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[CITE: 7USC1471a]

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

    (a) The Secretary shall provide emergency feed assistance under this 
subchapter for the preservation and maintenance of livestock in any 
State or area of a State where, because of disease, insect infestation, 
flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, hot weather, or 
other natural disaster, the Secretary determines that a livestock 
emergency exists.
    (b)(1) The Secretary shall provide emergency feed assistance under 
this subchapter for the preservation and maintenance of livestock, to 
livestock producers that--
        (A) conduct farming, ranching, or aquaculture operations in any 
    county contiguous to a county where the Secretary has determined, 
    under subsection (a) of this section, that a livestock emergency 
    exists, and
        (B) are otherwise eligible for assistance under this subchapter.

    (2) The Secretary shall accept applications for assistance under 
this subsection from producers that are affected by the livestock 
emergency at any time during the eight-month period beginning on the 
date on which the Secretary determines that such emergency exists in the 
other county.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, Sec. 603, as added Pub. L. 100-387, 
title I, Sec. 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 927.)


                             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.


                       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 1471c of this title.
