Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 119.djvu/2768

 119 STAT. 2750

Ante, p. 2158.

PUBLIC LAW 109–148—DEC. 30, 2005

become uninhabitable or inaccessible as a result of a 2005 hurricane; and (B) subsection (b) of such section 542 of such Act shall not apply; (5) provide loans, loan guarantees and grants from the Renewable Energy System and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program authorized in section 9006 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8106) to any rural business— (A) with a cost share requirement not to exceed 50 percent; (B) without regard to any limitation of the grant amount; and (C) which may include businesses processing unsegregated solid waste and paper, as determined by the Secretary; (6) provide grants under the Value-added Agricultural Product Market Development Grant Program and Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program without regard to any grant amount limitations or matching requirements; and (7) provide grants under the Community Facilities Grant Program without regard to any graduated funding requirements, grant amount limitations or matching requirements. (b) The funds made available under this section are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. SEC. 106. Section 759 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–97) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘SEC. 759. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to expend more than $12,000,000 of the funds initially made available for fiscal year 2006 by section 310(a)(2) of the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 7624 note).’’. SEC. 107. EMERGENCY FORESTRY CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.

(a) Section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(k) EMERGENCY FORESTRY CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.— ‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: ‘‘(A) MERCHANTABLE TIMBER.—The term ‘merchantable timber’ means timber on private nonindustrial forest land on which the average tree has a trunk diameter of at least 6 inches measured at a point no less than 4.5 feet above the ground. ‘‘(B) PRIVATE NONINDUSTRIAL FOREST LAND.—The term ‘private nonindustrial forest land’ includes State school trust land. ‘‘(2) PROGRAM.—During calendar year 2006, the Secretary shall carry out an emergency pilot program in States that the Secretary determines have suffered damage to merchantable timber in counties affected by hurricanes during the 2005 calendar year.

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