 100-387, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 
1988 Amendment note under section 1427 of this title.


                               Short Title

    For short title of title VI of act Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, which 
enacted this subchapter, as the ``Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance 
Act of 1988'', see Short Title of 1988 Amendment note set out under 
section 1421 of this title.


                       Inapplicability of Section

    Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, 
peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning Apr. 
4, 1996, and ending Dec. 31, 2002, see section 7301(b)(1)(L) of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5602 of this title.
