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[CITE: 7USC1471c]

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


(a) Qualifying livestock producers

    (1) If the Secretary determines that a livestock emergency exists in 
a State, county, or area, qualifying livestock producers located in such 
State, county, or area, or in a contiguous county as provided for in 
section 1471a(b) of this title, shall be eligible (under application 
procedures established by the Secretary) for emergency feed assistance 
under this subchapter in accordance with this subsection.
    (2) For the purposes of this subsection, a ``qualifying livestock 
producer'' is a livestock producer who has suffered a substantial loss 
in feed normally produced on the farm for such producer's livestock as a 
result of the livestock emergency and, as a result, does not have 
sufficient feed that has adequate nutritive value and is suitable for 
each of such producer's particular types of livestock (as of the date of 
the request, or initiation of consideration, for a determination of a 
livestock emergency under section 1471b of this title) for the estimated 
duration of the emergency.
    (3) Each qualifying livestock producer shall be eligible for 
emergency feed assistance under the programs specified in section 
1471d(a) of this title that is made available where the producer is 
located in quantities sufficient to meet such feed deficiency with 
respect to the producer's livestock normally fed with feed produced by 
the producer.

(b) Availability of additional assistance

    Each livestock producer in such State, county, or area, or in a 
contiguous county as provided for in section 1471a(b) of this title, 
regardless of whether the producer qualifies for assistance under 
subsection (a) of this section, shall be eligible for emergency 
assistance under the programs specified in section 1471e of this title 
that are made available where the producer is located.

(c) Program participation option

    Any livestock producer, located in a county or area in which 
benefits under the emergency feed program or the emergency feed 
assistance program were made available due to the drought or related 
condition in 1988 prior to the effective date of this subchapter, who 
qualifies for assistance under such pre-existing programs shall be 
eligible for assistance for such drought or related conditions as 
prescribed in subsection (a) of this section or, at the producer's 
option, for assistance under such pre-existing programs.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, Sec. 605, as added Pub. L. 100-387, 
title I, Sec. 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 928.)

                       References in Text

    The effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), 
is 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, the effective date of section 101(a) of 
Pub. L. 100-387. See section 101(c) of Pub. L. 100-387, set out as a 
note under section 1427 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, with subsec. (c) of 
this section applicable only with respect to any livestock emergency in 
1988, see section 101(c) 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 sections 1471d, 1471i of this title.
