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[CITE: 7USC1471g]

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


(a) Total amount of benefits

    The total amount of benefits that a person shall be entitled to 
receive annually under one or more of the programs established under 
this subchapter may not exceed $50,000.

(b) Issuance of regulations

    The Secretary shall issue regulations--
        (1) defining the term ``person'', which shall conform, to the 
    extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term ``person'' 
    issued under section 1308 of this title, or successor statute;
        (2) prescribing such rules as the Secretary determines necessary 
    to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limitation 
    established under this section; and
        (3) providing that the term ``person'' shall include, in the 
    case of any cooperative association of producers, each member of the 
    association with respect to benefits due to such member of the 
    association.

(c) Receipt of other disaster payments

    No person may receive benefits under this subchapter attributable to 
lost production of a feed commodity due to a natural disaster in 1988 to 
the extent that such person receives a disaster payment under the 
Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 on such lost production.

(d) Total combined payment and benefits limitation

    Each person otherwise eligible for a livestock emergency benefit 
under this subchapter in 1988 shall be subject to the combined payment 
and benefits limitation established under section 211(c) of the Disaster 
Assistance Act of 1988.

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, Sec. 609, as added Pub. L. 100-387, 
title I, Sec. 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 930.)

                       References in Text

    The Disaster Assistance Act of 1988, referred to in subsecs. (c) and 
(d), is Pub. L. 100-387, Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 924. Section 211(c) of 
that act is set out as a note under section 1421 of this title. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1988 
Amendment note set out under section 1421 of this title and Tables.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 15 days after Aug. 11, 1988, with subsecs. (c) and 
(d) 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.
