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104 STAT. 3972 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 (1) COUNTY COMMITTEES.— The Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure (acting through the county committees established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act and located in the counties in which the assistance programs provided for under sections 2241 through 2245 are implemented and through the county committees established under section 332 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act in counties in which emergency loans, as described in subsection (a), are made available) that producers who apply for assistance, as described in subsection (a), obtain multiperil crop insurance as required under this section. (2) OTHER SOURCES. —Each producer who is subject to the requirements of this section may comply with such requirements by providing evidence of multiperil crop insurance coverage from sources other than through the county committee office, as approved by the Secretary. Regulations. (3) COMMISSIONS.— The Secretary shall provide by regulation Brokers. for a reduction in the commissions paid to private insurance agents, brokers, or companies on crop insurance contracts entered into under this section sufficient to reflect that such insurance contracts principally involve only a servicing function to be performed by the agent, broker, or company, (d) REPAYMENT OF BENEFITS. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if (prior to the end of the 1991 crop year for the commodity involved) the crop insurance coverage required of the producer under this section is canceled by the producer, the producer— (1) shall make immediate repayment to the Secretary of any disaster payment or forgiven advance deficiency payment that the producer otherwise is required to repay; and (2) shall become immediately liable for full repayment of all principal and interest outstanding on any emergency loan described in subsection (a) made subject to this section. SEC. 2248. CROPS HARVESTED FOR FORAGE USES. Not later than 45 days after funds are appropriated to carry out this chapter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall announce the terms and conditions by which producers on a farm may establish a 1990 yield with respect to crops that will be harvested for silage and other forage uses. SEC. 2249. PAYMENT LIMITATIONS. (a) LIMITATION.— Subject to subsections (b) and (c), the total amount of payments that a person shall be entitled to receive under one or more of the programs established under this chapter may not exceed $100,000. (b) No DOUBLE BENEFITS.— No person may receive disaster pay- ments under this chapter to the extent that such person receives a livestock emergency benefit for lost feed production in 1990 under section 606 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471d). (c) COMBINED LIMITATION. — (1) IN GENERAL. —No person may receive any payment under this chapter or benefit under title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.) for livestock emergency losses suf- fered in 1990 if such payment or benefit will cause the combined total amount of such pa3nments and benefits received by such person to exceed $100,000.