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 117 STAT. 538

PUBLIC LAW 108–7—FEB. 20, 2003

$13,000,000 shall be for payments to States to promote disabled voter access, and of which $2,000,000 shall be for payments to States for disabled voters protection and advocacy systems. Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003. 16 USC 3801 note.

TITLE II—AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANCE SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003’’. SEC. 202. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—The Secretary of Agriculture (in this title referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall use such sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make emergency financial assistance available to producers on a farm that have incurred qualifying losses for the 2001 or 2002 crop of an agricultural commodity (other than sugar or tobacco) due to damaging weather or related condition, as determined by the Secretary. (b) ADMINISTRATION.— (1) USE OF FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall make assistance available under this section in the same manner as provided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A– 55), including using the same loss thresholds for quantity and quality losses as were used in administering that section. (2) PAYMENT RATE.—The payment rate for a crop for assistance provided under this section to the producers on a farm shall be calculated as follows: (A) If the producers obtained a policy or plan of insurance, including a catastrophic risk protection plan, for the crop under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), 50 percent of the applicable price for the crop. (B) If a policy or plan of insurance, including a catastrophic risk protection plan, for the crop was not available to the producers under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, 50 percent of the applicable price for the crop. (C) Subject to subsections (e) and (f), if the producers did not obtain a policy or plan of insurance, including a catastrophic risk protection plan, available for the crop under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, 45 percent of the applicable price for the crop. (c) ELECTION OF CROP YEAR.—If a producer incurred qualifying crop losses in both the 2001 and 2002 crop years, the producer shall elect to receive assistance under this section for losses incurred in either the 2001 crop year or the 2002 crop year, but not both. (d) PAYMENT LIMITATION.— (1) LIMITATION.—Assistance provided under this section to a producer for losses to a crop, together with the amounts specified in paragraph (2) applicable to the same crop, may not exceed 95 percent of what the value of the crop would have been in the absence of the losses, as estimated by the Secretary.

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